The Self-Managing Data Estate Is Here, and It Runs on Your Terms



A unified data foundation is only worth it if you can run it efficiently. And running it is exactly where most teams run into challenges: too many applications, too many platforms, and too much data. As a result, each system becomes a silo that requires individual management. 

In the past, the answer was to throw people at the problem: configure each array by hand, tune each system on its own, file a ticket for every change. That manual, ad hoc work is not only incredibly prone to errors, it doesn’t scale to a fleet that spans your enterprise: core, cloud, and edge.

The only sustainable path forward is to manage the whole estate as a single fleet, driven by policy rather than by hand, and on your terms instead of the vendor’s. That’s what an Intelligent Control Plane powered by the Everpure Platform delivers, and it runs on two key features you may already know.

  • Everpure Fusion™ empowers you to manage hundreds of systems like one, from a single GUI, API, CLI, or using natural language from an MCP server. You can set service level, protection, and placement as policy once, and enforce it everywhere. 
  • Pure1® is the cloud-based intelligence behind it, watching the fleet’s telemetry to surface health, performance, and risk so the decisions Everpure Fusion acts on are grounded in what’s actually happening.

Figure 1: One control plane to manage your entire fleet.

This year, with some critical innovations to Everpure Fusion and Pure1, we’re making your fleet more:

  • Autonomous and agentic
  • Intelligent and compliant
  • Open and interoperable

Move toward agentic and autonomous operations

This is where the fleet starts doing the work for you, within the limits you set.

Figure 2: Everpure Fusion rebalances your fleet automatically.

Keep performance balanced automatically as demand shifts

Workload rebalance and mobility moves active workloads non-disruptively away from hot spots to protect SLOs and get more out of every asset, while keeping data inside the sovereignty boundaries you define. Ticket-driven governance becomes automated, policy-driven placement and control. Workload mobility is available later this year.

Act on Pure1 AI Copilot insight instead of just reading it

Pure1 AI Copilot has always surfaced what needs attention in your environment. Now, Pure1 AI Copilot workflow execution turns those recommendations into action, letting administrators use plain language to plan, validate, launch, approve, and track end-to-end Everpure Fusion fleet operations inside the policies you define. And for those worried about safety, nothing happens outside of the guardrails you set.

Resolve performance issues before users ever feel them

When performance degrades, the investigation usually takes longer than the outage. Pure1 AI Copilot agentic performance triage and remediation changes that. It analyzes fleet telemetry, surfaces root causes, and recommends next steps, and where you allow it, triggers Pure1 workflows or opens tickets before users feel the impact. Generalist operators get the guided analysis that used to require a storage expert on call, and resolution goes from hours to minutes.

Built-in intelligence and compliance

As the fleet grows, insight and governance have to be continuous.

Insights delivered via natural language prompts

Get answers to the question, “Why is my app so slow?” in a single prompt. Performance Insights Copilot brings natural-language performance analysis to Portworx® environments inside Pure1. Application and platform teams ask about storage performance the way they actually think about their workloads—by application, by namespace, or by team—and get answers in seconds, no storage-admin access, Portworx CLI know-how, or dashboard scavenger hunt required.

Proactive compliance at scale

Everpure Fusion offers a proactive compliance model, where teams can continuously monitor drift, generate reports across the fleet, and remediate violations before they become bigger issues. It gives you a holistic, fleet-wide compliance framework that includes dashboards, alerts, visibility into protection and resilience policies, drift detection from the declared intent in presets and naming conventions, audit-ready historical reporting, and automated remediation in case of violations. You stay audit-ready without the all-hands scramble every time someone asks for proof. Everpure Fusion compliance is available later this year.

Keep the fleet open and interoperable

Most teams already have observability stacks and AI tools they trust. The control plane should plug into them, not ask you to rip them out and start over.

Bring unified visibility to data and storage management

Everpure Fusion topology groups give the single view you need to manage the entire fleet as one, mapping how systems, workloads, and dependencies connect so nothing falls into a blind spot between tools. Map your real-world infrastructure—racks, zones, sites, cluster segments, cloud regions—as policy-aware groupings inside the Intelligent Control Plane. Topology groups make your architecture native to the control plane, so placement, protection, and performance align with how your environment was built.

Build the foundation for storage-aware, agentic operations

The enhanced Pure1 MCP Server and the new Everpure Fusion MCP Server bring live fleet intelligence into the AI tools your team already uses. Ask which arrays are nearing capacity risk, check fleet health before a provisioning run, or pull storage context into your own workflows, all in plain language, without opening another dashboard. The same protocol drives Pure1 AI Copilot and workflow orchestration internally today, and it’s now open for your systems to use the same way. The result is getting away from the dashboards and scripts of the past and toward safer, storage-aware, agentic operations.

Run one control plane for both traditional and Kubernetes apps

Everpure Fusion now integrates with Portworx, so the same control plane that manages your bare-metal and VM storage also manages your containerized, Kubernetes-based applications at fleet level. Everpure Fusion auto-discovers storage fleets, exposes presets as StorageClasses, and places Kubernetes workloads by policy, configuring new arrays automatically as they join the fleet. You stop running a separate control plane for modern environments and keep Kubernetes app performance consistent. You can apply centralized, fleet-wide storage policy enforcement across Kubernetes environments while preserving the workflows your platform and DevOps teams already use. This reduces operational complexity, removes array-by-array configuration work, and helps ensure that storage provisioning remains consistent across clusters and environments.

Automation on your terms

None of this is all-or-nothing. We think of autonomy not as a switch you flip, but a dial you control. The world won’t be all agents or all humans, so the platform lets you sit anywhere on the spectrum, from fully deterministic on one end to agent-driven on the other, and move further right as your trust grows. The same four patterns are already running in customer environments today.

Figure 3: Four ways to leverage automation, from deterministic to agentic.

Start with workflows that just handle the routine

At the deterministic end, an alert kicks off a set sequence: A latency event fires, the platform runs a knowledge-base lookup, and it opens a ticket with a suggested resolution attached. No agents, no guesswork, just busywork off your team’s plate.

Let Pure1 AI Copilot answer the questions you keep asking

Instead of logging in every week to check which arrays are missing SafeMode™ Snapshots, you ask Pure1 AI Copilot once and schedule the answer as a recurring report. The insight comes to you, on the cadence you set.

Bring the fleet into your own AI environment

In their own AI tooling, teams can tap the Pure1 and Everpure Fusion MCP Servers to pull live fleet context into their root-cause analysis and agentic workflows, so Everpure data enriches the systems they’ve already built.

Let agents and people work a problem together

At the autonomous end, Everpure and customer agents collaborate through MCP to orchestrate something like a data move, with humans stepping in wherever policy calls for a decision. Agents do the legwork, people make the judgment calls, and every action stays inside your guardrails.

You decide which of these fits each situation, and you can change your mind whenever you want. That’s automation on your terms, not ours.

A self-managing data estate

Run all of this together and the fleet starts to manage itself as much as you let it. Policy is set once and enforced everywhere instead of rebuilt array by array. The fleet stays open to the tools you already run. Governance and compliance hold steady instead of lurching from audit to audit. And automation runs based on your preferences: from a single workflow to agents and people solving problems side by side.

The Intelligent Control Plane governs all your data, and it works hand in hand with the Unified Data Plane beneath it and universal data intelligence above it. For how the platform stores that data and how it turns it into something AI can trust, read the companion posts on the Unified Data Plane and universal data intelligence.