Pure Storage Ushers in Unstructured Data Storage with FlashBlade//E

Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers advanced data storage technology and services, announces FlashBlade//E, a scale-out unstructured data repository built to handle exponential data growth with energy efficiency. At an acquisition cost competitive with disk and much lower operational costs, the introduction of FlashBlade//E means customers no longer need to settle for disk for bulk data.

FlashBlade//E provides a way to manage unstructured data growth efficiently, reliably and sustainably with a best-in-class user experience and economics that enable customers to eliminate the last remnants of disk in their data center.

  • Economical at scale – FlashBlade//E is priced under $0.20 per GB including three years of service. The platform starts at 4PB and scales from there with reliable performance.
  • Industry-leading energy efficiency –FlashBlade//E consumes up to 10 times less power than the disk-based systems it will replace. The larger the system the greater the efficiency, helping organizations achieve their increasingly critical sustainability goals.
  • Simplicity, reliability, and a non-disruptive future – FlashBlade//E is built to flex and grow on demand with 10-20 times the reliability and evolving without disruption or forklift upgrades. With cloud-like simplicity, flexibility and predictable performance, FlashBlade//E remains simple to manage at any scale.

For global organizations, unstructured data capacity will grow by 10 times before 2030. For large-capacity, price-sensitive workloads that use current disk-based storage solutions, this growth is unsustainable.

Disk-based systems are a burden on many enterprises’ IT teams and budgets as they are challenging to manage, require massive amounts of power, take up large amounts of space and their components fail frequently.

Ultimately, this diminishes the ability to derive business value from data. While modern file and object storage solutions can address many of these challenges, they haven’t been a viable option for large unstructured data repositories that are price-sensitive – until now.

“With FlashBlade//E, we’re realizing our founder’s original vision of the all-flash data center. For workloads where flash was once price-prohibitive, we are thrilled to provide customers the major benefits Pure delivers at a TCO lower than disk,” said Amy Fowler, VP & General Manager, FlashBlade, Pure Storage