Pure Storage delivers Pure Evergreen Storage Service along with major upgrade to Evergreen program

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the all-flash storage platform that helps innovators build a better world with data, has announced significant updates to the Evergreen Storage program pioneered by Pure.

Starting immediately, customers can subscribe to the Pure Evergreen Storage Service (ES2) for pay-per-use on-premises storage, as well as new Evergreen Gold and Silver benefits that extend the life of Pure's existing Right-Size Guarantee with any capacity expansion, indefinitely.

Introducing Pure Evergreen Storage Service (ES2)

Evergreen Storage Service applies a cloud-like approach to on-premises storage that eliminates the need for forklift technology rebuys and planned downtime.

With ES2, organisations can now leverage cloud-like, Storage-as-a-Service to adapt to fluctuating capacity requirements. ES2 is of course Evergreen, which allows organisations to benefit from future innovations, implemented non-disruptively behind the scenes.

ES2 can be onboarded in days and offers customers a fully elastic, scalable on-premises solution complete with tier-one, enterprise grade features. ES2 provides on-demand, enterprise-grade storage at up to 50% less than public cloud with proven reliability. ES2 is available for terms as short as 12 months with a base commitment as low as 100 effective TBs.

Engineered from the ground up to be purpose-built for flash, Pure Storage arrays remain in place and online while software, controller and flash media updates upgrade system performance and capabilities as they become available.

"With their flexibility and pay-as-you-go pricing, cloud storage services are providing excellent options for IT organisations, but are still not able to deliver the enterprise-grade features that many business-critical workloads require," said Eric Burgener, Research Vice President for Storage, IDC.

"Conventional on-premises infrastructure meets those needs better, but does not support the attractive flexibility, continuous technology refresh, or IASB 2019-compliant storage utility pricing models.

"With the introduction of the Evergreen Storage Service, Pure Storage has provided the best of both approaches, offering quick deployment, on-demand expansion, easy, non-disruptive technology refresh, and an OPEX pricing model for on-premises all-flash infrastructure that delivers six nines availability across their fleet and a full complement of enterprise-class data services."

Additionally, enterprises and service providers can now deploy ES2 on-premises or in colocation facilities such as Equinix, which provides the flexibility of supported hybrid cloud environments and enables direct connection to public clouds like AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Buy with confidence: Pure extends Right-Size Guarantee

Customers can now also extend the guaranteed effective capacity benefits of the Right-Size Guarantee over the lifetime of their arrays with a six-month coverage extension as part of any capacity expansion. The Right-Size-Guarantee is explicitly focused on guaranteeing effective capacity, and not merely data reduction or total efficiency. This focus on the effective capacity outcome ensures customers do not over-buy capacity, or end up with too little.

"Today, infrastructure requires flexibility, room for growth and the freedom to invest in new technologies confidently," said Jason Nadeau, VP of Product Marketing, Pure Storage.

"Pure's Right-Size Guarantee ensures customers get the storage they need not only at initial purchase, but also over the Evergreen life of their array as they expand for long-term peace of mind.

Evergreen allows customers to move beyond traditional data reduction, raw and usable TB complexity to focus on delivering cloud-like effective capacity to business applications, developers and data scientists."

Additional key components of the Evergreen Storage program include:

* All-Inclusive Array Software. Pure's software features are not only all-inclusive at the time of purchase, but also include access to any future array software features.
* White-Glove Support. A higher level of support experience, including predictive support and 15-minute SLAs.
* Free Every Three. Customers get the latest generation of FlashArray controllers included with every three-year Evergreen Gold renewal.
* Upgrade Flex. Customers can upgrade their array controllers whenever they need, with trade-in credit for older controllers towards new, upgraded controllers.
* Capacity Consolidation. Benefit from improved flash densities and increases in performance while keeping infrastructures modern with trade-in credit for previous generation flash media towards current generation media.