Evergreen//Flex: Innovative, Flexible Storage Ownership

Evergreen//Flex

Storage Ownership with Flex Appeal

An Evergreen//Flex™ subscription provides the freedom to own your storage and the flexibility of consumption economics based on asset utilization. Accelerate your digital transformation by lowering upfront capital expenditure to optimize cash flow with a subscription designed for the fleet.

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Overview

Use Cases

Resources

FAQ

Innovative, Flexible Storage Ownership Built for the Fleet

Ownership on Your Terms

Own your storage asset at a lower upfront cost—when compared to traditional storage purchases—while leveraging a flexible storage subscription based on utilization of purchased capacity. Optimize investments with site-level billing optimization while freeing up capital to help your organization do more.

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Simplify Operations, One Fleet at a Time

Unlock stranded capacity and respond to changes in user demand quickly with site-wide data pack mobility. Shift capacity to where the workload is, without downtime or large upgrade budgets. Simplify operations with fleet-level, AIOps-driven management to drive operational excellence across your fleet from Day One.

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Experience the Evergreen Difference

Get full investment protection as you grow and modernize with the proven Evergreen® architecture extended to your entire fleet. This means no downtime, no re-buys, no data migrations, and no forklift upgrades–ever.

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Typical Evergreen//Flex Use Cases

Infrastructure Modernization

Evergreen//Flex combines asset ownership with a consumption-based subscription model at a lower upfront cost when compared to traditional storage purchases, freeing up financial resources to drive your modernization effort forward.

Business Critical Applications

Seamlessly scale up and move stranded capacity—not your applications—to where the workload is to keep your applications up and running without disruption.

Service Provider Optimization

Optimize your business strategy across your entire fleet with an Evergreen//Flex subscription, built to match expense to revenue to help service providers make the most of their investment.

Evergreen//Flex Resources

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Data Storage That Gives You Flexibility with Control

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A New Path to Continuous Innovation With Evergreen//Flex

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1. What is a flexible storage ownership subscription?

A flexible ownership subscription combines features of a traditional storage purchase with a consumption model. Similar to a traditional purchase, the storage is owned and maintained by the user. Unlike traditional purchases, the user pays based on their utilization of storage capacity via a subscription. Customers can increase the amount of storage they would like to consume at any time as their needs evolve. This subscription also includes hardware upgrades and SaaS-delivered software updates designed to keep storage modern. This unique consumption model allows for lower upfront costs and better asset utilization for organizations that need to maintain ownership of their IT infrastructure based on business or regulatory needs.

2. How does site level billing optimization work?

Evergreen//Flex subscription pools all arrays with the same controller model (e.g., FlashArray//X50), deployed at a single install location as a singular endpoint for capacity usage and billing optimization. The reserve commit and on-demand usage is calculated at the pool level instead of at an individual array level. This helps reduce the impact of on-demand usage fluctuations for a single array and also simplifies the invoicing/billing process.

3. What is data pack mobility?

Data pack mobility gives customers the freedom to move storage capacity—non-disruptively—between compatible arrays with active Evergreen//Flex subscriptions. This industry-first capability enables customers to optimize their fleet and reduce spend by moving capacity to the workload.

4. What is the reserve commit and on-demand usage?

Reserve commit refers to the amount of storage capacity that a customer subscribes to as part of the Evergreen//Flex subscription. The reserve commit must meet the minimum level specified for the chosen hardware configuration and can be increased anytime during the Evergreen//Flex contract term. The reserve commit is billed in advance at the corresponding reserve rate.

On-demand usage is the capacity consumed above the reserve commitment and is billed in arrears at the corresponding on-demand rate.

5. What other subscriptions are offered by Pure Storage?

Evergreen//One™ delivers a single storage service for your data providing the economics of public cloud with the reliability of on-premises. Subscribe to the capacity, performance, and service level you need on your terms.

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Evergreen//Forever™ offers a traditional storage purchasing option to own and retain your hardware with a subscription to continuous software and hardware upgrades. Buy your storage once and run it virtually forever.

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