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Q: Evergreen//Forever vs. Evergreen//One vs. Evergreen//Flex?

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. 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. Evergreen//Flex ™ provides the freedom to own your storage and the flexibility of consumption economics, based on asset utilization. Optimise storage operations across your fleet while lowering upfront costs.

Evergreen//Forever

Simplify Your Storage Ownership, Forever

Evergreen//Forever™ is a traditional storage offering with a subscription to continuous software and hardware upgrades, for an always improving storage experience. Delivered non-disruptively and with data in place, Pure Storage® Evergreen® architecture means you can buy storage once and keep it modern, virtually forever.

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Benefits

Use Cases

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Customer Stories

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Subscribe to Innovation with Evergreen//Forever

Purchase a Pure Storage FlashArray™ or FlashBlade//S™ system with an Evergreen//Forever subscription to experience ever improving storage that 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 Rebuys

Customers trust our Evergreen architecture that enables them to purchase and deploy once and stay modern with seamless upgrades and expansion, without disruption or rebuys. Scale and modernise 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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Common Evergreen//Forever Use Cases

Take the guesswork out of your data storage, forever.

Infrastructure Modernisation

Evergreen//Forever simplifies infrastructure modernisation by giving you the ability to scale on your terms while eliminating planned downtime and forklift upgrades, forever.

Data Centre Consolidation

Compliment your data centre consolidation strategy with the latest Pure Storage technology that reduces your organisation’s carbon footprint and an Evergreen//Forever subscription that lowers your total cost of ownership.

Analytics/AI

Supercharge your efforts in the analytics space by taking advantage of an Evergreen//Forever subscription to innovation—keeping your storage stack on the cutting edge.

Databases

As data volumes associated with mission-critical applications grow daily, Evergreen//Forever delivers upgrades on a regular cadence and when needed without disruption, to drive your business forward.

Data Protection

Modern data protection is more crucial than ever. Evergreen//Forever has you covered with access to new security features as they become available to meet your most stringent business continuity needs.

VMWare

Shift from managing infrastructure to creating value with the best-in-class technology for your VMware-based cloud. With Evergreen//Forever, you can keep innovating, maintaining 99.9999% availability, even through upgrades.

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Feature	Pure Storage	Dell EMC	NetApp	HPE
All-Inclusive Array Software Subscription	All array features, now and in future	Only select software included	Many features available only in select bundles	Limited features
Guaranteed Effective Capacity (Not just an efficiency ratio)	Right Size Guarantee	4:1 data reduction ratio guarantee (excludes certain data types)	4:1 data efficiency guarantee (includes using combination of all effeciency technologies	Complicated guarantee with little substance (Limited to NIMBLE)
Non-disruptive HW and SW upgrades across generations	Truly non-disruptive, data-in-place, modular upgrades	Announced, however vendor has history of disruptive upgrades	Significant Performance reduction during "Non-Disruptive" upgrades if controllers are not throttled to 50% or less peformance utilization in normal operation	Limited (not across generations, nor across product models within Alletra branding)
Included Controller Upgrades to latest Generation	Ever Modern included controller upgrades, continual with Evergreen//Forever	"Standard" SKU is a one-time controller upgrade to only next-gen, once during contract	Only "eligible controllers"	None
Flexible Controller Upgrades (Latest generation AND next model)	Ever Agile (anytime 100% trade-in credit), continual with Evergreen//Forever	"Select" SKU is a one-time controller upgrade to next-gen and next-model, once during contract (Not Available on PowerMax)	Convoluted & selective upgrade matrix	None
Flexible Media Upgrade/Trade-in	Capacity consolidation	No media trade-in	Media trade-in credit	None
Proven Record Of Delivering on Promises Upgrade/Trade-in	>10,000 controller upgrades, without disruption or re-buy	Relatively new program, unproven	New (Feb 2023) program, unproven	None

Evergreen//Forever Overview

Hear what industry leaders have to say about why you should rethink your storage refresh.

Evergreen Storage was rebranded to Evergreen//Forever.

Architected for Today and Tomorrow

We work with the best across all industries. See what customers have to say about Evergreen//Forever.

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“With Evergreen, we’re always current.”

Dale Sanders

President of Technology, Health Catalyst

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“With Pure Storage, we can deliver new development environments in minutes, not hours or days.”

Michael Finnegan

VP of Production Operations, eMoney Advisor

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Evergreen//Forever Resources

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PeerSpot: All-flash Buyer’s Guide

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10 Ways All-flash Storage Can Help

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What is a forklift upgrade?

A forklift upgrade is a complete overhaul 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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1. What is a non-disruptive upgrade?

A non-disruptive upgrade 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, it means no downtime, no data migrations, and no degradations in performance.

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2. What is an Evergreen Subscription?

Evergreen subscriptions are a portfolio that offers unequaled choice and flexibility in how you purchase and consume storage. An Evergreen subscription empowers your organisation to evolve at your own pace and stay focused on what matters: successful business outcomes.

3. Evergreen//Forever vs. Evergreen//One vs. Evergreen//Flex?

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.

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.

Evergreen//Flex™ provides the freedom to own your storage and the flexibility of consumption economics, based on asset utilization. Optimise storage operations across your fleet while lowering upfront costs.

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