A recent Ask Us Everything (AUE) session on Pure Storage Evergreen//One™ was a lively, deeply technical conversation—and exactly the kind of dialogue that makes the Pure Community special. Storage admins, architects, and IT leaders showed up with thoughtful, practical questions, and Pure experts Abe Barnes (VP, Subscription Portfolio) and Santiago “Tago” Navone (Director of Product Management, Evergreen//One) delivered candid, experience-driven answers.
Below are some of the biggest takeaways, organized around the questions you asked and the insights that followed.
• Evergreen//One isn’t just about costs—it’s about operating like a cloud
One of the strongest themes came from attendees asking how Evergreen//One really behaves day to day. The takeaway: Evergreen//One is designed to feel like a private storage cloud in your data center.
Admins still control volumes, snapshots, replication, QoS, SafeMode, upgrades, and security. What changes is what you no longer have to worry about: hardware limits, disruptive upgrades, capacity forecasting, and performance headroom. Those become Pure Storage’s responsibility—backed by true Service Level Agreements (SLAs), that guarantee performance, uptime, and much, much more.
• “Effective data” simplifies capacity planning (and billing)
Several attendees asked how capacity is measured, especially with data reduction and buffers involved. The answer resonated: Evergreen//One measures only the data you actually store, not how much raw capacity or flash is deployed underneath.
Just like public cloud storage, a terabyte is a terabyte. Data reduction, buffer capacity, and infrastructure planning are handled by Pure Storage so admins can focus on growth and workloads—not guesswork.
• Buffer capacity is how Evergreen//One avoids limits
Questions about buffer capacity opened up an important operational insight. Evergreen//One always deploys more capacity and performance than you’re consuming, and Pure Storage actively monitors growth trends to expand before you ever hit a limit.
That’s how Evergreen//One delivers the “it just works” experience—capacity and performance scale non-disruptively, without emergency purchases or late-night migrations.
• New workloads? You don’t need to guess about new hardware
A popular scenario: What happens when a brand-new workload shows up mid-contract—especially AI ones?
The answer was clear and reassuring. Evergreen//One subscriptions can evolve over time, adding new service tiers (including AI-focused ones) without forklift upgrades or stranded investments. FlashArray, FlashBlade, AI workloads, performance-heavy applications—it’s all covered under a single, adaptable subscription.
For frontline admins, this means answering questions from leadership with confidence: “Yes, we can handle that.”
• Cyber Recovery SLA stole the show
One of the most-discussed topics was the Cyber Recovery SLA add-on, and for good reason.
If ransomware or another disaster renders your primary storage unusable, Pure Storage can ship clean replacement arrays next business day, help restore your data from SafeMode snapshots, and get you operational in days—not weeks or months. Pure Storage absorbs the cost and complexity, even reclaiming the original hardware later.
Attendees quickly recognized this as more than a technical feature—it’s a career-saving safety net and a powerful risk-reduction story to take back to leadership.
• Snapshot unpredictability? Solved.
Snapshot sizing sparked knowing laughs—and then genuine excitement. Evergreen//One now offers snapshot retention add-ons that cover snapshot capacity entirely, up to defined retention windows (14 days, 90 days, or even a year).
No more “guesstimating” change rates. No more surprise space consumption. You get predictable operations and predictable costs.
• Hybrid cloud is built in, not bolted on
Questions about extending Evergreen//One into the public cloud highlighted another key insight: data mobility is fundamental to the model.
Data can move seamlessly between on-prem Evergreen//One and Pure Storage Cloud environments, with usage metered consistently across locations. Whether workloads shift temporarily or permanently, the subscription adapts—without changing how you pay, since Pure Storage Cloud is part of the unified Evergreen//One subscription.
Keep the conversation going
This Ask Us Everything proved once again that the best insights come from real-world questions and open dialogue. If you want to continue to dive deeper—join the discussion on the Pure Community thread.
You’ll find Pure experts and peers continuing the conversation, plus links to past Ask Us Everything events covering other Pure Storage platform topics.
Have a question you didn’t get to ask live? The community is always open—and the experts are listening.
