Comparison

STORViX AiRE and Everpure Data

Everpure Data is the company formerly known as Pure Storage, which shed that identity in February 2026 as the centrepiece of a shift from storage vendor to what it calls an Enterprise Data Cloud. If you evaluated Pure Storage previously, this is the same platform lineage — Purity, Fusion, Pure1 and the Evergreen subscription — under a new name and a broader ambition that now includes an intent to acquire the data discovery and security posture management vendor 1touch. Pure built its reputation on being the simplest enterprise array to operate, and that reputation is deserved. The comparison below is mostly about cost shape and data residency rather than about capability.

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Everpure Data was previously Pure Storage

If you evaluated Pure Storage previously, this is the same platform lineage under a new name. The rebrand took effect in February 2026.

Side by side

Eleven criteria, stated not scored.

Each row states what each platform does. Where a statement is not backed by published material it carries a validation marker — 1 of the 11 statements about Everpure Data on this page do.

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STORViX AiRE compared with Everpure Data across eleven criteria.
Criterion	STORViX AiRE	Everpure Data
Workload fitThe breadth of workloads the platform is designed to serve from a single system, and whether unlike workloads can hold different settings.	Block and file served from the same unit, with an unlimited number of data sets across pools, each carrying its own profile, block size, encryption and reduction settings. Source: STORViX published specification	All-flash block, file and object under the Purity operating environment, with the portfolio repositioning toward integrated data management under the Enterprise Data Cloud strategy. Source: Everpure public statements, February 2026
Deployment flexibilityWhether the same platform runs on-premises, as a service, in public cloud and at the edge, and whether the operating model is the same in each.	Four models on one platform: owned appliance, Storage as a Service from European data centre partners, virtual instances in public or private cloud, and edge. Source: STORViX published specification	On-premises arrays, Pure Cloud Block Store in public cloud, and Evergreen//One as a consumption service. Source: Everpure public product documentation
Hybrid cloud fitHow data and policy move between environments, and how much of the operating model is preserved across that boundary.	The same profiles, policies and fleet management apply to physical and virtual instances alike. Block-level incremental replication moves only snapshot deltas between them. Source: STORViX published specification	Fusion provides discovery and management of storage resources across the fleet; Pure1 provides cloud-based fleet monitoring and predictive analytics. Source: Everpure public product documentation
AI readinessSupport for the access patterns of AI and analytics pipelines: throughput tiers, metadata handling, dataset branching and capacity efficiency for cold corpora.	Accelerated All-Flash disk packs use a flash tier for I/O path metadata; instant space-free clones support dataset branching; cold corpora can sit on hybrid tiers with maximum compression in the same unit. No published throughput benchmark. Source: STORViX published specification	The February 2026 rebrand is explicitly positioned around AI at scale, including a stated intent to acquire 1touch for data discovery and security posture management. Source: SDxCentral, Computer Weekly and Forbes reporting, February 2026
Operational complexityThe administrative effort per usable terabyte: how much tuning, capacity planning and incident handling the platform expects a human to perform.	AutoPILOT performs optimisation and administration autonomously and escalates what it cannot resolve; CloudSight raises alerts from telemetry; profiles and policies replace manual per-parameter tuning. Source: STORViX published specification	Operational simplicity is the platform's central and long-standing design commitment, supported by Pure1 fleet analytics. Source: Everpure public product documentation
ScalabilityHow capacity and performance grow, whether growth requires downtime, and the practical ceiling of a single system.	4U base unit at 32–501 TiB net, growing in 4U disk expansion units to 1.5 PiB at 12U and up to 20 PiB per cabinet. Expansion is non-disruptive. Scale-up within a unit rather than scale-out across nodes. Source: STORViX published specification	Scale-up and scale-out across the FlashArray and FlashBlade families, with non-disruptive controller upgrades under Evergreen. Source: Everpure public product documentation
Data protection and cyber resilienceSnapshot immutability, replication mechanism, integrity verification, and whether recovery survives an attacker holding administrative credentials.	Copy-on-write immutable snapshots, end-to-end checksums to the root node with self-repair, RAID-Z and mirror topologies, and one-way replication into Vault. Source: STORViX published specification	SafeMode snapshots provide protection against deletion, alongside replication and the platform's ransomware recovery services. Source: Everpure public product documentation
Compliance and sovereignty alignmentGranularity of encryption and access control, and the ability to state precisely where data sits and under whose jurisdiction the supplier falls.	Encryption and access privileges applied per data set. Swedish company; Vault replicas in named EU countries under a zero-knowledge privacy policy. STORViX states AiRE is engineered to exceed NIS2 standards. Source: STORViX published specification	Standard enterprise encryption and compliance tooling. US-headquartered, in Santa Clara, California. Source: Everpure corporate information
TCO modelHow cost accrues over the service life: hardware lifecycle assumptions, licensing structure, and what drives the bill as the estate grows.	7–10 year hardware lifecycle rather than a three-year refresh, in-line deduplication and compression per data set, up to 20 PiB per cabinet, and FlexiPay consumption pricing informed by CloudSight capacity forecasting. Source: STORViX published specification	Evergreen is a subscription model including non-disruptive hardware refresh, which is a genuinely different commercial proposition from a periodic capital refresh. The cost base is all-flash throughout. Source: Everpure public product documentation
Time to valueEffort from decision to production: installation, tuning, skills required, and whether the platform needs specialist staff to run well.	Hardware configuration is consulted on before purchase; profiles and policies ship with best-practice defaults; CoPILOT Connect gives STORViX a remote channel to assist from day one. Source: STORViX published specification	Widely regarded as among the fastest to deploy and simplest to operate in the enterprise array market. Requires validation
Partner friendlinessHow the platform reaches customers through the channel: deal protection, margin structure, and the support burden a partner carries.	Sells through distribution and solution partners across EMEA, with deal registration carrying a recorded protection window and tier pricing visible in the partner portal. Source: STORViX published specification	An established global channel programme with deal registration. Source: Everpure public product documentation

