Smarter Operations Across the Everpure Platform

May’s launch is all about helping you move faster without giving up control. This update brings together higher-density infrastructure, more guided operations, stronger tenant and file controls, broader cloud flexibility, and more resilient data protection so your team can spend less time managing systems and more time moving data and applications forward.

More growth, less sprawl 

Fit more data into the footprint you already have

Data keeps growing across AI, analytics, backup, and enterprise file environments faster than data centers can add rack space, power, and cooling. The latest 150TB DirectFlash® Modules for FlashBlade® increase storage density, helping teams fit more capacity into the footprint they already have. 

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Faster answers and better visibility

Trace performance problems in one guided flow

Troubleshooting gets easier when the workflow mirrors how teams actually investigate problems. A guided AI Copilot experience in Pure1® now walks VMware and storage teams from vCenter to the busiest VMs to the relevant FlashArray™ volumes, helping them pinpoint noisy VMs faster.

Ask file services questions in plain English

Storage teams should not need custom scripts just to understand what’s happening across file services. A new AI Copilot agent for FlashArray File Services answers natural language questions about capacity, snapshots, and performance across filesystems, helping teams get answers in seconds.

Spot suspicious login activity fleet-wide

Credential-based threats are easier to contain when they’re visible across the whole estate. A new anomaly type in the Pure1 Security Assessment helps surface failed and unusual logins across FlashArray and FlashBlade, giving teams broader visibility into suspicious access patterns before they escalate.

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New datastore architecture and stronger platform security on Portworx

Portworx® Enterprise 3.6.0 introduces Kube Datastore (KDS) Dynamic Pools. This feature allows storage pools with repl1 volumes to be attached to any node without needing a storage-less node or a Portworx restart. KDS Dynamic Pools help enable:

• Zero-downtime upgrades and maintenance
• Fine-grained, dynamic control of pool movement across nodes
• Improved resiliency and HA 

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Portworx Secure Boot support

Portworx Enterprise 3.6.0 supports UEFI Secure Boot, ensuring the platform runs only on servers that load cryptographically verified software at startup. This establishes a hardware-rooted chain of trust beneath Kubernetes, protecting against low-level system tampering and strengthening the secure foundation required for mission-critical workloads, especially in regulated environments.

Enhanced secrets and credentials

Portworx Enterprise 3.6.0 allows storing FlashArray and FlashBlade API credentials in HashiCorp Vault instead of Kubernetes Secrets, enabling dynamic updates without a restart, which improves security posture. Portworx also supports multiple secrets providers in one deployment, allowing the use of Kubernetes Secrets for volume encryption and Vault for infrastructure credentials (like vCenter authentication) to meet complex security policies without architectural compromise.

Protection against unauthorized Azure cloud drive deletion

To enhance cloud resilience, Portworx 3.6.0 adds safeguards that prevent Azure cloud drives from being deleted by external entities. This protection reduces the risk of accidental or malicious infrastructure changes impacting persistent storage, strengthening data durability and business continuity in cloud environments.

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Portworx telemetry and observability enhancements

Portworx Enterprise 3.6.0 strengthens protection of sensitive information by automatically redacting credentials, such as API keys, passwords, and certificates, before diagnostic bundles or telemetry data are shared. Enabled by default, this reduces the risk of accidental exposure while maintaining seamless support engagement, reinforcing a secure-by-design posture without adding operational complexity. 

Additionally, Portworx Enterprise 3.6.0 delivers clearer, more accurate Grafana dashboards with improved filtering, updated metrics, and better panel organization. By enhancing visibility into volume-to-PVC relationships, namespace usage, and cluster-wide performance, the update helps teams identify issues faster, reduce troubleshooting time, and rely on more trustworthy operational data.

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Modern resilience for modern applications

Keep stateful Kubernetes available through failure

Kubernetes resilience is only useful if it works for real production workloads. With Portworx

CSI delivering active-active operations across FC, iSCSI, NVMe-FC, and NVMe-TCP with zero RPO through ActiveCluster™, teams can protect stateful applications with less complexity and less downtime risk.

Put backup schedules on your terms

Backup policies should fit your business, not the other way around. Portworx Backup 2.11 now gives teams more flexibility to schedule backups on specific days or months (e.g., only on Mondays and Wednesdays), making it easier to align protection with maintenance windows, infrastructure operations, and compliance needs.

