Pure Storage Blog
Building the Next Great Storage Company
The two questions I get asked most are “Who is going to buy Pure?” and “When are you going to sell?” While answering can be fun, I must admit I’m not a huge fan of these questions. They seem a diversion from the important stuff—like making our customers and partners more successful, and making our product and our company better. But I do recognize why people ask, and so hope to sort this more efficiently 1:many on the blog rather than in 1:1 discussions. Plus it’s high time to get our thinking on Pure’s longer term future on the public record. Not surprisingly,…
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Recent Posts
GUEST POST: If someone gave you the keys to a Tesla, would you drive it?
Why wouldn’t you? Posted by John Woodall, VP of Engineering, IAS While a Tesla may still be a little bit beyond the average person’s affordability for a car, Tesla Motors has clearly revolutionized the way we think about performance cars and how drivers power their cars. Tesla is not just another fast car, but rather a…
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On Benchmarking Database Storage
Recently a number of disk-based storage array vendors and hybrid array vendors have been posting TPC-C results they achieved with the HammerOra tool. Here at Pure Storage, our TPC-C tests aren’t too shabby either. We regularly run our unaudited HammerOra harness at over 1.73 million tpm (in ARCHIVELOG mode!), which ranks 6th among the audited results….
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Featured Posts
Top Ten Enterprise Tech Predictions for 2013, Part 1
For the tech industry, these are heady times indeed: The transformation in the enterprise technology landscape over the next ten years will rival that of the mid to late nineties due to the advent of the World-wide Web and prolifferation of the Internet. (I’d love to say I saw this coming, but the reality is…
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Nobody Got Fired for Putting Oracle Redo on Pure Storage
The Debate If you’ve been researching flash storage for your Oracle database, you have undoubtedly come across plenty of blogs both touting and panning the strategy of placing redo logs on flash storage. Oracle appears to be hedging their bets with Exadata Smart Logging (available with Exadata storage software 11.2.2.4) which writes redo simultaneously to…
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Pure Storage Reference Architecture for VMware View
Let’s start with some questions: Did your virtual desktop deployment pilot or proof-of-concept yield great results but suffered when you tried to scale out? Are your virtual desktop users complaining about slow application response times? Do you understand the benefits of moving desktops to the data center, but haven’t come to terms with storage cost…
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