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RUN YOUR ENTERPRISE MIXED WORKLOADS ON THE PURE DATA-CENTRIC ARCHITECTURE The top 10 reasons to simplify, modernize, and

optimize enterprise IT and business operations

with Pure Storage solutions

ONE SIZE DOESN’T FIT ALL.

If your enterprise is like most, you’re running a mix of workloads — including Microsoft®, Oracle®,

and SAP® tier-1 applications and some tier-2 applications. You’re probably juggling containers,

virtualization, and some form of private, hybrid, or public cloud. You also know that mission-

critical business applications are sensitive to storage performance and latency, and they require

a resilient enterprise IT environment.

Mixed workloads can require different architectures, which can:

• Create complexity and administrative headaches

• Drive up costs

• Slow performance

• Create security and compliance risks

You’re also all too aware that managing the complexity of different architectures can stand

between you and modernizing your enterprise and achieving digital transformation.

ONE SOLUTION DOES FIT ALL.

What if you could run tier-1 applications, tier-2 applications, containers, virtualization, and

different clouds on a single architecture?

You can, with the Pure Storage Data Cloud. And when you do, you can consolidate your

enterprise onto a single, efficient all-flash data cloud that empowers you to simplify, modernize,

and optimize your IT and business operations.

The Pure Data-Centric Architecture:

• Empowers you to easily consolidate, is cost-effective, and is simple to deploy and manage

• Supports your need to do real-time analysis for rapid decision making

• Is reliable, and offers predictable and unprecedented performance and security

• Is smart and self-driving, and works with your multi-workload, multi-cloud reality

• Includes Pure Storage FlashArray products with six-nines availability to meet the needs

of your always-on enterprise1

// HERE ARE JUST 10 OF THE REASONS WHY YOU WANT THE PURE DATA CENTRIC ARCHITECTURE.

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SAP® APPLICATIONS

ORACLE® APPLICATIONS

MICROSOFT® APPLICATIONS

THE TOP 10 REASONS TO THE PURE DATA-CENTRIC ARCHITECTURE FOR ENTERPRISE MIXED WORKLOADS

Effortless

1. SIMPLICITY Access an easy, simple way to run consolidated workloads

2. FUTURE-READY Modernize workloads and realize always-on scalable capacity

Efficient

3. REAL-TIME PERFORMANCE Gain unprecedented performance for real-time insights

and rapid decision-making

4. CLOUD-BASED MANAGEMENT Manage your arrays from anywhere or let Pure Storage

predictive monitoring watch them for you

5. MULTI-CLOUD CAPABLE Easily access protection, agility, and innovation for

hybrid cloud management

6. RESILIENCE Keep workloads running with greater than 99.9999% FlashArray

availability and non-disruptive everything1

7. DATA REDUCTION Increase efficiency and reduce costs with industry-leading

data reduction

Evergreen

8. ROI AND COSTS Realize higher return on investment (ROI) and lower costs

Even More

9. COLLABORATION Benefit from partnerships that result in solutions optimized

for your environment

10. CREDIBILITY Benefit from a solution used by thousands of satisfied

customers worldwide

// CLICK ANY REASON TO FIND OUT MORE.

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SIMPLICITY FUTURE-READY REAL-TIME PERFORMANCE

CLOUD-BASED MANAGEMENT

MULTI-CLOUD CAPABLE

RESILIENCE DATA REDUCTION ROI AND COSTS COLLABORATION CREDIBILITY

1. SIMPLICITY ACCESS AN EASY, SIMPLE WAY TO RUN CONSOLIDATED WORKLOADS

Single-Solution Simplicity

The Pure Data-Centric Architecture empowers you to consolidate tier-1 and tier-2 applications,

databases, big data, analytics, development, test, quality assurance (QA), production, and

virtualization workloads. Run Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and other workloads on a single data

architecture. And eliminate the need to run and manage mission-critical workloads in silos on

separate architectures.

Quick and Simple to Deploy

A business card–sized getting-started guide speaks to how quick and simple it is to deploy the

all-flash Pure Storage solutions. You can be set up and optimized in half the time it takes to set

up other storage solutions. No workload-specific tuning or setup is needed.

