Putting More Flex Into Flash Storage Arrays
Summary
In a cloud-based, highly distributed, and data-centric world, flexibility in what a piece of hardware and its systems software can do, where it can run, and how it can be configured is a critical differentiator for picky enterprises. In the most recent quarter, 33 percent of Pure Storage’s revenues come through subscriptions, according to Angad Narang, the vendor’s vice president of product marketing and management. The focus on giving enterprises options is continuing at this week’s Pure//Accelerate techfest22 show, where the vendor is unveiling an expanded – and rebranded – Evergreen portfolio and a new FlashBlade product family, called FlashBlade//S, built with a modular architecture and co-designed hardware and software. “But really the flexibility and investment protection we’re giving the customer over time with the more configurable, more mix-to-match hardware aspects of the platform.” On the product side, the FlashBlade//S is a significant step forward for the FlashBlade portfolio, which launched in 2017 as a scale-out and unified file and object storage platform. That said, the software in the Purity//FB 4.0 package for the new system is highly scalable – up to billions of files and objects and dozens of petabytes of data – can run critical workloads and makes managing the storage easier.