Pure as-a-Service™ Pure as-a-Service™ extends on the Evergreen architecture and subscription to deliver storage to customers as capacity and performance service- level agreements (SLAs) in a much more flexible, optimized and efficient manner. In addition to the benefits of Pure’s Evergreen subscription model, Pure as-a-Service enables organizations to: 1. Reduce the energy and waste of underutilized equipment: By flexing up and down only as capacity is needed and right-sizing the equipment necessary to meet each particular SLA, Pure as-a-Service can reduce underutilization. Pure as-a-Service allows us to serve customers with only the resources they need, and to expand as their consumption grows. 2. Reuse, modernize and redeploy equipment, further extending service lifetimes: In some cases, Pure +50% modernizes and repurposes previously used 28,000 Greater controller resource equipment, extending the effective service lifetime LBS consumption rate for of a physical piece of equipment, generating significant By consolidating storage Pure-as-a-Service arrays waste reduction. (onto fewer larger media) into compared to traditional existing racks and/or swapping new purchasing models within controllers into the same physical the first year of service. chassis, an estimated 28,000 lbs of e-waste on average per year is saved
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