March 2026 Innovations

Every enterprise is juggling the same set of pressures right now—scale AI faster, harden security posture, and squeeze more value from infrastructure that’s already in production. This month’s Everpure//Launch innovations tackle those challenges head‑on. We’re introducing a storage-as‑a‑service model built specifically for AI workloads, delivering three‑site resilience on FlashArray™, unlocking massive new capacity on FlashBlade®, and giving VMware and security teams the visibility they’ve been asking for in Pure1®. If you’re trying to move faster without adding complexity, these updates are for you.

AI‑ready storage, from first experiment to factory scale

Evergreen//One for AI: Unblock your AI factory

AI projects often stall between the excitement of a pilot and the reality of production. Hardware sizing, budget cycles, and uncertainty about long‑term needs can all slow momentum just when you’re trying to scale.

Evergreen//One™ for AI is designed to remove that friction. It delivers SLA‑backed, as‑a‑service storage tuned for GPU‑intensive workloads, with capacity‑based pricing so you pay only for what you use. And now, with Evergreen//One extending to FlashBlade//EXA™, you can be sure even the most demanding AI workloads at massive scale are covered. You can start where you are, skip painful sizing debates, and scale smoothly as projects mature. You’re future‑proofed as AI moves from experiment to factory.

FlashBlade AI performance: Max out GPU utilization

Even the best GPUs underperform when storage can’t keep up. FlashBlade is built to avoid that trap.

Across MLPerf, SPECstorage, and IO500, FlashBlade//EXA and FlashBlade//S™ have delivered multi‑million IOPS, top total scores, and up to 2X the performance of the nearest competitor, translating into more completed AI jobs and #1 benchmark results. For AI teams, that means higher GPU utilization, shorter training cycles, and more predictable performance across the entire pipeline, from ingest to inference. Read the blog to learn more.

Everpure Data Stream: Automate the path to AI‑ready data

Ask any AI team where their time goes, and you’ll hear the same thing: data readiness. Wrangling sources, building RAG pipelines, and stitching together scripts consumes energy that could be spent shipping models.

Everpure Data Stream tackles that problem. It provides an API‑driven, programmable control plane for AI data pipelines, coordinating ingestion, transformation, and delivery from FlashBlade to GPU clusters. With built-in support for RAG orchestration, semantic search, and LLM integration—plus tight alignment with NVIDIA NVAIE and NIMS—you can define workflows once and reuse them across use cases. Instead of 80% of your time going into bespoke data plumbing, you get a repeatable, production‑grade path from raw data to AI‑ready data sets. Sign up for the Beta.

Multi-site replication, NVMe performance, and stronger access controls with the latest Purity//FA release

With this upcoming Purity//FA 6.10.5 release, customers get a tighter combination of performance, protection, and access control across their FlashArray estate: 

• Three‑site resilience capability: By combining ActiveCluster™ with near‑synchronous ActiveDR™, the platform now delivers a three‑site resilience capability that can help meet compliance expectations. You get zero‑RPO protection between two primary sites with ActiveCluster, replicating to a third site with ActiveDR. It’s engineered to deliver sub‑30‑second RPO and sub‑minute RTO—all orchestrated from the Everpure Fusion™ intelligent control plane instead of custom runbooks.
• Support for FlashArray//ST™ R5 is here as part of the FlashArray family. It’s optimized to deliver consistent ultra low‑latency performance for OLTP, in‑memory, and real‑time workloads. Take advantage of extreme performance while maintaining consistent enterprise-grade data services. 
• Support for NVMe/TCP with VMware 9.x and ActiveCluster: The most demanding VMware workloads don’t have to choose between performance and resilience. ActiveCluster provides zero-RPO protection, automatic failover, and active-active access for stretched datastores across NVMe/TCP. 
• Everpure Fusion now supports SAML 2.0 SSO, giving you a faster, simpler, and secure authentication experience across the Everpure Platform. Replace legacy local/LDAP logins with MFA‑backed SSO and IP‑based controls that harden your perimeter without adding operational friction while accessing FlashArray, FlashBlade, and Everpure Fusion fleets.

Update to Purity//FlashArray 6.10.5 to leverage these latest innovations.

Scalable throughput, proactive patching, and multi‑tenant control on FlashBlade

On the FlashBlade side, the latest Purity//FB release focuses on unlocking more performance headroom while tightening security and access control for modern file and object workloads. 

