Tag Archive for Pure Storage

Toronto’s Breqwatr sees Pure Storage partnership as key in U.S. expansion

Breqwatr, which makes an easy-to-deploy private cloud appliance, and sells through an all-channel model, now has an OEM deal with Pure which is significantly expanding their addressable market.

Pure Storage makes multiple object storage announcements around FlashBlade

An upgrade to 75 blades in a single system provides 5x capacity and speed, a new 17TB blade was announced for mid-range deployments, and a new ultra-flash S3 object store was unveiled.

Pure Storage CEO Dietzen sees strong momentum in new Pure announcements and metrics

Pure has announced an expansion of its relationship with Cisco, and its new (very high) Net Promoter Score, and sees a strong outlook both in Canada and its business generally.

Pure Storage unveils FlashBlade all-flash platform for petabyte-scale unstructured data

In addition to the FlashBlade, which becomes Pure’s new high end offering, the company also introduced the FlashArray//m10, a new entry level extension, to its FlashArray//m family, as well as several new FlashStack converged infrastructure solutions.

Pure Storage adds Microsoft, Citrix to FlashStack CI reference architectures

New solutions for Microsoft SQL Server and Citrix XenDesktop, and a new FlashStack CI support program for resellers who don’t provide Level 1 and 2 support, will expand FlashStack’s partner reach. Pure is also looking to reach deeper into Canada, with two western road shows following up today’s announcement.

Pure Storage moves into hardware with its next-gen FlashArray

In a trio of announcements, Pure announces its next-gen array, which features its first custom built hardware, as well as Pure1, an integrated cloud-based management and support offering, and Evergreen Storage, which is both a vision and a new upgrade model.

Pure Storage targets top partners with channel program changes

Notable changes include funding a dedicated resource for Platinum partners, enhancing the Demo program with six months of free support and the ability to resell Demo units, and a fourfold increase in MDF funds.

Pure Storage enters converged infrastructure market with all-flash FlashStack solutions

Two solutions were announced, both of which use Cisco and VMware as partners, but more converged all-flash solutions are coming from Pure, and these will use additional vendor partners as well.

Pure Storage joins OpenStack Foundation, announces two OpenStack solutions

Pure sees OpenStack as providing a great services opportunity to help customers adapt OpenStack for private clouds, since it is necessary to help them adapt OpenStack to different customer circumstances.

Permabit unveils appliance to let large storage OEMs strike back at hyperscale upstarts

Permabit’s SANblox appliance is the software vendor’s first hardware product, requested by the big storage OEMs to help them fend off competition from the new hyperscale vendors.