Economic Validation: The Economic Benefits of Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform

ECONOMIC VALIDATIONThe Economic Benefits of Pure
Storage FlashArray Unified
Block and File Platform
Unified All-flash Block and File Storage without
Compromises that Reduces Complexity to Manage Blockand File Workloads by 62%, with a 58% Lower Total Cost of
Storage Ownership
By Aviv Kaufmann, Practice Director and Principal Economic Validation Analyst
Enterprise Strategy Group
April 2023

This Enterprise Strategy Group Economic Validation was commissioned Pure Storageand is distributed under license from TechTarget, Inc.
© 2022 TechTarget, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Economic Validation: The Economic Benefits of Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform

Contents
Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................................3
Challenges ....................................................................................................................................................................3
The Solution: Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform ...................................................................4
Enterprise Strategy Group Economic Validation .............................................................................................................5
Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform Economic Overview ........................................................5
Reduced Complexity of Unified Block and File Services ........................................................................................5
Reduced Storage Footprint ......................................................................................................................................7
Improved Reliability and Accelerated Innovation.....................................................................................................8
Enterprise Strategy Group Analysis .............................................................................................................................9
Issues to Consider ..................................................................................................................................................12
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................................................122

Economic Validation: The Economic Benefits of Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform

Introduction
This Economic Validation from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group focuses on the quantitative and qualitative
benefits organizations can expect by consolidating their legacy block and file storage systems onto Pure Storage
FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform.

Challenges
Data is the lifeblood for modern organizations, as nearly all businesses have become more data driven. Enterprise
Strategy Group (ESG) research found that 21% of organizations report that their core products and services relycompletely on their data (i.e., they are an information-based business), while 44% reported that data helps to
support their business (i.e., they offer tangible products and services), and the remaining 36% offer a mix of bothinformation-based and tangible products and services.1 As data continues to drive revenue and grow atunprecedented rates, organizations have struggled to provide adequate storage and storage-related services fortheir structured data (block) and unstructured (file and object) workloads. Unstructured file services (i.e., user-facing
data stored in file format) play an important role in modern business and include things like file-based applications,
backup and content repositories, media and entertainment, medical imaging, long-term archive storage, andvirtualization repositories. In fact, ESG research shows that roughly half of the average organization’s data is
unstructured, and as shown in Figure 1, their unstructured data is growing at an average annual rate of 33%(weighted average of results shown).2

Figure 1. Expected Unstructured Annual Data Growth Rate Averages 33%
At approximately what rate do you believe your organization’s
unstructured data (and associated underlying storage capacity) is
growing annually? (Percent of respondents, N=359)
16%

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11%

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5%

3%

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1% to 11% to 21% to 31% to 41% to 51% to 61% to 71% to 81% to 91% to Morethan 0% annually; 10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
than
annually; it is annually annually annually annually annually annually annually annually annually annually 100%
it isstayingannually
declining flat

3%
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know

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, a division of TechTarget, Inc.

In fact, structured and unstructured data are both growing at similarly high annual rates as storage administrators
work hard to scale block and file services to support the needs of modern and legacy workloads. While capacity is
growing rampant, storage budgets are not increasing, and internal resources are oversubscribed. This does notproject well and suggests that a change is needed. It is a good time for organizations to reassess the siloed

