How much storage should we provision for your VM? Never worry about it again
Storage provisioning is one of the most crucial first steps in enterprise application deployment. If you plan to share storage between hosts in a cluster, getting this right gets harder. And if you need to set a RAID level, whoa nelly! Setting the correct RAID level, managing the needs of different VM workloads, and balancing…
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Should You Really Buy Flash from Baskin Robbins?
A few weeks ago when EMC’s acquisition of XtremIO was finally announced, financial analyst firm ISI characterized EMC as the “Baskin Robbins of Flash,” a moniker that EMC itself then adopted and promoted last week at EMC world (you can watch Pat Gelsinger’s keynote to understand their positioning). When I first heard the Baskin Robbins…
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Introducing our Second Generation: FlashArray 300-Series with the Purity Operating Environment 2.0
Today Pure Storage announces a major upgrade to its FlashArray series, the FA-300 Series arrays running the Purity Operating Environment 2.0. This is an important update for Pure Storage, as we are successfully ending our Early Adopter Program, and have graduated the FlashArray to “General Availability” status. For more info on this corporate milestone, and…
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Pure Storage Ships GA!
Today, the team at Pure Storage is wrapping up the first phase of our journey and embarking on the second. We call ourselves the Puritans, a moniker we are happy to share with customers and partners that join the cause. (Hopefully, our launch video thoroughly refutes the old adage that Puritans are those that fear that someone somewhere…
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Easily Visualize Your Dedupe and Compression Results with PureSize
[Hi, I'm Chris Golden, one of the Software Engineers here at Pure Storage. Among other things, I'm one of the engineers responsible for PureSize. Prior to joining Pure Storage, I was a Software Engineer at IronPort Systems / Cisco.] Evaluating new technologies can be difficult, but not with Pure Storage. I’m going to show you…
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