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Pure Storage Named Leader in IDC MarketScape

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Pure Storage was named a Leader in the inaugural IDC MarketScape: Worldwide All-Flash Array 2015-2016 Vendor Assessment.

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Pure Storage, the market's leading independent solid-state array vendor, today announced it was named a Leader in the inaugural IDC MarketScape: Worldwide All-Flash Array 2015-2016 Vendor Assessment. IDC MarketScape is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the characteristics that explain vendor success in the marketplace. For this report, IDC evaluated seven vendors in the all-flash array (AFA) market segment by analyzing current capabilities, as well as longer-term strategies that impact ability to provide solutions and gain market share. According to the IDC MarketScape, "there are certain design decisions and/or characteristics that differentiate vendors, particularly in the areas of system architecture (scale-up, scale-out, or some combination of the two), media packaging (custom flash modules [CFMs] or solid state disks [SSDs]), multitenancy, support for replicated configurations, and the ability to integrate well into existing datacenter environments." In the report, Pure Storage is recognized as a Leader, noted as "one of the earlier entrants in the AFA space and the first vendor to realize and capitalize on the importance of inline data reduction." Furthermore, Pure Storage is recognized for its "comprehensive ability to cost effectively and nondisruptively perform in-place upgrades across technology generations" while "maintaining an unprecedentedly high...

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Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide All-Flash Array 2015-2016 Vendor Assessment

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