Introducing the Dedupe Ticker: A Call for Data Reduction Transparency
Last week we introduced a new feature at purestorage.com that I’m quite excited about: the Dedupe Ticker. The ticker is a live feed from the call-home data repository here at Pure Storage Support, and it shows the average data reduction results across all Pure Storage FlashArrays deployed at customer sites with call-home enabled. We did…
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Please DON’T dedicate your storage array to VDI!
VDI used to demand dedicated storage arrays, driving up the storage cost. Pure Storage’s FlashArray enables the same array to be shared between both VDI and production business workloads, driving down the cost of storage for VDI. Read about how Riverview Hospital and the City of Davenport made it happen.
EMC’s Direct Indirection about Directed Availability of XtremIO
Yesterday EMC updated customers on their evolving flash strategy, you can read our CEO Scott Dietzen’s take here. There was the usual fanfare and drama one has come to expect from EMC launches, but let’s cut through the smoke and analyze what we really heard: 1. Server Flash goes web-scale, and the commoditization dog-fight begins….
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To NDU or not to NDU – that is the question (with video demo!)
One of the core “gotta have it” features of modern storage arrays are non-disruptive upgrades, or as the feature is commonly called “NDU”. Why is NDU important? Storage arrays occasionally need upgrades to their controller firmware and core OSes to add new features and fix bugs and supportability issues. If the storage array doesn’t support…
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Introducing Affordable All-Flash VDI from Pure Storage
Pure Storage introduces a reference architecture for all-flash VDI storage, delivering the best all-flash VDI end user experience for less that $100/desktop. This post describes the reference architecture, introduces the new Expandable VDI Starter Kit, and lists the Pure Storage VDI resources available.