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How Does the Embodied Carbon Dioxide Equivalent of Flash Compare to HDDs?

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Getting to an Updated Embodied Carbon Dioxide Equivalent Baseline One University of Wisconsin study compared COTS HDDs and SSDs manufactured in 2017, comparing the embodied carbon dioxide per terabyte (CO2 e /TB) during manufacturing of a 1TB consumer-grade HDD and a 1TB consumer-grade SSD. that of the comparable HDD.

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Pure Storage Is Once Again A Leader in the Distributed File and Object Storage Market

Pure Storage

.” – System Storage Administrator, IT Services Industry The Next Generations of FlashBlade Since its General Availability in 2017, FlashBlade has set out to redefine the scale-out file and object storage industry.

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5 Questions to Ask Before Choosing Storage as-a-Service

Pure Storage

A recent Gartner reports reveals that by 2025, more than 70% of corporate, enterprise-grade storage capacity will be deployed as consumption-based offerings—up from less than 40% in 2021. . Consumed capacity. SLAs are the legal agreements we make with our customers on measurable metrics like uptime, capacity, and performance.

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The Storage Architecture Spectrum: Why “Shared-nothing” Means Nothing

Pure Storage

While each blade in the system is a node containing compute power and storage capacity, the overall system contains a multitude of logical partitions , each of which has access and ownership to a specific partition of flash and NVRAM on every storage device. Today, we support 30 petabytes, which is a 250-fold increase.

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Double trouble: When climate change and cyber crime collide

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In 2017, during Hurricane Harvey, which caused catastrophic flooding in Houston and surrounding areas, again, multiple cyberattacks emerged , including phishing campaigns, fraudulent donation websites, and fake charities. Businesses must ensure that they have the infrastructure, plans, and operational capacity to manage polycrisis events.

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QLC: Yes, It’s Real and People Want It

Pure Storage

451 Research was “not surprised that Pure Storage is leading the charge into the new form of flash while most of its incumbent rivals are holding back,” underscoring our commitment to delivering high-capacity flash arrays while redefining traditional enterprise storage with QLC. QLC’s Benefits Extend Beyond Price and Capacity.

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Escaping the SSD Trap: Enter Pure Storage’s DirectFlash Modules (Part 2 of 2)

Pure Storage

Our capacity utilization at the device level is higher (we’re achieving better than 82% in customer production environments today and expect to increase that to the mid to high 80s by the end of this year). Our AFAs today have the highest TB/watt metrics,¹ and we guarantee that our systems are the most energy efficient in the industry.

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