Evergreen

Make Your Storage Purchase Feel Like Storage as a Service

Experience a StaaS-like approach to storage that lives on premises with OPEX agility. The Evergreen Storage™ subscription model delivers real IT agility, enabling you to scale seamlessly and non-disruptively, without penalty.

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Subscribe to Innovation with Evergreen Storage

Subscribe to storage that’s always improving and never needs to be replaced. Get all-inclusive enterprise-level capabilities for organisations and workloads of all sizes, at purchase, and as new features are added in the future.

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 99.9999% of availability—including upgrades.

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Stay Modern without Disruption

Deploy once and stay modern with seamless, rapid upgrades and expansion, without disruption. Scale storage as needed without downtime, performance impact, data migrations, expensive leases, or forklift upgrades.

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Achieve IT Agility

Evergreen Storage meets 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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Get the Best Customer Experience

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

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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
All-inclusive Software Subscription	All Array Features Now and in the Future	Limited Features	Limited Features	Limited Features
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	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 Anytime Controller Upgrades (latest generation AND Next-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)
Proven Record Of Delivering on Promises Upgrade/Trade-in	>9300 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; 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 Storage?

Pure Storage® Evergreen™ Storage subscriptions deliver value to your organisation 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 optimise 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