Pure launches Fusion cloud control layer for storage
Summary
Customers can fold in their cloud and datacentre Pure Storage assets to Fusion and manage them according to performance profile, tenant/customer and availability zones. Admins can manage Fusion via application programming interfaces (APIs) to handle deployment, workload placement and mobility and rebalancing. Portworx Data Services (PDS), which will be on an early access programme, will provide management to four (at least initially) databases that can be downloaded from the Docker Hub as container images and used in customer Kubernetes cluster deployments. Portworx Data Services is essentially a software-as-a-service interface that allows customers to deploy databases for their Kubernetes cluster quickly and easily. “PDS provides an evolved set of data services – backup, disaster recovery, HA [high availability] – managed via a software-as-a-service experience,” said Portworx vice-president of product and corporate marketing Michael Ferranti.