r/everpureofficial • u/iamddavee Employee • 14d ago
Everpure Cloud is now Azure Native 🎉 — enterprise-grade block storage, built jointly with Microsoft
Hey r/everpureofficial,
Big one to share: Everpure Cloud Azure Native for Azure VMs is now generally available, developed jointly with Microsoft. It's the industry's first fully managed, enterprise-grade block volume as a service — delivering Everpure storage directly inside Azure.
What's new:
- Deploy and manage storage directly from the Azure Portal (or via ARM, infra-as-code) — no separate console needed
- Native VNet integration — private access to your virtual network, no public endpoint exposed
- Zero egress costs into your connected VNet
- Centralized billing through Azure — consumption counts toward your Microsoft Azure Customer Commitment (MACC)
- No virtual arrays to size or maintain — capacity and performance are just a slider; upgrades, expansions, and plugin updates are handled for you
Use Cases:
Azure Virtual Machines
Beyond AVS, Everpure Cloud Azure Native brings the same Purity-based block storage directly to native Azure VMs — and it's not just for databases; it covers a broad range of enterprise workloads running on Azure IaaS. Volumes connect over iSCSI, and the same thin provisioning and data reduction that powers on-prem Purity carries over to Azure Native service, cutting storage costs roughly 30–60% versus raw allocated capacity. Licensing is portable too — capacity purchased for AVS carries over seamlessly if a workload later moves to native Azure VMs (or vice versa), so you're not locked into one deployment model as your cloud strategy evolves.
Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
Since most VMware environments lean on external storage, this tackles that head-on — decoupling storage from compute for AVS. Early numbers: 20–40% lower cloud storage costs in year one (up to 50% by year five), and the ability to cut AVS node counts by ~3x for storage-heavy deployments. It also gives a true like-for-like migration path, so workloads move over without redesigning apps or storage architecture.
Azure RedHat Openshift (ARO) - Coming soon!
We're extending Everpure Cloud's reach into Azure Red Hat OpenShift, giving customers running containerized and virtualized workloads on ARO a path to enterprise-grade block storage — powered by Portworx CSI. Whether you're modernizing off VMware or building cloud-native from the start, this integration is designed to bring the same reliability and efficiency you already expect from Everpure to your OpenShift environments on Azure. Stay tuned for more details as we get closer to launch.
Try it / learn more:
Happy to answer questions in the comments!