• Expanded 4x100G FIOM‑to‑XFM connectivity on FlashBlade//S500 R2 lets customers light up additional uplink ports—up to all eight ports per FIOM—so the network is less likely to be the bottleneck as AI and HPC workloads scale, whether you’re starting with a single chassis or evolving into a multi‑chassis architecture via non‑disruptive upgrades. 
• Proactive Purity patching for FlashBlade brings on‑array visibility into relevant security advisories and high‑impact fixes and then walks teams through targeted remediation instead of forcing full software upgrades. Connected environments can apply patches through Pure1 optimizations, while dark‑site teams use a diagnostic bundle and a single command to list and apply the right fixes.
• FlashBlade local users and groups add native user and group management for SMB and NFS, including mixed‑protocol access, so admins can combine array‑local identities with directory users to enforce clearer multi‑tenancy boundaries or run in standalone mode when AD, LDAP, or NIS aren’t available. 
• With replication parity for multi‑tenant realms, customers can apply asynchronous, near‑sync, and synchronous pod‑based replication inside secure realms—allowing each tenant to meet cyber resilience and disaster recovery requirements, and even delegate ActiveDR testing to application owners, without giving up the simplicity of a shared FlashBlade infrastructure.

To get these innovations and more, update to the latest Purity//FB version 4.6.8 today.

Close the Loop on Ransomware with Everpure, Pure1, and Veeam

Ransomware recoveries often stall not because you lack backups, but because you’re not sure which ones you can trust. The new Everpure + Pure1 + Veeam anomaly awareness workflow brings together backup anomaly signals, storage context, and repeatable workflows in one place so teams can spot suspicious patterns faster, understand which datasets and restore points may be at risk, and move quickly to clean recovery options. Instead of stitching together logs and consoles under pressure, you get a guided, end-to-end path from “something looks wrong” to “we’ve restored safely and are back online,” turning a chaotic response into a more predictable, auditable process.

New visibility for VMware and security teams with Pure1

Troubleshoot VMs faster with Pure1 VM Analytics

VM troubleshooting rarely breaks because of a lack of data—it breaks because the right data is scattered across tools, time windows, and teams. Pure1 VM Analytics pulls more of that context into a single view so you can get to the root cause faster.

With per-VM collector views, a new collector dropdown, and 30 days of historical metrics, you can follow a problem back in time instead of guessing when a performance blip started. IAM‑scoped access and vCenter‑to‑collector mapping keep visibility aligned with how your VMware estate is owned, not just how arrays happen to be configured. And with Copilot‑powered VM‑level guidance, Pure1 helps you understand what to investigate next before an issue turns into an outage.

The result is less swivel‑chair work across tools, fewer blind spots between teams, and a faster path from “something looks off” to “we know exactly where to fix it.” Try it now.

Address storage CVEs in one place with Pure1 Security Assessment

When a new CVE drops, the clock starts. The hard part is answering a simple question: Where are we actually exposed?

Pure1 Security Assessment now surfaces common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) across both FlashArray and FlashBlade in a single view. You can see which systems are affected, gauge overall risk, and prioritize remediation from one place instead of hopping between consoles or spreadsheets. For security and storage teams, that shared, up‑to‑date view shrinks the gap between discovery and action, turning CVE response from a fire drill into a repeatable process. Try it now.

Turn infrastructure into outcomes with Everpure Professional Services

Get more from what you already have

Organizations have poured budget into data platforms, only to find that day‑to‑day reality doesn’t always match the slideware. Utilization is uneven, performance is spiky, and critical workloads don’t consistently get the experience they were promised.

The Data Platform Optimization (DPO) Service pairs expert analysis of your workloads, architecture, and operations with a consultative engagement grounded in how your environment actually runs. By examining utilization, growth trends, and operational practices, DPO surfaces targeted ways to improve performance, reduce risk, and increase cost‑effectiveness, delivering a roadmap tied to business outcomes—not just infrastructure metrics.

Talk to your Pure Representative for more information.

Turn Everpure Fusion into your control plane faster

Everpure Fusion gives you a single, intelligent control plane for your Everpure environment, but unlocking its full value takes more than a basic install.

The Everpure Fusion Implementation Service guides your team through design, deployment, and enablement so Everpure Fusion is tuned to your requirements, integrated into your ecosystem, and ready for resilient, automated scale from day one. The service accelerates time to value, reduces misconfiguration risk, and drives operational readiness, aligning Everpure Fusion with goals like self‑service provisioning, multi‑site orchestration, or DevOps enablement—so your control plane is built around outcomes, not infrastructure.

These March releases all point in the same direction: removing the friction between where your infrastructure is today and where your business needs it to go. Whether you’re operationalizing AI at factory scale, strengthening cyber resilience across your fleet, or getting more from the Everpure Platform you already run, we’re making it easier to get there—without rip and replace, without added complexity, and without slowing down.

Explore the full details on our Everpure//Launch Innovations page, and reach out to your account team to see how these capabilities fit your environment.