iTWire Thursday, 13 May 2021 23:01 Pure Storage updates Pure1 and Portworx Shares Storage and data management vendor Pure Storage has announced improvements to its Pure1 software, along with an upgrade for Portworx Enterprise that delivers true storage as code. Pure1 is now able to provide infrastructure assessments rather than just observations, and now works with containers as well as virtual machines. The software's AI-powered recommendations cover the placement of new workloads, workload rebalancing, performance and capacity upgrades, and the selection of appropriate Pure-as-a-Service instances. Pure's Meta AI engine provides predictive service management, identifying issues and prescribing resolutions before outages occur. It now provides intelligent monitoring and management of all data service platforms: on-premises FlashArray or FlashBlade, cloud-native Portworx, and Pure Cloud Block Store for AWS and Microsoft Azure.