{ "id": "everpure", "name": "Everpure, formerly Pure Storage (Everpure Platform: FlashArray + FlashBlade + Purity + Fusion + Pure1 + Evergreen + Portworx + Data Intelligence + Data Stream)", "subtitle": "Mapped to the 4+1 Layer AI Infrastructure Model", "version": "v1.0 - 4+1 v2: Authority Split", "date": "September 10, 2026", "source": "Everpure press releases (Pure Storage Becomes Everpure and Announces Intent to Acquire 1touch, February 23, 2026, with the May 11, 2026 completion note; Everpure Extends ActiveCluster Support for File, March 11, 2026; Everpure Simplifies Enterprise AI with Evergreen//One for AI and Data Stream Beta, March 16, 2026; Portworx by Everpure Is Redefining Modern Virtualization, March 24, 2026; Everpure to Change Ticker Symbol, April 7, 2026; Portworx Makes Data Management Native to Red Hat OpenShift, May 11, 2026; Everpure Redefines Cyber Resilience, May 19, 2026; Everpure Announces Data Stream and Everpure Unveils Data-Primacy Architecture, June 17, 2026; Everpure Lands New Design Win with Second Top-Five Hyperscaler, August 10, 2026; Gartner Magic Quadrant, August 21, 2026; Everpure to Join the S&P 500, September 8, 2026; Pure Storage Introduces New GenAI Pod, November 18, 2024; next-generation AIRI, 2022; Purity 6.0, 2020; Cloud Block Store on Azure, 2021); everpuredata.com product pages (products, block, file, and object storage, unstructured data storage, enterprise file, Evergreen storage as a service with Flex and Forever, Kubernetes data management, Data Intelligence, automation and orchestration, Enterprise Data Cloud, AI, NVIDIA, Cisco FlashStack, cloud, HPC, virtualization; What is Evergreen//One; the Fusion presets and workloads demonstration); pure.ai (Data Stream, FlashBlade//EXA); docs.portworx.com (index, Portworx Enterprise 3.7); NVIDIA AI Data Platform page; trade coverage (SiliconANGLE June 10, June 17, and September 4, 2026; TechTarget on Data Stream; StorageNewsletter). Peer-reviewed cell by cell through the labs claims ledger (everpure--chatgpt, ChatGPT gpt-5.5) and as a whole row by Antigravity (everpure-row-agy); totals and escalated items in reviews/everpure-judgment.md.", "status": "complete", "summary": { "title": "Summary Finding", "paragraphs": [ "Everpure is Pure Storage under a new name (February 23, 2026; ticker P since April 17; S&P 500 on September 21, 2026) with a data-management thesis bolted onto a storage company: the Enterprise Data Cloud, which the company itself calls 'an architectural approach ... not a product'. The map reads it moderate at six layers and gap at two, with no strong cell. Layer 1A is the deepest cell, moderate at the top of the band: Purity's data services across block, file, and object, SafeMode immutability, ActiveCluster and ActiveDR, Fusion's fleet-wide policy enforcement, and Pure1 over sixty thousand arrays; Data Intelligence (the acquired 1touch), announced 'available now' on June 17, 2026 as a catalog across clouds, SaaS, mainframes, and third-party storage, has no documentation on Everpure's support portal and is named, not scored, which is why the grade is escalated. Layer 0 is moderate on a software-defined all-flash substrate the enterprise owns or subscribes to; compute and fabric come only through Cisco's FlashStack and NVIDIA's DGX designs on partners' paper. Layer 1B is moderate, on Data Stream 1.0.0 (August 12, 2026): an on-appliance ingestion, embedding, hybrid-search, and chat appliance on FlashBlade with eight NVIDIA GPUs, held to moderate by its first-release limits (one node, 750,000 pages). Layer 1C is moderate on fleet replication and mobility plus Data Stream's preparation pipeline. Layer 2A is moderate on Fusion presets, Pure1 capacity management, and Portworx on the enterprise's Kubernetes, with no compute scheduling. Layer 2B is moderate on Data Stream's OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint over a sealed on-appliance model plus two MCP servers for storage operations; the first draft read it gap on the NetApp precedent. Layer 2C and Layer 3 are gaps: governance of storage actions isn't a plane over agents, and there's no application.", "The capture is total below the protocol and standard at it. Purity, DirectFlash, Fusion, Pure1, Data Stream, Portworx Enterprise, and SafeMode are Everpure's with no second implementer, and Evergreen//One puts the arrays on Everpure's paper by the gibibyte; that's why 14 of the 18 components read Ceded. What lifts: the object store behind S3, the front-end protocols (NFS, SMB, NVMe over Fabrics, Fibre Channel) the enterprise's hosts speak, PX-CSI's Kubernetes door, and the open-source Fusion MCP Server the enterprise runs itself. NVIDIA NIM inside Data Stream is Ceded to NVIDIA under the channel-substitution rule, GPUDirect Storage is NVIDIA's stack rather than a standard, and the two hyperscaler DirectFlash design wins move nothing on the customer's seat.", "The buyer's trade: a storage fleet that governs and protects itself, and a sealed RAG appliance from the storage vendor, in exchange for every format, policy, and control plane being Everpure's and every model being NVIDIA's. The decision-authority readings follow: vendor / Ceded at Layer 0, 1A, 1C, and 2A (Purity and SafeMode enforce by design; choosing an array, a pod, or a replication target is configuration of a relationship, not an override of a decision Everpure makes at run time, and nothing Everpure ships schedules compute); vendor / Delegated at 1B on Data Stream's documented per-request search parameters; model / Ceded at 2B, where the appliance's undisclosed model answers over its own index with no swap and no gate; Absent at 2C and Layer 3. What would move cells: documentation for Data Intelligence (1A, back to strong), multi-node Data Stream (1B), Workload Rebalance and Mobility shipping in Q4 2026 (1C and 2A), a model catalog or agent runtime on Everpure's paper (2B), and a first-party application or a formal ecosystem program (Layer 3)." ] }, "layers": [ { "id": "layer0", "label": "Layer 0", "shortName": "Compute", "title": "Compute & Network Fabric", "purpose": "Raw compute, networking, and acceleration fabric", "status": "moderate", "statusLabel": "Software-Defined All-Flash Storage You Own (FlashArray, FlashBlade//S, //E, and //EXA on DirectFlash) or Subscribe To (Evergreen//One, Cloud Block Store on AWS and Azure); Compute and Fabric Only Through Cisco's FlashStack and NVIDIA's DGX Designs", "authority": { "decides": "vendor", "visible": true, "overridable": false, "boundary": "vendor", "direction": "Ceded" }, "nvidia": [ { "component": "NVIDIA-Certified Storage Under NVIDIA Compute; NIM