• A Purified Implementation Of NVM-Express Storage

    December 13, 2017

    NVM-Express holds the promise of accelerating the performance and lowering the latency of flash and other non-volatile storage. Every server and storage vendor we can think of is working to bring NVM-Express into the picture to get the full benefits of flash, but even six years after the first specification for the technology was released, NVM-Express is still very much a work in progress, with capabilities like stretching it over a network still a couple of years away.

    Pure Storage launched eight years ago with the idea of selling only all-flash arrays and saw NVM-Express coming many years ago, and …

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  • All Flash No Longer Has To Compete With Disk

    December 9, 2016

    All-flash arrays are still new enough to be somewhat exotic but are – finally – becoming mainstream. As we have been saying for years, there will come a point where enterprises, which have much more complex and unpredictable workloads than hyperscalers and do not need the exabytes of capacity of cloud builders, just throw in the towel with disk drives and move to all flash and be done with it.

    To be sure, disk drives will persist for many years to come, but perhaps not for as long as many as disk drive makers and flash naysayers had expected – …

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  • A Thirst For Petabyte Scale All-Flash Arrays

    July 25, 2016

    Some technology trends get their start among enterprises, some from hyperscalers or HPC organizations. With flash storage, it was small businesses and hyperscalers who, for their own reasons, got the market growing, drawing in engineering talent and venture capital to give us the plethora of options available on the market today. Now, the big customers are ready to take the plunge.

    It is no coincidence, then, that Pure Storage has architected systems that scale to multiple petabytes of capacity to meet their needs. Large enterprises with pressing demands for scaling in terms of both performance and capacity need a different …

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  • EMC Shoots For Explosive Performance With Isilon Nitro

    May 6, 2016

    Storage giant EMC, soon to be part of the Dell Technologies conglomerate, declared that this would be the year of all flash for the company when it launched its DSSD D5 arrays back in February. It was not kidding, and as a surprise at this weeks EMC World 2016 conference, the company gave a sneak peek at a future all-flash version of its Isilon storage arrays, which are also aimed at high performance jobs but which are designed to scale capacity well beyond that of the DSSD.

    The DSSD D5 is an impressive beast, packing 100 TB of usable …

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  • Pure Storage Brings Petabyte Scale To All Flash

    March 14, 2016

    All flash storage arrays can be sprinkled around the datacenter to provide zippy block storage for database virtual server applications. And while the current crop of all flash arrays are useful and affordable for such applications, they are not scalable enough to take on some of the big file and object workloads that are dominating the storage landscape in the glass house.

    Pure Storage has set out to change this with a new line of all flash arrays, called FlashBlade, that are aimed at the petabyte-scale jobs that are at the heart of the modern platforms being built today. The …

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