We were able to get pricing that was very similar to what Pure has. And for a lot of situations, the only thing Pure had was that they were cheaper. They wanted to keep us as a customer, and they were flexible. End-of-quarter pricing discounts help. We're we're comfortable with this product. They're bringing us an entire new storage system in what would have been a lot of work on our end.
Flash storage is a data storage technology that delivers high-speed, programmable memory. It is called flash storage because of the speed at which it writes data and performs input/output (I/O) operations.
We were able to get pricing that was very similar to what Pure has. And for a lot of situations, the only thing Pure had was that they were cheaper. They wanted to keep us as a customer, and they were flexible. End-of-quarter pricing discounts help. We're we're comfortable with this product. They're bringing us an entire new storage system in what would have been a lot of work on our end.