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Pure Storage Drives Continued Customer Innovation for Software-as-a-Service

Pure Storage technology for SaaS providers accelerate revenue, advance service levels, increase efficiency

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — February 7, 2017 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the market’s leading independent solid-state array vendor, today announced continued customer momentum among SaaS providers. Performance, simplicity and non-disruptive upgrades delivered through Pure’s one-of-a-kind Evergreen Storage program provide SaaS companies with the modern platform needed to reach new customers and industries with improved service level agreements and faster time to market, as well as significantly reduce operational expense.

The need for ever-greater agility and efficiency has driven an explosion in the SaaS industry – meanwhile customer expectations for the tools and services SaaS providers offer are at an all time high. Companies that implement SaaS to support mission-critical business functions are reliant on the performance, uptime and capabilities of the underlying data platform on which the application is run. With best-in-class performance and six nines of availability, Pure Storage allows SaaS providers to commit to SLAs that beat the competition, with confidence.

“SaaS has become a hyper-competitive market, driven by ever-increasing consumer expectations. As the world becomes increasingly more saturated with SaaS, a concurrent and rapid move to all-flash, hybrid cloud environments is also in process – a confluence of two massive trends, with one dramatically enabling the other,” said Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Product, Pure Storage. “For modern SaaS providers, performance is key, and an all-flash infrastructure represents a major competitive advantage.”

Advance Service Levels

Uptime adds another layer of requirement for SaaS providers – particularly in highly regulated or 24/7 industries. Critical functions, like real-time access to shipment data, orders and demand forecasts, are dependent on the infrastructure SaaS providers use to function at all times.

Pure Storage provides proven six nines reliability and non-disruptive upgrades via Evergreen Storage for resilient and scalable operations, as well as consistently high sub-millisecond latency across mixed block sizes. Always-on security with data-at-rest encryption, IPv6 and FIPS provide the tools necessary for compliance-ready SLAs.

JDA Software, a leading provider of seamless supply chain planning and execution solutions for retailers, manufacturers, logistics providers and wholesale distributors, serves more than 4,000 customers. With Pure Storage, JDA Software was able to improve SLAs and offer customers a differentiated tier of service, which has both increased sales and broadened the company’s customer portfolio.

“As a SaaS provider, our top priority is meeting and exceeding service level agreements promised to our customers. Pure enables us to own and differentiate our SLAs and capabilities with confidence,” said Greg Mersberger, Senior Director, Cloud for JDA. “Not only has the performance level of our Pure arrays enabled us to scale our business capabilities, but also improved service to our existing customers, which helps reduce customer churn. Pure allows us to maintain a high standard, and to scale efficiently as our business grows.”

Accelerate Time to Revenue

New development tools and snapshots from Pure Storage also allow SaaS providers to develop, test and distribute new features to market more quickly, which accelerates time to revenue.

Pure Storage technology for SaaS includes thousands of instant, performance and capacity-free snapshots for accelerate testing, development, quality assurance and rapid data recovery, as well as Restful APIs and SDKs for Python, PowerShell and JAVA for agile, automated DevOps.

Rapid-growth SaaS companies are dependent on high levels of performance to keep up with scale and demand. With Pure Storage, developers can leverage Pure snapshots for database refresh and have driven up to 20x improvement in refresh times.

“Pure Storage arrays are a competitive advantage. If our customers’ developers can get features out twice as fast, it makes them a better SaaS company – plain and simple,” said Kixmoeller. “Additionally, Pure’s APIs and software-development kits are really aimed at enabling the developer. Our customers do everything they can to improve the lives and productivity of their developers, and the Pure platform helps drive increased levels of innovation.”  

Achieve Operational Advantage

At a SaaS company, the cost of IT can be significant. Fractional differences in the cost of IT can make a massive difference to the bottom line of a SaaS company. Pure technology improves efficiencies within the data center to massively reduce power usage and space requirements. This allows SaaS providers to scale without an exponential increase in infrastructure spend.

Pure delivers industry-leading data reduction and hardware optimization for minimized space, power and cooling. Through its one-of-a-kind Evergreen Storage program, customers can avoid ever re-buying a terabyte of storage. Instead, customers can modernize existing Pure arrays through subscription-like access to performance, feature and density innovations – which includes a guaranteed, non-disruptive upgrade path to NVMe.

Smart Storage for SaaS also includes compatibility for vCenter, SCVMM, OpenStack and container integrations for simplified, consolidated manageability. This means fewer employees spending less time on storage management, and more on innovation.

SnapLogic, a leader in self-service application and data integration, deploys Pure Storage to deliver a public cloud-like level of simplicity within a private cloud environment, which saves money and allows the IT team to spend time and resources on other strategic parts of the business, such as innovation.

“Pure Storage allows us to automate many of the complexities traditionally associated with storage management, and drastically simplifies human interactions with our storage arrays,” said Jorge Reyes, Director of Operations, Security and IT at SnapLogic. “That has enabled us to dedicate more resources to other business areas that innovate and bring new products to market, rather than dedicating resources to managing an infrastructure that should just work.” 

More Information

To learn more about Smart Storage for SaaS or to speak with more customers, visit booth #53 at Saastr in San Francisco, February 7-9. You can also join us at our annual user conference, Pure//Accelerate, June 12-14 at Pier 70 in San Francisco. Or, visit our blog for technical specs and additional details.

