What is Evergreen Storage™?

What Is Evergreen Storage?

Pure Storage® Evergreen™ Storage gives you the simplicity, agility and predictability of as-a-Service with your storage purchase. Evergreen Storage provides a subscription to innovation and enables your storage to stay modern with seamless hardware and software upgrades and built-in compatibility with future technologies. As your company grows, you can scale storage as needed—without downtime, performance impact, data migrations, expensive leases, or forklift upgrades.

How Evergreen Storage Works

Evergreen Storage is a storage subscription program that gives you the flexibility you need to keep your IT infrastructure agile and up to date. Your subscription includes:

• All-inclusive array software, including flat and fair subscription renewals and future software features.
• Media and controllers, featuring access to stateless, software-driven, and modular all-flash arrays.
• Hardware component replacement for all your flash arrays.
• White-glove support, including mobile/SaaS-based monitoring via Pure1®, support-managed upgrades, and predictive and proactive support.

With an Evergreen™ Gold subscription, you get Free Every Three, which enables you to upgrade to the latest-generation controllers with every three-year subscription renewal. That’s a full performance boost to the latest hardware (Purity software included) for routine modernization. If you need to upgrade sooner, Gold’s Upgrade Flex lets you upgrade to higher-performing and latest-generation controllers at any time. With Upgrade Flex, you get full-value trade-in for your old controllers toward new controllers with all the extra capacity headroom and performance needed.

The Benefits of Evergreen Storage

The secret to our agile Evergreen subscription program lies in the underlying architecture of Pure FlashArray™ and FlashBlade®. Key components can be modularly replaced and upgraded to next-generation hardware over time, without disruptions or degradations in performance. With Evergreen Storage, your data storage stays agile, efficient, and modern. You can:

• Non-disruptively upgrade to the latest controllers, external host and internal array connectivity, solid-state disks (SSDs), and other components independently.
• Unlock powerful new features, including improved data reduction and predictive analytics, with non-disruptive software upgrades.
• Eliminate the traditional risks associated with forklift upgrades and data migration, since neither are needed.
• Seamlessly scale your storage system as your data demands grow with your business.
• Simplify IT infrastructure upkeep by eliminating the need to repurchase hardware or relicense storage software products.