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With Pure and the Evergreen//One model, we were able to actually reduce our footprint in the data center, our services on storage by almost 40%. We're able to reduce our power by about 40 to 60% in certain areas. We allow organizations to be efficient with their time and worry about really the application, stack, and hire, that they don't have to go out and invest millions in and
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figure out how to run it, whether they're critical compute, data protection. So ThinkOn was started by our founder, Craig McCullen, and his mission was to be able to provide managed services in a wholesale model, for our partners, and is whether they're resellers or managed service providers. It allows really the partners and our end customers to really concentrate, take that
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workload, they take all the labor they were putting into managing these services, to offload it, take those people, and give them the ability to go explore, go learn, and expand that business. And since day one, we've looked at Pure as being a market leader. When it s- we had started this relationship with Pure, they took the time to understand
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our business. We were treated as a, as a customer, even though we're a partner and we're taking those services and building services for our partner. And essentially, it came down to three things for us. It was risk management, capacity management, the technology that they go behind, being a leader, and, and the carbon footprint.
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With Pure, we were able to offload that risk management of data availability, data guarantee, the value that Pure provides, that you really never actually lose your data. With Pure and the Evergreen//One model, we were able to actually reduce our footprint in the data center, our services on storage by almost 40%. We're able to reduce our power by about 40 to 60% in certain areas.
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Being able to have those savings not only gave me the confidence that, yes, we're doing the right thing for the business, we're doing the right thing for the climate. The unique part about Pure is essentially a lot of it is controlled by the software. But one of our systems in, in the US, we had to go through a capacity upgrade, and the capacity upgrade happened live as customers are writing data, and we're online.
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And I found that absolutely very cool. That is huge value for us in what Pure provides in their non-disruptive upgrades. And the FlashBlade, when it came out, was ideal for, for a customer or for our customers. We were able to take something that reduces that footprint, gives you the capabilities of being able to offer object storage, but allow the add-ons that Pure's worked on, the add-ons
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of snapshots, be able to replicate. And services like the cyber recovery, the snapshot, allow us to offer those add-ons to our, our customers that have never really envisioned that. And the best part is there's no additional cost. If we're benefiting from a vendor providing that, we should pass that benefit on to our
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partners and end customers.