Pure Storage announced
FlashBlade//E, a scale-out unstructured data repository built to handle
exponential data growth with industry-leading energy efficiency. At an
acquisition cost competitive with disk and much lower operational costs,
the introduction of FlashBlade//E means that customers no longer need
to settle for disk.
Highlights:
FlashBlade//E provides a better way to manage unstructured data
growth efficiently, reliably, and sustainably with a best-in-class user
experience and economics that enable customers to eliminate the last
remnants of disk in their data center.
- Economical at scale: FlashBlade//E is offered at under $0.20
per GB including three years of service. The platform starts at 4PB and
scales from there with reliable performance.
- Industry-leading energy efficiency: FlashBlade//E consumes up
to 5x less power than the disk-based systems it will replace. The
larger the system the greater the efficiency, helping organizations
achieve their increasingly critical sustainability goals.
- Simplicity, reliability, and a non-disruptive future:
FlashBlade//E is built to flex and grow on demand with 10-20x more
reliability than hard disk based systems and evolving without disruption
or forklift upgrades. With cloud-like simplicity, flexibility and
predictable performance, FlashBlade//E remains simple to manage at any
scale.
FlashBlade//E will be generally available by the end of April 2023.
In addition to traditional purchase, customers will have the option to
deploy FlashBlade//E through a new service tier of Pure's Evergreen//One
Storage as-a-Service (STaaS) subscription, providing pay-as-you-go
economics and a cloud experience with the control of on-premises
deployment.
Industry Significance:
For global organizations, unstructured data capacity is expected to
grow by 10x before 2030. For large-capacity, price-sensitive workloads
that use current disk-based storage solutions, this growth is
unsustainable.
Disk-based systems are a burden on many enterprises' IT teams and
budgets as they are challenging to manage, require massive amounts of
power, take up large amounts of space and their components fail too
often, causing disruption and risking valuable data. Ultimately, this
diminishes the ability to derive business value from data. While modern
file and object storage solutions are capable of addressing many of
these challenges, they haven't been a viable option for large
unstructured data repositories that are price-sensitive - until now.
Executive Insight:
"With FlashBlade//E, we're realizing our founder's original vision of
the all-flash data center. For workloads where flash was once
price-prohibitive, we are thrilled to provide customers the major
benefits Pure delivers at a TCO lower than disk." - Amy Fowler, VP & General Manager, FlashBlade, Pure Storage
"As our customers' unstructured data growth continues to accelerate,
there is demand for more sustainable and scalable storage solutions for
everyday workloads. We are excited to be able to meet this need with
FlashBlade//E, providing the simplicity and power savings Pure is known
for at an acquisition cost lower than disk-based solutions." - Brian Bartell, Practice Manager for Primary Storage, WWT
"While the benefits of flash for high-powered workloads have been
largely acknowledged, disk's price point has limited broader perception
of its full potential use. Nevertheless, the need for a modern platform
to accommodate the rise in unstructured data at scale is evident.
FlashBlade//E's promise of a more cost-effective, energy-efficient and
easier-to-manage approach to everyday workloads makes a compelling case
for leaving disk behind. " - Scott Sinclair, Practice Director, Enterprise Strategy Group