Tag: Pure Storage

  • Pure Storage Announces NVMe DirectFlash and New FlashArray Model

    Pure Storage Announces NVMe DirectFlash and New FlashArray Model

    Today Pure Storage, known for their All-Flash Storage arrays, announced their next Big ThingTM, DirectFlash, as well as a new FlashArray model. DirectFlash is a combination of NVMe hardware and the software to manage it (more details on that below). The new array model, the FlashArray//X, uses exclusively DirectFlash as the storage medium. A Brief…

  • Cisco and Pure Announce FlashStack – a Joint CI Solution

    Cisco and Pure Announce FlashStack – a Joint CI Solution

    Last week, Cisco and Pure Storage announced FlashStack. FlashStack is a jointly-developed Converged Infrastructure (CI) solution bundle / reference architecture. The FlashStack solution uses Cisco network and compute hardware, Pure Storage storage hardware, and VMware for the hypervisor and virtualization layer. FlashStack CI is not a product, per se, but a Cisco Validated Design (CVD) or…

  • Pure Storage’s FlashBlade is now GA

    Pure Storage’s FlashBlade is now GA

    Today, Pure Storage, an All-Flash storage vendor, announced the General Availability (GA) of their FlashBlade, a scalable, All-Flash, NFS storage platform, as well as the GA of version 1.2 of Elasticity, the software that runs the FlashBlade. I wrote about FlashBlade when it was first announced in 2016. At the time I was very excited…

  • How I Accidentally Became a Conference Keynote Guest Speaker

    How I Accidentally Became a Conference Keynote Guest Speaker

    Over the years, I’ve attended many industry technical conferences. I’ve been an attendee. I held a whiteboard session that was livestreamed over the Internet. I’ve done video interviews. I’ve been booth staff. I’ve given presentations in booths. I’ve been responsible for the entire booth. With all that, there are still a few things I haven’t…

  • Pure Storage Announces New Solutions and New Architecture

    Pure Storage Announces New Solutions and New Architecture

    Today, Pure Storage made several announcements: new product, new bundled solutions, and a brand-new scale-out architecture. These announcements were timed to coincide with Day One of their first-ever conference event, Pure//Accelerate, which I am attending. [DISCLAIMER: In the interest of full disclosure, Pure Storage provided me with a complimentary pass to their conference and also…

  • Headed to Pure//Accelerate 2016

    Headed to Pure//Accelerate 2016

    [Disclaimer: Pure Storage is sponsoring my attendance at this event, and paying for my hotel and airfare. There was no requirement that I write about the event at all. Any thoughts or views expressed here are entirely my own.] I’ve just received my travel confirmation to Pure Storage‘s Pure//Accelerate 2016 event coming up on 14-15…

  • Pure Storage Files Intent to IPO

    Today, Pure Storage announced that it had filed Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Form S-1 is essentially a proposal to create an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of publicly-traded shares of stock. Pure Storage intends to list its Class A common stock under the ticker symbol “PSTG”. The number of shares…

  • Pure Storage Announces New Program, New Hardware, New Software Services

    Today, Pure Storage, an all-Flash array vendor I’ve written about before, made three major announcements covering a new program for customers, new hardware, and new management software. Specifically, they announced: Evergreen Storage The FlashArray//m family (also called FA//m) Pure1 Management Platform I’ll cover all three in detail below.

  • Pure Storage Announces Major Release of Purity Operating Environment

    Today, Pure Storage announced a major release of their Purity operating environment. (Pure also announced two new hardware models, which you can read about here.) The new release, Purity 4.0.0, adds multiple new features including a RESTful management API, and the much-anticipated remote replication. I’ll walk through the details of what’s new in the release…

  • Pure Storage Expands FA-400 Series Offerings

    Today, Pure Storage announced two new models in their FA-400 Series line of all-Flash arrays. (Pure also announced a new major release of their Purity Operating Environment, which you can read about here.) The new hardware offerings “bracket” the previously-available FA-420, with one being smaller and one larger than it. (The “FA” in the model…