Pure Storage introduces energy efficiency guarantee for Evergreen//One as part of expanded SLA offerings

Pure Storage, a company known for providing advanced data storage technology and services, has announced that it is expanding its subscription services, including the Evergreen portfolio. They are also introducing a new service level agreement (SLA) for Evergreen//One that guarantees energy efficiency. This is the first of its kind in the enterprise storage as a service market and aligns with Pure Storage’s goal of providing customers with sustainable storage options.

Momentum Highlights:

• Evergreen//One Energy Efficiency SLA: On the heels of introducing the Pure1® Sustainability Assessment and the Energy Savings Visualizer to help customers dramatically reduce their environmental footprint, the new Evergreen//One SLA guarantees energy efficiency for organizations of any size.

• The energy efficiency SLA enables organizations to measure the maximum number of actual Watts per tebibyte (TiB).
• If the guaranteed Watts/TiB is not met, customers can request service credits and Pure Storage will execute remediation actions, including densification or consolidation, at no additional cost.

• Subscription Services Growth: As a result of increased demand from existing and new customers for its subscription offerings – including its Evergreen Portfolio (Evergreen//One, Evergreen//Forever, Evergreen//Flex), Pure Cloud Block Store, and Portworx – in the third quarter of the fiscal year 2023, Pure achieved:

• Subscription Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) of $1 billion for the first time, up 30% year-over-year.
• Subscription Services revenue of $244.8 million, up 30% year-over-year.

Industry Significance: 

Long-standing challenges for the enterprise storage market include high energy consumption, high costs, short technology refresh cycles, forklift upgrades, unscheduled downtime, and general data storage complexity.

Global enterprises, however, are on a path to embrace flexible, consumption-based operating 

models and modern services that both drive stronger value and efficiencies and contribute to the overall reduction of environmental impact over time.

A survey on the impact of IT sustainability found that the majority of program directors (86%) believe that companies will not be able to achieve their sustainability objectives without significantly decreasing the energy consumption of their technology infrastructure. However, they also acknowledged that it is difficult to manage sustainability without a consistent method of measuring progress.

Through Pure Storage’s global partner ecosystem, Evergreen//One enables customers to not only benefit from continuous innovation, financial flexibility, and operational agility but achieve new levels of energy efficiency by measuring Watts per TiB to meet long-term sustainability goals.