MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Oct. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the market's leading independent
solid-state array vendor, today introduced the availability of
petabyte-scale storage for mission-critical cloud IT, anchored by
the release of the next-generation of FlashArray//m the company's
flagship all-flash storage array, which now delivers best-in-class
performance with the simplicity and agility of public cloud. The
FlashArray//m now offers customers petabyte-scale capacity with a
measured 99.9999 percent availability and always-on Quality of
Service – virtually eliminating storage downtime and application
performance risk. For more information on today's announcements,
Pure Storage has launched "Outside the Box" - an ongoing
informational web series for the technical community - which debuts
today.
With today's release of the next-generation FlashArray//m, Pure
Storage is equipping customers with Smart Storage, storage that is
purpose-built to be effortless, efficient and evergreen – and
capable of delivering the simplicity, automation, resiliency, and
customer friendly business model which are all essential for cloud
IT.
"Storage underlies everything we do in today's digital economy,
an economy that is increasingly powered by cloud IT," said
Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Product, Pure
Storage. "Pure Storage has built the smart storage platform to
deliver cloud IT - whether it be public cloud, SaaS, private cloud,
or a mix of all three. Efficient all-flash storage, now at
petabyte-scale, is the agile foundation of tomorrow's clouds."
"Pure Storage makes strides in technology innovation year after
year," said Kevin Prahm, Vice
President of Sales and Operations, ACS. "The additional capacity of
FlashArray//m and availability means more choices for our customers
and confidence that their mission critical applications will always
be up and running with Pure."
"Pure Storage helps free up our IT staff to focus on strategy
and value-added projects that improve the business, process and
performance," said Shawn O'Brien,
Director of Architecture and Infrastructure, Room & Board. "By
delivering on simplicity and engineering for future technologies,
Pure delivers simplicity and ease-of-management while keeping our
infrastructure modern, online and scalable."
Next-Generation, Petabyte-Scale FlashArray//m
The newly updated FlashArray//m, the fifth generation of Pure
Storage's flagship FlashArray product, now scales up to 512
terabytes of raw flash, which translates to approximately 1.5
petabytes of effective capacity – all in just 7U of rack space.
This scale and density enables customers to consolidate racks of
legacy disk storage down to 7U or less.
Leveraging Pure's EvergreenTM architecture, the
existing FlashArray customers of every generation can seamlessly
upgrade to the new FlashArray//m, allowing customers to take
advantage of rapid technology advances in both compute and flash.
The new FlashArray//m offers four different controller options to
meet a variety of performance and capacity needs:
- //m10 (introduced earlier in 2016) – up to 25 TBs effective
usable capacity (5 – 10 TBs raw storage) and up to 100,000 32K
input/output operations per second (IOPS),
- New //m20 – up to 250 TBs effective usable capacity (5 – 80 TBs
raw storage) and up to 200,000 32K IOPS,
- New //m50 – up to 500 TBs effective usable capacity (20 – 176
TBs raw storage) and up to 270,000 32K IOPS,
- New //m70 – up to 1.5 Petabytes effective usable capacity (42 –
512 TBs raw storage) and up to 370,000 32K IOPS.
Across these new controller options, the FlashArray//m delivers
a 20 to 30 percent performance boost and a 100 – 276 percent
capacity boost over the previous FlashArray//m generation.
Object scale has also been improved by 10X, enhancing overall
system scalability and enabling large-scale Copy Data Management
with up to 50,000 space-efficient snapshots on the system.
Six Nines of Availability, Redefined.
In its first year of shipment, the FlashArray//m has achieved
99.9999 percent availability across the installed base, which
equates to only 31.5 seconds of downtime on average per year,
demonstrating the FlashArray//m can deliver the level of resiliency
needed for mission-critical enterprise applications and always-on
clouds.
Pure Storage is also redefining the way availability is measured
and reported to align directly with customer expectations and
experience of availability. FlashArray//m's measured 99.9999
availability is inclusive of upgrades and maintenance, across both
hardware and software, and without requiring a second array
configured with replication.
Key to delivering this level of availability is not only the
resiliency architected into the FlashArray//m, but also Pure1®
Global Insight, Pure's cloud-based predictive analytics platform.
Since its introduction almost a year ago, Pure1 Global Insight has
helped to automatically identify and resolve thousands of issues,
and prevented over 170 Severity 1 issues to date. Pure1 Global
Insight is a key ingredient for delivering an always-on experience
to Pure Storage customers, as the install base continues to
grow.
Always-On QoS
As customers consolidate dozens or even hundreds of
applications, concerns about "noisy neighbors" – applications that
starve the performance of other applications on an array – can
emerge. Typical QoS implementations to prevent noisy neighbors are
complex, requiring per-volume min, max, and burst IOPS to be set
and then constantly adjusted as application needs evolve. Improper
QoS configuration can cause more harm than good!
The FlashArray//m's new Always-On QoS feature requires zero
configuration, so all customers can benefit without the complexity
of legacy QoS implementations. Any application can burst up to the
maximum utilization of the FlashArray//m, as long as it is not
impacting other applications. If the application becomes a "noisy
neighbor" and begins to impact other applications, Always-On QoS
will throttle the problem application down to ensure all other
applications get their fair share of array performance. Architected
with a sophisticated IO credit system under the covers, Always-On
QoS is simple and autonomous, making it ideal for most use cases,
and builds the foundation for future policy-driven QoS
extensions.
NPIV Support for Host-Transparent Upgrades
Network Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) support on the
FlashArray//m makes the non-disruptive software upgrade experience
even more robust and invisible to the host and server and
virtualization admin teams. With NPIV, IO intended for ports on a
FlashArray//m controller that have been temporarily restarted
during the software upgrade process is transparently directed to
the other FlashArray//m controller, without any dependency on host
multipathing software. NPIV removes the risk of downtime due to
misconfigured host multipathing software – a common worry for large
enterprise environments – and makes storage software upgrades
transparent to server administrators by eliminating IO error alerts
that would otherwise be generated at the application host
layer.
Availability
The new versions of FlashArray//m are available to order, with
new //m20, //m50, and //m70 configurations now shipping. Upgrade
Flex bundles enable existing FA-400 Series and FlashArray//m
customers to upgrade and receive trade-in credit for existing
controllers. The Purity Operating Environment, version 4.8,
which contains the features mentioned above is currently shipping.
Always-On QoS is now available in an Early Access Program for
select customers with General Availability for production workloads
planned for Q4 of calendar 2016.
Learn more by visiting our blog, or by watching the October
episode of Outside The Box here.
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG) helps companies push the boundaries of
what's possible. The company's all-flash based technology, combined
with its customer-friendly business model, drives business and IT
transformation with Smart Storage that is effortless, efficient and
evergreen. Pure Storage offers two flagship products:
FlashArray//m, optimized for structured workloads, and FlashBlade,
ideal for unstructured data. With Pure's industry leading
Satmetrix-certified NPS score of 83.5, Pure customers are some of
the happiest in the world, and includes organizations of all sizes,
across an ever-expanding range of industries.
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IDC MarketScape for All-Flash Arrays
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