1
2

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group Complete Survey Results, From Data Backup to Data Intelligence, January 2022.
Source: Enterprise Strategy Group Survey Results, 2021 Data Infrastructure Trends, September 2021.
© 2022 TechTarget, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Economic Validation: The Economic Benefits of Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platformworkloads and supporting block and file storage systems in their data centers and to consolidate in an effort to
reduce complexity and cost.
Many data centers are currently managing workloads sprawled across silos of legacy storage arrays designed andoptimized to handle either block or file workloads. Some of these systems offer bolt-on unified capabilities tosupport multiple storage protocols (either adding a file system on top of block LUNs, or block LUNs on top of a filesystem). But supporting multiple protocols does not mean that they support multiple protocols efficiently, simply, or
cost-effectively. Legacy unified storage systems require tradeoffs that come in the form of management complexity(e.g., additional steps), additional hardware and management interfaces (e.g., gateways and appliances), wasted
capacity, inefficient use of hardware resources, limited scalability and visibility, and lack of support for data services
or limited efficiency of data reduction technologies.
Legacy storage systems, whether unified or siloed, slow and limit innovation. The complexity of underlying
hardware should not limit business agility. Legacy systems are slow to expand and scale, require forklift upgradesand data migrations when upgrading to new controllers and storage technologies, can require disruptive operations
that often require downtime, and often tie licensed features to hardware, requiring the user to re-purchase licenses
to take advantage of innovations. Modern organizations require a true unified storage platform that supports block,file, and object workloads, with reduced complexity and consistent features without compromise, helping tominimize costs and accelerate innovation.

The Solution: Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform
The Pure Storage FlashArray is a software-defined all-flash, all-NVMe, unified block and file storage platform
designed to meet the current and future needs of modern corporate and enterprise organizations. FlashArrayprovides the following benefits:•

Performance: Ultra-low and predictable 150us to 1ms latency for all applications. The self-optimized array isperfect for consolidating block (NVMe/NVMe-oF) and file (SMB/NFS) workloads with little to no performance
impact.

•High Availability: Provides 99.9999% availability with built-in business continuity and disaster recovery acrossproduct lines while continuing to meet service-level agreements (SLAs).

•

Storage Efficiency: Highly efficient 5:1 data reduction and 10:1 total efficiency provides up to 5.5PB of
effective capacity in a greatly reduced footprint.

•

Simplicity: Single pane of glass and AI-driven management with Pure1, combined with REST API automation
to free storage administrators from time-consuming tasks. Nondisruptive updates, upgrades, and capacity
expansions as well as integrated and predictive support ensure no business disruption and reduce strain on
admins.

As shown in Figure 2, Pure FlashArray File Services are integrated into (not built on top of) the Purity FA6 operating
system. Key benefits of File Services include:•

True scale-up file services based on a file system, and not built on top of block devices or volumes.

•

Support for SMB and NFS.

•

No gateway required; shared storage pool for block and file.

•

Directory-level snapshots, performance, and space monitoring.

•Same leading global deduplication and compression used for block storage.

•

Managed directories and export policies built into GUI, CLI, and REST API management interfaces.

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Figure 2. Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and Storage Platform

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, a division of TechTarget, Inc.

Enterprise Strategy Group Economic Validation
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) completed a quantitative economic analysis of the Pure Storage FlashArray
Unified Black and File Platform.
ESG’s Economic Validation process is a proven method for understanding, validating, quantifying, and modeling the
economic value propositions of a product or solution. The process leverages ESG’s core competencies in market
and industry analysis, forward-looking research, and technical/economic validation. ESG conducted in-depth
interviews with subject matter experts and reviewed customer case studies to better understand and quantify how
FlashArray has impacted their organizations, particularly in comparison with previously deployed and/or
experienced solutions. The qualitative and quantitative findings were used as the basis for a simple economic
model comparing the expected costs of managing and maintaining on-premises block and file storage operations.

Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform Economic Overview
This Enterprise Strategy Group economic analysis revealed that the Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block andFile Platform provided its customers with significant savings and benefits in the following categories:•

Reduced Complexity of Unified Block and File Services•

Reduced Storage Footprint•

Improved Reliability and Accelerated Innovation

Reduced Complexity of Unified Block and File Services
The intelligent design of the Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform delivers low latency flash
storage for consolidation of block and file workloads without compromising simplicity, scalability, performance,5

