Feeling adrift in a sea of rising cloud costs and limited resources? Caribbean businesses like yours face unique challenges in adopting new technologies while staying competitive in the global market. But fear not, there is a powerful solution on the horizon: Azure VMware Powered by Pure, offered by your trusted partner, Annexus Technologies.

Charting a Course Towards Innovation

Imagine the familiar reliability of VMware supercharged with the agility and cost-effectiveness of Microsoft Azure. That is precisely what Azure VMware Powered by Pure delivers, propelling your business forward in the vast ocean of the cloud. As a certified Microsoft and Pure Storage partner, Annexus Technologies stands by your side, providing unmatched expertise and industry-leading solutions to navigate even the choppiest waters.

Shrink Your Cloud Costs with Enterprise-Grade Data Services

Azure VMware Powered by Pure offers a revolutionary solution for managing your cloud expenses. Public clouds built on VMware can be integral to your organization’s cloud strategy, enabling seamless workload migration between on-premises storage and the cloud.

Utilizing Azure VMware Solution (AVS) from Microsoft as a fully-managed service amplifies the strengths of virtualization by making the same VMware foundation used in on-premises private data centers available in the cloud. Pure Cloud Block Store™ from Pure Storage® running in Azure delivers the same cloud-like experience for storage.

Shrinking Azure VMware TCO

AVS is a robust solution but can be costly to scale for many environments and use cases. Adding Pure Cloud Block Store to AVS can reduce the OPEX involved when using infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions, allowing them to be more compelling and viable for your workloads.

Pure Cloud Block Store achieves cost efficiencies by decoupling storage from other host resources and bringing the data services of Purity to AVS instances. This can reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of compute and storage for AVS without having to make trade-offs.

Decoupling Storage to Unlock Scale

AVS resources are expanded by provisioning additional compute and storage nodes into the environment. One of the trade-offs of the AVS platform is that compute and storage are bundled together, resulting in the need to scale both resources together when capacity is needed. This can lead to paying for stranded or unused resources, increasing your overall monthly expenses.

With Pure Cloud Block Store, you can purchase and scale your storage needs independently of AVS nodes so you will not need to buy compute resources when you only need storage. This results in increased flexibility for AVS deployments that can dramatically lower costs.

Enterprise-Grade VM Data Services

Purity data services, such as Replication, Disaster Recovery (DR), Deduplication, and Compression, allow users to leverage native storage features. Pure Cloud Block Store is also the only vSphere Storage APIs array integration-enabled solution for VMware cloud offerings, which can further reduce the overall cost of cloud data.

The data reduction strategies in Purity further reduce your overall footprint, enabling benefits on cost that come in the form of reduced ingress/egress charges.

Simplify Hybrid Cloud Mobility

Hybrid cloud addresses business problems, but implementation introduces risk as architecture and processes change. Hybrid cloud is also an additional process to manage. AVS with Pure Cloud Block Store is a solution that mitigates risk when adopting a hybrid VMware architecture.

Eliminate Complexity

Adopting AVS reduces the risk of migrating VMware workloads from your on-premises data center to the public cloud. Microsoft manages the infrastructure for you, so there is no need to deploy and manage infrastructure. Additionally, services are consumed via subscription, requiring less planning to get up and running based on assumptions. You simply deploy and start using the solution, all while reducing the financial risk of over- or under-purchasing storage.

Enabling Migrations and Burst to Cloud

Migrating to the cloud can be difficult and stalled migrations are bad for business. With AVS providing a managed service, you can eliminate the headaches of infrastructure procurement, installation, and configuration. Focus on the items that really matter: your data and line of business applications.

Make it easy to burst to the public cloud during periods of high demand and make the cloud work for you. You can easily scale up or down by leveraging the speed and subscription purchasing model of AVS with Pure Cloud Block Store with the elasticity of the public cloud.

Built-in Data Protection

During recovery, utilizing AVS on Pure Cloud Block Store results in an improved user experience. On failure, it is faster and less expensive to recover since Pure Cloud Block Store volumes can connect to a new virtual machine directly as soon as it is spun up. AVS volumes need to be restored from backup.

Solution Use Cases

With AVS and Pure Cloud Block Store, users can create their own architecture to support their needs. All users benefit from the ease of deployment and management offered by Purity. The simplicity of a subscription model combined with Purity data protection features make AVS powered by Purity an ideal solution.

Azure VMware Is Better with Pure Cloud Block Store

AVS is a groundbreaking solution that assists VMware on Microsoft users by bringing them the flexibility of the cloud. Pure Storage accelerates AVS adoption and growth by removing the economic barrier in scaling cloud storage. Pure Cloud Block Store, built on the same foundation as FlashArray, enables AVS customers to grow storage independently from other host resources, giving the same experience, density, and data protection that Pure users expect.

Do not be left adrift in the digital ocean! Contact Annexus Technologies today and harness the power of Azure VMware Powered by Pure to navigate towards a prosperous future for your Caribbean business.