New FlashArray and FlashBlade Innovations Tackle the World’s Most Demanding Workloads
Pure Storage, a leader in advanced data storage technology, has announced a major expansion of its next-generation storage portfolio, purpose-built to meet the growing demands of high-performance workloads across industries.
The new offerings — FlashArray//XL™ R5, FlashArray//ST™, and FlashBlade//S™ R2 — deliver unmatched performance, scalability, and simplicity. These innovations are designed to help organizations manage exponential data growth while reducing complexity and accelerating time-to-insight.
FlashArray//XL R5 doubles IOPS per rack unit and increases raw capacity by 50%, enabling customers to consolidate diverse workloads. FlashArray//ST is optimized for ultra-low latency, delivering over 10 million IOPS in just five rack units — ideal for in-memory databases and large-scale OLTP systems. FlashBlade//S R2 enhances performance by up to 30% across AI, genomics, and EDA workloads.
“We’re enabling customers to unlock performance at any scale and meet the future with confidence.”
John Colgrove, Founder and Chief Visionary at Pure Storage.
In a significant architectural leap, Pure Storage now offers native object support on FlashArray, unifying block, file, and object storage on a single platform. This simplifies data management and ensures consistent performance across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
“Pure Storage delivers the magic by rejecting the norms that have long held back storage infrastructure,” said John Colgrove, Founder and Chief Visionary at Pure Storage. “We’re enabling customers to unlock performance at any scale and meet the future with confidence.”
With these advancements, Pure Storage continues to redefine enterprise storage — delivering a cloud-like experience, energy efficiency, and the flexibility to support any workload, anywhere.