Inside Data Stream; STX Alignment in Development", "detail": "FlashBlade//S is certified for NVIDIA DGX BasePOD and DGX B300 SuperPOD and integrates NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage, NVIDIA's cuFile and nvidia-fs stack rather than a multi-vendor standard, which is why it sits here and not in the Delegated protocol chip; FlashBlade//EXA carries NVIDIA-Certified Storage validation and, per the March 16, 2026 release, is being aligned with the NVIDIA STX reference architecture and the Vera Rubin platform, with Vera BlueField-4 STX work 'in development'. Data Stream is built on NVIDIA NIM and the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, so running it requires NVIDIA GPUs (scored at 1B and 1C). The arrays themselves have no accelerator dependency." } ], "gap": "Everpure sells the storage substrate; the compute and fabric beside it are partners' on partners' paper. FlashArray (//XL, //X, //C, //E, //ST) and FlashBlade (//S, //E, and //EXA, whose metadata core and data nodes scale independently on the enterprise's own network) are all-flash systems on Everpure's DirectFlash modules under the Purity operating environment, racked in the enterprise's data center or colocation; Evergreen//One sells the same systems as storage as a service by the gibibyte or the gigabyte per second with ten guaranteed SLAs (99.9999 percent uptime, a 25 percent capacity buffer, zero data loss, zero planned downtime), Everpure paying for power and rack space, and Evergreen//One for AI (March 16, 2026) extending the model to FlashBlade//EXA at a 30 GBps minimum reserve; Evergreen//Flex and //Forever are the owned-hardware variants; Cloud Block Store runs Purity in the enterprise's own AWS and Azure accounts and Everpure Cloud Dedicated manages that cloud storage beside the arrays from Pure1. Front-end access is standard: NFS, SMB, and S3 on one system, NVMe over Fabrics and Fibre Channel for block, and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage into NVIDIA GPUs. The buyer gets the flash tier of an AI factory as hardware, as a subscription, or as software in its cloud.\n\nThe architect's concern is scope. The products page lists FlashStack ('combines compute, network, and storage') and AIRI//S under Systems, but the compute and fabric in them are Cisco's UCS and Nexus and NVIDIA's DGX, sold through channel partners with NVIDIA AI Enterprise on top (the FlashStack CVD for AI Factories, generally available in Q1 2026 through AHEAD, ePlus, SHI, and WWT), the NetApp FlexPod shape: channel-assembled designs whose compute is scored on Cisco's and NVIDIA's rows; its DirectFlash design wins with two top-five hyperscalers (late 2024 and August 10, 2026) are supply agreements inside those clouds, not a surface the enterprise buys; and Purity, DirectFlash, and the array designs are Everpure's, so the substrate the enterprise administers is Everpure-defined at every layer below the protocol.\n\nCalibration: NetApp reads moderate on a software-defined storage fabric; VAST moderate on software-defined storage on commodity boxes; Dell and HPE strong on compute, networking, and storage together; CoreWeave strong on GPU compute. Everpure is NetApp's shape: the storage substrate alone. Moderate.", "borrowedJudgment": "Ceded at the array, Delegated at the wire. The systems, DirectFlash, Purity, and the Evergreen subscriptions are Everpure's with no second implementer: Ceded, the NetApp AFF and VAST reading; Cloud Block Store is Purity in the enterprise's cloud account, still Everpure's software: Ceded. The front-end protocols (NFS, SMB, S3, NVMe over Fabrics, Fibre Channel) are standards the enterprise's hosts and switches speak: Delegated, the NetApp storage-networking reading. The runtime call at this layer is Purity placing, reducing, and protecting data inside the array and Pure1 adding capacity when usage crosses 80 percent of the allocation; the enterprise sets the allocation and the SLA tier, bounds rather than overrides: vendor decides, visible (Pure1), not overridable, Ceded, the NetApp and VAST reading.", "notes": "The hyperscaler design wins (DirectFlash supplied to two unnamed top-five hyperscalers; revenue from the second 'starting in fiscal year 2028') are named, not scored: not a customer surface, and the customer-seat ruling holds that an upstream deal moves no cell. NVIDIA STX and Vera BlueField-4 work is 'in development' (June 17, 2026), unscored. Evergreen//One Overdrive, a temporary performance boost for on-premises storage, is 'available in Q3 2026' and watch-listed. FlashArray//ST appears only as a catalog tag in the source set. FlashStack for AI Factories (Cisco UCS C845a, Nexus 9000, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, FlashBlade//S; GA Q1 2026 through channel partners) and AIRI//S are named, not scored: the compute and fabric are Cisco's and NVIDIA's paper. Public evidence that moves the cell: Everpure selling compute or fabric the enterprise administers; nothing in the documentation describes it.", "components": [ { "component": "FlashArray (//XL, //X, //C, //E, //ST) and FlashBlade (//S, //E, //EXA With Disaggregated Metadata Core and Data Nodes) on DirectFlash Under Purity, in the Enterprise's Data Center", "detail": "Everpure's hardware and operating environment, racked and administered by the enterprise. Self-deployable isn't Retained; the modules, the array designs, and Purity are Everpure's: Ceded, the NetApp AFF and VAST reading.", "dapm": "Ceded" }, { "component": "Evergreen//One Storage as a Service (Ten Guaranteed SLAs; Capacity and Performance Reserves; Pure1-Managed Headroom; Evergreen//One for AI on FlashBlade//EXA) + Evergreen//Flex and //Forever", "detail": "The same systems on Everpure's paper with Everpure managing capacity to the SLA. Ceded.", "dapm": "Ceded" }, { "component": "Cloud Block Store and Everpure Cloud Dedicated (Purity in the Enterprise's AWS and Azure Accounts, Managed From Pure1)", "detail": "Everpure's software on the hyperscaler's substrate in the enterprise's account; the substrate is the cloud's row, the storage is Everpure's. Ceded.", "dapm": "Ceded" }, { "component": "Front-End Protocols and Networking (NFS, SMB, S3; NVMe Over Fabrics and Fibre Channel)", "detail": "Standards the enterprise's hosts and switches speak; the array behind them is Everpure's. Delegated, the NetApp storage-networking reading. GPUDirect Storage is NVIDIA's cuFile stack, named in the NVIDIA note, not here.", "dapm": "Delegated" } ] }, { "id": "layer1a", "label": "Layer 1A", "shortName": "Storage", "title": "Data Storage & Governance", "purpose": "Durable, governed