Restore only what you need in Kubernetes

When something breaks, speed matters. Granular restore in Portworx Backup 2.11 lets teams recover specific Kubernetes resources by namespace, resource type, or name, helping resolve incidents faster without disrupting healthy parts of the environment.

Improve reliability for large-scale backup jobs

As environments grow, backup jobs can become their own source of operational risk as they handle large volumes of Kubernetes metadata. Portworx Backup 2.11 improves resiliency at enterprise scale by organizing resources by namespace and VM instead of a single metadata file. This allows large backup jobs to complete more reliably by eliminating single points of failure.

Recover the file, not the whole VM

Not every recovery event requires a full restore. VM file-level recovery in Portworx Backup 2.11 lets teams restore individual files or directories from a VM backup through the GUI, enabling teams to resolve backup issues faster while avoiding unnecessary downtime.

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Stronger isolation for shared and regulated environments on FlashArray and FlashBlade

Give every tenant a cleaner security boundary on FlashArray

Coming soon to FlashBlade, per-realm bring-your-own-key (BYOK) capabilities give every tenant distinct cryptographic control, helping service providers and enterprises strengthen multi-tenant isolation without adding friction or sacrificing performance.

Put guardrails around shared file performance on FlashArray

Consolidation only works when one workload cannot overwhelm the rest. New File QoS controls let teams set IOPS and throughput limits at the realm, managed directory, or filesystem level so shared file infrastructure can support dev, test, QA, and production with more predictable behavior.

Use FlashArray to encrypt NFS traffic without the usual overhead

Securing file traffic should not require a maze of dependencies. With NFS over TLS on Purity//FA 6.10.6, teams can protect data in transit with confidentiality and integrity while avoiding the operational burden that often comes with Kerberos or IPsec-based approaches.

FlashBlade strengthens file access auditing and compliance

Visibility into file access remains critical for governance and incident response. New NFS file auditing on FlashBlade helps organizations track NFS and mixed NFS/SMB activity, export logs locally or to syslog, and feed that data into SIEM workflows for stronger compliance and forensics.

Limit API access to exactly what each tool needs on FlashBlade

Least-privilege access should extend to automation too. Customizable REST RBAC on FlashBlade lets teams define more precise API roles so backup software, SIEM tools, and operational automation can access only what they need.

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More enterprise flexibility in the cloud

Take on larger AWS workloads with fewer constraints

As organizations scale larger databases and high-throughput applications in AWS,  Everpure™ Cloud Dedicated AWS V50 delivers greater throughput, expanded capacity up to ~200TB raw, and the ability to consolidate more demanding workloads on a single array while maintaining enterprise-grade data services and operational simplicity.

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Manage AVS snapshots the Azure-native way

Azure VMware Solution (AVS) teams should not have to step outside their Azure-native operating model just to protect workloads. New VMFS snapshot management on Everpure™ Cloud Azure Native makes it easier to create, manage, and recover snapshots in one place.

Expanding global and regional availability for Everpure Cloud Azure Native

As organizations scale Azure-native workloads globally, Everpure Cloud Azure Native is expanding availability across North Europe, West Europe, UK South, and Australia East, while adding zonal support in additional US regions, including West US 3 and South Central US. This expansion helps customers meet regional data residency, compliance, latency, and resiliency requirements that require workloads to remain in-country, while maintaining a consistent Azure-native operational experience. 

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A more connected CX story

Our May updates also bring together a broader set of Customer Experience innovations that are stronger as one story than as separate launches. Together, these offerings help customers move from planning to deployment to Day 2 operations with less friction.

AI Solutions helps organizations move from pilot to production with validated architectures, optimized GPU utilization, and embedded governance. Consult, Deploy, Optimize provides a services-led path to the Enterprise Data Cloud on Everpure Fusion™ that helps de-risk change and unify governance. Residency Service adds embedded Everpure expertise on flexible recurring terms for operations, migrations, and best practices.

The bigger picture

Taken together, these launches show what a modern data platform should deliver: more usable scale, more guided operations, more precise control, and more resilient recovery across on-premises and cloud environments. The common thread is simple—less manual overhead for your team, and more confidence that your data estate can adapt as fast as your business does.