Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 13 | Page 53

Pure Storage introduces petabyte-scale flash storage for cloud IT
INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
InfoSec professionals seem to have accepted the on-going migration to the cloud as inevitable, however, and are doing what they can to secure sensitive data and applications in the public cloud.

At a glance … identify a data breach or do forensic analysis that would make incident response effective. This figure that has risen to 56 % this year.

InfoSec professionals seem to have accepted the on-going migration to the cloud as inevitable, however, and are doing what they can to secure sensitive data and applications in the public cloud.
Overall, 48 % of respondents’ organisations store employee data in the cloud, and 24 % store customer financial data there. In addition, 27 % use cloud-based email and messaging and 17 % use collaboration or document management services in the public cloud.
Baltagi continues,“ Cloud providers do offer more security tools for their own platforms, and some have expanded support of industry standard security frameworks and reporting methods to increase visibility and integration with customers’ existing security tools.”
For InfoSec professionals, however, the greatest challenges are still the limited ability to access data controls built into cloud platforms, integration with existing tools and the slow progress toward APIs or services to bridge the gap between internal and external security.
“ By this time next year, we hope to see a lot more support for third-party solutions, better access for forensic analysis, and more openness about the security controls and processes cloud providers use,” Baltagi says.“ Cloud providers are improving, but they’ re not moving fast enough to address the needs of enterprises that continue to migrate sensitive data into the public cloud.”
Pure Storage introduces petabyte-scale flash storage for cloud IT
Pure Storage has introduced the availability of petabyte-scale storage for mission-critical cloud IT, anchored by the release of the nextgeneration of FlashArray // m the company’ s flagship all-flash storage array, which now delivers best-in-class performance with the simplicity and agility of public cloud. The FlashArray // m now offers customers petabyte-scale capacity with a measured 99.9999 % availability and always-on Quality of Service – virtually eliminating storage downtime and application performance risk.
The newly updated FlashArray // m, the fifth generation of Pure Storage’ s flagship FlashArray product, now scales up to 512 terabytes of raw flash, which translates to approximately 1.5 petabytes of effective capacity – all in just 7U of rack space. This scale and density enables customers to consolidate racks of legacy disk storage down to 7U or less.
The new FlashArray // m offers four different controller options to meet a variety of performance and capacity needs:
// m10( introduced earlier in 2016) – up to 25 TBs effective usable capacity( 5 – 10 TBs raw storage) and up to 100,000 32K input / output operations per second( IOPS), New // m20 – up to 250 TBs effective usable capacity( 5 – 80 TBs raw storage) and up to 200,000 32K IOPS, New // m50 – up to 500 TBs effective usable capacity( 20 – 176 TBs raw storage) and up to 270,000 32K IOPS, New // m70 – up to 1.5 Petabytes effective usable capacity( 42 – 512 TBs raw storage) and up to 370,000 32K IOPS. www. intelligentcio. com INTELLIGENTCIO
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