PDF《Pure Storage and Rubrik Keep TTX》

s legacy spinning-disk storage system. That helped a little, getting us past some pain points, Plemons recalled, but eventually it brought the array to its knees. So, we had to look again for other options. Having given end-users a taste of the performance gains from flash storage, a lot of people outside the IT infrastructure group were saying they wanted more solid state. Ultimately, our CIO said everything was going to solid state. To start executing on that commitment, the company purchased a high-performance array from a flash-storage start-up (later acquired by a large IT vendor), but we quickly ran into reliability issues. While the array was fast, it required a lot of care and feeding and contact with their support group. It had too much of a time-consuming impact on our day-to-day operations for us to commit to it on an enterprise scale. Finally, TTX looked in depth at Pure Storage. Everything we saw with Pure made a lot of sense, and addressed all of the issues we had with our spinning-disk system as well as the solid-state products we tried, said Plemons. We especially liked the Evergreen? Storage program, for the way it protects our investment over the long term and ensures that we benefit from upgrades to the latest technology without disrupting operations. In late 2013, TTX acquired a Pure FlashArray with the intent of running a proof-of-concept trial, but in the end, we didn'

t need to spend a lot of time evaluating Pure. According to Plemons, Once we got it up and running and saw what it could do,........