MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Nov. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Today Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that
delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, announced
expanded Pure as-a-Service offerings, eclipsing current flexible
consumption models available from major storage vendors in the
market today. Pure's new Service Catalog is aimed at
revolutionizing the industry by publishing transparent pricing for
on-premises and hybrid cloud storage delivered as-a-Service -
providing customers with true storage investment transparency so
they can easily choose the right storage service level for each
workload. In addition, Pure is making as-a-Service more accessible
by offering lower cost service tiers and converged storage/compute
solutions providing a seamless purchasing model for customers.
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"IDC predicts that by 2021, 75% of enterprises will recognize
the benefits of as-a-service consumption, driving a 3x increase in
demand for on-premises infrastructure delivered via
flexible/as-a-service solutions. IDC data underscores that the
global pandemic has accelerated this shift and enterprises are
moving towards as-a-Service models faster than ever, with a desire
for more capacity and performance to improve business agility,"
said Susan Middleton, Research
Director of Flexible Consumption and Financing Strategies for IT
Infrastructure at IDC. "In a time of changing business needs,
customers want cost transparency, simplicity and operational
efficiency, as well as a straightforward on-ramp to the cloud that
enables them to preserve capital."
Pure as-a-Service enables customers to optimize every
dollar spent and eliminate technical debt, which has never been
more important than in the current environment. With Pure
as-a-Service, customers only pay for what they use, ensuring
organizations don't over-provision. Unlike other flexible
consumption models, only Pure as-a-Service provides the economic
benefits of cloud, along with the additional benefits of Evergreen
architecture including non-disruptive expansions and maintenance.
This provides a subscription to innovation that can last a decade
or more, true cloud elasticity, and with the addition of the
Service Catalog provides granularity of services along with the
transparency that enterprises expect on-premises and in the cloud,
raising the standard for future customer requirements. Staying true
to Pure's partner centric approach, Pure as-a-Service is delivered
100% via partners.
"Pure as-a-Service has achieved market maturity, having been
available for more than two years as the first Storage as-a-Service
offering from a major vendor," said Rob
Walters, General Manager, Pure as-a-Service, Pure Storage.
"With the new service catalog and expanded offerings, we are once
again leading the market in delivering the flexibility and
transparency that customers are looking for in subscription
services to accelerate their initiatives."
"Pure as-a-Service enables us to simplify the complex operations
behind delivering the seamless reliability, performance and
scalability our customers depend upon us for," said Blake Wetzel, Chief Operations Officer and Chief
Revenue Officer, TeraGo. "Furthermore, the flexible consumption
model eliminates big capital expenditures and gives us the agility
to invest in other strategic initiatives. We're delighted by the
latest, innovative evolution of Pure-as-a-Service and how it aligns
with and supports our efforts to make the move to the cloud a more
frictionless experience for our customers."
New service offerings and enhancements include:
- New Service Catalog: Offers improved transparency and
granularity of service selections for performance and capacity,
allowing customers to easily identify the service and tier of
storage needed based on the workload. Pure delivers clear and
transparent pricing per GB. Pure is also providing customers with
options and flexibility unmatched by the legacy storage providers
and similar to the top cloud providers in the market. Services
include:
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- Block Service that enable customers to choose the
right storage for their applications delivering simplicity and cost
savings:
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- Capacity Tier provides lower commitments,
decreasing the barrier to entry and enabling customers to easily
scale over time. Customers can now utilize block capacity with a
minimum of 200 TiB, decreasing the minimum entry point by one
third. Other tiers retain their minimum commitment of 50 TiB.
- Performance Tier to accelerate hybrid and
multi-cloud environments.
- Premium Tier to support specialized tier 1
workloads, such as containers and test/dev applications.
- UItra Tier designed for in-memory databases.
- Unified Fast File and Object Service allows customers to
select from Premium and Ultra Performance tiers to
support not only traditional file and cloud object workloads, but
also a wide variety of AI and Machine Learning, high performance
compute, and software development needs.
- Full Stack as-a-Service: Enables flexible
consumption-based payments for storage, compute, and networking
through select Pure and Cisco partners. Built on Pure and Cisco's
FlashStack, partners can deliver multiple versions of flexible
consumption for the Full Stack while benefiting from Cisco
Validated Designs.
For more information, please visit:
- Blog: Pure as-a-Service, Transparency, and Your Business
- Infographic: The top 10 reasons to choose Pure
as-a-Service
- Customers: Seeing Storage Consumption Through a Different
Lens
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back.
Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organizations
to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service
model seamlessly across multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing
enterprise IT companies in history, Pure helps customers put data
to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the
infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer
satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's
ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the
world.
Pure Storage, the "P" Logo, DirectFlash, Evergreen, FlashArray,
FlashBlade, FlashStack and Pure1 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.
Analyst Recognition:
Pure Storage has been named a
Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage.
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