Pure Storage platform arms enterprises in the fight against ransomware with new cyber resiliency services and capabilities.
Pure Storage, a global IT organisation delivering advanced data storage technology and services, has announced three new advanced Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) service-level agreements (SLAs) for the Pure Storage platform – cyber recovery and resilience and site rebalance further empowering organisations to guarantee outcomes and reduce risk in their critical data infrastructure.
“As Pure Storage continues to revolutionise enterprise data storage, our mission remains: to provide a simple, flexible, and resilient as-a-service storage platform that not only addresses current data and storage management needs but mitigates future risk and uncertainty. Through continuously improving services and the broadest set of outcome-driven SLAs, Pure is the only data storage platform future-proofed for innovation,” said Prakash Darji, GM, Digital Experience, Pure Storage.
“Today’s enterprises demand more than just technology; they seek assured outcomes. Reliable, flexible consumption models for enterprise storage that scale with business needs are essential. Pure Storage’s STaaS platform offers a market differentiating, comprehensive set of guaranteed SLAs, striking a balance between flexibility and simplicity while delivering high performance and resilience – all in support of customer growth in today’s dynamic business landscape,” commented Lara Greden, Senior Research Director, IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service Solutions, Flexible Consumption, and Circular Economy, IDC.
Further advancing Pure’s existing cyber resiliency offerings, including SafeMode for ransomware recovery, Pure announced new innovations enabled by the platform including:
- Enhanced Cyber Recovery and Resilience SLA: Building on the first-of-its-kind ransomware recovery SLA, Evergreen//One is expanding its coverage to include disaster recovery scenarios as well. This new and improved Cyber Recovery and Resilience SLA delivers a customised recovery plan, ships clean service infrastructure within a defined SLA, provides onsite installation, and supplies additional professional services for data transfer.
- New Security Assessment: The new assessment provides deep visibility into fleet-level security risks and offers actionable recommendations to maximise cyber resilience. Based on aggregated intelligence across 10,000+ environments, the Security Assessment presents numerical scores from 0 to 5 to benchmark the security posture of the entire storage fleet. It also delivers best practices to align with NIST 2.0 standards, advance regulatory compliance, remediate potential security anomalies, and rapidly restore operations if a security-related event occurs. Additionally, the new AI copilot leverages the security assessment to provide Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) with the visibility into benchmarking their security posture against other Pure Storage customers.
- New AI-Powered Anomaly Detection Enhancement: Discover threats such as ransomware attacks, unusual activity, malicious behaviour, and Denial of Service attacks via performance anomalies. This expands on previously available ransomware detection based on data reduction anomalies. The expanded detection is built on multiple machine learning models running to identify unusual anomalous behaviour. The models analyse customer environments with historical data for anomalous patterns based on heuristics of performance as well as user context on how storage is used. Leveraging this capability, customers can identify the last known good snapshot copy to mitigate operational impact by quickly identifying recovery point targets to restore data, reducing risk and guesswork.
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Its new Evergreen//One Site Rebalance SLA delivers service flexibility for organisations looking to adjust existing reserve commitments as their storage requirements evolve.
If capacity needs at a specific site are no longer present, a data centre is being consolidated, or performance at one site is oversized and excess capacity exists that can be used elsewhere, the Site Rebalance SLA empowers organisations to rebalance reserve commitments once every 12 months for each Evergreen//One subscription.
