Everpure, a storage and data management company formerly known as Pure Storage, said on March 12 it is expanding support for ActiveCluster for file data, accelerating its Enterprise Data Cloud vision.

Through the expansion, enterprises can use policy-based automation to move data freely across all storage environments and access data without failures or work stoppages.

The company said demand for unstructured data processing has grown with the recent AI boom, but most enterprises still rely on architectures designed for the era before flash, cloud and AI. Existing storage systems often handle only a portion of the throughput required by modern AI workloads. This creates situations where GPUs cannot perform actual computing tasks because of insufficient data supply. As a result, data policies become tied to specific storage equipment, limiting flexibility and entrenching data silos.

ActiveCluster for File, the latest feature of the Everpure platform, introduces fleet-level data mobility across file environments and extends existing high availability. It is integrated with Everpure Fusion and built into the Purity operating environment, supporting organisations in centrally defining availability and mobility policies.

Shawn Hansen (숀 한센), vice president and general manager for Everpure's FlashBlade and FlashArray business, said, "Existing vendors are still tied to infrastructure-centric design approaches from the 1990s. When files are tied to siloed hardware, migration disrupts work, and data movement has no choice but to rely on manual processes. ActiveCluster fundamentally changes this." He added, "Everpure moved away from hardware-centric thinking and shifted to an app-to-data model that connects data directly from applications. Through this, it has become possible to operate at the speed business requires on a single platform."