Evergreen™ Storage Advantage Building on our significant emissions savings, Pure’s Evergreen Storage Architecture extends sustainability further by allowing us to continually improve technology and seamlessly deliver new software and hardware components when customers need to upgrade or expand their storage needs—and we Evergreen Storage deliver this through our Evergreen Subscription service. Subscription to Innovation Simply put, Evergreen leverages Pure’s modular, upgradeable architecture and brings many of the benefits of the cloud A More Complete Approach to As-a-Service Models operating model to an on-premises storage purchase. 97% Business Optimization Evergreen delivers two key environmental benefits to our customers: of Pure arrays • Continuous Innovation purchased • Non-disruptive upgrades (NDU) 1. Reduction of wasted energy: Through Evergreen non-disruptive six years ago are • Flat and Fair Evergreen Pricing 1 upgrades, customers can upgrade in-place vs. the months-to-years-long still in service process typically required to perform a migration, during which time both • Reduced Carbon Footprint the old and new arrays are running and consuming energy. • Array and Workload Optimization 2. Reduction of e-waste: Continual upgrade of array components also • Predictive and Proactive Support eliminates the industry’s traditional method of upgrading storage by 1 Based on the Company’s internal data. replacing (and junking) existing whole systems. The longer lifespan of Pure’s DirectFlash Modules- which are proprietary to Pure- coupled with our Evergreen Subscription of continuous upgrades, significantly reduces e-waste.
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