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From VMworld® 2012: Pure Storage Announces New Web Client Plugin and Support for VMware vSphere® 5.1

Flash Memory Summit 2012, Santa Clara, CA August 27, 2012 – From VMworld® 2012, Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage company, announced today that its flagship product, FlashArray, supports VMware vSphere® 5.1, announced earlier today. Pure Storage revealed last week that its FlashArray has also achieved VMware Ready™ status, earned a VAAI Certification and launched a new VMware vCenter™ Server Web Client Plug-In. The company will be offering live demonstrations of its product and its new VMware Ready capabilities and APIs for attendees of VMworld 2012.

VMware’s new vCenter Web Client enables full management of VMware vSphere from a modern, standards-based web browser environment. Pure Storage’s plugin to the new Web Client was designed for and by VI administrators, enabling full management of the FlashArray within VMware vCenter Server. Pure Storage collaborated with VI adminsitrators to design a simple block storage management for VMware vSphere, using the Pure Storage Web Client Plugin to fully-automate the process of datastore creation, and to provide complete visibility into datastore capacity and performance.

Pure Storage Invites You to See What Flash Array + VMware vSphere 5.1 Can Do

• When: August 26 – 30, 2012
• Where: VMworld 2012 in San Francisco – Booth #1929
• Pure Storage will offer hands on demonstrations of FlashArray and its newly announced features, including VMware vSphere 5.1, to conference attendees.
• For more information about VMworld 2012, or to register for the event, visit: http://www.vmworld.com/community/conference/us/.

About Pure Storage

Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage company, enables the broad deployment of flash in the data center. When compared to traditional disk-centric arrays, Pure Storage all-flash enterprise arrays are 10x faster and 10x more space and power efficient at a price point that is less than performance disk per gigabyte stored. The Pure Storage FlashArray is ideal for high performance workloads, including server virtualization, desktop virtualization (VDI), database (OLTP, real-time analytics) and cloud computing. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.

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