Pure Storage Blog
Pure Storage 3.0: Shaking Up Primary Storage and Shaking Out the All Flash Market
This morning Pure Storage is announcing and shipping the 3rd generation of both our FlashArray hardware and the associated Purity Software (more on the new FA400 hardware here and Purity 3.0 software here). Our new product enters a storage market facing profound disruption. Moore’s Law has turned disk into tape: To today’s CPU, the fastest disk looks slower than tape did 15 years ago. When I first started working on distributed systems, a network round trip cost about 10ms (comparable to a disk I/O). Today, it’s 10us, 1000-fold faster than hard drives, meaning pretty much everything else in the data center is wasting time…
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Introducing the Purity 3.0 Software
Today’s an exciting day for Pure Storage, and a good day for deep and meaty blog posts. If you have’t already, please first read our CEO, Scott Dietzen’s blog giving an update on Pure market traction, and introducing our new vision/mission – Flash for All. On the product news side, this post is the second in a two-part post detailing our product announcements. The first introduces the new FlashArray FA-400 Series hardware, and this post goes through the new Purity Operating Environment 3.0 Software. As always, you’ll see tons of details and even demo videos below. Purity is the core…
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Pure Storage 3.0: Shaking Up Primary Storage and Shaking Out the All Flash Market
This morning Pure Storage is announcing and shipping the 3rd generation of both our FlashArray hardware and the associated Purity Software (more on the new FA400 hardware here and Purity 3.0 software here). Our new product enters a storage market facing profound disruption. Moore’s Law has turned disk into tape: To today’s CPU, the fastest disk looks slower than…
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Introducing the 3rd-Generation Pure Storage FlashArray
It’s an exciting day for Pure Storage, and one that is full of “3s”: we’re introducing our new 3rd-Generation FlashArray, the FA-400 Series, we’re introducing along with that a 3rd-generation of our software, the Purity Operating Environment 3.0, or “Purity 3.0″ for short, and we’re celebrating 3 years of production maturity, with now 100s of…
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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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