Blog Pure Storage Isn’t Just Storage. Here’s Why That’s Good.
By Insight Editor / 7 May 2025 / Topics: Modern infrastructure
A good data storage system should minimize the amount of time you spend in it — storage should just be storage.
But legacy solutions often slow your organization with complex operations, unpredictable costs, and unscalable systems — turning your storage into work. And with the amount of data created over the next few years expected to nearly triple, your org must meet your rising data needs or risk falling behind.
The business opportunity
The good news? This margin presents an opportunity for your organization to gain an edge. With the growing demand — and importance — of storage and its increasing complexity, organizations with the right solution can run ahead of their competitors.
What modern storage needs
To meet these demands, modern storage needs to be more than just storage. It needs to unify your disparate platforms into a simple solution, scale easily to meet the next innovation (look at how much data AI requires), and minimize disruptive downtime. Most importantly, it cannot break the bank.
Traditional storage vs. Storage as a Service
While running your own storage solution can be great for your org, the risks to your budget and operations are too great.
You own your system and can slowly improve it over time. But with sudden spikes in storage needs, it’s very hard to predict what your organization needs. And risking your entire CapEx for a storage solution that might need to scale up (or down) when the next edge technology comes out isn’t worth it today.
Further, managing your current hybrid solution strains your IT team. Every time you need to patch, update, or upgrade your storage, you must juggle various downtimes and forecast budgets of multiple systems.
Storage as a Service (STaaS) offers a way to navigate your unpredictable data needs while not being left holding the bag when things change. Premium solutions like Insight STaaS – Pure Storage Evergreen//One provide pay-as-you go consumption that lets you scale up and down with your needs. It offers easy navigation on a unified platform and end-to-end management, so your storage can go back to just being storage.
How Pure Storage Evergreen//One changes the game
1. A single, unified platform. Pure Storage takes your storage solution — whether it’s on-prem, cloud, or hybrid — and places it onto a single, unified platform. From there, Pure Storage proactively manages your storage infrastructure, alerts you to potential bottlenecks, and delivers efficient storage driven by AI. All while ensuring you have control.
2. Industry-leading SLAs. Expect more from Pure Storage. Whether you want zero downtime for maintenance, a 25% buffer capacity over your usage, or Pure Storage’s industry-first paid power and rack coverage, Pure Storage tells you what to expect — and delivers it.
3. Cost efficiency. To beat the unpredictable costs that traditional storage faces, Pure Storage offers a pay-as-you-go model, so your organization only pays for the data it uses. And its effortless scalability ensures your organization has the data it needs.
What Insight offers
Insight’s white glove service ensures you’re getting the right solution with the best service.
With Insight STaaS – Pure Storage Evergreen//One, Insight delivers end-to-end management across the entire lifecycle. Insight assesses your specific needs by scoping out your environment, then offers 10 levels across four service types: block and file, file and object, unified data repository, and AI data readiness. Then Insight develops a strategy to meet your needs, deploys the STaaS solution, and onboards staff through interactive training.
And with Insight’s proprietary OneCall and 24/7 technical support, your organization will always have someone to reach out to.
