Insight announcements Insight Launches Storage-as-a-Service Solution in Partnership With Pure Storage
By Stephen Moss / 30 Apr 2025
Data is the lifeblood of an organization, informing decision-making, improving customer experience, and ultimately creating competitive advantage and greater profitability if managed properly.
Yet, with the amount of data stored expected to expand significantly over the next few years, managing scalability and accessibility while maintaining performance and cost efficiency poses significant challenges. Storage as a Service (STaaS) can simplify matters by offering centralized, scalable, and secure storage, while automating data policies and ensuring compliance. It also enhances data access, sharing, and collaboration, optimizing usage and costs.
That’s why Insight, in partnership with Pure Storage, has launched a new Insight Storage as a Service – Pure Evergreen//One solution. Insight’s white-glove approach to managing modern infrastructure seamlessly combines with Pure Storage’s market-leading storage technology, relieving IT teams of the operational burden of managing hardware and performance.
"Insight's unique Solutions Integrator model has made them an ideal partner for Pure," said Paul Ferraro, Pure Storage, VP of global Evergreen services portfolio sales. “During 4+ years of strong collaboration, it became clear that we could offer an exceptional client experience. Insight's vision, as an early adopter for Pure's Evergreen//One offering, has propelled delivery of this more robust and comprehensive solution. I expect an enthusiastic market response, as we overdeliver on client expectations.”
Insight STaaS provides comprehensive management, proactive monitoring, flexibility, and around-the-clock support through Insight OneCall technical support services. This seamless and efficient solution helps give businesses a competitive edge through:
- Scalability that accommodates their expanding data storage needs as they grow
- Consumption-based pricing that optimizes costs, affording them more flexibility
- End-to-end service management allowing IT to focus on higher-value tasks instead
- 24/7 technical support to accelerate issue resolution, including patch management and firmware update coordination
Consider this global legal and compliance tech solutions provider that needed to migrate 500TB of data from an unwieldy and costly software storage solution. They faced significant challenges, including slow data access, high latency, and limited scalability in their existing storage infrastructure. Insight deployed a Pure Storage STaaS solution, offering high-performance, scalable storage with advanced data management capabilities. This resulted in faster data access, reduced latency, improved operational efficiency, and the ability to seamlessly scale their storage infrastructure to accommodate future data growth.
How Insight STaaS Works
Leveraging the full benefits of a Solutions Integrator, Insight STaaS offers clients a comprehensive option for end-to-end management across the entire storage lifecycle. Alternatively, a simpler base option provides only billing and invoice support for Pure Evergreen//One.
In the fully managed state, Insight first assesses your specific needs by scoping out your environment and the service tier that is the best match.
With Insight STaaS – Pure Evergreen//One, clients choose from 10 levels across four service types: block and file, file and object, unified data repository, and AI data readiness for workloads like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), machine learning, and computer vision. We then develop a strategic roadmap tailored to the client’s needs, deploy the STaaS solution, and onboard staff through interactive knowledge-transfer sessions.
By partnering with a Solutions Integrator, organizations gain a single IT partner capable of designing a comprehensive strategy that unifies diverse technologies, ensures scalable and right-fit solutions, and unlocks new opportunities for growth. We can architect, build, and optimize all aspects of a modern technology platform across data centers, cloud, edge, and networking.
Better Together with Insight and Pure Storage
Insight has over 25 years of experience in storage while consistently providing clients with innovative solutions that generate increased business value. However, the trust our clients place in us extends to Pure Storage, Insight’s 2024 Modern Infrastructure Partner of the Year.
“The synergy between Pure Storage’s cutting-edge technology and Insight's deep market reach and services expertise is truly powerful,” said Prashant Singh, Insight vice president of partner alliances and product management. “Our new Insight Storage as a Service – Pure Evergreen//One offering, delivered through this strong partnership, empowers our clients with the flexibility, scalability, and operational efficiency needed to reduce their technical debt and focus on innovation.”
Insight leverages both our proprietary OneCall data and Pure Storage’s Pure One platform to provide real-time analytics and proactive management of your IT environment. This practical approach helps identify potential issues before they become critical, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
By working with Insight directly for every aspect of support, assistance is simplified through a single point of contact. Clients also gain access to additional Anything-as-a-Service solutions spanning cloud and software licensing, hardware and endpoint lifecycle services, IT assessments and consulting.
Ultimately, your data — and everything else — is in good hands with Insight Storage as a Service – Pure Evergreen//One. The fully scalable STaaS solution allows you to expand at your own pace while cost-effectively storing, accessing, and leveraging your data to become more agile in response to fluctuating market conditions. As Gartner states, “STaaS reduces administration and support cost benefits through automation, intelligent infrastructure and AIOps capabilities, leaving more budget for innovation and other priorities.”
Talk to a specialist today to learn more about Insight Storage as a Service – Pure Evergreen//One by visiting insight.com or contacting us at 1.800.INSIGHT.
Stephen Moss
Sr. Vice President, Managed Services, Insight
Stephen Moss leads Insight’s managed services portfolio, helping clients simplify IT management and support through Insight Intelligent Technology Solutions™. He brings more than 30 years of experience spanning hands-on engineering, sales and executive leadership, and technical management.
