Simplify Your Storage Ownership, Forever
Evergreen//Forever™ is a traditional storage offering with a subscription to continuous software and hardware upgrades, for an always-improving storage experience. Delivered non-disruptively and with data in place, Pure Storage Evergreen® architecture means you can buy storage once and keep it modern, virtually forever.
Own the Greenest Storage on the Planet, Guaranteed
We’re committed to helping you reduce your energy costs and optimise your rack space with a guaranteed maximum Watts/TiB ratio and TiB/RU of your purchased hardware. If we can’t meet our guarantees, we’ll make it right with remediation or a service credit.
Data Resilience Made Pure and Simple
If your data gets lost, we’ll cover data recovery services at no cost within 15-minutes of being notified.
All applicable Pure Storage upgrades deliver migrations with all your data in place and no performance impacts—or we’ll pay you for your trouble.
Take the guesswork out of your data storage, forever.
Simplify infrastructure modernisation with our updated Ever Agile program that delivers capacity and controller trade-ins and controller-only upgrades at up to a 20% list price discount.
Lower both your TCO and carbon footprint with Evergreen//Forever. Customers who make a qualifying capacity purchase can now get up to 50% in trade-in credits towards new media.
Supercharge your efforts in the analytics space by taking advantage of an Evergreen//Forever subscription to innovation—keeping your storage stack on the cutting edge.
As data volumes associated with mission-critical applications grow daily, Evergreen//Forever delivers upgrades on a regular cadence and on-demand without disruption to drive your business forward.
Modern data protection is more crucial than ever. Evergreen//Forever has you covered with access to new security features as they become available to meet your most stringent business continuity needs.
Shift from managing infrastructure to creating value with the best-in-class technology for your VMware-based cloud. With Evergreen//Forever, you can keep innovating, maintaining 99.9999% availability, even through upgrades.
Feature |
Pure Storage Evergreen//Forever |
Dell EMC Future-Proof for PowerStore Only |
NetApp |
HPE |
All-inclusive software subscription |
All array features now and in the future |
Limited features |
Limited features |
Limited features |
Guaranteed Non-disruptive HW and SW upgrades across generations |
Truly non-disruptive, data-in-place, modular upgrades |
Vendor history of "forklift" upgrades |
Disruptive upgrades if more than 50% controller utilization |
Limited NDU (not across generations, Nimble only) |
Included controller upgrades to latest generation |
Ever Modern included controller upgrades** |
One-time controller upgrade to next-gen only *** |
None |
One-time, limited controller credit |
No-limit, on-demand controller/blade upgrades with up to 20% trade-in credit (Latest generation and higher model) |
Ever Agile (anytime trade-in credit)** |
One-time controller upgrade to next-gen or next-model only *** |
None |
None |
Anytime media upgrade/trade-in with up to 50% trade-in credit
|
Capacity consolidation** |
No media trade-in |
None |
One-time media upgrade (Primera only) |
Guaranteed Effective Capacity (Not just an efficiency ratio) |
Right Size Guarantee™* |
No capacity guarantee |
No capacity guarantee |
No capacity guarantee |
Proven record of delivering on upgrade/trade in promises |
10,000+ controller upgrades, without disruption or re-buy |
New offering, unproven |
Controller upgrade program removed from Keystone |
New offering, unproven (Primera) |
* Right Size Guarantee available at no extra charge on FlashArray//XL™
** Ever Agile and Capacity Consolidation require purchase of qualifying capacity. Ever Modern requires a subscription commitment.
*** Requires purchase of premium support package and service add-on options, all at extra cost (per Dell EMC PowerStore Data Sheet)
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Evergreen//Forever Resources
A forklift upgrade is a complete overhaul of an IT infrastructure. Old and outdated storage systems are ripped out and replaced with newly purchased technology. The process is complex, wasteful, and time-consuming. Forklift upgrades are driven by architectural incompatibilities between storage generations or by limitations in scale-out architectures that can’t add new nodes to existing arrays or clusters.
A non-disruptive upgrade is a software upgrade, hardware expansion, and/or component (like a controller, blade, or chassis) replacement that doesn’t impact data availability or performance. In an ideal scenario, it means no downtime, no data migrations, and no performance degradations.
Ever Modern is a program designed to keep Evergreen//Forever and Evergreen//Flex customers always modern and never obsolete. It delivers upgraded controllers (for FlashArray products) or blades (for FlashBlade products) every three years upon renewal of an Evergreen subscription for an additional three years at no additional cost. For the Pure//E™ family of products, this renewal cycle is every six years.
For Evergreen//Forever and Evergreen//Flex customers who purchase a qualifying capacity expansion, Ever Agile offers a trade in credit for swapping existing controllers or blades to new, upgraded ones. These upgrades reset the applicable three- or six-year clock under Ever Modern.
With the industry’s broadest storage guarantee, if you aren’t happy, return the array within 30 days for a full refund, no questions asked.
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