Economic Validation: The Economic Benefits of Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platformfunctionality, or innovation. This is in contrast to legacy scale-up and scale-out storage arrays with bolt-on
multiprotocol support that add additional layers of complexity and limit functionality and flexibility. Pure Storage
FlashArray provides the following benefits of reduced complexity for unified operations:•True unified storage pool architecture –FlashArray helps to unify operations and eliminate“Pure Storage's FlashArray File Services
data silos because its design supports all block andhas enabled us to reduce storage
file workloads from the same single unified pool ofcomplexity by eliminating data silos andglobal storage. The shared storage pool design
waste, without compromising overall
enables file shares and archives to reside and be
performance or efficiency.”
managed alongside production workloads with notradeoffs. Data is stored efficiently and with the
optimized context for block or file, making it an ideal
system to simultaneously manage and deliver efficient storage operations for LUNs, file systems, and VMs.
With Pure’s shared pool design, all workloads benefit from the exact same levels of global dedupe andcompression as well as data services without compromise, resulting in the ability to use more capacity perarray with less overhead and inefficiency. Traditional unified designs generally require multiple pools or
inefficient creation of layered constructs (for example LUNs or VMs contained in volumes or aggregates, or filesystems limited by LUN or RAID group size). This wastes capacity, limits functionality and efficiency, and adds
layers of management complexity.

•

Simplified management experience – Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) validated that Pure Storage
provides a single, simple management interface with an intuitive UI for block and file as well as the ability toautomate file services with the CLI and REST API. ESG saw how easy it was to create a file system with asingle click. Because there were no gateways or appliances to manage, and file systems are not built on top of
volumes or aggregates, there were no additional prerequisite steps required to perform before creating a filesystem, nor were there limitations and complex relationships to manage after creation. ESG validated thatadmins could further simplify the management of file services with the use of profiles, managed directories,
directory-level snapshots, rule-based templates, and export policies. Admins benefit from the ability to manage
and grow block and file data at the granularity of the data entity they were working with rather than being tied to
the limitations of the underlying constructs. For example, managing at the VM level rather than having to first fillvolumes or LUN space with VMs and take snaps at the volume or LUN level instead of the individual directory
level.

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Flash storage for file workloads – Pure Storage FlashArray provides predictable low latency operations forall block and file workloads without limitation and without impact. While end-users are typically used to somedegree of lag waiting for file-based applications, user directories, and content repositories to perform searches
and functions, flash performance results in significantly faster time to load documents, files, and images as wellas an overall better application responsiveness and end-user experience. This also enables file storage to beconsidered for next-generation performance-sensitive applications, such as analytics and video use cases.

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Improved visibility and reporting – Administratorsof traditional unified storage arrays often have limited“We use Pure1 daily for forecasting,visibility into the underlying resources currently being
reporting, real-time system performance,
used by file services at a granular level, which makes
support cases, and purity upgrades. It
it difficult to predict capacity growth or monitor costs
works great, and it has helped us a lot.”and performance without managing complicatedscripts and consolidating information from various
interfaces. Pure FlashArray provides built-in and realtime visibility into all block and file constructs. All of the same information provided for block services is madeavailable for file service on Pure1, making it easy to monitor capacity and performance utilization as well as
predict growth, going forward.

•

Hybrid cloud agility and flexibility – Pure Storage customers can use a single interface to access the Pure1
cloud-based management platform to manage and monitor hybrid cloud deployments for all of their block and6

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file workloads on storage arrays and services. Administrators can further save time and resources byleveraging the Pure Storage CLI and REST APIs to automate and orchestrate hybrid cloud management
functions for their block and file workloads.
•

Cost savings and flexibility – Pure1 and Purity lower the cost of licenses for multiple software products andappliances. There is no additional cost to enable technology feature support or software functionality, and alltechnologies, like ActiveCluster and ActiveDR, are included in the software subscription at no cost. With
traditional systems, these software features are often tied to the hardware, making it complex to upgrade andrefresh technologies. Pure Storage customers can decide between making upfront CapEx purchases, monthly
OpEx subscriptions, or a combination of both. Evergreen//One and Evergreen//Flex pay-as-you-go storage
subscriptions give financial flexibility of choice and can eliminate the need to manage storage for block and fileworkloads and/or reduce the effort required to plan for capacity and technology upgrades.