data foundation — the Governance Catalog that Layer 2C queries", "status": "moderate", "statusLabel": "Purity Data Services Across Block, File, and Object With SafeMode and ActiveCluster; Fusion Fleet Policy; Pure1 Over Sixty Thousand Arrays; Data Intelligence (Formerly 1touch) Announced Available but Undocumented", "authority": { "decides": "vendor", "visible": true, "overridable": false, "boundary": "vendor", "direction": "Ceded" }, "nvidia": [ { "component": "No NVIDIA Dependency at This Layer", "detail": "Purity, Fusion, Pure1, and Data Intelligence run on the arrays and Everpure's management plane; Data Intelligence's classification runs on CPUs." } ], "gap": "Everpure's data foundation is the array fleet governed as one system, and since June 2026 a catalog that reaches past it. Purity delivers the data services on every system: unified block and file on FlashArray, native NFS, SMB, and S3 on FlashBlade, snapshots, SafeMode immutable snapshots that a global administrator can't delete, ActiveCluster synchronous replication for block and, since the March 11, 2026 announcement (general availability stated for Q2 2026, unconfirmed since), for file, ActiveDR continuous replication, encryption, and always-on data reduction. Fusion, integrated into Purity, runs the fleet on policy: presets define a workload's storage configuration (protection, replication, snapshots, allowed storage classes) once and every workload provisioned from them complies; security presets keep SafeMode on and configuration drift out; policies for performance, protection, compliance, and cost are 'enforced automatically across the entire storage environment using an API-first, software-driven control plane'. Pure1 is the hosted management plane over sixty thousand arrays: AIOps, VM analytics, capacity management, predictive support, and, on Evergreen//One, automatic capacity additions at 80 percent of allocation. Data Intelligence, the former 1touch (acquisition announced February 23, closed May 11, 2026; 'available now' on June 17, 2026), is described on its product page and in the release as discovering and classifying data at its source across the Everpure Platform, public clouds, SaaS applications, mainframes, vector databases, and third-party storage, finding personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), tracking lineage, mapping dependencies into a semantic knowledge graph whose 'data understanding and relationships' are exposed over APIs and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), with attribute-based access controls as a separate control surface; no administrator or user documentation for it exists on Everpure's support portal as of this row, so it's named, not scored (ruled September 15, 2026: 'available now' does not equate to GA). Everpure Protect's threat correlation and the Human-in-the-Loop mandate for sensitive data actions appear only in the May 19, 2026 release and are carried the same way. The buyer gets a governed, self-protecting record of the fleet, with a catalog across the wider estate announced but not yet documented.\n\nThe architect's concern is altitude and documentation. The governance unit is the volume, the file system, and the bucket; nothing here enforces at the row or column; and the catalog that would reach past the fleet, Data Intelligence, is three months old as an Everpure product with no documentation behind the announcement. Everything in the layer is Everpure's format: presets, SafeMode, the policies.\n\nCalibration: NetApp reads strong on ONTAP plus a metadata catalog and classification; Dell strong on PowerScale plus MetadataIQ; VAST strong on DataStore, DataBase, and Catalog; HPE strong on owned storage plus governance; Nutanix moderate on platform storage with compliance governance and no AI-native catalog. Everpure is Nutanix's shape today (owned storage plus fleet governance and cyber recovery) with NetApp's and Dell's catalog announced but undocumented. Under the September 15, 2026 rulings, 'available now' isn't GA and 1A is graded on the catalog Layer 2C can query for what the data is; without Data Intelligence documented, nothing here answers that. Moderate, at the top of the band.", "borrowedJudgment": "Ceded almost everywhere, by design. Purity's data services, Fusion's presets and policies, Pure1, and SafeMode recovery are Everpure's with no second implementer: Ceded, the NetApp ONTAP and Dell PowerScale reading. The object store behind S3 is the exception: buckets and objects lift to any S3 implementation: Delegated, the NetApp StorageGRID and Dell ObjectScale reading. The runtime call is Purity and Fusion enforcing the protection, immutability, and placement policies the enterprise defined in presets, fleet-wide and by default, with SafeMode deliberately not overridable by a single administrator: vendor decides, visible (Pure1 and audit), not overridable, Ceded, the NetApp, Dell, and VAST reading.", "notes": "Ruled September 15, 2026: Data Intelligence is named, not scored ('available now' per the June 17, 2026 release and its product page, with no documentation on the support portal, whose search returns only Portworx results; 'available now' does not equate to GA), and the grade moves from strong to moderate on the 1A catalog criterion (fleet governance without a catalog 2C can query is the Nutanix tier). Strong had been written on the HPE reading. Named, not scored, from the May 19, 2026 release only: Everpure Protect threat correlation and the Fusion-enforced Human-in-the-Loop mandate. Stated GA dates that have passed without a confirming document, watch-listed: ActiveCluster for file (Q2 2026), Copilot Workflow Execution and Enhanced Cyber Anomaly Detection (Q2 2026). Also watch-listed: Evergreen//One Overdrive (Q3 2026), Workload Rebalance and Mobility and Fusion Compliance and Agentic Triage (Q4 2026). Purity DeepReduce (February 2026 per trade coverage) has no Everpure document in the source set. Public evidence that moves the cell: Data Intelligence documentation would move it to strong; row- or column-level enforcement would deepen it.", "components": [ { "component": "Purity Data Services (Unified Block and File on FlashArray; NFS, SMB, and S3 on FlashBlade; Snapshots; SafeMode Immutability; ActiveCluster Synchronous Replication for Block; ActiveDR; Encryption; Always-On Data Reduction)", "detail": "The operating environment's services on Everpure's arrays, in Everpure's formats. Ceded, the NetApp ONTAP reading.", "dapm": "Ceded" }, { "component": "FlashBlade and FlashArray Object Storage Behind S3", "detail": "Buckets and objects behind a multi-vendor