Sponsor: Pure Storage

This IDC Research white paper discusses the state of enterprise storage with respect to the evolving cloud storage market, explains why flash storage is needed in these environments, and then discusses what Pure Storage brings to the table in this area. It also features an excellent case study with Cornerstone OnDemand, a cloud-based learning and talent management solutions provider.

Smart storage solutions, such as all-flash systems, provide companies with cloud-like productivity, efficiency, and economics.

READ THE BOOK AND LEARN:

• How to contain your storage costs
• Attain storage simplicity and manageability
• Ways to achieve scalability and agility
• Reasons you need all-flash storage

Purchasers of enterprise storage have historically dealt with an upgrade cycle that was expensive, disruptive, inherently risky, and time consuming and occurred roughly every three to five years. In 2015, Pure Storage challenged customer preconceptions about the enterprise storage upgrade cycle with the announcement of its Evergreen Storage. And in 2016, the company further enhanced Evergreen Storage with new features that have increased its already extremely high customer experience performance. This IDC white paper assesses the impact Evergreen Storage has had on the enterprise storage industry and discusses the technical, financial, and business implications of the program from a customer point of view.

"As the IT industry enters the cloud era, where hybrid IT is the dominant deployment model in organizations of all sizes, the capabilities of primary all flash arrays (AFAs) will need to evolve to handle cloud scale and agility.

Download this Technology Spotlight by IDC to learn:

• How is the primary flash array market evolving
• What will next generation flash-driven enterprise storage architectures look like
• How Pure Storage, with its FlashArray//X, plays in this market

Read the new Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study* to find out how investing in Pure Storage all-flash arrays more than pays for itself, just in cost savings alone. Your industry peers realized real-world savings over traditional storage by implementing, maintaining, and upgrading their Pure Storage arrays with controller upgrade programs such as Free Every Three and Upgrade Flex. The TEI study also cites that the industry-leading Evergreen Storage Subscriptions business model provide significant capital and operational cost savings.

*An April 2017 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Pure Storage.

IDC MarketScape Names Pure Storage a Leader in the 2017 MarketScape on All-Flash Arrays

Streamline your vendor assessment with the 2017 IDC MarketScape on All-Flash Arrays.

You will learn:

• Flash storage future outlook
• IDC’s independent assessment of All-Flash Array providers
• Why Pure Storage was named a leader (HINT: putting customers first)

CIOs and other leading IT decision makers are striving to deliver cloud economics and agility from their on-premises infrastructures. Using all-flash storage is a key step in building a modern cloud data center. This white paper will guide you through the steps required to make this journey successfully. It discusses the benefits of all-flash storage and workloads that benefit the most from both flash and cloud services. Readers will learn which workloads to target first, how to achieve greater consolidation, and how to automate their all-flash cloud.

Even if you haven't deployed flash in your infrastructure yet, chances are, in the next year it's likely to happen. To help you get started, we developed a comprehensive, vendor-neutral Flash Storage Buyer's Guide. The purpose of this guide is to provide a basis for evaluating and selecting the best flash storage solution for your business.

This buyer’s guide covers:

• What you need to know about flash memory
• The different classes of all-flash storage
• Buying criteria for all-flash storage
• How all-flash can simplify storage operations

Tech pros seek insights and share unvarnished opinions in independent forums all over the web. That’s where this Real Stories project & research started. This report is drawn entirely from Pure Storage Real Users’ words, observations and experiences. All Stories are used with permission.

Applications owners can now deploy nearly cost-free real-world Oracle database test & QA database environments for their developers by deploying applications on the Pure Storage FlashArray. This prevents problems from entering production environments and unleashes sustainable business agility.

Unlock the true potential of your Oracle database and applications with an all-flash storage infrastructure. Learn how flash can not only accelerate database performance, but also simplify database operations and administration, while reducing overall cost of Oracle environments by 30%.

More data has been produced in the last 10 years than all previous decades combined. This increase in data volumes has introduced an entirely new set of challenges for DBAs around performance and availability. To better understand these challenges we carried out a survey of IT decision makers in companies with employees of 500 or more. Check out the results of this survey to see what challenges you share.

Are your business owners experimenting with NoSQL databases? Learn what use cases are changing the landscape for enterprise-class database systems as they transform from classic OLTP to Operational DBMS. This report is written by Gartner Distinguished Analyst and VP Donald Fienberg and Research VP Merv Adrian.

Data (and database management systems, like Oracle) have never been more critical for competitive advantage. All modern IT initiatives – cloud, real time analytics, internet of things – intrinsically need to leverage more data, more quickly. All-flash storage is a next generation infrastructure technology that has the potential to unlock a new level of employee productivity and accelerate your business by reducing the amount of time spent waiting for databases and applications.