Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud: Expanded VM Integration Announced at Ignite

Aung_Oo introduces the expanded Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud integration, detailing how customers can provision volumes to Azure VMs and benefit from enterprise-class storage features, management improvements, and extensive partner support.

Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud: Expanded VM Integration Announced at Ignite

Overview

The Azure Storage team continues their strategic partnership investment, now enhancing the Pure Storage Cloud experience for customers on Azure. This update announces general availability and direct integration with Azure Virtual Machines.

Key Features

• General Availability: Pure Storage Cloud, Azure Native now available to all customers.
• Direct VM Integration: Volumes can now be provisioned to Azure VMs, supporting a range of Windows and Linux workloads.
• Enterprise Storage Enhancements: Features like data reduction, advanced management, cloning, and resilience are exposed natively in Azure via the portal, CLI, and ARM templates.
• Performance Foundations: Built on Azure Boost accelerated networking and Premium Managed Disks v2.

Partnership and Ecosystem

Microsoft continues to grow its validated partner catalog, now surfacing solutions in Storage Center and the Azure Portal. Pure Storage has been recognized for its robust performance and customer-centric support, as best-in-class per Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.

• Validated Partner Catalog
• Storage Center in Azure Portal

Technical Details

• Integration with Azure VMware Solution remains, now expanded to direct support for Azure VM volumes.
• Purity OS features are accessible natively in Azure.
• Management via Portal, CLI, ARM for simplified deployment and scaling.
• Reference links:
  • Pure Storage Cloud Documentation
  • Azure Marketplace Offer
  • Technical Details
  • Step-by-Step Demos

Customer Stories

• Perdoceo Education: Reduced database restore times, achieved 12:1 data reduction, 40% lower TCO.
• Financial services: Migrated VMware workloads to Azure, realizing cost savings (20–40%), security, and efficiency improvements.
• Major manufacturer: Cut cloud storage costs by 50%, funds directed to innovation and AI.

Summary

Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud now fully supports Azure VM storage needs, available as a 30-day trial. Customers benefit from cost-effective, performant, and secure enterprise storage for AVS and Azure VMs. Recommended further reading and documentation are linked above.

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Author: Aung_Oo

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