interface; the data lifts to any S3 store. Delegated, the NetApp StorageGRID and Dell ObjectScale reading.", "dapm": "Delegated" }, { "component": "Everpure Fusion Fleet Policy (Presets, Workloads, Security Presets, Storage Classes, Fleet-Wide Governance Enforced Through the Purity Control Plane)", "detail": "Policy objects and their enforcement inside Everpure's fleet. Ceded.", "dapm": "Ceded" }, { "component": "Pure1 (Hosted Management Plane; AIOps; VM Analytics; Capacity Management With Automatic Additions on Evergreen//One; Predictive Support)", "detail": "Everpure's management SaaS over Everpure's fleet. Ceded.", "dapm": "Ceded" }, { "component": "SafeMode Recovery and the Evergreen//One Cyber Recovery SLA (Immutable Snapshots No Administrator Can Delete; Clean-Array Guarantee With On-Site Services; 20 Percent per TiB Uplift)", "detail": "Immutable recovery points and a contracted recovery service, both Everpure's. Ceded, the Dell cyber-resilience reading. Everpure Protect and the Human-in-the-Loop mandate are release-only and named in notes.", "dapm": "Ceded" } ] }, { "id": "layer1b", "label": "Layer 1B", "shortName": "Retrieval", "title": "Context Management & Retrieval", "purpose": "Low-latency retrieval for RAG — vector/hybrid search, context windows", "status": "moderate", "statusLabel": "Data Stream 1.0.0 (August 12, 2026): an On-Appliance Ingest, Embedding, Hybrid Search, and Chat Appliance on FlashBlade With NVIDIA GPUs, Single-Node and 750,000 Pages in Its First Release; Data Intelligence Context Over MCP Announced, Undocumented", "authority": { "decides": "vendor", "visible": true, "overridable": true, "boundary": "vendor", "direction": "Delegated" }, "nvidia": [ { "component": "Data Stream Runs on NVIDIA GPUs by Construction", "detail": "The supported first release is 'a single-node deployment (an 8-GPU offering)' on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs; the design 'extends upon the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design' and uses NVIDIA NIM microservices for model functions, co-engineered with Supermicro. The pipeline, streams, rules, and API are Everpure's; the GPU dependency is the enterprise's to carry." } ], "gap": "Everpure's retrieval story is an appliance. Data Stream 1.0.0 (release notes dated August 12, 2026, after the June 17 'availability' announcement and the March 16 beta statement) is, in its own terms of use, Everpure's 'data ingestion, indexing, search, and generative AI software appliance': it ingests from NFS shares and S3-compatible buckets, runs configurable embedding rules with concurrent text and vision-language models, auto-classifies through a classifier model (the classification rules tab is a beta feature), indexes, and serves 'hybrid semantic and keyword search (BM25) including document previews and optional LLM summarization' (LLM: large language model) through a REST API whose search endpoint takes query, stream selection, search mode, top_k, vector_db_top_k, and vision processing per request, and whose chat endpoint is 'OpenAI-compatible' against an on-appliance large language model; it honors each data source's authorization so users retrieve only what they may read; everything stays on the appliance and the FlashBlade; licensing is token-based for search queries and generative requests per purchased system. The supported release is a single node with eight NVIDIA GPUs, no multi-node clustering, 200,000 pages of initial ingest per stream, 750,000 pages of total platform capacity, 30 MB per document, on FlashBlade//S200, //S500, or //E with Portworx's Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver provisioning the volumes. Data Intelligence's knowledge graph as agent context over MCP is announced (June 17, 2026) and undocumented, named at 1A. The buyer gets retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over its files as a sealed appliance from the storage vendor.\n\nThe architect's concern is scale and youth. One node, three quarters of a million pages, a beta classification tab, an undisclosed on-appliance model, and a first release four weeks old; the retrieval quality and the model choice are Everpure's, and the record of the product's status ran from 'beta launching later in 2026' (March) to 'availability' (June) to a 1.0.0 release note (August).\n\nCalibration: NetApp reads moderate on storage-integrated vectorization and RAG endpoints; Dell moderate on an Elastic-powered search engine; HPE moderate on a reference retrieval stack; VAST strong on native vector search at scale with permission-aware retrieval; Elastic and MongoDB strong on native engines. Everpure now has an index and a search service of its own, the VAST shape in miniature, held to moderate by rule 5's first-release scope gates. Moderate (ruled September 15, 2026): rule 5 names first-release maturity as a documented reason a real engine reads moderate, and the single-node, 750,000-page scope is a second gate; strong had been argued on the documented SearchService and EmbeddingService (the VAST reading).", "borrowedJudgment": "Ceded at the appliance, Delegated at the request. Data Stream's streams, embedding and curation rules, index, search service, and chat surface are Everpure's software on Everpure's storage: Ceded; the NIM microservices inside are NVIDIA's on an NVIDIA license: Ceded to NVIDIA under the channel-substitution rule, the SUSE and Dataiku NIM reading; vectors made on the appliance belong to the model that made them: Ceded under the carve-out. The OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint is a standard door onto a captive index and a fixed model, not a model the enterprise can point elsewhere, so it doesn't earn the inference-interface Delegated reading. The runtime call is the appliance retrieving and ranking per the request's search mode, top_k, vector_db_top_k, and stream selection, documented per-request parameters that change the retrieval outcome: vendor decides, visible (results and alerts), overridable per request, Delegated, the Elastic reading under the override rule.", "notes": "Ruled September 15, 2026: moderate stands on rule 5 (single node, 750,000 pages, beta classification tab, release 1.0.0 dated August 12, 2026, the Elastic first-release case); strong had been argued on Everpure owning the index and search service (the VAST reading); multi-node clustering or a second release would move it. Availability record: March 16, 2026 'Data Stream Beta, launching later in 2026'; June 17, 2026 'announced the availability'; product page 'now available' with early-access language; release notes 1.0.0 August 12, 