Pure Extends Market Leadership with new Purity Software and Third Generation Capacity Optimized Flash Platform, Unifying File Support and Ransomware Protection across FlashBlade and FlashArray

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On February 16, 2021, Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) announced major enhancements to its unified storage portfolio, reinforcing its leadership in the enterprise storage market. Key updates include improvements to the Purity software for FlashBlade and FlashArray, which boost performance for Windows applications and enhance ransomware protection. The new features support hybrid storage, with capabilities like SafeMode snapshots and tier-1 application performance, promising up to 50% reduced latency. These innovations are part of Pure's Evergreen subscription model, ensuring no additional costs for customers.

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• Enhancements to Purity software boost performance and support for Windows applications.
• Improved ransomware protection with SafeMode snapshots across FlashBlade and FlashArray.
• New native SMB support enhances performance for high throughput and IOPS.
• ActiveCluster over Fibre Channel improves disaster recovery options.
• Third-generation FlashArray//C technology makes hybrid storage obsolete.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, announced enhancements to its unified storage portfolio, extending its enterprise storage market leadership by expanding into new markets and verticals. The updates to the flagship Purity software for FlashBlade and FlashArray accelerate Windows applications, deliver ransomware protection across file, block and native cloud-based apps, and make hybrid storage for both departmental and data center workloads obsolete with a third generation FlashArray//C all-QLC platform.

The latest updates, delivered through Pure's Evergreen subscription model, further the company's vision for a Modern Data Experience^™. The key enhancements are:

Comprehensive File Portfolio Redefines Performance and Simplicity Across Ever-Broadening Use Cases

• Today's news extends FlashBlade's industry leadership with new native SMB support. This provides simplicity and multi-dimensional performance for very high throughput and IOPS with low latency to support multiple workloads simultaneously, files of any size, and sequential or random I/O access. Customers can accelerate Windows applications with a rich set of existing data services, including Replication, File System Rollback, and SafeMode^™ Snapshots for rapid ransomware recovery. Validated solutions include healthcare PACS applications and SQL Server Backup at speeds higher than 1TB/min for SQL farms that demand fast backup and recovery.
• FlashBlade's new Cross-Protocol File Security design allows access control interoperability between SMB and NFS users while preserving access control lists for both in addition to complying with federal security mandates.
• FlashArray's scale-up architecture balances performance and capacity, delivering  operational file services for VDI, file server consolidation, user home directories, and file sharing. File capabilities in FlashArray enhance the value of inherent features such as  deduplication and compression.

Comprehensive Ransomware Protection and Security across File, Block, and Cloud-Based Apps

• FlashBlade and FlashArray are now both strengthened by SafeMode snapshots, delivering a complete portfolio of protection tools to ensure data is always safe and recoverable in seconds. Immutable snapshots and Policy-based Retention protect companies against the risk of lost revenues, ransom payments, and brand damage associated with ransomware attacks.
• FlashBlade, the industry-defining Unified Fast File and Object (UFFO) platform, provides enhanced object security with S3 simple user policies, enabling access control at the user level. Granular, user-level performance monitoring meets a critical requirement for real-time visibility into the most active users and unified APIs/SDK improves the automation experience across FlashBlade, FlashArray, and Pure1^® with unified REST APIs and Python SDK.

Improved Disaster Recovery with ActiveCluster over Fibre Channel: ActiveCluster™ delivers stretch clustering solutions for critical applications over any fabric. ActiveCluster is integrated with Pure1 Cloud Mediator, which removes the need to manage a cumbersome third-site witness and enables a third recovery site to be added anywhere in the world.

Breakthrough Tier 1 Application Performance: As the first to market with NVMe over Fabrics, Pure continues to accelerate its market leadership as it delivers an all-NVMe architecture for Flash, Direct Memory Modules, replication, and now support for both NVMe over Fibre Channel and Ethernet. Support for NVMe can reduce application latency by up to 50% by reducing latencies to hundreds of microseconds.

Third-Generation of FlashArray//C Makes Hybrid Storage Obsolete: The new releases of FlashArray//C40 and FlashArray//C60 demonstrate Pure's rapid pace of innovation and extend a flash leadership story that is still unmatched in the industry. While other vendors struggle to bring QLC to market, FlashArray//C can now replace legacy disks in deployments of all sizes, ranging from departmental to data center consolidation.

"Pure is named a leader in the recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Arrays and positioned highest and farthest in both vectors because we are chipping away at the complexity baked into legacy storage that is simply not designed for the digital age. Our vision for a Modern Data Experience empowers organizations to innovate by providing a dynamic, cloud-based storage experience that is flexible, on-demand, and delivered as code." -- Ajay Singh, Chief Product Officer, Pure Storage

Long-Standing Pure Portfolio Customer: Royal Bank of Canada

"Pure is always one step ahead of the market and the latest updates to the Purity software across FlashBlade and FlashArray show that we've made the right choice for our business. With Pure, we have been able to achieve 100% uptime in our environment, which is critical to our banking operations." -- Antonio Puccio, Director of SAN Storage, Royal Bank of Canada

Only Pure's subscription services come ready with all-inclusive licensing, allowing customers to adopt new innovations without disruption, downtime, or the requirement to re-buy capacity. As part of the Evergreen Storage subscription model, these new features require no additional licenses or support costs and ensure zero added complexity.

Today Pure also announced file replication capabilities on FlashArray with Komprise. 

Availability:

The new features in Purity for FlashArray are available immediately and in Q1 for Purity for  FlashBlade.

More information on today's news:

• Partner Quote Sheet
• Blog: Accelerating the Global Move to Digital Business
• Blog: Leap Forward with Purity//FA 6.1
• Blog: The Neapolitan Ice Cream of File and Object Storage
• Technical Brief: Top 10 Reasons for UFFO

About Pure Storage

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organizations to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing enterprise IT companies in history, Pure helps customers put data to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are  among the happiest in the world. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.

Analyst Recognition: Pure Storage has been named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Arrays.

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FAQ

What are the new features announced by Pure Storage for PSTG on February 16, 2021?

Pure Storage announced enhancements to its Purity software for FlashBlade and FlashArray, including improved performance, ransomware protection, and new native SMB support.

How does the new FlashArray//C technology impact PSTG's market position?

The third-generation FlashArray//C technology positions PSTG to replace legacy storage solutions, enhancing its competitive edge in the market.

What is Pure Storage's Evergreen subscription model?

Pure Storage's Evergreen subscription model offers all-inclusive licensing, allowing customers to adopt new features without additional costs or complexities.

What improvements have been made for ransomware protection in PSTG's offerings?

The new features include SafeMode snapshots that provide immutable backups for rapid recovery from ransomware attacks across both FlashBlade and FlashArray.

How does Pure Storage ensure zero added complexity for customers?

All enhancements under the Evergreen Storage subscription model require no additional licenses or support costs.