About Pure Storage

Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG) helps companies push the boundaries of what’s possible. The company’s all-flash based technology, combined with its customer-friendly business model, drives business and IT transformation with Smart Storage that is effortless, efficient and evergreen. Pure Storage offers two flagship products: FlashArray//M, optimized for structured workloads, and FlashBlade, ideal for unstructured data. With Pure's industry leading Satmetrix-certified NPS score of 83.5, Pure customers are some of the happiest in the world, and includes organizations of all sizes, across an ever-expanding range of industries.

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Analyst Recognition:

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays

IDC MarketScape for All-Flash Arrays

 

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Public sector organizations continue to face new challenges in relation to data, resources and increased workloads that require efficiency in how they acquire, store, use and analyze data. These agencies have a responsibility to citizens to make sound technology investments that get the most out of every dollar spent. Citizens hold government organizations accountable and expect the same level of service from the government as delivered in the private sector. This can be difficult for organizations that may have limited control over the amount of budget they receive, while facing increased expectations to deliver innovation.

Citizens expect agencies to capitalize on technical innovation to create a smarter, more connected and secure government. Among the top technology trends for government as listed in a June 2016  press release, Gartner Highlights Top 10 Strategic Technologies for Government in 2016, were companies offering multichannel citizen engagement, of one requirement is  “using data to capture and understand the needs and desires of the citizen.” Also listed among the top technology trends was the use of digital government platforms, “these platforms deliver services such as payments, identity management and verification, reusable application services and notifications (for example, SMS and email) that are commonly used across multiple domains.” Additionally, there is citizen electronic identification, “As government becomes more digitalized, digital identity will need to become more reliable in order to serve as the core for all digital transactions. Citizen electronic identification (e-ID) refers to the orchestrated set of processes and technologies managed by governments to provide a secure domain to enable citizens to access these core resources or services.”

“Our government customers have experienced superior levels of performance and reliability with Pure, which means they can put their focus and resources toward improving business outcomes for the citizens they serve,” said David Hatfield, President, Pure Storage. “At Pure, we remain true to our mission of disrupting the status quo and delivering storage innovation that surpasses our customers’ and partners’ expectations.”

Pure Storage state and local customers detail their transformation with all-flash storage.

Town of Milton

As one of Canada's fastest growing communities, the Town of Milton is focused on building a complete community by providing a place to live, learn, work and grow. Milton is home to a highly skilled, well-educated, young population, and is in close proximity to one of the world's most active transportation and logistics corridors. Milton has enjoyed steady population growth year after year for the past decade and boasts some of the lowest residential and business property taxes in the area.

“Milton is a thriving place with a growing population which means the IT team has to expand our infrastructure to keep up with the increasing demands for services and records to keep the Town running," said Frank Adili, Director of IT, Town of Milton. "We have a small IT team, so when we choose technology it has to be simple, efficient and have the ability to scale quickly. Pure is transforming our environment and is helping us save time and money for the benefit of the taxpayers.”

City of Garland

The City of Garland, Texas, knows first-hand that delivering efficient services to today’s modern cities places significant demands on the IT department. Garland, with a population of more than 230,000 is part of the fourth largest region in the nation (the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex), and continues to attract new business and corporate expansions. The city’s IT department – which operates three data centers and connects to nearly 50 sites around the city – supports 40 departments, including the municipal utility supplying electricity, water and waste-disposal services. More than 300 production servers run a broad range of applications, including human resources, finance, e-mail, imaging, code enforcement, geographic information systems and utility billing.

“We were looking for something to budget for the following year for our VDI project,” said Stephanie Thompson, Lead Systems Administrator, City of Garland, “so we weren’t planning on purchasing anything immediately. But (during a POC) the utility billing team said they didn’t want to go back to the way it was before Pure, so they (utility billing team) offered to fund half of the price of the array. The managing director of our customer service department called our CIO and said ‘What did you do? This is fantastic!’ and then offered us a funding source – that just never happens!”

Colorado Department of Education

The Colorado Department of Education provides leadership, resources, support and accountability to the state’s 178 school districts, 1,836 schools, close to 56,000 teachers and over 2,800 administrators to help them build capacity to meet the needs of the state’s approximately 889,000 public school students. The mission of the Colorado Department of Education is to ensure that all students are prepared for success in society, work, and life by providing excellent leadership, service, and support to schools, districts, and communities across the state.

“We were struggling with our legacy storage vendor and we knew that we needed a new solution,” said Steve Berryman, Infrastructure Manager, Colorado Department of Education. "We decided to go with Pure Storage because the Evergreen Storage business model means the refresh is painless, our total data reduction is even better than expected and the array was easy to install. With Pure, we don’t have to worry about managing storage.”

To learn more about our work with state and local agencies, visit http://www.purestorage.com/solutions/industries/government.html.

 

About Pure Storage

Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG) helps organizations push the boundaries of what’s possible. The company’s all-flash based technology, combined with its customer-friendly business model, drives business and IT transformation with Smart Storage that is effortless, efficient and evergreen. Pure Storage offers two flagship products: FlashArray//M, optimized for structured workloads, and FlashBlade, ideal for unstructured data. With Pure's industry leading Satmetrix-certified NPS score of 83.5, Pure customers are some of the happiest in the world, across an ever-expanding range of industries.

 

Connect with Pure Storage:

Read the blog

Converse on Twitter

Follow on LinkedIn

 

Analyst Recognition:

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays

IDC MarketScape for All-Flash Arrays

 

Pure Storage, Evergreen and the "P" Logo mark are trademarks of Pure Storage, Inc. All other trademarks or names referenced in this document are the property of their respective owners.

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Sabrina Johnson

Pure Storage

sabrina.johnson@purestorage.com

+1 405.496.1116

 

 

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