Reduced Storage Footprint
The highly efficient Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform can be used to consolidate siloedblock and file workloads into a single platform that is at least 7x smaller, with greatly reduced complexity as well as
improved performance and sustainability. Consolidating workloads running on aging legacy storage systems
designed for block or file to Pure Storage FlashArray eliminates expensive maintenance and licensing costs andprovides the following benefits:•

Improved consolidation of file and block services – Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) learned that
customers who had deployed legacy storage arrays had poor experiences running unified workloads and,because of this, tended to use their storage arrays for the purpose that they were best designed for: block
workloads on purpose-built block storage arrays and file workloads on purpose-built file arrays. Customers
were excited to see how Pure Storage FlashArray’s NVMe flash performance and true global unified storage
pool could help to consolidate multiple legacy file andblock arrays into a single unit, with no compromise to“With data growing at a rapid pace, we
performance, nor added complexity or cost. There isrecognized the importance ofno need to overprovision for performance or waste
space based on inefficient hierarchical constructs.
modernizing and unifying our storage
Organizations can better eliminate workload sprawl
infrastructure to make better use of ourwith quality of service (QoS) and policies built into the
IT resources.”
system to help eliminate the possibility of noisy
neighbors and provide priority access for production
workloads.

•

Significantly reduced footprint – Migrating block and file workloads running on legacy storage arrays to Pure
Storage FlashArray can reduce storage footprint by 7x or more. ESG has validated the benefits of Pure
Storage’s 10:1 average data reduction provided by global dedupe and compression for file and block
workloads. FlashArray provides the same savings for file and block workloads without restrictions, while legacy
storage arrays provide lower overall data reduction savings and often are not able to achieve the same level ofdeduplication and compression for their file and block services based on tradeoffs in the architecture. Pure
Storage systems provide far more usable capacity per array with less storage overhead. This results in lesshardware to manage, maintain, power, and cool, resulting in even greater operational savings.

•

Reduced snapshot and replication overhead –FlashArray provides a finer granularity of snapshotsand replication target selection for both file and block
workloads when compared to legacy storage
systems. Legacy file- or block-first unified systems
often suffer from “snapshot bloat”—i.e., having tostore snapshots of far more capacity than intended“We have been able to reduce thenumber of units in our data center bymore than 75% by unifying with Pure.”7

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based on the requirement of having to snapshot a whole volume or aggregate rather than a directory, LUN, or
VM. This creates even more storage inefficiency and further reduces cost per usable GB for a storage array.
And it goes beyond capacity: That extra copy of data needs to be managed together rather than independently.
In contrast, FlashArray’s data-efficient snaps for file take up zero capacity when initially created and are far
simpler to manage.
•

Faster path to sustainability – With environmental sustainability being a top priority for organizations,consolidating and running block and file workloads more efficiently on FlashArray results in a dramaticallyreduced footprint, with substantially lower power and cooling requirements. In addition, the continuous
innovation model provided by Pure Storage avoids periodic complete forklift technology upgrades and resultsin fewer components that end up in a landfill. This helps organizations better meet their sustainability initiatives.

Improved Reliability and Accelerated Innovation
Pure Storage FlashArray provides improved reliability and less business interruption to workloads and production
when compared to providing storage services with siloed block and file storage arrays. In addition, Pure Storage
customers enjoy guaranteed innovation and an improved overall support experience, resulting in improved
business agility. Improved reliability and accelerated innovation are provided through:•Reduced risk of downtime – Customers have reported far less impact to business operations with Pure ascompared with alternative storage technologies. Most customers share that they had not realized a single
downtime event since migrating to FlashArray, while traditional block and file storage arrays required periodic
downtime and reduced performance during updates and upgrades. FlashArray architecture is designed todeliver 100% performance capabilities when performing software updates, upgrading hardware, and scaling
capacity, in contrast to traditional architecture that requires downtime for forklift upgrades and that runs in adegraded state during software updates.

