Flash-array vendor Pure Storage and data-center provider Equinix have teamed to deliver Pure Storage on Equinix Metal a joint offering the companies claim can deliver physical infrastructure at software speed.
The platform provides enterprises with embedded storage and on-demand availability of network and compute services typical of the cloud. The solution is designed to support a range of storage use cases and is provided by both vendors under a single contract.
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Bare-metal hosting is a smaller market than the more popular infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud offering because like its name implies all you get is hardware: cores memory storage and networking. You provide the operating environment.
Its popular in ’lift and shift’ scenarios where a company takes an on-premises environment and moves everything—OS apps datato the bare-metal cloud and operates it there unchanged from on-premises. Its a great way to migrate apps out of your data center without modifying them for —the elastic nature of the cloud.
Thats the point of Pure Storage on Equinix Metal. It provides dedicated single-tenant servers and high-performance storage that can be provisioned to customers with cloud-like ease and speed. It eliminates upfront capex investment for hardware and ongoing operational costs and risks.
’Enterprises want full control over their environment but they dont want to operate their own data centers or be forced to fit into traditional cloud models–they want a cloud model that fits their business. By partnering with Equinix we are eliminating management complexity and delivering the flexibility and controls that put organizations in charge of what their technology platforms can do for them’ said Jack Hogan vice president of technology strategy for Pure Storage in a statement.
While its on a bare-metal service Pure Storage on Equinix Metal comes with several storage offerings. They include:
Pure Storage on Equinix Metal is available in 18 global Equinix Metal metros.
