{"id":9761,"date":"2016-06-23T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T11:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=9761"},"modified":"2016-06-23T11:23:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T11:23:41","slug":"pure-storage-announces-new-enhancements-to-evergreen-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2016\/06\/23\/pure-storage-announces-new-enhancements-to-evergreen-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Storage announces new upgrades to Evergreen Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pure Storage<\/a> has announced new enhancements to their storage procurement and ownership model, Evergreen\u00a0Storage. Pure has added significant enhancements to the Evergreen Storage model, enabling customers to acquire, run and non-disruptively upgrade storage now with even more comprehensive investment protection.<\/p>\n

First launched in early 2014, the Evergreen Storage model revolutionised traditional vendor maintenance and upgrade programmes by eliminating forklift upgrades and allowing customers to routinely upgrade the performance and scale of their array with modern controllers. Now, Pure is expanding the vision of Evergreen beyond controllers and performance, to incorporate the rapid density and scale evolution of flash as a media.<\/p>\n

The new Capacity Consolidation Programme helps customers expanding their storage capacity to simultaneously consolidate older, less dense flash storage and receive trade-in credit for that older storage \u2013 meaning customers can break free of the cycle of constantly re-buying storage they already own during upgrades.\u00a0Additionally, with the new Right-Size Guarantee, customers can bypass the risk and guesswork of buying storage with data reduction and instead purchase directly on an effective capacity basis, just as their requirements indicate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Evergreen Storage model represents a positive and much-needed shift in the industry, because it offers a way to reduce the pain and cost of the perpetual treadmill of storage hardware upgrades and data migration,\u201d said Tim Stammers, Senior Analyst at 451 Research<\/em>. \u201cBy adding Capacity Consolidation and the Right-Size Guarantee to the model, Pure is extending the potential to improve customers\u2019 experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right-Size Guarantee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Data reduction from Pure ensures customers get efficient, cost-effective storage. However, storage buyers want to buy effective capacity – not worry about the potential of purchasing an undersized array due to thin provisioning, RAID protection, data reduction capabilities or any of the other variables behind that effective capacity outcome. With the Right-Size Guarantee, Pure guarantees the proper sizing and effective capacity outcome itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the customer perspective, effective capacity is the only metric that matters,\u201d said Matt Kixmoeller, Vice President, Products, Pure Storage.<\/em> \u201cBy guaranteeing effective capacity for our customers, Pure eliminates risks associated with data reduction and simplifies the buying process so that they can purchase with confidence and begin transforming their business immediately. The Right-Size Guarantee is a simple, customer-friendly alternative to data reduction oriented guarantees and their associated risks and complexity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Capacity Consolidation<\/strong><\/p>\n

With Capacity Consolidation, Pure Storage customers can rest assured that their infrastructure can scale to handle exploding data growth by periodically upgrading to denser, more modern flash without paying for the same terabyte twice.<\/p>\n

Compared to traditional solutions, Capacity Consolidation eliminates periodic and disruptive capacity re-buys by expanding and modernising the media in an existing array, online and with trade-in credit. Capacity Consolidation eliminates scale-up forklift re-buys, and scale-out re-buys associated with aging nodes removed from their cluster. Customers install new capacity into their FlashArray, while the data on the older, consolidated capacity is automatically and non-disruptively migrated into the newer, denser capacity. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pure Storage has announced new enhancements to their storage procurement and ownership model, Evergreen\u00a0Storage. Pure has added significant enhancements to the Evergreen Storage model, enabling customers to acquire, run and non-disruptively upgrade storage now with even more comprehensive investment protection. First launched in early 2014, the Evergreen Storage model revolutionised traditional vendor maintenance and upgrade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":9762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[517,809],"tags":[2481,2482,2483,1481,2484,2485,841,372,2486],"class_list":["post-9761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-more-news","tag-capacity-consolidation-programme","tag-data-reduction","tag-evergreen-storage","tag-flash","tag-flasharray","tag-modern-controllers","tag-pure-storage","tag-storage","tag-vendor-maintenance-and-upgrade-programme"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}