Pure Storage: Second Gen FlashArray//C More Accessible With All-QLC Flash Array

Pure Storage, Inc. announced the second gen FlashArray//C, reducing the cost of running capacity-oriented workloads so it eliminates the need for legacy hybrid disk arrays.

The all-QLC storage array, it is built on the company’s Directflash technology and Purity software platform to deliver enterprise-grade performance and features cost-effectively, marking another step towards realizing the company’s vision of bringing flash mainstream for any use case through its entire portfolio of products and solutions.

To meet today’s challenges, enterprises must focus on innovation and operational excellence, driving efficiency that can free up human and financial capital to invest in a landscape with new demands. Yet until now, due to the economics and performance challenges of legacy storage, IT organizations have been forced to distinguish between performance-oriented workloads and everything else. The result? Data centers mired in complexity and incompatibilities with unnecessary hardware, software, maintenance, and training costs.

With the second gen of FlashArray//C, the company is extending its QLC advantage by delivering the first enterprise-grade all-QLC flash array – transforming raw QLC into a high-endurance medium while delivering new cost economics that are 30% less than similarly sized hybrid storage arrays on the market. FlashArray//C is available with 24.7TB and 49TB QLC Directflash modules providing low TCO. This makes all-flash accessible for use cases previously relegated to spinning disk or inefficient hybrid solutions, like backup and data protection, test/dev environments, and workload consolidation.

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Modern business requires fast access to all data whether it’s mission critical or capacity-oriented workloads and applications. FlashArray portfolio simplifies and streamlines IT operations by enabling customers to house all their data on one agile data services platform – with FlashArray//C for their capacity-oriented workloads and FlashArray//X for performance-intensive workloads, and in the cloud with Cloud Block Store. Common data services across the FlashArray platform make it fast and easy to access, manage, and secure data across multiple workloads, geographies, and clouds. By federating data from high-capacity use cases (i.e. backup stores and workload consolidation) and performance use cases (i.e. cloud-native databases) in one place, organizations can derive business value by applying analytics across their platform, with common APIs, monitoring, and support.

“Delivering a cost-effective, high-capacity solution solves an even bigger problem for customers – removing the complexity from enterprise storage by providing a complete platform, one that addresses all their storage requirements,” said Scott Baker, VP, product marketing, FlashArray. “With the second gen of FlashArray//C, we’re proud to once again demonstrate our commitment to innovation and make the benefits of flash more accessible for a broader range of use cases at an economic advantage that is sure to make hybrid storage a thing of the past.“

FlashArray//C is one of the fastest-growing products in the firm’s portfolio. It enables customers to consolidate workloads and simplify storage with consistent, cost-competitive all-flash performance. Replacing disk and hybrid systems with it lowers costs for rack space, power, cooling, operations and maintenance and the availability of high-capacity, low-cost storage enables enterprises to redirect IT resources away from routine operations and toward delivering new services.

“With FlashArray and Purity, we are able to consolidate our performance and capacity-oriented workloads on one platform, simplifying our environment and enabling us to leverage common data services and analytics across all of our data,” said Sean Donaldson, CTO, managed services division, NTT Ltd., formerly Secure 24. “We are excited to be adding the all-QLC FlashArray//C to our data centers to further capitalize on the reliable, cost-effective, high-capacity, and high-density benefits the solution delivers.“

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FlashArray//C delivers:

• No-compromise enterprise experience: Like all products in the FashArray family line, the all-QLC FlashArray//C is built for >99.9999% availability with Pure1, API automation and AI-driven predictive support. Enterprise-grade QLC delivers durability and sustained performance, without the need for storage class memory, wear-level software or over-provisioning.

• Platform for all workloads: Organizations can deploy FlashArray//X and FlashArray//C as a solution across all of their performance-oriented and capacity-oriented use cases, reducing staffing and training requirements and increasing IT agility by enabling organizations to use the same storage OS for all workloads. All data, workloads, operational controls, and reports are available via a single pane of glass.

• Sustainable and flexible consumption models: FlashArray//C is built to be Evergreen with non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades and no data migrations, providing a cost-effective way to sustain infrastructure for a decade or more. With Pure-as-a-Service, customers enjoy a cloud experience with pay-as-you-go economics.

The second gen of FlashArray//C is available.

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