Pure Storage Adds New Options to Flash Array Family

All-flash enterprise storage provider Pure Storage is stepping up its storage options with the introduction of new entry-level and high-capacity additions to its FlashArray 400 Series. According to the vendor, the new arrays give customers the freedom to choose the storage setup best for their enterprise, while giving users more disaster recovery protection with the latest version of its Purity Operating Environment, Purity 4.0.

For entry-level customers, Pure Storage has released its FA-405 array, which handles up to 40TB of usable space in a 1U controller form factor. For users looking for a little more heft, the new FA-450 offers up to 250TB of usable space in a 2U controller footprint. Both new storage options complement the company’s flagship FA-420, which handles up to 125TB of usable space. Both the FA-405 and FA-420 were designed to allow users to upgrade their current storage rigs quickly and easily for increased storage if they decide more room is needed, according to Pure Storage.

“This is a watershed moment for Pure and the AFA category in general,” said Scott Dietzen, CEO at Pure Storage, in a prepared statement. “With the FlashArray 450 and Purity 4.0, we are delivering feature parity with incumbent high-end disk arrays. FlashArray costs less, and yet delivers 10X or better performance, power and space utilization, reliability and simplicity of operations” than performance disk arrays, he said.

All of the storage options will be compatible with the new Purity 4.0 Software, the fourth-generation release of the company’s Purity Operating Environment. The latest version has been enhanced with FlashRecover, a native and fully integrated replication, snapshot and policy management service. Purity 4.0 was designed to keep mission-critical applications running in the face of any failure scenario, the company noted, including natural disasters, user error, hardware failure and malicious attacks.

FlashRecover Replication runs natively on the new storage arrays and utilizes Purity’s FlashReduce de-duplication and compression technologies to dramatically reduce the network bandwidth required for enterprises to support disaster recovery, while also enabling replication across the entire FA-400 series of arrays.

Both the FA-405 and FA-450 are available now through Pure Storage’s global channel partner network, while all existing Pure Storage customers will receive a free upgrade to Purity 4.0 once the solution releases, slated for June.