FlashArray Selected as Product of the Year Finalist
Today we are proud to announce that the Pure Storage FlashArray was selected as a Product of the Year Finalist by Storage Magazine. The Storage System category in which we were nominated includes Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs, network-attached storage, multiprotocol systems, direct-attached storage (NAS), hard disk drives, solid-state storage, disk controllers, caching appliances, storage virtualization appliances…
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How Much Flash Storage Capacity are You Really Getting?
With flash arrays and appliances, usable capacity calculations vary wildly by product architecture. How much you should increase or decrease your capacity are fundamentally different based on the presence and implementation of RAID, flash management, storage virtualization, thin provisioning, dedupe, and compression. This blog post explains the key factors to consider when calculating the capacity…
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On the (Windy) Road to SNW 2012: Flash and SSD Discussions Await
Everyone knows that everything is bigger in Texas—that includes tornados and storage conferences! Pure Storage will be doing things up in a big way at SNW Dallas this week, with three scheduled appearances at the event. First, because of a recent spate of tornados that grounded the plane of our CEO Scott Dietzen and has…
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CEO Scott Dietzen Speaks Out on Storage and Startups
Last week, Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen (@scott_dietzen) spoke to the Cube’s John Furrier and Wikibon’s David Vellante about why the transition from mechanical disk to flash memory is such a hot topic in the enterprise market. Hosted at the Strata Conference in Silicon Valley, the show was a sold-out epicenter of discussions around the…
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The Virtualization Bloggers are Coming: Join the Fun!
This Friday at 8AM PST, The Virtualization Field Day Bloggers will be visiting us here at the Pure Storage office! Similar to the Tech Field Day 8 event last year, we will bring our architects and strategists to exchange experiences about the transition from rotating disk to solid state memory in enterprise storage. You can…
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