2026; the release notes govern. Trade coverage's 'billions of documents' and 'doesn't need an Everpure array' are contradicted by the limits and architecture documentation and dropped. Public evidence that moves the cell: multi-node clustering and capacity beyond the first release would argue strong; a documented on-appliance model choice would inform the DAPM.", "components": [ { "component": "Everpure Data Stream 1.0.0 (On-Appliance Ingestion From NFS and S3, Configurable Text and Vision Embedding Rules, Auto-Classification, Hybrid Semantic and BM25 Search With Previews and LLM Summarization, Per-Request Search Parameters; Single Node, Eight NVIDIA GPUs, 750,000 Pages; FlashBlade//S or //E Over Portworx CSI; Token-Based Licensing)", "detail": "Everpure's index, search service, and rules on Everpure's storage, with NVIDIA's microservices inside. Ceded to Everpure for the appliance and to NVIDIA for NIM under the channel-substitution rule; the chat door is scored at 2B.", "dapm": "Ceded" } ] }, { "id": "layer1c", "label": "Layer 1C", "shortName": "Pipelines", "title": "Data Movement & Pipelines", "purpose": "Move/transform data — ETL/ELT, lineage, cost-aware movement, KV cache tiering", "status": "moderate", "statusLabel": "Fleet-Wide Replication and Mobility (ActiveCluster for Block, ActiveDR, CloudSnap, Portworx Disaster Recovery and Migration) and Data Stream's Ingest, Curation, Embedding, and Indexing Pipeline; KV Cache Accelerator, File ActiveCluster, and Workload Rebalance Undocumented or Pending", "authority": { "decides": "vendor", "visible": true, "overridable": false, "boundary": "vendor", "direction": "Ceded" }, "nvidia": [ { "component": "Data Stream's Pipeline Runs on NVIDIA GPUs", "detail": "The ingest, embedding, and classification stages run on the appliance's eight NVIDIA GPUs with NIM microservices for the model functions; Everpure owns the pipeline. The replication surfaces carry no accelerator dependency." } ], "gap": "Everpure moves data between its own systems and, with Data Stream, from files into a model. Movement: ActiveCluster synchronous replication across FlashArrays (and, announced March 11, 2026 for Q2 general availability, across file systems with fleet-level, policy-driven mobility integrated with Fusion), ActiveDR continuous replication, asynchronous replication and CloudSnap snapshot offload to object storage and the public cloud, Cloud Block Store as a cloud landing zone with a common data plane, and Portworx's migration and disaster recovery for Kubernetes applications and KubeVirt virtual machines across clusters, sites, and clouds. Transformation: Data Stream is a fixed-function pipeline, ingestion from NFS and S3 sources through parsing, curation and classification rules, embedding, and indexing on the appliance's GPUs, with stream owners defining sources and rules and running or pausing streams, collapsing 'two to four months of data preparation into minutes' by Everpure's account (the search and chat it serves are scored at 1B and 2B). Tiering: the KV Cache Accelerator on FlashBlade, which keeps inference key-value caches on flash and injects them back into GPU memory over remote direct memory access (RDMA), is described in the June 17 release and an Everpure technical blog with no product documentation, so it's named, not scored. The buyer gets its data wherever the fleet is and an AI-ready copy of its files without writing the pipeline.\n\nThe architect's concern is fixity. Every mover here moves Everpure's data between Everpure's systems or the enterprise's cloud account; Data Stream is a pipeline whose stages are NVIDIA's blueprint, with no arbitrary code and no connector catalog; Workload Rebalance and Mobility (automatic movement across the fleet) is 'Available Q4 2026'; and nothing here does lineage across systems (Data Intelligence's lineage is scored at 1A).\n\nCalibration: NetApp reads moderate on a fixed AI-ingest pipeline plus SnapMirror, FlexCache, and FabricPool; Dell moderate on a data orchestration engine with a marketplace; VAST strong on a general DataEngine with user functions; Confluent and Cloudera strong on movement platforms. Everpure is NetApp's shape exactly. Moderate.", "borrowedJudgment": "Ceded at every mover, and at the decision. ActiveCluster, ActiveDR, CloudSnap, and Portworx migration are Everpure's protocols between Everpure's endpoints: Ceded, the NetApp SnapMirror reading; Data Stream's pipeline is Everpure's orchestration with NVIDIA's model stages: Ceded (NIM to NVIDIA). The runtime call is replication and the pipeline running the policy and rules the enterprise configured; choosing a target array, pod, or replication relationship is configuration of the relationship, not an override of a movement decision Everpure makes at run time, and the documentation shows none: vendor decides, visible, not overridable, Ceded, the NetApp reading.", "notes": "Named, not scored: the KV Cache Accelerator (release and blog only, no documentation), ActiveCluster for file (stated Q2 2026, unconfirmed), Workload Rebalance and Mobility (Q4 2026); all watch-listed where dated. Authority written Ceded on the NetApp reading after the ChatGPT pass argued the per-object replication choice is configuration; the same line the Hugging Face row drew at 2A. Public evidence that moves the cell: a general pipeline engine that runs enterprise code (the VAST DataEngine shape) would argue strong; KV Cache Accelerator documentation would add a scored chip.", "components": [ { "component": "Replication and Mobility Across the Fleet (ActiveCluster Synchronous Replication for Block; ActiveDR; Asynchronous Replication; CloudSnap to Object Storage and Cloud; Cloud Block Store as a Common Data Plane; Portworx Migration and Disaster Recovery for Containers and KubeVirt VMs)", "detail": "Everpure's replication protocols between Everpure's endpoints and the enterprise's cloud account. Ceded, the NetApp SnapMirror reading.", "dapm": "Ceded" }, { "component": "Data Stream as the Ingest and Preparation Pipeline (Facet at 1C: Ingestion From NFS and S3, Parsing, Curation and Classification Rules, Embedding, Indexing; Fixed Stages on the Appliance's GPUs)", "detail": "The pipeline function of Data Stream, scored here for what it moves and prepares; the search it serves is the 1B chip and the chat the 2B chip. Everpure's orchestration with NVIDIA's model stages: Ceded.", "dapm": "Ceded" } ] }, { "id": "layer2a", "label": "Layer 2A", "shortName": "Orchestration", "title": "Infrastructure Orchestration", "purpose": "GPU scheduling, quotas, RBAC, fair-share scheduling, utilization