Evergreen//Forever

Simplify Your Storage Ownership, Forever

Experience a StaaS-like approach to storage that you buy and manage. The Evergreen//Forever™ subscription delivers real IT agility, enabling you to buy your storage once, scale seamlessly and non-disruptively, without penalty, virtually forever.

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Purchase a FlashArray™ or FlashBlade//S™ with an Evergreen//Forever subscription, and you’ll experience storage that’s always improving and never needs to be replaced. Get enterprise-level data services, tools, and new features, along with upgraded controllers, blades, and flash when you need them.

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//Forever simplifies everything about the data storage lifecycle. Imagine storage that just works, delivering you 99.9999% of availability—including upgrades.

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Stay Modern without Re-buys

Purchase and deploy once and stay modern with seamless, rapid upgrades and expansion, without disruption or re-buying your storage. Scale and modernize as needed without downtime, performance impact, data migrations, or forklift upgrades.

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Achieve IT Agility

Evergreen//Forever meets your needs today and tomorrow. It’s storage built to keep you agile enough to respond to changing business needs for over 10 years.

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Get the Best Customer Experience

Pure users rely on Evergreen//Forever guarantees for satisfaction and effective capacity, along with proactive, premium-level support that delivers real peace of mind.

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See Why Evergreen//Forever Leads The Way

Feature	Pure Storage Evergreen//Forever	Dell EMC Future-Proof for PowerStore Only	NetApp Keystone	HPE Primera/Nimble Timeless
All-inclusive Software Subscription	All Array Features Now and in the Future	Limited Features	Limited Features	Limited Features
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 ***	One-time, limited controller credit	One-time, limited controller credit
No-limit On-demand Controller/Blade Upgrades (latest generation AND Higher Model)	Ever Agile (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)
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 Promises Upgrade/Trade-in	10,000+ controller upgrades, without disruption or re-buy	New offering, unproven	New program, unproven	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
*** 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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What is Evergreen//Forever?

A Pure Storage® Evergreen//Forever subscription delivers value to your organization with storage that is purchased and deployed once and stays modern, virtually forever. Pure’s evergreen architecture makes this possible 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 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 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 component (like a controller, blade, or chassis) 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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Hear what industry leaders have to say about why you should rethink your storage refresh.

Evergreen Storage was rebranded to Evergreen//Forever.

“With Evergreen we’re always current.”

Dale Sanders

President of Technology, Health Catalyst

Simplify Your Storage Ownership, Forever

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Reduce Data Storage Costs

Simplify Your Data Storage

Stay Modern without Re-buys

Achieve IT Agility

Get the Best Customer Experience

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