Pure as-a-Service: How Much Does Pure Storage Cost?

What is Pure as-a-Service?

Pure as-a-Service™ is a storage-as-a-service (STaaS) platform that unifies on-premises and public-cloud storage resources into a single data-storage subscription delivering a true hybrid-cloud experience. A Pure as-a-Service subscription includes:

• A simple subscription for your block, file, and object storage needs
• Access to Pure1® management tools for managing your hybrid-cloud environment from a single dashboard
• 100% OPEX* subscription model that allows you to pay only for what you use

At Pure Storage®, we believe data storage should be simple, seamless, and sustainable. Pure as-a-Service is a unique subscription model fine-tuned to deliver a Modern Data Experience™.

How Does Pure as-a-Service Work?

Pure provides customers with storage options and flexibility unmatched by any legacy storage provider and on par with other top cloud providers in the industry. With Pure as-a-Service, you get access to the following services:

• Pure Cloud Block Store™: A powerful cloud block storage integration tool that allows you to manage your AWS cloud storage alongside FlashArray™ and FlashBlade<
• Pure1®: A storage management platform that gives you visibility and insight into all of your storage resources both on-premises and in the cloud

Pure1 automatically adds capacity when you exceed 80% of your allocation. When you subscribe to Pure as-a-Service the storage management platform maintains 25% headroom (at no extra cost) above your actual usage, making sure that there is always elastic and available capacity when needed so you never outgrow your storage.

To start taking advantage of Pure as-a-Service and all that it offers, you just need a one-year commitment of 50TiB reserve capacity and you’re ready to start deploying a variety of block, file, and object storage services on-premises and in the cloud.

How Much Does Pure Storage Cost?

Pure offers a simple and transparent pricing model based on flat $/GiB rates for services. The tables below break down the basic pricing structure for Pure as-a-Service:

¹Relative Performance in Block IOPs or File/Object Throughput Detailed in KB

MSRP based upon host written effective capacity

MSRP based upon host written effective capacity

Capacity-Optimized Block Storage

Subscribe to Pure as-a-Service  to access cost-effective capacity-optimized block storage for Tier 2 workloads, including archives for databases and virtual machines, IoT capacity, test/dev environments, and snapshots. The starting commitment for block storage is 200 TiB for 12 months. Reduced rates are available with a storage commitment of 400 TiB and/or a contract term of 36 months.

Performance-Optimized Block Storage

Subscribe to Pure as-a-Service to access performance-optimized block storage for Tier 0 and Tier 1 workloads, including hybrid-cloud and multicloud environments, containers, media libraries, and SQL/NoSQL databases.

Choose from three performance tiers:

• Performance (3X)
• Premium (10X)
• Ultra (20X)

The starting commitment for performance-optimized block storage is 50TiB for 12 months. Reduced rates are available with a storage commitment of 200 TiB and/or contract term of 36 months.

Unified Fast File and Object Storage

Subscribe to Pure as-a-Service to access UFFO that scales out with your business needs. FlashBlade’s scale-out metadata architecture can handle billions of files and objects for a wide variety of applications, including AI, analytics, Rapid Restore, software development, and S3-enabled apps.

Choose from two performance tiers:

• Premium
• Ultra (2X)

The starting commitment for performance-optimized block storage is 50TiB for 12 months. Reduced rates are available with a storage commitment of 200 TiB and/or contract term of 36 months.

Flexible Pricing Options for Modern Data Storage Solutions

As data becomes increasingly bigger and faster, the challenge of maintaining siloed data warehouses on-premises while juggling multiple vendor-locked SLAs in the cloud is not to be understated. Data storage doesn’t have to be complicated. Contact us today to see how your organization can bridge the cloud divide with a single subscription to Pure as-a-Service.

*OPEX treatment subject to customer’s auditor review.