optimization", "status": "moderate", "statusLabel": "Fusion Fleet Automation With Presets, Workloads, and Placement Recommendations; Pure1 Capacity Management; Portworx for Kubernetes and KubeVirt VMs on the Enterprise's Clusters With a Standard CSI Door; No Compute or GPU Scheduling", "authority": { "decides": "vendor", "visible": true, "overridable": false, "boundary": "vendor", "direction": "Ceded" }, "nvidia": [ { "component": "No GPU Scheduling", "detail": "Fusion and Portworx orchestrate storage and stateful workloads; the GPUs in an Everpure-fed factory are scheduled by the enterprise's Kubernetes or NVIDIA's software, scored on their rows." } ], "gap": "Everpure orchestrates storage across a fleet and stateful workloads across the enterprise's Kubernetes. Fusion, in Purity, manages arrays as one fleet: presets template a workload's storage (volumes, protection, replication, allowed storage classes, dynamic inputs such as a billing identifier), workloads are provisioned from them with the administrator choosing the array within the preset's allowed class or asking Pure1 for a placement recommendation, and policy for performance, protection, compliance, and cost is enforced through an API-first control plane; Compliance and Agentic Triage (drift detection with agentic root-cause suggestions) and Workload Rebalance and Mobility (automatic movement across the fleet) are 'Available Q4 2026'. Pure1 adds capacity automatically at 80 percent of allocation on Evergreen//One, holds 25 percent or 100 TiB of headroom, and, per the June 17, 2026 release, Copilot Workflow Execution lets administrators 'use natural language to plan, validate, and trigger secure, end-to-end operations' ('Available Q2 2026'). Portworx Enterprise (version 3.7 documentation; 3.6.0 in March 2026) is a software-defined storage overlay on the enterprise's Kubernetes (OpenShift, EKS, AKS, GKE, Rancher, upstream) with PX-CSI to FlashArray and FlashBlade, Autopilot, Stork, backup and disaster recovery across clusters, KubeVirt virtual machines ('over a hundred thousand VM Volumes on Kubernetes'), and, since May 11, 2026, Plugin 2.2 bringing storage, protection, and disaster recovery into the OpenShift console with Advanced Cluster Management. The buyer gets storage that provisions and protects itself by policy and a Kubernetes data layer that follows its applications and VMs.\n\nThe architect's concern is that nothing here schedules compute. Fusion orchestrates arrays, Portworx orchestrates volumes, and the placement decisions that matter to an AI factory (which GPU, which node, which job) are made elsewhere; the automatic movers are Q4 2026.\n\nCalibration: NetApp reads moderate on a data-infrastructure control plane with no GPU scheduling; VAST moderate on Polaris; Dell moderate on rack-level management; Nutanix strong on Prism, ADS, and a Kubernetes platform; HPE strong on GreenLake. Everpure is NetApp's shape with a stronger Kubernetes story through Portworx. Moderate.", "borrowedJudgment": "Ceded at the planes, Delegated at the CSI door. Fusion, Pure1, and Portworx Enterprise are Everpure's software with no second implementer: Ceded; PX-CSI speaks the Kubernetes CSI standard (PersistentVolumeClaims and StorageClasses) in front of Everpure volumes: Delegated at that interface, the NetApp Trident and Dell CSI Operator reading; the Kubernetes underneath is the enterprise's and is scored on its own row. The runtime call the layer asks about is scheduling: which node, which GPU, which job, what share. Nothing Everpure ships makes or overrides that decision; Fusion's array choice is storage provisioning, and Pure1's recommendation is advice. Vendor decides, visible, not overridable, Ceded, the NetApp Console and VAST Polaris reading.", "notes": "Unscored on their dates: Copilot Workflow Execution and Enhanced Cyber Anomaly Detection ('Available Q2 2026', stated June 17, 2026, no confirming document since), Fusion Compliance and Agentic Triage and Workload Rebalance and Mobility (Q4 2026), Evergreen//One Overdrive (Q3 2026); all watch-listed. Portworx Data Services (database-as-a-service on Kubernetes) is named on the documentation index and not detailed in the source set. Authority written Ceded after the ChatGPT pass argued the Fusion array choice is storage provisioning, not the Layer 2A scheduling decision; the override-rule column item (September 5 sheet) stays open for the day Workload Rebalance ships. Public evidence that moves the cell: GPU or compute scheduling from Everpure, which nothing describes.", "components": [ { "component": "Everpure Fusion (Fleet Management; Presets and Workloads; Storage Classes; Placement Recommendations From Pure1; Policy Enforcement Through the Purity Control Plane; API-First)", "detail": "Everpure's fleet automation over Everpure's arrays. Ceded, the NetApp Console and VAST Polaris reading.", "dapm": "Ceded" }, { "component": "Pure1 Operations (Automatic Capacity Additions and Headroom on Evergreen//One; AIOps and Predictive Support; VM Analytics)", "detail": "Everpure's hosted operations plane sizing Everpure's service inside the enterprise's subscription. Ceded.", "dapm": "Ceded" }, { "component": "Portworx Enterprise, Backup, and Disaster Recovery on the Enterprise's Kubernetes (Autopilot; Stork; KubeVirt VMs; OpenShift Plugin 2.2 With Advanced Cluster Management, May 11, 2026)", "detail": "Proprietary storage and data-management software the enterprise runs on its own clusters. Ceded; the Kubernetes underneath is the enterprise's, the Cloudera customer-run OpenShift reading applies to it, not to Portworx.", "dapm": "Ceded" }, { "component": "PX-CSI (Kubernetes Container Storage Interface Provisioning of FlashArray and FlashBlade Volumes Through PersistentVolumeClaims and StorageClasses)", "detail": "A standard interface in front of Everpure volumes; the claims and classes lift to any CSI driver. Delegated, the NetApp Trident and Dell CSI Operator reading.", "dapm": "Delegated" } ] }, { "id": "layer2b", "label": "Layer 2B", "shortName": "Runtime", "title": "Application Runtime & Execution", "purpose": "Model serving, agent execution, inference APIs, distributed inference", "status": "moderate", "statusLabel": "Data Stream's On-Appliance Language Model Behind an OpenAI-Compatible Chat Endpoint, Answering Only Over Its Own Index; the Open-Source Fusion MCP Server for Storage Operations (Pure1 Manage MCP Undocumented); No General Serving, No Agent Runtime", "authority": { "decides": "model", "visible": true, "overridable": false, "boundary": "model", "direction": "Ceded" }, "nvidia": [ { "component": "NIM on NVIDIA GPUs Is the Runtime Inside