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From Big Data to Intelligent Data: Pure Storage FlashBlade Gets 5x Bigger, FasterSAN FRANCISCO, June 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the market's leading independent all-flash data platform vendor for the cloud era, today announced a series of updates to its FlashBladeTM product line which allow customers to further unlock the value of data with five-fold improvements in both capacity and performance. FlashBlade customers will be able to manage up to 75 blades as a single system. The company also announced an ultra-fast, all-flash S3 object store to unlock additional use cases in rich media, healthcare and advanced analytics. Additionally, Pure introduced a 17TB blade to complement existing 8TB and 52TB configurations. Since its introduction in March 2016, FlashBlade has helped organizations across a wide range of use-cases, including automotive, machine learning, oil and gas, professional sports, healthcare, SaaS, and predictive analytics. Driven by the expansion and analysis of mission-critical data, Pure has pushed to meet ever-evolving customer needs with significant feature updates for the FlashBlade system that help solidify Pure Storage as the most complete data platform for the cloud era. "Modern computing frameworks have given rise to increasingly complex, high-performance analytics and valuable data," said Par Botes, VP of FlashBlade, Pure Storage. "With FlashBlade, our mission is to make big data into fast data with an all-flash platform that is big, fast, and simple to deploy – and one that provides value across all industries and segments. Today, we continue to deliver on that promise with brand new innovations that organizations and existing customers need to gain next-level insights from their data." Scale Out: Eight petabytes across 75 blades With the latest Purity software for FlashBlade, customers will be able to scale from seven to 75 blades for a total maximum effective capacity of 8PB and raw capacity of 4PB. With a proprietary networking module that allows up to five chassis to be managed as one cohesive system, organizations can deploy larger-scale, higher-performance systems that process more data at higher speeds. "FlashBlade was built with dense capacity and high performance in mind from day one, but until now, the largest single system available was just short of 800TB raw. Now, we have the option to increase capacity as much as five-fold to create one system that communicates and integrates seamlessly," said Jim Dolan, Global Manager of HPC at ION. "What's truly eye-opening is the potential for performance gains across a scaled system – we don't just expect FlashBlade to get five times bigger, but five times faster, too. In data-intensive, performance-driven industries like oil and gas, there is an increased demand for ever-improving imaging processes. FlashBlade at greater scale will enable shorter delivery time, increased resource productivity and add direct business value." Just Right: A 17TB Blade at an affordable price point To complement existing 8TB and 52TB configurations, Pure Storage has announced the availability of a 17TB blade. This newly-available blade seamlessly fits into the modular design of FlashBlade with plug-and-play ease for both hardware and software, and offers a more attractive $/GB option for sall-to-medium-sized deployments. "At a time when many vendors have felt the crunch of supply chain shortages in the NAND and SSD industries, Pure Storage has engineered modularity into the FlashBlade system which allows us to bring new innovations to market at attractive price points," said Botes. "The new 17TB blade will provide improved simplicity of management, increased performance and real flexibility to customers with mid-range capacity needs." Accelerated Insights: Object storage becomes fast storage Historically, object storage has been big and slow. Today, there is an increasing need for high-performance object storage. As S3 and other public cloud object storage protocols continue to drive the growth of object storage both on-premises and in the cloud, the opportunity for a different, more modern object store has arisen – ultra-fast, all-flash, with an increased emphasis on performance. A massive shift to highly-scalable object platforms is underway for applications that have historically used file systems. As organizations tap into next-generation applications and workloads, like deep learning and rich media, they require unprecedented levels of performance from their infrastructure. Companies that rely on the responsiveness of their websites and applications, like SaaS providers, rely on big, fast infrastructure to drive ever-better customer service levels. Meanwhile, data-intensive emerging analytics technologies have begun to leverage high-performance, large-scale object stores on the backend. "Customers require a storage solution that supports a data intensive analytics infrastructure, so they can take advantage of data and discover insights in real time," said Rick Gordon, President, AE Business Solutions. "As evidenced by our customers, FlashBlade is a natural fit for their ever-expanding needs and this new update opens the potential of FlashBlade to large-scale, performance-intensive organizations. FlashBlade helps us offer the most complete data platform." More Information Additional features and updates for FlashBlade include:
For additional detail on today's news, please visit our blog. You can also join us today and tomorrow – June 13 & 14 – for our annual user conference, Pure//Accelerate, at Pier 70 in San Francisco via live stream. About Pure Storage Connect with Pure Storage: Analyst Recognition: Pure Storage, the "P" Logo and FlashBlade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pure Storage, Inc. All other trademarks or names referenced in this document are the property of their respective owners. Forward-Looking Statements Any unreleased products, features, or functions referenced in this release, our website or other press releases or public statements that are not currently available are subject to change at Pure Storage's discretion and may not be delivered as planned or at all. Customers who purchase Pure Storage's product offerings should make their purchase decisions based upon products, features and functions that are currently available. To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/from-big-data-to-intelligent-data-pure-storage-flashblade-gets-5x-bigger-faster-300472962.html SOURCE Pure Storage |