Pure storage has launched an all flash blade system, along with flash array, which is aimed at capturing big data workloads and expanding the company among small and mid-sized businesses.
ZDNet informs us that the company has launched FlashBlade and FlashArray in an attempt to seize "multi-petabyte-scale data sets." This launch is huge, as EMC are moving to all-flash systems and noting that traditional disk storage systems are most likely to be relegated to archiving in the future.
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Matt Kixmoeller, vice president of marketing and product management at Pure, said that the company’s system at first was used to crunch structured data; however, it is being increasingly used for unstructured information. He goes on to say, "Unstructured data expands our categories” and adds that the latest system is designed to scale to 15 FlashBlades in a rack. He also informs users that Pure can get costs down to less than $1/GB usable storage.
The FlashBlade will combine power to process data, along with metadata,and has 8TB and 52TB capacities. Pure's Elasticity software runs the FlashBlade, and it can easily handle numerous protocols which are used in big data.
Pure launched a new system in its FlashArray/m family of products, which is designed to court smaller business. The FlashArray//m10 will start at less than $50,000 with support for a full year.
The company has also launched a system which is known as FlashStack Mini, which is converged and designed to start at less than $100,000. Pure's FlashStack is preintegrated with Cisco's UCS servers along with virtualization tools from VMware and Microsoft.
The m10 and FlashStrack Mini will be accessible in June. FlashBlade is open for early access release with universal availability in the second half. Pure has shipped alpha systems to co-development customers.
