Eliminate Storage Refreshes with Evergreen Storage

Forget about expensive upgrade cycles, disruptive downtime, and rebuys of TBs you already own. The Evergreen™ Storage subscription model offers seamless, rapid upgrades and expansion, without disruption.

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Evergreen Storage offers data storage that rethinks everything. Eliminate expensive refreshes and gain the agility you need to meet the demands of modern business. Get IDC’s report on the value of Evergreen.

Reduce Data Storage Costs

Reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) for storage and save more than 50% over traditional forklift upgrades. Get modern storage with the freedom to upgrade, expand, and continuously innovate.

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Simplify Your Data Storage

From integration to storage management to upgrades, Evergreen simplifies everything about the data storage lifecycle. Imagine storage that just works, delivering you six nines of availability—including upgrades.

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Stay Modern without Disruption

Evergreen is the smartest way to stay modern, combining the best of a traditional on-premises storage purchase with a subscription to continuous innovation.

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Achieve IT Agility

Evergreen Storage can meet your needs today and tomorrow, no matter what. It’s storage that was built to keep you agile enough to respond to changing business needs.

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Evergreen Storage Subscriptions: Gold and Silver

Evergreen Gold and Silver both deliver a subscription to Pure’s ever-improving capabilities across software, white-glove support, and maintenance. Gold adds a hardware subscription and the best economics for routine modernization.

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See Why Evergreen Leads The Way

Evergreen Feature	Pure Storage Evergreen™ Storage	Dell EMC Future-Proof for PowerStore Only	NetApp Keystone	HPE Primera/Nimble Timeless
Guaranteed Effective Capacity (Not Just an Efficiency Ratio)	Right Size Guarantee*	No capacity guarantee	No capacity guarantee	No capacity guarantee
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	Free Every Three included controller upgrades**	One-time controller upgrade to Next-gen ONLY ****	One-time, limited controller credit	One-time, limited controller credit
No-limit Anytime Controller Upgrades (latest generation AND Next-Model)	Upgrade Flex (anytime 100% trade-in credit)**	One-time controller upgrade to Next-gen or Next-model ONLY ****	None	None
Anytime Media Upgrade/Trade-in	Capacity Consolidation**	No media trade-in	None	One-time media upgrade (Primera only)
Proven Record Of Delivering on Promises Upgrade/Trade-in	>7000 controller upgrades, without disruption or re-buy	Brand-new offering, unproven	New program, unproven	New offering, unproven (Primera)

* Right-Size Guarantee available at no extra charge on FlashArray //X
** Requires Evergreen Gold subscription; Upgrade Flex and Capacity Consolidation require purchase of qualifying capacity
*** Requires purchase of premium support package and service add-on options, all at extra cost (per Dell EMC PowerStore Data Sheet)
**** Per Dell EMC PowerStore Storage Family Spec Sheet, p.5

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What Is Evergreen Storage?

Pure Storage® Evergreen™ Storage subscriptions deliver value to your organization with storage that is deployed once and stays 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.

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1. What is a forklift upgrade?

Forklift upgrades are complete overhauls of the IT infrastructure: Old and outdated storage is ripped out and replaced with the latest technology. Forklift upgrades are driven by architectural incompatibilities between storage generations or limitations in scale-out architectures that can’t add new nodes to existing arrays or clusters.

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2. What is a non-disruptive upgrade?

A non-disruptive upgrade (NDU) is a software upgrade, hardware expansion, and/or replacement that doesn’t impact data availability or performance. In an ideal scenario, that means no downtime, no data migrations, and no degradations in performance.

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3. What is storage as a service (STaaS)?

Storage as a service (STaaS) is a data storage business model where a provider delivers capacity and performance resources through a simple subscription. STaaS saves you money through operating expenditure (OPEX*) agility—you only pay for the storage you need, when you need it.

*OPEX treatment is subject to customer’s auditor review

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4. What are the benefits of storage as a service?

Benefits of STaaS include:

OPEX subscription model that lets you optimize your storage costs
Ability to quickly scale and provision storage resources to your apps as you grow
Always-on reliability of major cloud service providers
Simplified storage management environment