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FlashBlade is an elastic scale-out system that delivers all-flash performance to multi-petabyte-scale data sets at economics of less than $1/GB usable. Together, Pure Storage FlashBlade and the Pure Storage FlashArray form a complete platform for organisations to build their all-flash cloud.

All-flash storage solutions have already transformed the structured data powering databases, applications and VMs. But unstructured data, both larger and growing faster, is poised for a similar transformation. While the "big data" revolution has shown organisations the potential value dormant in their large pools of unstructured data, traditional unstructured data solutions - legacy NAS filers and scale-out NAS - have remained slow at scale.

These legacy systems are challenged in several dimensions by demands for data to be both big and fast. First and foremost, they were architected for disk - a fundamentally slow media. Second, they have limited metadata scale, which constrains performance even when retrofitted with flash. Finally, their scaling approach typically involves partitioning data to nodes, leading to data silos that cause performance bottlenecks and management frustration. FlashBlade addresses these shortcomings with a three-fold value proposition - big, fast and simple.

"IDC believes that the all-flash data centre for primary storage is quickly becoming a reality, but newer storage architectures designed to deliver better cost efficiency at scale are needed for flash to be more broadly used in secondary storage environments," said Eric Burgener, Research Director Storage, IDC. "With the FlashBlade announcement, Pure now has an integrated portfolio of all-flash offerings that support block, file and/or object access and cost-effectively cover both primary and secondary storage environments."
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