MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
March 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today
Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers
storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world announced growth
milestones to mark the five year anniversary of introducing
FlashBlade®.
Unveiled in March 2016, FlashBlade
has delivered consistent year-over-year growth every quarter since.
Within two years of general availability (GA), FlashBlade reached a
$250M run rate and more than tripled
its customer count. FlashBlade continues to expand and diversify
its customer base at a breakneck speed, adding several hundred new
FlashBlade customers in FY21 and reaching nearly $1B in sales four years after GA. Today, more
than 25% of the Fortune 100 use FlashBlade to derive value from
their unstructured data.
The growth of FlashBlade has been powered by continuous
innovation to not only solve for customer's current needs, but
enable them to take advantage of the next wave of modern data and
applications to fuel their business. The innovation FlashBlade has
delivered includes:
- Platform evolution to power next generation workloads:
FlashBlade was built with dense scale-out capacity and
multi-dimensional performance in mind from day one and has been
bolstered by continuous feature upgrades, like native SMB support,
SafeMode™ snapshots for ransomware protection, and
software enhancements designed for real-time analytics, for
example. In 2020, FlashBlade defined a new category of storage:
Unified Fast File and Object (UFFO). By unifying fast file and fast
object capabilities on a single platform, FlashBlade empowers
customers with future-proofed infrastructure for the rise of
unstructured data.
- Stand out partnerships and integrated solutions: To
tackle a diverse set of customer challenges, FlashBlade has brought
uniquely differentiated partnerships to bear. With NVIDIA,
FlashBlade created the industry's first integrated AI-Ready
Infrastructure (AIRI®), a joint solution for deploying
deep learning at scale. With Cohesity, FlashBlade created
FlashRecover™, Powered by Cohesity®, the industry's
first jointly-engineered all-flash modern data protection solution
for rapid recovery, ransomware protection, and reuse of data.
FlashBlade extended its unified fast file and object platform to
AWS Outposts, enabling enterprises with a hybrid cloud solution to
consolidate current and next-generation workloads.
- Flexible consumption models and non-disruptive upgrades:
Pure's Evergreen™ subscription to innovation lets FlashBlade
customers adopt new features without disruption, downtime, or the
requirement to re-buy capacity. With the option of buying
FlashBlade's Unified Fast File and Object Service through Pure
as-a-Service, customers can 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,
all delivered with pay as you go consumption.
"FlashBlade's growth has exceeded all industry benchmarks and I
am tremendously proud of the breadth and depth of our rapidly
expanding customer base. As we look towards a future where a
significant majority of enterprise data is unstructured, FlashBlade
is the proven innovator to deliver the infrastructure enterprises
need to capitalize on modern and next generation data." --
Matt Burr, Vice President and
General Manager of FlashBlade, Pure Storage
FlashBlade customers are among the industry's happiest,
contributing to Pure's NPS score in the top 1% of B2B companies.
Based on customer reviews, FlashBlade has been named a Gartner Peer
Insights Customers' Choice for Distributed File Systems and Object
Storage for 2021 and TrustRadius has recognized FlashBlade as the
2020 Top Rated Award winner in the Object Storage category.
"FlashBlade performance has been fantastic, with no downtime.
With Vertica on Pure Storage, we have a 360-degree view of
customers and fast, sophisticated analytics to provide all sorts of
insights to the business, fueling customer success. Our users don't
know about the new technology underneath, they just know that
Vertica answers their questions much faster. One customer knowledge
base report used to take seven days to run – now it's complete in
two seconds." -- Chris "CB" Bohn, Principal Data Engineer,
Micro Focus
"FlashBlade's ability to scale up performance while lowering I/O
latency has exceeded our expectations. With FlashBlade, we are
confident that we'll be able to meet the increasing demand for
supercomputing resources and strengthen NTU's position as a
world-class research-intensive university, while walking the talk
when it comes to protecting the environment." -- Alvin Ong, Chief Information Officer, NTU
Singapore
Learn more at PureStorage.com/FlashBlade.
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. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.
Analyst Recognition: Pure Storage has been named a
Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage
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