•

Guaranteed innovation and business agility – The design of traditional storage systems limits innovation
because full forklift upgrades to a new platform or time-consuming data migrations are generally required totake advantage of the latest innovations in storage controller, interconnect, and disk technologies. In addition,
features and capabilities are often tied to the hardware and must be repurchased. Pure software updates are
released at quarterly intervals and add value to theexisting system, and with a Pure Evergreen//Forever“By unifying our block and file
subscription, organizations can take advantage of thelatest improvements in hardware technology overinfrastructure with Pure, we have beentime, without having to research, plan, or purchaseempowered to remove technology
new storage arrays. Customer deployments arebarriers and spend more time on new
upgraded in place without forklift upgrades andinnovations for customers, while
without disruption to service every three years as
achieving significant cost savings andnew technology is made available, providing
new levels of investment protection.”
improved performance and scalability for their blockand file workloads.

•

Improved local and remote DR recovery – Pure ActiveCluster provided active-active synchronous replication
with automatic zero recovery point objective (RPO) and zero recovery time objective (RTO) failovers forstretched clusters. ActiveDR provided a remote DR solution that greatly lowered RPO and simplified theoperation of failover down to a single click for organizations (both ActiveCluster and ActiveDR are included at
no additional cost).

•

Improved security and ransomware protection – Pure offers improved security with encryption of data tobetter meet regulations, and Pure SafeMode snapshots cost-effectively protect both block and file data against
ransomware events and unintentional deletion, while making it possible to quickly remediate any events that
do happen, without impact to operations.

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Improved support experience – Pure customers share that their support experience with Pure Storage is far
better than what they had previously experienced with traditional storage vendors. Pure Storage consistently
enjoys a leading net promotor score (NPS) of 86 out of 100. (Note that NPSes measure customer loyalty, anda score above 50 is excellent, but many storage vendors score in the mid 30s.) Pure Storage actively supports
customers through the life of the system and provides high levels of expertise on all calls, with remoteassistance and mobile monitoring capabilities. Pure1 predictive analytics provides proactive support and helps
identify and remediate issues before they happen.

Enterprise Strategy Group Analysis
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) leveraged the information collected
through vendor-provided material, public and industry knowledge of
economics and technologies, and the results of customer interviews tocreate a three-year TCO/ROI model that compares the costs and benefitsof consolidating block and file workloads running on traditional block andfile storage arrays onto a single Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Blockand File Platform. ESG’s interviews with customers who have migrated
workloads to FlashArray, combined with experience and expertise ineconomic modeling and technical validation of storage technologies,
helped to form the basis for our modeled scenario.

Why This Matters
Organizations have settled forseparating, running, andmanaging workloads on siloed
traditional storage systems
designed and optimized for
either block or file workloads.
Consolidating theseworkloads onto the Pure
Storage FlashArray Unified
Block and File Platform
reduces storage footprint,
reduces complexity, improves
reliability, and allows forcontinuous innovation.

ESG assumed that the modeled organization managed three storagearrays. A traditional block storage array was used to provide 120TB of
storage capacity for production workloads such as legacy databases andapplications, along with some virtualization data stores. We assumed that
this array provided data reduction of 4:1, a 25% overhead for RAID and
ESG’s models predict thatsystem files, and a 20% free capacity workspace to avoid performance
consolidating block and fileissues and leave space for data services and optimization. ESG’s
workloads to FlashArray cananalysis concluded that this array would require 45TB of physical capacity
reduce management
spread over 11RU (rack units). A traditional file storage system provided
complexity by 62% and lower
150TB of storage capacity for content repositories, NFS datastores, NFS
the total cost of storageand SMB file shares, and other unstructured data sources. Usingownership by 58%.
published specifications and the same logic described above for the blockstorage array, we concluded that this array would require 56TB ofphysical storage and 20RU. Finally, an aging, low latency all-flash array provided 100TB of storage for highperformance databases and applications. Our research and analysis concluded that this array would require 36TB
of physical storage in only 2RU.
ESG then sized a Pure Storage FlashArray//X50 to consolidate the same block and file workloads totaling 379TB ofcapacity. Because the FlashArray provides 10:1 data reduction and requires less storage overhead, theconfiguration required a total of only 47TB of physical capacity in only 4RU of space. A summary of theconfigurations is shown in Figure 3.

