What is Pure as-a-Service?

Pure as-a-Service™ is a storage as-a-service (STaaS) platform that unifies on-premises and public cloud storage resources in a single data storage subscription that delivers a true hybrid cloud experience.

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Experience Flexible Consumption-based Storage

Get the industry’s most reliable storage consumption service, built on Evergreen™ architecture, to ensure your storage is always modern. Achieve financial flexibility, operational simplicity, and cloud elasticity in any location, across your business.

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Achieve Business Outcomes Faster

Pure as-a-Service delivers the agility and flexibility of public cloud storage with the security and performance of an all-flash infrastructure. Align projects with business outcomes, based on SLAs not hardware. Leverage Portworx Essentials at no cost, and get short subscription terms starting at 12 months.

Pay Only for What You Use*

No more having to buy or lease storage years in advance. With Pure as-a-Service, you’re billed on actual consumption, with minimum commitments starting at 50 TiB.

*With a minimum reserve commitment.

What You Need, When You Need It

Get the storage you need—block, file, object—to match your business requirements. Manage your subscription with one set of tools for orchestration, storage management, VM analytics, and AI predictive support.

Stay Modern without Disruption

Evergreen’s extensible architecture is the smartest way to stay modern by delivering a subscription to continuous innovation.

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FlashStack as-a-Service

FlashStack software-defined, hybrid-cloud infrastructure is now consumable as a service. Scale storage, compute and network capacity as needed from a single AI-based management interface. Pay as you go for predictable workloads.

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Pure as-a-Service Catalog

Benefit from customer-optimized performance and costs.

Services	Block
Tiers	Ultra	Premium	Performance	Capacity
Sample Use Cases	In-memory database Oracle VDI/virtualization Production database Containers	Oracle VDI/virtualization Production database Containers	Oracle VDI/virtualization Production database Containers	IoT capacity snapshots
Relative Performance¹	20x	10x	3x	1x
Minimum Commitment	50 TiB	50 TiB	50 TiB	200 TiB
Starting MSRP per GiB/month²	$0.219	$0.111	$0.077	$0.042

¹Relative Performance in Block IOPs or File/Object Throughput

²MSRP based upon host written effective capacity. Rate is for a 12-month term, 50-199 TiB Reserve Capacity (200-399 TiB for //Block Capacity). Greater discounts apply for longer terms and higher capacity.

Services	Unified Fast File and Object
Tiers	Ultra	Premium
Sample Use Cases	AI/ML Analytics EDA	Rapid Restore Code repositories S3-enabled apps
Relative Performance¹	2x	1x
Minimum Commitment	50 TiB	50 TiB
Starting MSRP per GiB / month²	$0.219	$0.111

¹Relative Performance in Block IOPs or File/Object Throughput

²MSRP based upon host written effective capacity. Rate is for a 12-month term, 50-199 TiB Reserve Capacity. Greater discounts apply for longer terms and higher capacity.

1. How does Pure as-a-Service work?

A one-year commitment to a Pure as-a-service subscription includes:

A simple subscription for your block, file, and object storage needs
Access to Pure1® management tools for managing your hybrid cloud environment from a single dashboard
100% OPEX* subscription model that allows you to pay only for what you use

At can you buy crypto on td ameritrade®, we believe data storage should be simple, seamless, and sustainable. Pure as-a-Service is a unique subscription model fine tuned to deliver a Modern Data Experience™.

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2. How much does Pure as-a-Service cost?

Pure offers a simple and transparent pricing model based on flat $/GiB rates for products and services. We routinely update a public MSRP table to help you calculate the cost of your storage subscription. The Pure as-a-Service pricing model offers improved granularity of service selections for performance and capacity depending on your storage needs.

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3. What is storage as a service?

Storage as a service (STaaS) is a data storage business model that delivers capacity and performance resources through a simple subscription. STaaS saves you money through operating expenditure (OPEX) agility. In other words, you pay only for the storage you use, when you use it.

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“Moving to an OPEX model with Pure as-a-Service™ has been game-changing. We’ve shortened our time to market and are now providing our clients with our most performant and competitive storage solution to date.”

Michael Russo

Vice President, Product Management, Options

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“We have two main trackers: our recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives. Right out of the gate, they had to be validated and attested to. We achieved that with Pure Cloud Block Store.”

Wes North

AVP, Technology Operations, Cornerstone

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