Pure Storage: New technology for data reduction and improved cyber resilience

The storage specialist Pure Storage has announced a series of updates and additions following its Accelerate in-house exhibition in June. For example, the Pure AI Copilot has been integrated with MCP servers (Model Context Protocol). The Copilot functions as both an MCP server and an MCP client and is designed to facilitate integration with internal systems and external tools such as analysis engines and application monitors.

According to Pure Storage, this creates a contextual level on which error patterns are searched for, results are summarized, and remedial measures are suggested in natural language. The integration will be available by January 2026 at the latest.

Another new feature is the integration of Pure Storage Key Value Accelerator with Nvidia Dynamo for AI Inference. The Key Value Accelerator is a key value caching solution for accelerating AI inference workloads in multi-GPU environments. The integration of the Pure Storage Key Value Accelerator with Nvidia Dynamo is designed to improve scalability and increase inference speed. This reduces the computing effort and the carbon footprint. This should also be available by January 2026.

"Next generation" of data reduction

Pure Storage is known for its data reduction and data deduplication. With Purity Deep Reduce, the provider is promising further enhancements. The company refers to this as the "next generation of data reduction", which utilizes smart pattern recognition and similarity-based reduction technologies. The aim is to compress the amount of data even better without any significant loss of performance. However, the function will only be available between February and July 2026.

The new Pure Protect Recovery Zones allow applications and data to be tested and validated without interruption using isolated recovery environments (IREs) or attacks to be rectified and restored to their original state (disaster recovery) without affecting the production environment. The ability to immediately restore business-critical applications during a cyber incident should significantly reduce the impact of an attack. The new zones will be available from spring 2026.

Cyber resilience as a service

In the area of cyber resilience, there have also been several additions to existing collaborations with other companies. These include an expanded collaboration with CrowdStrike. It aims to improve security in mission-critical storage environments by feeding the data from the Pure Storage arrays into the Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. This allows reactions to be triggered automatically in real time.

Pure Storage has also expanded its collaboration with Superna. Superna Data Security Essentials have been integrated into Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade. This enables file and user monitoring that is specifically geared towards data exfiltration or double-extortion ransomware in real time. Compromised accounts are immediately blocked and security policies are automatically enforced.

The new cooperation with Veeam aims to automate data recovery. This solution is provided as "Cyber-Resilience-as-a-Service" with a cloud-like usage model and is secured by SLAs. It is based on the Pure Enterprise Data Cloud and the Veeam Data Platform. This allows fragmented, manual processes to be replaced by standardized, policy-driven automation.

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