What is software-defined storage?

Software-defined storage (SDS) is a storage architecture that decouples storage software from its hardware, giving you greater scalability, flexibility, and control over your data storage infrastructure.

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Always-on Protection. Unbelievable Simplicity.

Purity//FA, the software heart of FlashArray, maximizes your storage investments—on premises or in the cloud. With Purity, meet today’s storage demands with up to 10:1 deduplication, always-on data protection, and lightning-fast replication.

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Intelligent Software to Power Your Storage

A robust enterprise storage solution needs data protection, deduplication, continuous replication, advanced file services, and more. Secure, highly scalable, and easy to use, Purity unifies, protects, and intelligently manages all your data.

Unparalleled Data Storage

Meet today’s data demands with efficient, available, and secure storage. Purity provides unmatched data reduction, 99.9999% availability, always-on encryption, and non-disruptive upgrades.

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Always-on Protection and Recovery

Secure by default protection and integrated disaster recovery helps keep your business running without disruption. Integrated Pure Storage ActiveDR™ and ActiveCluster™ provide rock-solid business continuity. And for ransomware, Auto-on SafeMode™ adds always-on, out-of-the-box protection without the need to change your setup, environment, or process.

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Effortless Data Access

Leverage predictable, high speed data access for all your enterprise apps and web scale workloads. End-to-end NVMe-optimized for flash. Multi-protocol support for FC and Ethernet. Built-in QoS for balanced resource distribution.

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Intelligent Management

AI-driven array operations ensure 100% availability. Monitor, analyze, and optimize storage from the single view of Pure1®. Mobilize workloads seamlessly across on-premises and cloud storage, and unify experiences.

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1. Why decouple storage software from data storage infrastructure?

Decoupling storage software from hardware makes your storage services more flexible and agile, allowing you to expand storage capacity quickly and easily. Seamlessly move data and workloads to meet changing business requirements.

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2. What are the benefits of software-defined storage?

The primary benefits of SDS include:

A simplified storage system for pulling data—agnostic of location—for easier automation
Scale-out architecture that can non-disruptively add new capacity when required
Greatly reduced storage management costs

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3. How does Purity deliver software-defined storage?

Purity is the software-defined heart of Pure Storage’s all-flash arrays. Benefits of using Purity include:

Industry-leading data reduction
Tier 1 resiliency with zero performance loss
Built-in disaster recovery and protection
Global flash management
Consolidation of cloud and on-premises storage into one hybrid cloud with Pure Cloud Block Store™

With Purity, you can bring a Modern Data Experience™ to your data center.

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Migrate Workloads Effortlessly with ActiveWorkload

Watch how ActiveWorkload makes moving workloads across your fleet of FlashArray devices straightforward, efficient, and non-disruptive.

“The Pure Evergreen Storage solution enabled us to avoid a tremendous amount of risk associated with forklift upgrades to replace outdated storage.”

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Deputy Director – IT Services Department, DENSO IT Solutions

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