Pure as-a-Service™ and Pure Cloud Block Store™ solutions enable ArrowSphere partners to purchase and manage their Pure Storage, AWS and Azure subscriptions in a single environment
Arrow Electronics, a global technology provider, has added Pure as-a-Service and Pure Cloud Block Store to ArrowSphere, Arrow's award-winning cloud marketplace management platform. Under the agreement with Pure Storage®, the solutions will be available to channel partners in numerous regions and countries in Europe, including Benelux, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Pure as-a-Service is a flexible, service-oriented consumption model for delivering Pure Storage solutions in a pay-as-you-go format. Pure as-a-Service enables you to achieve more than just operational cost savings* by literally transforming customers' enterprise infrastructure environments by providing services, such as monitoring, Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) and specific Service Level Agreements (SLAs). ). It supports block, file, and object-level storage services that can be deployed on-premises, in colocation facilities, and in the public cloud. A significant part of the economic advantage provided by as-a-service models is the clear pricing per unit, which allows customers to define the scope and price of projects based on the results, not the hardware required to build them.
Pure Cloud Block Store, on the other hand, is a cloud-native solution that offers data mobility, resilience and good methods of use. Pure Cloud Block Store can be used on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure and provides customers with cloud storage features combined with reliability, low latency, compatibility and ease of access. It enables always-on encryption modes with cloud-native cybersecurity, providing a compliant configuration that helps safeguard data and preserve its integrity.
“The global cloud and as-a-service market continues to expand, and as a leading solution provider, we have brought together industry-leading platforms and entered into vendor partnerships that make it easier for our customers to capitalize on this opportunity” , he underlined Alexis Brabant, Vice President Sales di Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions nell’area EMEA. “The ArrowSphere platform is designed to simplify the connection between cloud and 'as a service' providers, channel partners and end users, enabling channel partners to build multi-vendor solutions tailored for their customers . By adding Pure as-a-Service and Pure Cloud Block Store to ArrowSphere, our customers can easily purchase and manage their respective Pure Storage and AWS subscriptions in one environment.”
“Customers are demanding efficient and reliable solutions available through a flexible consumption model,” he highlighted Wendy Stusrud, Vice President Global Partner Sales di Pure Storage. “Pure as-a-Service and Pure Cloud Block Store for AWS and Microsoft Azure guarantee a hybrid use interface, providing seamless mobility and data management. They are solutions that allow customers to run mission-critical applications on small infrastructures, eliminating data silos, helping to make dev/test environments more efficient. This allows customers to modernize with greater choice, efficiency and simplicity.”
ArrowSphere, the cloud delivery and management platform, enables the IT channel by providing a single platform to purchase and administer cloud products and services, monitor activity and consumption with built-in business intelligence tools, sell your services with one customizable storefront, also simplifying the invoicing process.
*The calculation of operational costs is subject to verification by the client's auditor
