Summary
The Enterprise Data Cloud architecture from Pure Storage embeds cyber resilience into the foundation of data management, delivering automated protection, indelible snapshots, and cleanroom recovery across hybrid environments.
As cyber incidents and disruptions rise in frequency and impact, forward-looking organizations are reevaluating how they safeguard critical data. Traditional defenses are no longer sufficient on their own – modern workloads require future proof solutions. What is needed is an Enterprise Data Cloud that is powered by a unified data platform—one that consolidates and virtualizes storage across environments, streamlines operations through intelligent automation, and embeds cyber resilience by design.
The Enterprise Data Cloud Architecture by Pure Storage
At Pure Storage, we’ve done just that with the Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) architecture. EDC transforms storage into intelligent data management. IT gets full control of data, not just infrastructure—eliminating silos, automating operations, and enforcing governance everywhere. The result is faster delivery, lower risk, and a platform ready for the speed and scale of artificial intelligence (AI), hybrid cloud ops, and app modernization.
1. Resilience by Default
Security and governance aren’t afterthoughts in an EDC; they’re embedded at the core. Policies for encryption, access control, and retention are applied automatically, ensuring consistent protection across every environment. Manual errors and inconsistent coverage are eliminated by design.
2. Indelible Protection
EDC delivers more than immutable snapshots; it delivers indelible protection.
With SafeMode™, snapshots are locked at the system level and cannot be deleted or modified—even by administrators. These policies are enforced regardless of compromise, ensuring superior performance and high availability with 99.9999% uptime guarantee.
Indelibility spans FlashArray™, FlashBlade®, and Pure Cloud Block Store™ from Pure Storage, providing hardened protection wherever data lives.
3. Automated, Policy-Based Protection
With EDC, snapshot policies are predefined and enforced automatically across your environment. Teams can define service levels for frequency, retention, and recovery objectives andthen rely on the architecture to apply them consistently.
If anything falls out of compliance, Pure1® surfaces the issue immediately.
4. Visibility Across the Entire Estate
EDC provides real-time telemetry and centralized observability across all data services. Pure1 delivers insights into performance, anomalies, and risk exposure—giving teams the visibility needed for proactive action.
Security, compliance, and infrastructure teams operate from a shared view—accelerating coordination and response.
5. Cleanroom Recovery That’s Ready When You Are
If an attack occurs, EDC supports cleanroom recovery, using Pure Fusion™ to automatically provision secure, isolated environments where protected snapshots can be restored and validated before returning to production.
Pure Fusion helps automate the process, provisioning isolated environments with policy-defined storage classes. Pure1 ensures compliance and integrity through real-time telemetry and anomaly detection. Combined, these capabilities allow organizations to restore workloads into a clean zone, verify their integrity, and only then bring them back into production—minimizing risk and maximizing confidence.
Cyber-resilient Operations in Action
Here’s how EDC enables cyber resilience as a service:
- Workloads span on-premises and cloud, unified under Pure Fusion.
- Snapshots are continuously protected with SafeMode—immutable and indelible.
- Policies govern retention and access automatically.
- Pure1 monitors anomalies and ensures compliance.
- Recovery is tested and validated in isolation.
A cyber incident doesn’t trigger chaos; it triggers a service-level agreement (SLA)-driven response based on predefined, tested, and validated recovery workflows. That means there’s no guesswork during a crisis—just execution of the plan you’ve already established. Recovery isn’t improvised; it’s orchestrated, repeatable, reliable, and fast.
Resilience Is a Platform
Cyber resilience isn’t just about defense. It’s about readiness and giving teams the confidence to recover fast, clean, and without disruption.
The EDC moves resilience from reaction to strategy—simplifying infrastructure, enforcing policies, and ensuring recoverability from edge to core to cloud. Delivered as a service through Evergreen//One™, EDC guarantees SLAs for performance, availability, and efficiency, giving IT the confidence to meet business demands without infrastructure friction.
Regardless of how strong your policies are, if your platform can’t enforce them, you’re exposed. The Enterprise Data Cloud from Pure Storage isn’t just a better storage model; it’s a smarter foundation for cyber resilience.
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