Pure Storage unveils future-proofed FlashBlade//S

The announcement of the FlashBlade//S family of products at Pure//Accelerate techfest22 was one of the highlights of the opening keynote at the event. Pure Storage, the provider of advanced data storage technology and services, said the new platform has a modular architecture built on uniquely co-designed hardware and software. 

Other feature standouts include a nearly-unlimited scalable metadata architecture, offering more than double the density, performance, and power efficiency of previous versions, as well as the ability to evolve over time in line with customer requirements. 

In 2017, Pure Storage rolled out FlashBlade as a unified fast file and object platform – the first high performance storage solution for modern data. Pure also architected its software and created DirectFlash technology to anticipate the future need for flash across a wide spectrum of workloads.

With this announcement, Pure is introducing a modular architecture that disaggregates compute from capacity. Storage, compute, and networking elements for FlashBlade//S can be upgraded flexibly and non-disruptively, delivering a highly configurable and customisable file and object platform to address modern workloads. High levels of performance and capacity optimisation are delivered with Pure's proprietary all-quad-level-cell (QLC) architecture, without the need for expensive caching solutions.

According to IDC, disaggregation of storage platforms provides more flexibility in creating highly efficient IT infrastructures. It not only enables administrators to assemble the right balance of IT resources for a given workload to minimise costs, but also allows them to perform upgrades on different resources independently, as needed. 

FlashBlade//S feature highlights include:

Future-proofing

Positioned as a 'forever' architecture, FlashBlade//S leverages the full power of Pure Storage's Evergreen subscription-based services, to give flexibility and non-disruptive upgrades. Evergreen - which has just been expanded - is designed so that customers never have to worry about their storage platform becoming obsolete or disruptive data migrations again.  

Sustainability 

The new FlashBlade//S family delivers better performance on key metrics such as capacity per watt, bandwidth per watt, and capacity per rack-unit, resulting in a smaller data centre footprint overall. These are the reasons why Meta chose Pure to power its AI Research SuperCluster (RSC).

Performance at scale, plus simplicity and efficiency of unstructured data

The new FlashBlade//S family, through closely engineered hardware and Purity//FB 4.0 software, pushes the boundaries of performance, scale, and efficiency. FlashBlade//S will also accelerate the pace of innovation and help bring denser and more power-efficient technologies to market faster. This enables customers to achieve simplicity, exabyte-level scale, and the multidimensional performance required for consolidation of key unstructured data workloads.

"The architectural differentiation of FlashBlade//S is a result of better science driving innovation in both software and hardware. It enables exceptional performance, efficiency, and scalability, providing customers with flexibility and confidence in their long term unstructured data strategy. It is not only the last scale-out platform organisations will ever need, but also the right choice for meeting environmental and sustainability ambitions, which are increasingly important to customers," said Matt Burr, GM, FlashBlade, Pure Storage.

"To better accommodate the evolving nature of unstructured data workloads, organisations need a modern storage platform that legacy designs simply cannot match. The new disaggregated architecture and deeply co-engineered software and hardware makes FlashBlade//S a highly attractive choice for customers looking for a high performance, scalable platform that also provides environmental efficiencies," added Patrick Moorhead, Founder, Moor Insights and Strategy.

As part of the launch, Pure also announced the next generation of AIRI//S, the industry's first comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI)-ready infrastructure powered by NVIDIA. This Pure and NVIDIA solution incorporates the FlashBlade //S and further enhances FlashBlade's use cases across AI, machine learning, and modern analytics.

General availability of FlashBlade//S products will start in Q2FY23.

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