Data Stream and the Validated Designs", "detail": "Data Stream's generation runs on its eight NVIDIA GPUs with NIM microservices; the GenAI Pod validated designs (November 2024), AIRI with DGX BasePOD, and the FlashStack CVD for AI Factories (NVIDIA AI Enterprise on Cisco UCS, GA Q1 2026 through channel partners) put NVIDIA's serving stack on Everpure storage. Ceded to NVIDIA under the channel-substitution rule wherever it appears." } ], "gap": "Everpure serves one model, sealed inside an appliance, and two tool servers over its own fleet. Data Stream 1.0.0's terms of use call it a 'generative AI software appliance': its ChatService is a 'Drop-in replacement for OpenAI with enterprise context utilizing on-appliance LLMs' with multi-turn chat and streaming, POST /chat/responses is 'OpenAI-compatible completion/responses', and 'Generative Output is produced entirely on End User's appliance using the search results available to Data Stream at the time of the request', licensed by tokens for 'search queries and generative output requests' per purchased system; the model is undisclosed, single-node, and answers only over the appliance's own index. Around the fleet: the Everpure Fusion MCP Server (open source, Apache 2.0, with a published user guide) gives an assistant a read-oriented tool surface over FlashArray and FlashBlade with optional, hidden-by-default supervised write tools (placement recommendation, preset create and update, workload deployment) that the enterprise's agent must approve; a Pure1 Manage MCP Server exposing read-only Pure1 APIs under Pure1 roles is 'generally available now' per the June 25, 2026 Everpure post but has no documentation, so it's named, not scored; Pure1 AI Copilot 'moves from a conversational assistant to an active operator' for anomaly triage inside Pure1. The validated designs (GenAI Pod, AIRI, FlashStack for AI Factories) put NVIDIA's runtime on Everpure storage on partners' paper. The buyer gets a RAG chat appliance and a way to let its assistants read and, with approval, act on its storage.\n\nThe architect's concern is that there's no serving platform in any of it. The chat endpoint's standard shape hides a fixed model on one box answering only what Data Stream indexed; there's no model catalog, no bring-your-own model, no agent runtime, and Fusion Compliance and Agentic Triage is 'Available Q4 2026'.\n\nCalibration: NetApp reads gap because its AI Data Engine retrieves without generating and the runtime is NVIDIA's; Dell moderate on its own Agentic AI Platform blueprints plus services; HPE moderate on Private Cloud AI as a packaged platform; VAST strong on AgentEngine; Nutanix moderate on platform-native serving with agents pre-GA. Everpure sits between NetApp and Nutanix: a fixed-function generative appliance on its own paper (rule 4 caps it at moderate) plus MCP tool servers. Moderate (ruled September 15, 2026): a fixed-function generative appliance on the vendor's paper is rule 4's slice; gap had been the first draft's reading on the NetApp precedent.", "borrowedJudgment": "Ceded at the appliance, Retained at the open tool server. Data Stream's chat is a fixed on-appliance model over a captive index behind an OpenAI-compatible door the enterprise can't point elsewhere: Ceded (NIM to NVIDIA under channel substitution); the standard shape doesn't earn the inference-interface Delegated reading because the model and the context are the appliance's. The Fusion MCP Server is Apache 2.0 code the enterprise runs against its own arrays: Retained, the Confluent open-source MCP reading. The decision to answer is the appliance's model over the appliance's retrieval, with no model swap and no pre-effect gate documented; the write tools on Fusion MCP are gated in the enterprise's own agent, a client-side gate on storage operations rather than on the model: model decides, visible (results, alerts, audit), not overridable, Ceded, the Cohere and Perplexity reading.", "notes": "Ruled September 15, 2026: moderate stands on Data Stream 1.0.0's documented generative endpoint (rule 4's fixed-function slice); gap had been argued on the NetApp reading. The Pure1 post (June 25, 2026) says both MCP servers are 'read-only by design'; the Fusion MCP Server user guide documents optional supervised write tools hidden by default; the documentation governs. The Pure1 Manage MCP Server (post only, no documentation) is named, not scored. Ruled September 15, 2026 (component): the ChatService is Ceded; Antigravity had argued Delegated at the interface on the Dataiku NIM reading, and the corollary now under the inference-interface ruling says a standard-shaped door with nothing substitutable behind it earns no Delegated. Named, not scored: GenAI Pod validated designs (2024; no current status document), AIRI//S, FlashStack CVD for AI Factories (Cisco's and NVIDIA's paper), Fusion Compliance and Agentic Triage (Q4 2026), Pure1 AI Copilot's agentic triage (post only). Public evidence that moves the cell: a model catalog or bring-your-own model on Data Stream, or an agent runtime on Everpure's paper, would argue strong; the gap reading is closed.", "components": [ { "component": "Data Stream ChatService (On-Appliance Large Language Model; OpenAI-Compatible /chat/responses With Multi-Turn Chat and Streaming; Generation Only Over the Appliance's Search Results; Token-Based Licensing per System)", "detail": "A fixed model on one box behind a standard door the enterprise can't redirect. Ceded to Everpure for the appliance and to NVIDIA for NIM; the interface shape doesn't lift the reading.", "dapm": "Ceded" }, { "component": "Everpure Fusion MCP Server (Apache 2.0; Read-Oriented Tools Over FlashArray and FlashBlade; Optional Supervised Write Tools for Placement Recommendation, Presets, and Workload Deployment, Hidden by Default and Approved in the Enterprise's Agent)", "detail": "Open-source code the enterprise runs on its own machine with its own API tokens; the tools act on Everpure resources. Retained on portability, the Confluent open-source MCP reading.", "dapm": "Retained" } ] }, { "id": "layer2c", "label": "Layer 2C", "shortName": "Reasoning", "title": "Agentic Infrastructure — The Reasoning Plane", "purpose": "Policy-driven placement and resource coordination — the Autonomy Layer", "status": "gap", "statusLabel": "Attribute-Based Data Policy for Agents Over MCP and a Human-in-the-Loop Gate on Storage Actions; Not a Plane Over Agents", "authority": { "decides": "absent", "visible": null, "overridable": null, "boundary": "vendor", "direction": "Absent" }, "nvidia": [ { "component": "No NVIDIA Dependency", "detail": "Nothing