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Pure Storage

Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage company, enables the broad deployment of flash in the data center. When compared to traditional disk-centric arrays, Pure Storage all-flash enterprise arrays are 10x faster and 10x more space and power efficient at a price point that is less than performance disk per gigabyte stored. The Pure Storage FlashArray is ideal for high performance workloads, including server virtualization, desktop virtualization (VDI), database (OLTP, real-time analytics) and cloud computing. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.

see also:- Pure Storage's blog

  • editor's comments:- August 2011 - Pure Storage - which operates in the fast-enough and bulk enterprise storage SSD market - recently emerged from stealth mode and announced it had received $30 million in series C funding bringing its total capital funding up to $55 million.

    The company markets an FC SAN compatible SSD storage array which superficially looks like a classic RAID system with removable MLC drives. However, the company says that its architecture has been designed from the ground up - with the aim of delivering usable storage capacity at price points below that of enterprise HDD storage - while also being capable of offering moderately high performance IOPS and throughput.

    The product does that by combining elements such as inline dedupe and compression - which is similar to what the market has already seen from earlier rackmount SSD vendors such as WhipTail Technologies and Nimbus Data Systems.

    Pure Storage 's FlashArray is assembled from a series of 2U storage racks and controllers which provide a raw uncompressed MLC SSD storage density of just under 3TB per U - which is 3x lower than vanilla FC SAN MLC SSDs such as the RamSan-810 from Texas Memory Systems. Pure Storage 's array delivers about 6x lower IOPS per rack unit too.

    So you may ask - where's the market?

    At 50K IOPS / u - it's more than fast enough to outrun traditional hard disk arrays. And with a 10x virtual capacity reduction - Pure Storage clains its SSD arrays will cost less than HDD arrays - offering 25TB of compressed storage per U and at much lower power consumption too.
selected Pure Storage milestones - from SSD Market History.

In August 2011 - Pure Storage unveiled its first SSD product (an FC SAN compatible bulk storage SSD) and announced it had received $30 million in series C funding bringing its total capital funding up to $55 million.

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Pure Storage says what you can do with those HDD arrays
Editor:- May 16, 2012 - Pure Storage today published a new video on YouTube which pokes fun at the idea of hanging onto hard drive arrays and suggests what you can do with them.

The 142 second video packs a lot of humor into its tour of why their way of doing dedupe with flash is cheaper and better. And it includes animals too.

The company also unveiled a new generation of fast-enough (100K write IOPS) HA/FT SSD arrays today - with upto 100TB compressed capacity - which are clustered around InfiniBand.
see the SSD video I'm not great fan of SSD videos - because they mostly waste time - but this one will be added to my favorites list later today - because it's amusing and speaks for the SSD industry. ...watch the video
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this way to the Petabyte SSD
In 2016 there will be just 7 types of SSD in the datacenter.

One of them doesn't exist yet - the bulk storage SSD.

It will replace the last remaining strongholds of hard drives in the datacenter due to its unique combination of characteristics, low running costs and operational advantages.
click to read the article -  reaching for the petabyte SSD - not as scary as you may think ... The new model of the datacenter - how we get from here to there - and the technical problems which will need to be solved - are just some of the ideas explored in this visionary article.
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