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Hey Andy, good to see you. Good to see you man. Yeah, you too. Data storage can be notoriously complex, expensive and inefficient. But Pure Storage® offers a better approach.
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With me is Andy Stone, Chief Technology Officer, Americas from Pure Storage. Andy, what does Pure Storage do differently? Yeah, Kevin I think it comes in a couple of forms. First is the technology.
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By offering a completely non-disruptively upgradable model, we give customers the ability to upgrade storage over time. Looking at the business models, we allow customers to consume however they need and want. So whether it's true OpEx, CapEx or a combination
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via an offering we call Flex, we give them that ability as well. And lastly, on the technology piece, having a common Pure operating environment and management environment through Purity as the operating environment and Pure1® as the management environment truly differentiates us from the competition. What data storage problems can Pure Storage solve?
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We can solve a host of data storage problems for our customers, anything that they need at any place that they need. So whether it's block storage with our FlashArray™ offering, whether it's fast file and object with our FlashBlade® offering, our converged platforms with NVIDIA,
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our AIRI offering or Cisco with FlashStack®, even our cloud-native offering, so we can deliver in the public cloud natively through our cloud block store and our Portworx® offerings. We can take storage to customers where they want to consume it, where they need to consume it for their business needs.
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What does Pure Storage see as the future of data storage? The future of data storage looks a lot like the cloud, right? We are moving toward a completely cloud operating model, so everything becomes cloud bytes from the introduction of Pure Fusion™, which gives you
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the ability to manage storage via storage classes to much higher density. We already talked about, you know, we released a 75 terabyte drive this year. We have 150 next, 300 the year after. It's going to get better and bigger over time. So that density is really going to come into play.
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And lastly, it's going to be the elimination of the hard disk. So over time we'll see flash really ramping up in the enterprise and taking over all of those competitive workloads that we've generally seen in the enterprise. Thanks for your time here today, Andy. Yeah, thanks Kevin.
