Category Archives: Pure Storage

Pure Storage Announces NVMe DirectFlash and New FlashArray Model

Posted on 11 April 2017 by GeekFluent

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). … Continue reading →

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Pure Storage’s FlashBlade is now GA

Posted on 25 January 2017 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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How I Accidentally Became a Conference Keynote Guest Speaker

Posted on 18 March 2016 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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Pure Storage Announces New Solutions and New Architecture

Posted on 14 March 2016 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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Headed to Pure//Accelerate 2016

Posted on 26 January 2016 by GeekFluent

[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 … Continue reading →

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Pure Storage Files Intent to IPO

Posted on 12 August 2015 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 1 June 2015 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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Pure Storage Announces Major Release of Purity Operating Environment

Posted on 15 May 2014 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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Pure Storage Expands FA-400 Series Offerings

Posted on 15 May 2014 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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