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administrative overheads. This frees up time
for the team to concentrate on supporting
the wider business.
Pure Evergreen Storage model
delivers seamless upgrades and long-
term cost savings
“An ongoing challenge for us is that our
infrastructure is constantly evolving. With
our previous storage we were becoming
more reactive than proactive, but Pure
Storage has allowed us to turn this around,”
said Smith.
The Pure Evergreen Storage model has
played a major role in helping the directorate
address its growing storage needs and was
one of the main reasons that ARE chose Pure
Storage. Smith explained that with many
vendors, customers are encouraged to buy
a brand new solution every time licensing
expires. If they don’t, the cost of upkeep and
support can be high.
Being able to update its arrays, rather
than buying a new piece of kit, has meant
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MODEL HAS PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN
HELPING THE DIRECTORATE ADDRESS
ITS GROWING STORAGE NEEDS AND
WAS ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS THAT
ARE CHOSE PURE STORAGE.
that ARE can upgrade its storage capacity
as needed without the same associated
cost. All upgrades are made without any
downtime, performance impact or data
migrations, and forklift upgrades have
been eliminated.
“Many vendors promise no downtime, but it
is very rare when that is delivered. Through
the Evergreen model, we upgraded our
FA405 to the M20 and were told there would
be no outage,” explained Smith.
While Smith and some of his colleagues were
sceptical that the upgrade process would
require no downtime at all, in the end it was
absolutely seamless.
This has given the team complete
confidence in the arrays and the ability for
Pure Storage to meet the directorate’s future
storage needs.
“Pure Storage really does deliver on
everything it says it will,” concluded Smith. n
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