{"id":613508,"date":"2023-03-02T08:49:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T14:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/pure-storage-aims-flashblade-e-at-unstructured-data-capacity\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T08:49:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T14:49:37","slug":"pure-storage-aims-flashblade-e-at-unstructured-data-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/pure-storage-aims-flashblade-e-at-unstructured-data-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Storage aims FlashBlade\/\/E at unstructured data capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/visuals\/ComputerWeekly\/Hero Images\/technology-digital-network-adobe_searchsitetablet_520X173.jpg\" data-credit=\"sdecoret - stock.adobe.com\"  width=\"520\" height=\"173\" alt><\/p>\n<p>sdecoret &#8211; stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"content-header\">\n<h2>But not the ones that need super high performance. FlashBlade\/\/E will target use cases that need large amounts of QLC flash without the most-demands for rapid access<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content-center\">\n<ul>\n<li><i data-icon=\"1\"><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i data-icon=\"2\"><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"contributors-block\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/rms\/computerweekly\/adshead_antony2018.jpg\" alt=\"Antony Adshead\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/contributor\/Antony-Adshead\">Antony Adshead,<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Storage Editor<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tPublished: <span>28 Feb 2023 21:05<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"content-body\">\n<p>Pure Storage has launched FlashBlade\/\/E, which will provide capacity-focussed QLC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/resources\/Flash-storage-and-solid-state-drives-SSDs\">flash-based storage<\/a> aimed at unstructured data use cases where performance is less important. In this, it complements the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/252521119\/Pure-FlashBlade-S-and-Evergreen-Flex-boost-as-a-service-push\">FlashBlade\/\/S<\/a> family, which brings higher levels of performance alongside capacity.<\/p>\n<p>FlashBlade\/\/E starts with 4PB of capacity in two chassis and will scale to about 20PB. It does so via a maximum of 10 chassis, comprised of control and expansion shelves plus Pure\u2019s own XFM switching modules.<\/p>\n<p>The essence of the product resides in the proportion of processing power to storage capacity on Pure\u2019s DirectFlash modules. These are its proprietary flash drives, which are 48TB each. Very large flash drives \u2013 up to 100TB or so \u2013 are available generally, but are less common and very expensive.<\/p>\n<p>So, Pure\u2019s own modules provide capacity well in excess of widely available flash capacities, and in the case of FlashBlade\/\/E, they come with less processing power per module than on FlashBlade\/\/S, where the S500 provides high performance and the S200 balances performance and capacity to a greater extent.<\/p>\n<p>Pure makes some bold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/feature\/Green-storage-Savings-to-be-made-but-tricky-to-achieve\">energy-saving<\/a> claims for the FlashBlade\/\/E, and all against a backdrop in which it expects current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/feature\/Unstructured-data-and-the-storage-it-needs\">unstructured data needs<\/a> to balloon in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/feature\/What-you-need-to-know-about-QLC\">QLC flash<\/a> stores four bits of data per cell, giving 16 binary states via 16 different voltage levels, with possible extra wear managed in software. This\u00a0should result in lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Read-centric workloads rely on vast arrays of HDDs to deliver results; QLC drives can achieve this with fewer drives and therefore lower cost.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rajiev Rajavasireddy, Pure\u2019s vice-president of product management, FlashBlade\/\/E will provide high-capacity storage for unstructured data at 20c per GB. Use cases targeted will be unstructured content data stores, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/feature\/Data-lake-storage-Cloud-vs-on-premise-data-lakes\">data lakes<\/a>, imaging repositories and data protection.<\/p>\n<p>He said customers would likely separate the performance-sensitive and cost-sensitive parts of datasets and use different FlashBlade products accordingly. \u201c\/\/E is for less-frequent access than \/\/S, so not targeted at performance,\u201d said Rajavasireddy.<\/p>\n<p>The background, he said, is that, \u201cunstructured data in organisations is expected to grow by 10 times by 2030 \u2013 with the current infrastructure that\u2019s not sustainable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Spinning] disk is not improving at a rate that data is growing, and it\u2019s a heavy consumer of space, energy and resources,\u201d said Rajavasireddy. \u201cWhat we aim to provide is green all-flash at the price of disk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He claimed 40% lower TCO for FlashBlade\/\/E compared with competitors\u2019 disk and flash hybrid arrays in similar file access-focused markets.