Products and Subscription Services We generate the majority of our revenues from our Cloud Data Infrastructure products and our Cloud Data Services and Cloud Data Management subscriptions which primarily include our Evergreen Storage subscription, Pure as-a-Service (PaaS), and Cloud Block Store. Products Our Cloud Data Infrastructure consists of deeply-integrated storage hardware and software solutions that enable cloud providers, enterprises, and governments to operate their global data infrastructure in the cloud. These solutions were built to be optimized for solid-state memory instead of the historical spinning hard drive media and achieve superior levels of performance and simplicity by deeply co-designing hardware, software, and cloud connectivity to create fully-integrated storage appliances. Our Cloud Data Infrastructure products include FlashArray and FlashBlade integrated appliances, which incorporate our proprietary Purity Operating Environment (Purity OE) software, as described below. Purity Operating Environment Software The heart of our data platform is our proprietary Purity OE software that implements enterprise-class storage services such as data reduction, encryption and data protection, as well as protocol services such as block, file and object. Variants of Purity OE have been optimized for both our FlashArray and FlashBlade platforms. Our Purity OE software delivers the most granular and complete data reduction, which powers industry-leading total efficiency across a wide range of use cases and data types. Our software implements strong data-at-rest encryption of all data and is designed to maintain performance through failures. It also enables our arrays to be easily upgraded without scheduled downtime, setting new expectations for storage resilience. With our DirectFlash architecture, recent versions of Purity OE have been optimized to speak directly to raw NAND Flash, enabling us to overcome the inefficiencies of prior commodity SSD architectures. FlashArray FlashArray is our solution for running block-oriented storage, typically deployed for database, application, and virtual machine workloads. FlashArray was the industry’s first all-flash array and has helped drive the industry-wide transition from disk to flash. FlashArray is available in two varieties, FlashArray//X (//X), optimized for the highest performance Tier1 workloads, leveraging 3D TLC flash and Storage Class Memory (SCM), and FlashArray//C (//C), for capacity Tier2 workloads, optimized for the adoption of lower-cost QLC flash memory. These products both run the Purity//FA software, which has been fully-optimized for the unique characteristics of flash memory and offers both consistency and interoperability of data between //X and //C. FlashArray has a history of driving innovation in the all-flash array market, including in recent years, pioneering adoption of latest technologies such as NVMe, NVMe-oF, and QLC flash. FlashBlade FlashBlade is our solution for unified fast file and object storage, typically deployed for “big data'' applications such as real-time analytics, AI, log analytics, and data protection and recovery workloads. FlashBlade was the industry’s first all-flash array optimized for big data workloads and enables all-flash hardware to scale to multi-Petabyte scale deployments. FlashBlade is a scale-out system running the Purity//FB software and includes integrated software-defined networking to deliver revolutionary performance and simplicity. FlashBlade’s large scale and multiple protocols allows it to be deployed as a Data Hub, enabling customers to consolidate big data analytics, application development, webscale cloud applications, and backup and recovery workloads, delivering all-flash performance in a cost-effective manner. FlashBlade is the industry's most advanced storage for unstructured data, consolidating complex data silos to optimize infrastructure and accelerate tomorrow's discoveries and insights. 6
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