at this layer is a scored capability." } ], "gap": "Read against the five legs, Everpure has none as a plane over agents. Identity: Pure1 and Purity identify administrators and API tokens, and an MCP client inherits the token's Pure1 role; Data Intelligence's announced attribute-based access controls 'as AI systems and agents interact directly with data' would govern what an agent may read, not who the agent is, and are undocumented. Gateway: the Fusion MCP Server (and the undocumented Pure1 Manage MCP Server) sit in front of an agent's calls to Everpure storage (read-only, or supervised writes the enterprise's agent approves), scored or named at 2B; nothing Everpure ships sits in front of an agent's model calls or its tool calls in general. Registry and orchestration: none. Observability: Pure1 and Everpure Protect watch the storage estate, and Enhanced Cyber Anomaly Detection ('Available Q2 2026') watches login patterns and behavioral drift across arrays, storage telemetry rather than agent traces. What Everpure does give the reasoning plane is a governance substrate: SafeMode recovery points no administrator can delete, and a Human-in-the-Loop mandate requiring multi-party, out-of-band authorization for sensitive data actions, which is a deterministic gate on storage operations that an agent's action would also hit.\n\nThe architect's concern is the same as NetApp's: data guardrails aren't agent governance, and every control here is on Everpure's resources.\n\nCalibration: NetApp reads gap ('data guardrails ≠ agent governance'); Dell and VAST gap; HPE moderate on GreenLake Intelligence as an IT-operations reasoning plane; Nutanix moderate on an agent gateway. Everpure is NetApp's shape with a stronger recovery gate and a tool server. Gap, authority Absent; the ChatGPT pass argued a thin moderate on the MCP servers, rejected on the Confluent and Snowflake precedent that vendor MCP servers are 2B tool surfaces.", "borrowedJudgment": "Nothing offered as a plane over agents. The enterprise that wants agent identity, a request gateway, a registry, or orchestration brings its own; Data Intelligence's policy travels with the data, not with the agent. Absent.", "notes": "Named, not scored: Data Intelligence attribute-based access for agents over MCP (announced, undocumented), the Human-in-the-Loop mandate (release only), Enhanced Cyber Anomaly Detection (stated Q2 2026, unconfirmed), Fusion Compliance and Agentic Triage (Q4 2026), Pure1 AI Copilot's agentic triage. The Fusion MCP Server is scored at 2B; the Pure1 Manage MCP Server is named there. Public evidence that moves the cell: an agent principal, a gateway over agent requests generally, or a registry of the enterprise's agents; nothing in the documentation describes one.", "components": [] }, { "id": "layer3", "label": "Layer 3 (+1)", "shortName": "Applications", "title": "AI Application Layer — The Value Plane", "purpose": "AI-powered business capabilities — business logic, workflow automation", "status": "gap", "statusLabel": "No Value Plane: Storage Beneath Others' Applications; Copilot Workflow Execution Is a Storage-Operations Assistant With an Unconfirmed Q2 2026 Date; Validated Designs Are Reference Architectures", "authority": { "decides": "absent", "visible": null, "overridable": null, "boundary": "vendor", "direction": "Absent" }, "nvidia": [ { "component": "The Unscored Layer 3 Signals Are NVIDIA Patterns", "detail": "The GenAI Pod validated designs automate NVIDIA NeMo and NIM deployments through NVIDIA AI Enterprise, the drug-discovery solution white paper is built on NVIDIA BioNeMo, and the FlashStack CVD runs NVIDIA AI Enterprise; nothing is scored, and every application pattern Everpure names runs on NVIDIA software." } ], "gap": "Everpure sells no application. Copilot Workflow Execution, a natural-language assistant for storage administrators to 'plan, validate, and trigger secure, end-to-end operations across the entire global infrastructure estate', was stated 'Available Q2 2026' in the June 17, 2026 release and has no confirming document since; even shipped, it's an infrastructure-operations assistant of the kind the HPE row scores at 2C and the Confluent row carries in notes, not a business capability. The GenAI Pod validated designs (November 2024: drug discovery, trade research and investment analysis with KX, and RAG-based knowledge management and chatbots, with Meta, NVIDIA, Red Hat, Supermicro, WWT, Cisco, and Arista; 'expected to be generally available in the first half of 2025'), the life-sciences page's 'Everpure GenAI Solution for Drug Discovery' on NVIDIA BioNeMo (a white paper with deployment guidance), AIRI, and Cisco FlashStack for AI Factories are reference architectures and validated designs the enterprise builds applications on, none with product documentation or a program page of its own, and the partner ecosystem (Cisco, NVIDIA, Supermicro, Commvault, Kyndryl, Red Hat, Microsoft) is a go-to-market, not a program that ships applications on Everpure's paper. The buyer gets nothing to log into at this layer.\n\nThe architect's concern is nil: there's no application to be captured by.\n\nCalibration: NetApp reads gap ('no value plane, data foundation beneath others' apps'); Dell and HPE read partner on formal AI ecosystem programs (Dell AI Ecosystem Program, HPE Unleash AI) that ship named ISV applications on their platforms; VAST moderate on a focused ecosystem; Nutanix moderate on platform enablement. Everpure is NetApp's shape. Gap, authority Absent. Partner had been argued on the Dell and HPE reading if the GenAI Pod applications, the BioNeMo drug-discovery solution, and the FlashStack designs count as an ecosystem program; under the Layer 3 marketplace ruling (September 11, 2026) a partner shelf earns no grade and the evidence stays unscored on the GA-gate, not absent; the MongoDB and Redis developer-assistant question doesn't reach an operations copilot.", "borrowedJudgment": "Nothing offered, nothing inherited. Absent.", "notes": "Ruled September 11, 2026: gap stands on the Layer 3 marketplace ruling; partner had been argued on the Dell and HPE ecosystem-program reading. Named, not scored: Copilot Workflow Execution (stated Q2 2026, unconfirmed; watch-listed), the GenAI Pod validated designs and their named applications (2024, no current status document), the GenAI Solution for Drug Discovery on NVIDIA BioNeMo (white paper), AIRI//S, FlashStack for AI Factories. Public evidence that moves the cell: a first-party application or a named ecosystem program shipping ISV applications on Everpure's paper.", "components": [] } ] }