Summary
NAND price increases and tight flash supply are putting new pressure on IT budgets and refresh plans. This post explains what’s happening in the storage market, and how Everpure helps deliver more effective capacity, predictable costs, and reduced supply-chain and lifecycle risk.
AI has driven a surge in demand for high‑performance environments, tightening supply and pushing the cost of key components up significantly. Infrastructure costs are becoming less predictable just as data demands more flexibility.
Organizations are evaluating their options in a market where supply is tighter, pricing is more volatile, and the wrong move can lock in higher costs and risk for years to come.
This isn’t just a pricing problem. It’s a control problem, and you need predictability.
NAND volatility doesn’t have to introduce risk. It can be absorbed, managed, and turned into a more predictable foundation for the business. One with economics you can actually plan around.
Today, many teams are evaluating three paths forward:
- Extend warranties and risk outages
- Downgrade to disk, raising long‑term operating costs and complexity
- Rethink the way they buy and consume infrastructure altogether, so they can absorb this volatility today and into the future
In moments like this, strategy beats short-term thinking—and that includes who you trust.
What’s actually changing
What’s happening in the market isn’t just cyclical; it’s structural.
AI-driven demand is accelerating pressure across the stack, exposing inefficiencies that were already there. Systems designed for steady growth are now operating in an environment defined by constant change.
That’s why planning is breaking down:
- Pricing assumptions don’t hold
- Capacity is overallocated or underutilized
- Costs become harder to predict across environments
In this kind of market, reacting isn’t enough. The model itself has to change.
In practice, that shift comes down to two things: efficiency and predictability. You can’t just buy more capacity and hope prices normalize. You need architectures that squeeze more value from every TB and economics you can actually plan around.
Choosing the right path and the right partner
Choosing the right infrastructure partner starts with a foundational question: Who is actually delivering what the market needs today, driving real value for customers, and who will still be leading three to five years from now?
Growth is often the proxy for that answer. On the surface, that makes sense. Companies that are gaining share and growing both revenue and installed base tend to be the ones delivering real value.
But not all claims of “growth” actually reflect real progress.
In storage, it’s easy to amplify certain slices of the market and claim momentum even when the overall business is flat or shrinking. The only way to see what’s really happening is to look at total external OEM storage revenue and capacity, not just a hand-picked segment.
The market reality
When you look at the most recent full market data, the answer is clear:
Figure 1: Everpure leads the market in revenue and capacity growth compared to other major external OEM vendors. Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker 2025 Q4 (excludes China).
According to IDC’s 2025 external OEM storage data (for the calendar year), Everpure grew year‑over‑year total capacity by 12%, while every other top‑five vendor declined. That’s not a coincidence. It’s what happens when a vendor is built for the market conditions everyone else is struggling to adapt to.
Figure 2: Everpure drove approximately 40% of total market revenue growth and nearly 60% of total market capacity growth compared to legacy external OEM vendors. Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker 2025 Q4.
That kind of growth doesn’t happen by accident. Everpure drove roughly 40% of total market revenue growth and nearly 60% of total market capacity growth—not by shifting products around within an existing install base, but by winning new ground in a contracting market.
Figure 3: Over the past three years, Everpure raw capacity growth outpaced other major external OEM vendors and the total market. Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker 2025 Q4.
The data is unambiguous. As the storage market contracted, Everpure was the only major vendor posting positive numbers—three consecutive years, while other competitors declined. That’s not luck. That’s a different model entirely.
Why Everpure is a strategic choice
Everpure wasn’t designed for a stable market. It was built for this one.
From the start, we have only sold flash and largely pioneered and expanded its deployment across the enterprise.
We’re the only major vendor where all‑flash capacity is growing faster than revenue, signaling improving economics and broader adoption, not just pricing leverage.
While other vendors ask you to renew maintenance and wait it out, Everpure is engineering greater efficiency and predictability into the platform itself, so volatility is something you can absorb, not just endure.
Customers are voting with their environments for platforms and partners that:
- Make it easier to absorb volatility instead of passing it along
- Deliver more effective capacity from constrained raw NAND
- Keep environments efficient and current without constant rework or disruptive refresh cycles
That is where Everpure is structurally different, and where more predictable economics start to take shape.
4 ways to take back control
In a constrained market, it’s easy to justify “good enough” decisions: extend what you have, compromise where you need to, fix it later. But the impact of those decisions compounds.
Everpure makes the decision easier with four pillars that help customers navigate the kinds of environments we’re seeing today.
Evergreen//One™: Storage as a service done right
Evergreen//One is a storage‑as‑a‑service model designed around how the business operates, not just how infrastructure is purchased:
- Aligns spend to actual usage, reducing overprovisioning and guesswork
- Provides outcome‑based SLAs for performance, availability, and resilience
- Builds in automation and lifecycle management, keeping environments continuously current
- Absorbs a significant portion of supply chain and pricing volatility, reducing financial risk
Capacity, performance, and spend scale with demand—without redesign, forklift refreshes, or direct exposure to every move in the NAND cycle. Hardware risk and refresh cycles move off your balance sheet and onto ours—helping you maintain predictable economics over time.
Evergreen® architecture: Perpetually modern infrastructure
Evergreen architecture is a storage ownership model that keeps infrastructure perpetually modern:
- Non‑disruptive upgrades
- Data‑in‑place expansion
- All software included
Instead of periodic, disruptive migrations, the environment evolves in place. You avoid forklift refreshes, surprise costs, and stranded capacity—reducing how much flash you need to buy over time and creating a more predictable cost structure.
DirectFlash® technology: Built for efficiency and priority access
DirectFlash is manufactured from raw NAND, not off‑the‑shelf SSDs, and tightly integrated with the Purity operating environment. That gives customers:
- Better performance and lower latency
- More effective TB from constrained raw NAND through superior efficiency and data reduction
- Less dependence on commodity SSD supply chains—and priority access to capacity even when the broader market is tight
In a world where NAND supply and pricing are under pressure, that architectural advantage becomes a real lever for both resilience and predictable economics.
Portworx®: Kubernetes Data Management
Portworx is a Kubernetes-native, software-defined storage layer that enables enterprises to run, manage, and protect stateful applications and databases at scale across virtually any cloud or infrastructure.
- Reduce over-provisioning and manual operations with intelligent Kubernetes data management
- Consolidate containers and VMs while maintaining resilience and performance
- Manage Kubernetes data lifecycle and placement across storage platforms
- Run VMs on Kubernetes to reduce IT expenses and invest in other initiatives
By consolidating containers and VMs and intelligently managing data across storage platforms, Portworx reduces costs while delivering the resilience and agility required to scale modern applications across the hybrid cloud.
What happens next is a choice
In this market, “good enough” infrastructure doesn’t stay good enough for long—it becomes more expensive and harder to manage.
The organizations that stay ahead won’t be the ones reacting to short-term constraints; they’ll be the ones choosing platforms and partners designed to deliver predictable economics, even in volatile conditions.
If you’re evaluating your next move, focus on who you can trust to deliver consistent performance, efficient capacity, and economics you can actually plan around.
Because volatility isn’t going away. But with the right approach, it doesn’t have to work against you.
See how Everpure helps you stay in control and de-risk your next storage decision.
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