Pure Storage Accelerate 2025 Announcements

I am just going to leave these here for now, and I will expand on them later as I am able to ask some questions and gather more information.

  • FlashArray //XL R5
    • 50% performance gain over previous //XL model
  • FlashBlade //S R2
    • Newer blade CPUs = faster performance (more details to come)
  • FlashBlade //ST
    • Perfect for ultra latency-sensitive workloads (For example, in-memory databases or NOSQL databases)
  • Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC)
    • Cloud functionality on-prem? Unify flash arrays into a single storage “pool” and consume PBs storage without the overhead of managing each array separately.
  • FlashArray adds Object functionality
    • True unified approach once and for all now supporting Block, SMB, NFS and Object workloads within the same array