Confluent Platform 6.0 has introduced Tiered Storage, now supporting on-premises object storage with the addition of Pure Storage's FlashBlade, alongside existing support for Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage. This integration allows users to separate compute from storage by tiering data to remote object storage, improving elasticity and enabling faster scaling of Apache Kafka® brokers. The collaboration with Pure Storage ensures high performance, reliability, and ease of use, with FlashBlade exhibiting impressive throughput and scalability metrics. This setup enables infinite data retention and supports various use cases such as analytics and historical queries, offering cloud-like elasticity for on-premises deployments. The successful partnership was demonstrated through rigorous testing, highlighting FlashBlade's capability to handle substantial loads while maintaining data integrity and service level agreements (SLAs).