New FlashArray models deliver up to 40% higher
performance, 30% more inline compression to stretch storage
capacity, and new ransomware protection capabilities delivered
entirely via non-disruptive upgrade
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VEGAS, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at
Pure//Accelerate® 2023, Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the
IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage
technology and services, announced the release of the
next-generation FlashArray//X™ and FlashArray//C™ R4 models. The
new FlashArray™ models deliver global enterprises with the data
agility, performance, security, and cost savings needed to
seamlessly and economically scale business operations with the most
efficient storage product line in the industry.
Industry Significance:
The combination of data growth, changes in application types,
new technologies, and the need to move faster drive a critical need
for agility, yet organizations continue to face pressure to get
more done with less energy, less time, and reduced costs.
However, today's fragmented and siloed storage solutions,
coupled with stagnant IT budgets and countless manual, inflexible
operations, continue to result in increased OPEX costs, while the
rapid growth of data causes existing storage platforms to reach
capacity and management limits too quickly.
The next-generation FlashArray//X and FlashArray//C support the
industry's agile storage needs by pioneering the industry's leading
all-flash platform that uniquely integrates hardware with a unified
Purity operating environment across all products.
News Highlights:
With a massive leap forward in performance and scale,
FlashArray™ continues to lead the storage industry, powering the
most demanding applications and business-critical workloads while
reducing their overall management costs by up to 74% over legacy
storage. Pure Storage Evergreen//Forever™ subscribers can take
advantage of the massive performance and efficiency gains at no
additional cost and completely non-disruptively.
The latest FlashArray//X and FlashArray//C R4 models deliver
significant advancements over prior generations. Customers get:
- Up to 40% Performance Boost: The latest R4 models drive
up to a 40% performance boost, over 80% increased memory speeds to
support greater workload consolidation, and a 30% inline
compression boost to stretch storage capacity further. Built on
PCIe Gen4 technology and using the latest Intel XeonTM
chipset and DDR5 DRAM, FlashArray//X and FlashArray//C R4 give
customers more power to support more workloads with up to 74% TCO
savings.
- More Choices for Business-Critical Workloads: By
expanding its FlashArray//C line with FlashArray//C90, Pure Storage
enables more customer choices for business-critical workloads and
data where sub 2m second latency is
not required, making it the perfect platform for operational
databases, workload consolidation, BCDR, and file workloads,
including VMware, PACs, and file stores.
- Industry's Largest Flash Drives: FlashArray//C will
include the upcoming release of 75TB QLC DirectFlash®
Modules (DFMs) with built-in non-volatile RAM, while FlashArray//X
will include 36TB TLC DFMs. These DFMs deliver 1.5PB per 3RU, a
106% improvement in density per rack unit. DFMs, first introduced
with FlashArray//XL™, reduce rack space requirements and enable
even more scale with capacity and improved NVRAM throughput.
DirectFlash provides 20x greater reliability and drives over 4x
more energy efficiency compared to competing all-flash arrays.
- Continuous Innovation, Without Extra Cost or Disruption:
Pure Storage customers can take advantage of the R4 upgrades at no
cost via a completely non-disruptive, no-downtime upgrade through
Pure Storage's patented Evergreen® architecture and
subscription offering. Evergreen//Flex™ uniquely adds that hardware
components and controllers can be reused across the family. Pure
Storage pioneered the notion of non-disruptive upgrades via a
subscription to continuous innovation and has since upgraded more
than 30,000 active storage arrays.
- Improved Data Protection: FlashArray Auto-on
SafeMode has been extended to new volumes on existing arrays,
including a new default snapshot schedule and snapshot protection
for up to 30 days. This gives customers ultimate protection for all
data, with no additional effort, while still providing granular
controls as needed.
Executive Insight:
"Pure Storage pioneered all-flash storage, and the
4th generation of FlashArray//X and FlashArray//C
extends our multi-year leadership advantage. We're driving the
revolution of an all-flash data center at the cost of disk—which
unlocks the incredible density, OPEX, and power efficiency savings
needed for next-generation data centers." - Shawn Hansen, VP and GM, FlashArray, Pure
Storage
"FlashArray has long supported us in improving the performance
and availability for our enterprise clients' most critical
workloads. These powerful new advancements in efficiency,
performance and security will allow Involta to unlock even more
value and scalability while driving ongoing TCO savings with
unified, efficient management." – Josh
Holst, Vice President of Cloud Services, Involta
Learn more:
- FlashArray//X
- FlashArray//C
- Blog: FlashArray //C and //C R4
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE:
PSTG) uncomplicates data storage, forever. Pure
delivers a cloud experience that empowers every organization to get
the most from their data while reducing the complexity and expense
of managing the infrastructure behind it. Pure's commitment to
providing true storage as-a-service gives customers the agility to
meet changing data needs at speed and scale, whether they are
deploying traditional workloads, modern
applications, containers, or more. Pure believes it can make a
significant impact in reducing data center emissions worldwide
through its environmental sustainability efforts, including
designing products and solutions that enable customers to reduce
their carbon and energy footprint. And with the highest Net
Promoter Score in the industry, Pure's ever-expanding list of
customers are among the happiest in the world. For more
information,
visit www.purestorage.com.
Analyst Recognition:
Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Primary Storage
Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File
Systems & Object Storage
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