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the company\u2019s own 48TB DFM flash modules, Rajavasireddy added: \u201cThis gives us an economic advantage. True innovation is only possible if you innovate in hardware and software together. The heart of storage is all-flash, and that\u2019s where we put R&#038;D dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said it\u2019s not that SSD suppliers don\u2019t make high-capacity flash \u2013 they do, but it lacks economic viability to some extent because enterprise flash is a small part of what they do. Meanwhile, Pure puts its own NAND on its DFM modules.<\/p>\n<p>Rajavasireddy also said we can expect to see 100TB flash modules \u201cvery soon\u201d, or, more precisely, at Pure\u2019s Accelerate event in June.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"DigDeeperSplash\">\n<h4>\n\t\t\t<i data-icon=\"m\"><\/i>Read more on Cloud storage<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"DigDeeperItem-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/feature\/Unstructured-data-and-the-storage-it-needs\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/visuals\/ComputerWeekly\/Hero Images\/IT-networking-broadband_searchsitetablet_520X173.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/visuals\/ComputerWeekly\/Hero%20Images\/IT-networking-broadband_searchsitetablet_520X173.jpg 960w,https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/visuals\/ComputerWeekly\/Hero%20Images\/IT-networking-broadband.jpg 1280w\" alt ><\/p>\n<h5>Unstructured data and the storage it needs<\/h5>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/rms\/computerweekly\/adshead_antony2018.jpg\" alt=\"AntonyAdshead\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span>By: <span>Antony\u00a0Adshead<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"DigDeeperItem-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/252521119\/Pure-FlashBlade-S-and-Evergreen-Flex-boost-as-a-service-push\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/rms\/onlineimages\/cloud_g1223481405_searchsitetablet_520X173.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/rms\/onlineimages\/cloud_g1223481405_searchsitetablet_520X173.jpg 960w,https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/rms\/onlineimages\/cloud_g1223481405.jpg 1280w\" alt ><\/p>\n<h5>Pure FlashBlade\/\/S and Evergreen\/\/Flex boost as-a-service push<\/h5>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/rms\/computerweekly\/adshead_antony2018.jpg\" alt=\"AntonyAdshead\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span>By: <span>Antony\u00a0Adshead<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"DigDeeperItem-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/252508405\/Vast-boosts-QLC-flash-offer-with-ransomware-proof-snapshots\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/visuals\/searchAWS\/infrastructure\/aws_article_008_searchsitetablet_520X173.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/visuals\/searchAWS\/infrastructure\/aws_article_008_searchsitetablet_520X173.jpg 960w,https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/visuals\/searchAWS\/infrastructure\/aws_article_008.jpg 1280w\" alt ><\/p>\n<h5>Vast boosts QLC flash offer with ransomware-proof snapshots<\/h5>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/rms\/computerweekly\/adshead_antony2018.jpg\" alt=\"AntonyAdshead\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span>By: <span>Antony\u00a0Adshead<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"DigDeeperItem-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/252503587\/Manutan-claws-back-25-of-storage-admin-time-in-switch-to-Pure\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/visuals\/LeMagIT\/hero_article\/hero-Manutan_searchsitetablet_520X173.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/visuals\/LeMagIT\/hero_article\/hero-Manutan_searchsitetablet_520X173.jpg 960w,https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/visuals\/LeMagIT\/hero_article\/hero-Manutan.jpg 1280w\" alt ><\/p>\n<h5>Manutan claws back 25% of storage admin time in switch to Pure<\/h5>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/visuals\/LeMagIT\/hero_article\/Yann-Serra.jpg\" alt=\"YannSerra\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span>By: <span>Yann\u00a0Serra<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/365531936\/Pure-aims-FlashBlade-E-at-unstructured-data-workloads\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Lyndia Noren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sdecoret &#8211; stock.adobe.com But not the ones that need super high performance. FlashBlade\/\/E will target use cases that need large amounts of QLC flash without the most-demands for rapid access By Antony Adshead, Storage Editor Published: 28 Feb 2023 21:05 Pure Storage has launched FlashBlade\/\/E, which will provide capacity-focussed QLC flash-based storage aimed at unstructured<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109277,23212,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-613508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-flashblade","8":"category-storage","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}