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Figure 3. Consolidation Summary for ESG’s Modeled Analysis

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, a division of TechTarget, Inc.

We then modeled and compared the expected costs of hardware and software acquisition, support andmaintenance, power/cooling/floorspace, and storage administration. The consolidated FlashArray provided a 55%
lower cost of hardware and software acquisition. Support and maintenance costs were 38% lower, with the added
benefit of dealing with only one vendor and getting Pure Storage top-tier support. FlashArray reduced the footprintof the configuration by 91%, and this dramatic reduction in hardware resulted in power, cooling, and floorspacecosts that were 87% lower.
Finally, ESG modeled the expected costs of storage administration over three years. Pure Storage FlashArray
Unified Block and File Platform provided operational savings by removing many of the limitations and inefficiencies
built into traditional storage systems and by reducing the complexity of managing both block and file storage. Ourmodels estimated that Pure Storage could lower the cost of administration by 62%, freeing existing storage
administrators to work on other projects and initiatives. The results of this analysis are shown in Figure 4.

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Figure 4. ESG Traditional versus FlashArray Modeled Cost of Storage Administration to Support
Block and File Workloads

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, a division of TechTarget, Inc.

These savings are provided over the lifetime of the array and are derived from the benefits outlined in the earlier
sections of this report. Putting all of this together, ESG’s models predict that consolidating block and file workloads
on Pure Storage FlashArray can lower the expected three-year total cost of storage ownership by 58%. The resultsof this analysis are shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5. ESG’s Traditional versus FlashArray Modeled Three-Year Total Cost of Storage
Ownership

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, a division of TechTarget, Inc.

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Issues to Consider
While models by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) are built in good faith upon conservative, credible, and validated
assumptions, no single modeled scenario will ever represent every potential environment or engagement. ESG
recommends that you perform your own analysis of your unified file and block storage requirements and consult
with your Pure Storage representative to understand and discuss the options and potential possibilities through yourown proof-of-concept testing.

Conclusion
As organizations modernize their data centers to improve business agility, deliver hybrid cloud operations, andoptimize cost, the timing is right for organizations to reassess their siloed storage environments supporting legacy
block and file workloads. Traditional storage arrays were designed to optimally handle either block or file workloads
and later added bolt-on unified functionality to support the other. This functionality comes with a noticeable tradeoff
of increased complexity, reduced storage efficiency, limited product functionality, and slow innovation.
Pure Storage completed a public acquisition of the Compuverde software-defined file storage solution in 2019 andhas invested the extra time and effort required to build the technology as a scale-up base function into their Purity
operating system, rather than as a function that runs on top of it—i.e., it is not a file system built on LUNs and has
no gateways or virtual controllers. The result is a FlashArray unified block and file system with no compromise forworkload type (file or block) on supportability, reliability, features, or capabilities.
ESG validated that file systems could be created simply and easily on a single, global storage pool shared withblock services. Pure Storage file services enjoy the same benefits that FlashArray delivers for block storage: It issimple to manage from a single point of management, supports automation and orchestration through CLI and
APIs, and provides a reduced footprint, with continuous innovation, flexible financing options, and top-tier support.
Our models predict that Pure Storage FlashArray’s Unified Block and File Platform can lower administrativecomplexity by 62% and provide a three-year storage total cost of ownership that is 58% lower than the cost ofcontinuing to run block and file workloads on siloed legacy block and file storage arrays.
More than 300 customers are now running unified block and file workloads simultaneously on FlashArray, confident
that they can scale capabilities whenever needed, with no overhead or compromise.They also benefit from amanagement experience that is more closely tied to the type of data being stored than the type of storage being
used. If your organization is looking to consolidate your traditional block and file workloads to a single cost-effective
platform that delivers improved performance, operational simplicity, leading storage efficiency and support, andcontinuous innovation, ESG suggests that you consider Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform.

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