The honest version

When each is the better choice.

Presented with equal weight, because a buyer who has already spoken to the other vendor will notice if it is not.

When STORViX is the better fit

A large share of your capacity is cold. Tiered disk packs — hybrid, accelerated hybrid, all-flash and accelerated all-flash — let the archive sit on a cost base an all-flash platform does not offer.
Supplier jurisdiction matters. STORViX AB is Swedish; Everpure is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
You want configuration at the data set rather than the array, so archive and production data can carry genuinely different settings on one system.
A 7–10 year hardware lifecycle on owned equipment fits your funding model better than a continuing subscription.
You want an off-site archive under one supplier's terms in named EU countries, rather than assembling that separately.

When Everpure Data is the better fit

Operational simplicity is your single highest priority. Pure built the category reputation for this and Everpure has not abandoned it — for a team without a storage specialist, that is a strong argument.
Evergreen genuinely solves the refresh problem for you. Non-disruptive controller upgrades inside a subscription is a real answer to hardware ageing, and for some organisations it is a better answer than a long lifecycle on owned kit.
Your workload is uniformly hot. If very little of your data is cold, the tiering advantage largely disappears and an all-flash platform's simplicity wins.
You want the Enterprise Data Cloud direction specifically — data discovery, classification and security posture management integrated with storage is a genuinely different product ambition, and STORViX does not compete with it.
You are already invested in Pure1 fleet analytics and the surrounding operational tooling.
You need US-based support coverage and account presence at a scale a European vendor does not match.

By use case

Which platform for which job.

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Use case	Guidance
All-flash transactional workloads	Both are credible. Everpure has the longer track record and the larger installed base; STORViX has a published sub-millisecond customer result on an accelerated all-flash configuration.
Mixed hot and cold estates	This is where the architectures diverge most. Tiered disk packs in one AiRE unit versus an all-flash cost base throughout.
Refresh avoidance	Two different answers to the same problem: Evergreen refreshes the hardware within a subscription; STORViX extends the hardware's service life to 7–10 years. Which is better depends entirely on how your organisation funds infrastructure.
Data classification and governance	Everpure's stated direction, including the 1touch acquisition intent, addresses this directly. STORViX does not, and this page will not pretend otherwise.

Total cost of ownership

Assumptions, stated before conclusions.

No TCO figure appears here. What appears instead is what would have to be true for a comparison to mean anything.

The comparison turns on the ratio of hot to cold data. Model your actual capacity split before comparing headline prices; an all-flash platform and a tiered one are not comparable on price per terabyte alone.
Evergreen is an operational subscription; owned AiRE hardware is capital with a support subscription. These land in different budget lines and different approval processes, which is often as decisive as the number.
STORViX publishes customer-reported compression factors of 2× and 3×. Everpure publishes its own data reduction figures. Reduction ratios are workload-dependent and vendor figures are not measured identically — treat both as indicative.
Neither company's published pricing is used in this comparison, because neither publishes list pricing that would make such a comparison meaningful.

Assumptions stated, figures withheld

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