What is software-defined storage?

Software-defined storage (SDS) is a storage architecture that decouples storage software from its hardware, giving you greater scalability, flexibility, and control over your data storage infrastructure.

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Overview

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Customer Stories

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Powerful storage services. Unbelievable simplicity.

Secure, highly scalable, and easy to use, Purity unifies, protects, and intelligently manages all your data.

Unparalleled data storage and availability.

Purity provides unmatched data reduction, 99.9999% availability, always-on encryption, and non-disruptive upgrades.

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Always-on protection and recovery.

Secure-by-default SafeMode protection and integrated disaster recovery through Pure Storage ActiveDR™ and ActiveCluster™ help keep your data safe and business running without disruption.

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Secure multi-tenancy.

Experience the efficiency of the Pure Storage multi-tenant platform. Offering the security and performance of dedicated systems with the affordability and flexibility of shared infrastructure. Complete with detailed management, delegated administration, consumption controls, and SLAs for better resource management.

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Effortless data access.

Leverage predictable, high speed data access for all your enterprise apps and web scale workloads. End-to-end NVMe-optimized for flash multi-protocol support for FC and Ethernet. Built-in QoS for balanced resource distribution.

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Intelligent management.

AI-driven array operations ensure 100% availability. Monitor, analyze, and optimize storage from a single view. Mobilize workloads seamlessly across on-premises and cloud storage, and unify experiences.

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Purity in action.

Watch how ActiveDR replicates file data for simple, comprehensive disaster recovery.

“The Pure Evergreen® Storage solution enabled us to avoid a tremendous amount of risk associated with forklift upgrades to replace outdated storage.”

Yasuhiro Ishida

Deputy Director – IT Services Department

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ANALYST REPORT

IDC: Pure Agile Data Services Delivering the Modern Data Experience

Explore the meaning of the term modern data experience.

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WHITE PAPER

Automating Storage with Pure Fusion

Supercharge your fleet-wide storage automation.

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Unified Block and File Overview

Get an overview of FlashArray File Services – how we built it and what makes it different from the competition.

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SOLUTION BRIEF

Unified Storage for Operational Workloads

Efficient unified data storage so your teams can innovate.

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ANALYST REPORT

ESG: Pure Storage ActiveDR

ESG examines Pure Storage ActiveDR

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Explore Purity related platform storage and capabilities.

NVMe STORAGE

FlashArray//X™

A new generation of FlashArray//X makes its biggest leap forward to scale your business operations.

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PERFORMANCE-INTENSIVE STORAGE

FlashArray//XL™

The ultimate solution for your most demanding and most consolidated workloads.

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CAPACITY STORAGE

FlashArray//C™

Meet the expanded FlashArray//C™ lineup with up to 40% more performance and 80% greater energy efficiency.

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CLOUD DATA SERVICES

Purity Cloud Block Store

Pure Cloud Block Store™ slashes your cloud storage costs with superior data reduction and enterprise-grade data services.

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1. Why decouple storage software from data storage infrastructure?

Decoupling storage software from hardware makes your storage services more flexible and agile, allowing you to expand storage capacity quickly and easily. Seamlessly move data and workloads to meet changing business requirements.

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2. What are the benefits of software-defined storage?

The primary benefits of SDS include:

A simplified storage system for pulling data—agnostic of location—for easier automation
Scale-out architecture that can non-disruptively add new capacity when required
Greatly reduced storage management costs

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3. How does Purity deliver software-defined storage?

Purity is the software-defined heart of Pure Storage’s all-flash arrays. Benefits of using Purity include:

Industry-leading data reduction
Tier 1 resiliency with zero performance loss
Built-in disaster recovery and protection
Global flash management
Consolidation of cloud and on-premises storage into one hybrid cloud with Pure Cloud Block Store™

With Purity, you can bring a Modern Data Experience™ to your data center.

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