Nutanix and Pure Storage have announced the availability of a new joint solution, providing a smarter, more powerful choice for virtualisation.
This integrated solution combines the operational simplicity of the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution with the high-performance architecture of Pure Storage® FlashArray™, delivering improved application responsiveness and greater agility for business-critical workloads. Translation? You get a full-stack virtual infrastructure that’s modern, scalable, and ready to handle your most mission-critical, data-intensive workloads—AI included.
Each Nutanix VM is hosted by a FlashArray volume, providing per-VM granularity. This allows users to apply array services like snapshots and QoS at the virtual disk level and keep VMs up to date with protection policies. Granular alignment with VMs means the right data services on the right virtual disks—without impacting neighbours.
Why now? Because the virtualisation market is shifting fast. Licensing costs are climbing, vendor lock-in is real, and IT leaders are rethinking their entire stack. Nutanix and Pure Storage are stepping in with a fresh alternative—one that’s built for change and tuned for performance.
Whether you’re dealing with sprawling VMs or planning your next AI deployment, this partnership is all about freedom, resilience, and future-ready infrastructure. And the best part? It’s simple to deploy and easy to manage.
A modern infrastructure alliance
The Pure Storage Platform and the Nutanix Cloud Platform together deliver a powerful, integrated solution for modern enterprise IT. Built for performance, simplicity, and resilience, this joint offering helps organisations streamline operations, strengthen security, and reduce reliance on legacy virtualisation.
The Pure Storage Platform delivers a unified, cloud-like storage-as-a-service foundation that consolidates block, file, and object with simple, centralised management, cutting complexity and accelerating outcomes. Built on Evergreen architecture for non‑disruptive upgrades and zero‑downtime operations, it future-proofs your estate while driving cost, space, and energy efficiency so teams can focus on innovation instead of migrations.
Pure Storage FlashArray, a component of the storage platform, is engineered for high-performance workloads and enterprise scale. Its always-on global compression and deduplication deliver industry-leading data efficiency, often requiring significantly less hardware than alternatives. The platform’s modular NVMe architecture enables true disaggregated simplicity, separating compute and storage for sub-millisecond latency across all workloads.
With full integration into the Nutanix Prism control plane, customers gain VM-level snapshots, and seamless Day 1 and Day 2 operations, all from a single interface.
FlashArray delivers six-nines availability, even during in-place upgrades, and scales with DirectFlash® Modules up to 150TB per drive (300TB announced), offering more usable capacity with fewer devices. Advanced replication capabilities, including asynchronous replication and a roadmap to ActiveDR™ and ActiveCluster™, further enhance business continuity for Nutanix environments.
The Nutanix Cloud Platform solution, which includes Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for enterprise datacenters and Nutanix Cloud Clusters in leading public clouds, simplifies and secures enterprise IT across hybrid environments. Nutanix Prism provides a unified, VM-centric interface that streamlines operations from Day 0 through Day 2, offering intelligent automation and integrated monitoring.
The Nutanix AHV hypervisor, a built-in component of the Nutanix platform, eliminates the complexity and cost of third-party virtualisation while delivering enterprise-grade performance and scalability. Nutanix Flow adds policy-driven microsegmentation and virtual networking, providing granular control over east-west traffic and helping meet compliance requirements. Designed around virtual machines, it enables fast provisioning, easy scaling, responsive performance, and built-in resilience for business-critical applications.
Together, Pure Storage and Nutanix offer a full-stack solution that empowers IT teams to modernise infrastructure. Customers can step away from legacy virtualisation dependency and toward a solution built for better business outcomes. With Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and Pure FlashArray as the storage foundation, organisations gain a scalable, secure, and high-performance solution that supports demanding workloads and aligns with evolving priorities.
Enterprise Storage That Grows with You
Pure Storage FlashArray isn’t just attached to Nutanix—it’s engineered to evolve with it.
With the Pure Storage Evergreen® model, you never have to repurchase storage. No re-licensing. No new forklift projects. Just ongoing, non-disruptive upgrades. It’s the only storage subscription that future-proofs your infrastructure and aligns with how Nutanix customers think about long-term value.
Add in real-time Prism integration, ultra-dense DirectFlash Modules, and hands-off efficiency, and you’ve got a true first-class storage experience for your Nutanix environment. The difference between Pure Storage FlashArray and other external storage options in a Nutanix environment isn’t subtle—it’s structural.
If you’re serious about resilience, simplicity, and real enterprise storage for Nutanix, there’s only one answer.
SUPPORTING QUOTES
Jon Edwards, IT Director at Legacy Health
“Proving that Epic’s ODB for customers our size would run successfully on Nutanix was a colossal accomplishment. In tandem with Nutanix and Epic, we not only proved that Nutanix can handle the load, but it was a legitimate alternative to well-established incumbents as well as Cloud offerings. And for a regional healthcare provider, we’ve had an opportunity to lead with future-looking technology partners while honoring financial stewardship of our hospital system.”
Curtis Stoecklin, Manager of IT Services, Legacy Health
“We were the first to run ODB on Nutanix with Pure Storage over NVME over TCP.”
Anthony Jackman, Chief Innovation Officer at Expedient
“This is the partnership the industry has been waiting for – two companies with an unwavering commitment to performance, availability, and user experience from day one. This solution will allow Expedient to deliver a guaranteed outcome to our clients along with maximum flexibility, including the ability to leverage their existing investments while modernising their infrastructure.”
(Adapted from press release)
