Pure Storage, a leading independent all-flash data platform vendor for the cloud era, has announced it has improved its position within the ‘Leaders’ quadrant of the Gartner July 2017 Magic Quadrant for ‘Solid State Arrays’ (SSAs).<\/p>\n
For the fourth consecutive year, Pure Storage is positioned furthest along the \u2018Completeness of Vision\u2019 axis in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant.<\/p>\n
In the past year, Pure Storage has continued to innovate at a breakneck pace. In October 2016, Pure Storage introduced a petabyte-scale configuration of its flagship FlashArray\/\/M family and significantly expanded its collaboration with Cisco to enhance the companies\u2019 joint FlashStack converged infrastructure platform.<\/p>\n
Cisco and Pure Storage have developed Cisco Validated Designs for FlashStack that include Citrix, Commvault, Oracle, SAP and VMware.<\/p>\n
The joint FlashStack solution has thousands of deployments in more than 30 countries and continues to have triple digit growth year-on-year. FlashStack customers span industries including retail, healthcare, education, financial services and service providers.<\/p>\n
Notable customers include Room & Board, Dominos, Texas Children\u2019s Hospital and Secure-24.<\/p>\n
\u201cCisco and Pure Storage continue to drive innovation that delivers a unique combination of performance, simplicity, and efficiency for data centre infrastructure,\u201d said Nirav Sheth, VP, Worldwide Partner Sales, Cisco.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur joint FlashStack converged infrastructure solution enables IT organisations to easily scale with business requirements, accelerate automation and quickly deploy a foundation for hybrid cloud solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additionally, the company continued to invest in improvements to its Evergreen Storage programme, which now includes an NVMe-ready guarantee. In April, Pure Storage announced the market\u2019s first enterprise-class, all-flash, all-NVMe array, FlashArray\/\/X.<\/p>\n
In June, the company held its second annual user conference, Pure\/\/Accelerate, where it unveiled its vision to provide the world\u2019s most innovative organisations with the all-flash data platform for the cloud era.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Pure Storage announced a 75-blade system and continued momentum for its second major product, FlashBlade, with cutting-edge customers like UC Berkeley, Mercedes and ION. With use cases across genomics, machine learning, AI, IoT and many more, FlashBlade powers today\u2019s most complex workloads and enables tomorrow\u2019s world-changing innovations.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince inception in 2009, Pure has innovated to fix data storage \u2013 to make it dramatically faster, simpler, more robust, and at a lower cost to own over time, \u201d said Scott Dietzen, CEO, Pure Storage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year\u2019s shipping innovations may well be our best ever with FlashBlade, FlashArray\/\/X, ActiveClustering and our next-generation converged infrastructure in FlashStack.<\/p>\n
\u201cPart of what we believe makes Gartner remarkable is that they are uniquely able to collate insights from thousands of customers on what is really working and what isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel this is what makes our ‘Leadership’ in the Magic Quadrant so compelling, as we continue to enable our customers to unlock more value from their data, doing so for less cost-making Pure the best all-flash data platform for the cloud era.\u201d \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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