Nokia taps Pure Storage to anchor data layer for its next-generation telco cloud

As telecom networks accelerate their shift toward cloud-native and AI-driven architectures, Nokia has made a key infrastructure choice to support that transition. The company has selected Pure Storage to power the high-performance, all-flash data layer for its next-generation telco cloud built on Red Hat OpenShift.

The decision comes as service providers grapple with a central challenge of modern telecom transformation: building a data foundation that can reliably support cloud-native network functions (CNFs) today, while also scaling for AI-driven automation and autonomous networks in the future. For Nokia, the combination of OpenShift as the cloud platform and Pure Storage as the data layer is intended to deliver a repeatable, carrier-grade reference architecture from the edge to the core.

Strengthening Nokia’s telco cloud blueprint

Nokia has been standardising on Red Hat OpenShift since mid-2023 as its primary reference platform for core network applications. By adding Pure Storage to ...