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Evergreen//Forever

Simplify Your Storage Ownership, Forever

Evergreen//Forever? is a traditional storage offering with a subscription to continuous software and hardware upgrades, for an always-improving storage experience. Delivered non-disruptively and with data in place, 色控传媒 Evergreen? architecture means you can buy storage once and keep it modern, virtually forever.

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Subscribe to Innovation with Evergreen//Forever

Purchase a 色控传媒 FlashArray? or FlashBlade//S? system with an Evergreen//Forever subscription to experience ever-improving storage that never needs to be replaced. Get enterprise-level data services, tools, and new features, along with upgraded controllers, blades, and flash when you need them.

Reduce Data Storage Costs

Reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) for storage and save more than 50% over traditional forklift upgrades. Get modern storage with the freedom to upgrade, expand, and continuously innovate.
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Simplify Your Data Storage

From integration to storage management to upgrades, Evergreen//Forever simplifies everything about the data storage lifecycle. Imagine storage that just works, delivering you 99.9999% of availability—including upgrades.
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Achieve IT Agility

Evergreen//Forever meets your needs today and tomorrow. It’s storage built to keep you agile enough to respond to changing business needs for over 10 years.
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Power and Space Efficiency Guarantee

Own the Greenest Storage on the Planet, Guaranteed

We’re committed to helping you reduce your energy costs and optimise your rack space with a guaranteed maximum Watts/TiB ratio and TiB/RU of your purchased hardware. If we can’t meet our guarantees, we’ll make it right with remediation or a service credit.

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Secure Your Data and Eliminate Migrations, Forever

Data Resilience Made Pure and Simple

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Zero Data Loss Guarantee

If your data gets lost, we’ll cover data recovery services at no cost within 15-minutes of being notified.

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No Data Migration Guarantee

All applicable 色控传媒 upgrades deliver migrations with all your data in place and no performance impacts—or we’ll pay you for your trouble.

Common Evergreen//Forever Use Cases

Take the guesswork out of your data storage, forever.

Do More with Less

Simplify infrastructure modernisation with our updated Ever Agile program that delivers capacity and controller trade-ins and controller-only upgrades at up to a 20% list price discount.

Data Centre Capacity Consolidation

Lower both your TCO and carbon footprint with Evergreen//Forever. Customers who make a qualifying capacity purchase can now get up to 50% in trade-in credits towards new media.

Analytics/AI

Supercharge your efforts in the analytics space by taking advantage of an Evergreen//Forever subscription to innovation—keeping your storage stack on the cutting edge.

Databases

As data volumes associated with mission-critical applications grow daily, Evergreen//Forever delivers upgrades on a regular cadence and on-demand without disruption to drive your business forward.

Data Protection

Modern data protection is more crucial than ever. Evergreen//Forever has you covered with access to new security features as they become available to meet your most stringent business continuity needs.

VMWare

Shift from managing infrastructure to creating value with the best-in-class technology for your VMware-based cloud. With Evergreen//Forever, you can keep innovating, maintaining 99.9999% availability, even through upgrades.

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See Why Evergreen//Forever Leads The Way

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Evergreen//Forever

Dell EMC

Future-Proof for PowerStore Only

NetApp

HPE

All-inclusive software subscription

All array features now and in the future

Limited features

Limited features

Limited features

Guaranteed Non-disruptive HW and SW upgrades across generations

Truly non-disruptive, data-in-place, modular upgrades

Vendor history of "forklift" upgrades

Disruptive upgrades if more than 50% controller utilization

Limited NDU

(not across generations, Nimble only)

Included controller upgrades to latest generation

Ever Modern?included controller upgrades**

One-time controller upgrade to next-gen only ***

None

One-time, limited controller credit

No-limit, on-demand controller/blade upgrades with up to 20% trade-in credit

(Latest generation and higher model)

Ever Agile

(anytime trade-in credit)**

One-time controller upgrade to next-gen or next-model only? ***

None

None

Anytime media?upgrade/trade-in with up to 50% trade-in credit

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Capacity consolidation**

No media trade-in

None

One-time media upgrade

(Primera only)

Guaranteed Effective Capacity

(Not just an efficiency ratio)

Right Size Guarantee?*

No capacity guarantee

No capacity guarantee

No capacity guarantee

Proven record of delivering on upgrade/trade in promises

10,000+ controller upgrades, without disruption or re-buy

New offering, unproven

Controller upgrade program removed from Keystone

New offering, unproven (Primera)
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* Right Size Guarantee available at no extra charge on FlashArray//XL?
** Ever Agile and Capacity Consolidation require purchase of qualifying capacity. Ever Modern requires a subscription commitment.
*** Requires purchase of premium support package and service add-on options, all at extra cost (per Dell EMC PowerStore Data Sheet)

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Evergreen//Forever Overview

Hear what industry leaders have to say about why you should rethink your storage refresh.

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Evergreen Storage was rebranded to Evergreen//Forever.

Architected for Today and Tomorrow

We work with the best across all industries. See what customers have to say about Evergreen//Forever.

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“With 色控传媒, we can deliver new development environments in minutes, not hours or days.”

Michael Finnegan
VP of Production Operations, eMoney Advisor
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Evergreen//Forever Resources

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What is a forklift upgrade?

A forklift upgrade is a complete overhaul of an IT infrastructure. Old and outdated storage systems are ripped out and replaced with newly purchased technology. The process is complex, wasteful, and time-consuming. Forklift upgrades are driven by architectural incompatibilities between storage generations or by limitations in scale-out architectures that can’t add new nodes to existing arrays or clusters.

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People also ask:

1. What is a non-disruptive upgrade?

A non-disruptive upgrade is a software upgrade, hardware expansion, and/or component (like a controller, blade, or chassis) replacement that doesn’t impact data availability or performance. In an ideal scenario, it means no downtime, no data migrations, and no performance degradations.

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2. What is Ever Modern?

Ever Modern is a program designed to keep? Evergreen//Forever and Evergreen//Flex customers always modern and never obsolete. It delivers upgraded controllers (for FlashArray products) or blades (for FlashBlade products) every three years upon renewal of an Evergreen subscription for an additional three years at no additional cost. For the Pure//E? family of products, this renewal cycle is every six years.

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3. What is Ever Agile?

For Evergreen//Forever and Evergreen//Flex customers who purchase a qualifying capacity expansion, Ever Agile offers a trade in credit for swapping existing controllers or blades to new, upgraded ones. These upgrades reset the applicable three- or six-year clock under Ever Modern.

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4. What is the Love Your Storage Guarantee?

With the industry’s broadest storage guarantee, if you aren’t happy, return the array within 30 days for a full refund, no questions asked.

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