Predications of Pure Storage 2021

Pure Storage announced its formal entry to the Indian market on July 14, 2020, with a complete sales, channels and marketing team under the leadership of country manager, Ramanujam Komanduri; and the appointment of new distributors and resellers. Being a leading provider of enterprise data flash storage solutions, Pure Storage is considered to be a key player in the solid-state storage array market and aims to provide a seamless transition from alternate storage methods.

Pure Storage was recently positioned by Gartner as a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Arrays. This is the seventh year in a row that Pure Storage has been named in the Leaders quadrant of various Gartner Magic Quadrants. Known to simplify how people consume and interact with data, Pure’s offerings are also business enablers for customers across BFSI, healthcare, retail and e-commerce, government, Media and education sectors.

Customer Experience Becomes the Differentiator in Storage as-a-Service Market

As-a-Service consumption is now table stakes– and enterprise customers are demanding more. In 2021, it will become clear that as-a-service models have to re-justify their value every single day, because it is so easy to sign up for a service and then discontinue it in favor of a different one if it doesn’t meet your needs. This means that customer service needs to formally extend beyond the point of purchase and become a more holistic customer experience. In the hierarchy of awesome customer experience: it's good to be responsive, it's better to be proactive and let a customer know that there's a problem, and it's even better to let a customer know there was a problem and you have already fixed it. The next year will bring greater clarity around the differences between “products on subscription” (i.e. lease) offerings and true “as-a-Service” solutions, which are about buying an outcome (i.e. Service Level Agreements) and having a third-party deliver it. With as-a-Service, you should be able to: start small, grow over time, and have complete transparency over pricing and related KPIs. The customer should never feel like they've bought something and now they are on their own – or locked into a service that offers little benefit compared to a traditional capital purchase.

Containers and Kubernetes – the One-Two Punch of Enterprise Efficiency – Are So Mainstream We’ll Stop Talking about Them in 2021

Containers and Kubernetes are the one-two punch of enterprise efficiency – reinventing how we build and run applications. By 2025, Gartner projects that 85% of global businesses will be running containers in production, up from 35% in 2019. But for digital leaders in the enterprise, these essential building blocks of the microservices that enable organizations to be more agile while still building highly reliable applications, are already mainstream. Agility and resilience are key benefits of microservice architectures and digital native powerhouses like Netflix understood the competitive advantages of microservices early on. In 2021, look for containers and Kubernetes to remain central to enterprises launching and expanding their long-planned digital transformation projects. In fact, containers will be so mainstream that it will not be the technology that is interesting any more – but instead the new applications and digital touchpoints that CIOs will be talking about. They’ll understand that their teams have a toolkit of solutions that will allow them to do things at speed and velocity that they could have only dreamed of five or 10 years ago – like leveraging streaming data to deliver real-time personalization to 10 million customers worldwide.

Object Gets Smarter: Despite the object renaissance, it’s not a panacea without file

Twenty years ago, object was treated as a dumb but extraordinarily scalable repository for storing data while all the intelligence, the metadata, and the annotations were held separately in some kind of database. This structure worked well, up to a point, but with the exponential growth of data volumes - with billions of blobs just sitting in an object store – the framework is no longer viable. Increasingly, organizations want to interrogate and analyze their data without the headache of having to keep these two systems aligned. As a result, there is an increasing demand for embedding the crucial metadata into the data objects so that it's not just about performance, but about being intelligent.

Object storage is well suited to the growth of cloud platforms and the big data environment of the modern world. Ultimately, customers want a scalable, agile system that can handle the challenges of modern, unstructured data. While object storage might be having a renaissance, it is not on its own a panacea. It might be highly scalable but it cannot mutate individual pieces, i.e open up an object and write a few bytes out of it. In order to be successful a full application workflow needs more than just an object store. While fast file storage is not a new concept, putting file and object together in the same platform is a creative way to avoid building two different silos and adding more complexity. Unified file and object is the future and 2021 will see this category go mainstream.

2021 Will Be a Foundational Year for the Distributed/Edge Cloud

While distributed/edge cloud architectures are still largely in the planning and testing phase, 2021 will be a foundational year for this emerging and vital cloud model – driven by the rapid expansion in 5G and IoT-connected devices, sharp increases in edge-created data sources and Kubernetes as the standard for microservices application orchestration. Distributed cloud is described by Gartner as the first cloud model to incorporate physical location of cloud-delivered services. This model will enable enterprises to manage disparate components across multiple clouds, unlocking the potential to deploy more highly customized IT services with the added benefit of extracting value from data sources in edge locations. Industries such as mining, oil & gas and utilities – those with high levels of IT/OT convergence and large quantities of data creation occurring in remote and regional locations – will be among the first to derive value from the distributed cloud.

Sustainability: Rising from Supply Chain Trend to Business Imperative

Sustainability has risen beyond being just a key global supply chain trend. In 2021, it will become an imperative. In every single buying decision, enterprises will factor in the impact on their carbon footprint goals. And with new efforts led by the World Economic Forum and the EU aimed at standardizing metrics and reducing ‘greenwashing,’ businesses will be held more accountable for their efforts. In the data center, the proliferation of data generation, consumption and storage has led to unsustainable energy usage. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, data centers consume ten to fifty times the energy per floor compared to the average commercial office building. That makes data center-level green storage technology critical in reducing the complexity, expense, carbon footprint and component waste of the infrastructure that modern data requires. It’s simply no longer just about how much faster we can drive technology, but how we can deliver it sustainably for generations to come.

About Pure Storage

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organizations to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing enterprise IT companies in history, Pure helps customers put data to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world.

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