Data Management in a Snap

Whatever mix of workloads you run, Pure Storage keeps things simple with tools that help

automate mundane tasks. For all environments, the Pure Data-Centric Architecture supports

automated backup and recovery for low recovery-time objectives (RTOs) and recovery-point

objectives (RPOs) without added investment in or installation of more tools.

Integrations and Tools for Simple Management

• The Pure Storage Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for SAP automates up to 75% of SAP

copy functionality with no setup or configuration required and reduces the time and cost

required for SAP system copy, clone, and refresh tasks by 80–90%.3

• The Pure Storage CAT for Oracle lets admins create database copies and clones easily

and nearly instantaneously from a command-line interface (CLI) or directly from within

Oracle Enterprise Manager.

• The Pure Storage Oracle Enterprise Manager Plug-in lets admins provision storage from

within Oracle Enterprise Manager.

• The Pure Storage PowerShell™ SDK enables automation and simple management for

Microsoft solutions.

• Pure Storage solutions include integration with the Microsoft Offloaded Data Transfer

(ODX) API for completing fast, transparent, and automatic data copy and move services for

files and virtual machines (VMs) onto Pure Storage solutions.

• Pure Storage regularly releases a variety of value-added integrations for

Microsoft solutions.

• A set of pre-built connectors, open interfaces, and automation script toolkits makes it

simple to integrate the open and extensible Pure Data-Centric Architecture with your

data-center management framework.

0FAST TO DEPLOY be up and running in 30 minutes2 ZERO TUNING or workload-specific setup required “WE HAD THE PURE ARRAY UP AND RUNNING, AND OUR VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE MIGRATED ONTO IT,

IN ABOUT TWO HOURS.”

— David Woolley, Senior Director, Network Operations, San Francisco Giants

PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT TESTING QUALITY ASSURANCE

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SIMPLICITY FUTURE-READY REAL-TIME PERFORMANCE

CLOUD-BASED MANAGEMENT

MULTI-CLOUD CAPABLE

RESILIENCE DATA REDUCTION ROI AND COSTS COLLABORATION CREDIBILITY

2. FUTURE-READY MODERNIZE WORKLOADS AND REALIZE ALWAYS-ON SCALABLE CAPACITY

Easily Scale Capacity as Your Data Volumes Grow

The Pure Data-Centric Architecture offers elastic scale with on-demand capacity and

performance. Scale from 55 TB to more than 3 PBs of effective capacity with the Pure Storage

FlashArray family or petabytes with the Pure Storage FlashBlade™ solution simply by adding a

blade — and all without migrating anything.4

Run one or multiple applications and go from managing operational data to implementing a

data warehouse to doing advanced analytics or an all-flash architecture — all on the Pure Data-

Centric Architecture — without forklift upgrades, new hardware, or disruptions of any kind.

Discover Infrastructure That’s Ready for the Future

The Pure Storage Evergreen™ Storage model gives you the power to scale and upgrade as

needed. It lets you deploy once and upgrade hardware, software, and flash density whenever

you need for no added cost. You can mix and match components online without disrupting

performance, so you can keep storage dense, efficient, and modern. Even if the future is only

six months away, the Evergreen Storage model includes the Right-Size Guarantee, which

guarantees you have effective capacity, risk-free, and in writing, for six months.6

Instant Access to New Features

The Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade REST APIs make it possible to use new features

the minute they’re available and deployed — with no new hardware or configuration required.

You just choose whether you want to use the new feature or not. The APIs require no

middleware and no gateways, and they are always on. Any tool or piece of software that can

invoke the REST APIs can automate and orchestrate FlashArray or FlashBlade activity.

100% NVM Express® (NVMe™) Performance Now

Industry analysts forecast that NVMe will be the leading interface protocol for flash by 2019.

And the Pure Storage FlashArray//X family offers 100% native NVMe performance for data

storage needs right now.

Ready If Your Future Is in Containers

Pure Storage supports the Docker® container ecosystem using a volume plug-in certified