Application Migration
When migrating data to the public cloud, the requirement to redesign existing applications deployed on-premises is a common challenge. The enterprise data storage services of Everpure Cloud Dedicated allow customers to easily migrate and run their existing mission critical data in the public cloud without redesigning their applications. Everpure Cloud Dedicated shares a common abstraction layer as the FlashArray for both management and data access which allows customers to preserve the same operational workflows, scripts, and orchestration tools. Everpure Cloud Dedicated's built-in resiliency allows for the most mission critical data to run without requiring the application layer to manage data availability.
For example, many traditional applications attain high availability by leveraging clustering services, which requires multiple compute nodes to have access to the same storage volume(s). However, deploying clustering services in AWS is challenging because native EBS volumes have limited capabilities when attaching to multiple EC2 compute instances. A single failure on either of the application's EBS volume or the EC2 compute host can lead to a disruptive application outage. To work around these high availability vulnerabilities, customers must redesign their applications, which might be time-consuming or require costly additional AWS resources. Everpure Cloud Dedicated removes this limitation because applications can access their block storage using iSCSI, which supports attaching volumes to multiple compute instances. This enhancement makes the transition to AWS less challenging because customers can continue to use the clustering services that they are comfortable with, especially for production applications that demand the highest level of resiliency.
Existing developers who have standardized on the rich APIs provided by the FlashArray can continue to use them for Everpure Cloud Dedicated. The identical scripts and automation tools built on the APIs can be directly applied to Everpure Cloud Dedicated with little or no change. Once again, this workflow reduces the friction for customers who want to migrate their application data between their private and public cloud environments.
Reduce Storage Costs
Once customers successfully make the transition to AWS with Everpure Cloud Dedicated, they can realize the benefits of Everpure Cloud Dedicated enterprise features. Customers can consolidate data onto Everpure Cloud Dedicated to take advantage of Purity's data reduction capabilities. Existing FlashArray customers can expect the same data reduction ratio already observed on their physical FlashArray. Thin Provisioning with Everpure Cloud Dedicated further improves a customer's total efficiency. Developers can confidently provision volumes as large as needed without the cost concern or the need to constantly resize their disks.
Increase Availability
In production environments, data availability and protection is the number one priority. Customers can rely on the highly efficient snapshot capabilities of Everpure Cloud Dedicated to provide periodic point-in-time volume snapshots to protect from unintentional data changes. Additionally, customers who require the highest form of data availability can replicate their data between availability zones or regions. ActiveCluster allows data to be synchronously replicated between Everpure Cloud Dedicated instances in different availability zones. This feature allows for automatic and transparent application failovers in the event of a complete outage of an availability zone. For larger-scale regional outage protection, data can also be replicated asynchronously between Everpure Cloud Dedicatedd instances residing in different regions. Lastly, customers can also leverage Purity's CloudSnap feature to send volume snapshots directly to Amazon S3 buckets for backup purposes. Customers can restore CloudSnap snapshots to any FlashArray or to other Everpure Cloud Dedicated instances.