THIS MUCH FINANCIALADVANTAGE SHOULDN’TBE POSSIBLE.BUT IT FEELS AMAZING

4 STEPS TO ACCELERATE DIGITALISATION WHILE INVERTING IT SPEND. WHY YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL

Every IT leader across financial services – from insurance to banking, pensions to wealth management – is asking one question:

Q: “How can I help my organisation win in the digital economy – and do so with less IT complexity, less cost and minimal risk?”

A: Deploy Pure Storage AFAs to serve up data to every application – the disruptive to the mission critical

The ability to process massive data sets at speed is a critical determinant of your success.

“Pure Storage has turned storage on its head.”Dave Comben, Head of IT Infrastructure Services, Investec.

Competitive advantage depends on the speed of your front-end apps, which are totally reliant on storage performance.

STOP:Don’t add capacity todatabases or workloads –this hikes up costs and adds management complexity.

STEP 1:

DRIVE STORAGE PERFORMANCE WITHOUT RACKING UP COSTS

The way your storage works – from software updates to upgrade implementations – must happen quickly with zero impact on live environments.

CONSIDER:Are maintenance activities in your Flash technology designed to benon-disruptive?

Pure Storage FlashProtect delivers more than 99.9999% availability with no loss of performance. Everythingis designed to be non-disruptive.

STEP 2:

ENSURE ROCK SOLID RESILIENCE IS DESIGNED FROM THE GROUND UP

STEP 3:

REPLACE PRICE WITH VALUE IN YOUR BUSINESS BENEFIT CALCULATIONS

WITH THESE CREDENTIALS WHY WOULDN’TYOU ENGAGE PURE STORAGE?

How does this e�cient performance help IT leaders?By allowing CIOs to meet their top three strategic goals:1. Improve customer experience 48%1

2. Increase operational e�ciency 41%3. Transform existing business processes 38%

Deploy market defining e�ciency1. Consolidate everything on 10x less storage2. No compromise data services3. Fully automatable open platform

Pure Storage is e�ortlessly resilient1. Always on, always fast, always secure2. Self-managing and plug-n-play3. Cloud-connected

Pure Storage is Evergreen – a�ordable, continuous innovation1. Buy once, upgrade forever2. Harness rapid software & flash innovation3. All-inclusive subscription model4. Vital savings

THE TIME HAS COME TO HAVE IT ALL• By giving All-flash storage a strategic position as the driver

of disruptive innovation• You will transform application performance and costs into

increased business value• Create a high performance, highly resilient, highly a�ordable

foundation on which to succeed in the digital economy

Learn what we can do for you…

Building your data centre exclusively on All-Flash not only delivers against your strategic ambitions, but it can do so at less cost.

QUESTION: Is the cost of your storage vendor’s innovation stacked in your favour?

The Pure Storage perpetual upgrade programme, Evergreen™, guarantees your e�ective capacity with flash media that consolidates and modernises as you grow.

1 CIO.com, State of CIO, January 2016.2 ‘Pure Storage is the #1 Recommended Technology Vendor Earning a Satmetrix-Certified NPS of 79’, Pure Storage, 2015

(https://www.purestorage.com/company/news-and-events/press-archives/NPSrelease.html).3 ‘Gartner Names Pure Storage a Leader in Solid-State Arrays 3 Years in a Row’, Pure Storage, 2016

(https://www.purestorage.com/microsites/gartner-mq-2016.html).4 ‘Pure Storage Named a Leader in Inaugural All-Flash Array IDC MarketScape’, Pure Storage, 2016

(https://www.purestorage.com/company/news-and-events/press/idc_marketscape_press_release.html).

STEP 4:

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL-FLASH STORAGE FOR HYBRID CLOUD

We’ve partnered with Microsoft Azure to providea hybrid cloud solution for workloads requiring high-performance smart storage and cloudburst compute.

ASK YOURSELF:Is our storage infrastructure allowingus to take full advantage of cloud while keeping our data private?

Our on-demand Microsoft Azure cloud compute, with All-Flash smart storage gives you:

1. The flexibility and cost e�ciencyof cloud

2. Fully encrypted, totally private data with a secure cloud connection

3. Smart storage that’s e�ortless to manage, always high performance and evergreen so that you’re always primed to innovate

1,950+ customers worldwide in just four years.

IT PIONEERS DRIVE VALUEAND INVERT IT SPEND »Get in touch at 01784 614069 or pdh@purestorage.com

One of the world’s best-regarded high-tech brands, with net promoter score (NPS) of 83 – compared with the industry average of 16 and Apple iPhone’s high ranking of 63.2

Named by IDC as a Leader in its MarketScape: Worldwide All-Flash Array 2015-2016 Vendor Assessment.4

Named by Gartner in 2016 as a Leader in Solid State Arrays for three years in a row, with the most complete vision.3

© 2017 Pure Storage, Inc.