What does the Komprise and Everpure transparent data tiering white paper cover, and what problem does it solve for FlashBlade environments?

This paper reviews the benefits of transparent data tiering between Everpure FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E with Komprise Intelligent Data Management, covering the need for transparent data tiering, suggested architecture, solution validations, and the benefits. The problem it addresses is one that every Everpure FlashBlade customer eventually encounters: the cost gap between performance-optimized and capacity-optimized flash storage creates a natural tiering opportunity, but without intelligent data management, organizations end up paying performance prices for data that does not need performance:

• FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E are architecturally complementary — FlashBlade//S is designed to deliver the efficiency, density, and top performance that modern unstructured data needs at scale; FlashBlade//E is designed to deliver the environmental, ease of use, and reliability benefits of all-flash storage for unstructured data workloads but at a cost competitive with disk-based storage solutions
• The cost/performance gap creates an opportunity — while performance-optimized FlashBlade//S and capacity-optimized FlashBlade//E can both scale out to petabytes of data, organizations can be most cost-effective by keeping data at the most relevant FlashBlade tier; without analytics to identify which data belongs where, the default is everything on the most expensive tier
• Komprise Intelligent Tiering provides the intelligence layer — Komprise gives enterprises the ability to intelligently manage their data by identifying rarely accessed data from FlashBlade//S and transparently tiering it to FlashBlade//E without any changes to user or application access; with patented Komprise Transparent Move Technology, users and applications access data in the same location as before
• Solution validation is documented — the white paper includes architectural guidance and validation testing performed jointly by Everpure and Komprise engineers, making it an authoritative reference for IT teams building a tiering strategy across FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E
• The combination delivers optimal ROI — the combination of Komprise Intelligent Data Management with the FlashBlade line of high-performance, resilient storage ensures the optimal cost-performance ROI in the industry

How does Komprise implement transparent data tiering between FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E, and what policies govern which data moves?

Komprise implements tiering between FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E using Komprise Transparent Move Technology (TMT) and policy-based rules defined through the Komprise Intelligent Data Management platform. The process is fully transparent to users and applications:

• Analytics before any movement — Komprise continuously profiles all data across FlashBlade//S, identifying file age, access frequency, size, type, owner, and project code; this gives IT teams a complete picture of which data is hot and genuinely needs FlashBlade//S performance and which data is cold and appropriate for FlashBlade//E capacity tiers
• Policy-driven, not time-based — Komprise provides different tiering policies for different types of data; a research organization might tier genomics working files after 90 days while keeping active project files on FlashBlade//S indefinitely; policies can be defined by file type, age, owner, directory, project code, or any combination of attributes
• Transparent file access via Dynamic Links — when Komprise moves a file from FlashBlade//S to FlashBlade//E, it leaves a Komprise Dynamic Link at the original path; users and applications access the file exactly as before; there are no stubs, no agents on the storage system, and no change to any workflow or application configuration
• No rehydration penalty — unlike storage-vendor block tiering, Komprise file-level tiering does not trigger rehydration during antivirus scans, backups, or defragmentation; cold files remain on FlashBlade//E until a user or application genuinely needs them, preventing the silent refill of expensive FlashBlade//S capacity that makes block-level tiering ineffective
• Tiering also extends to cloud — customers can use Komprise to transparently tier from FlashBlade//S to FlashBlade//E and the cloud to tackle unstructured data growth while cutting cold data costs; the same policy engine governs tiering across the full spectrum from FlashBlade//S to FlashBlade//E to cloud object storage with a single management interface

Everpure customers often know Komprise for data migrations — what other capabilities does Komprise Intelligent Data Management deliver for FlashBlade and FlashArray environments?

Unstructured data migration is how many Everpure customers first encounter Komprise — Everpure resells Komprise Elastic Data Migration to deliver unstructured data migrations into FlashBlade and FlashArray environments, and Komprise is used by Everpure Professional Services teams for data migrations. But migration is only the entry point. Komprise Intelligent Data Management delivers five additional layers of value that Everpure customers are increasingly adopting:

• Ongoing intelligent tiering between FlashBlade tiers — once data has migrated to FlashBlade, Komprise identifies cold data accumulating on FlashBlade//S and tiers it automatically to FlashBlade//E or cloud, protecting the performance investment and extending hardware ROI without manual intervention; Komprise enables intelligent Everpure tiering by identifying cold and infrequently accessed data on high-performance flash systems and transparently moving it to lower-cost tiers, dramatically reducing flash storage and backup costs and extending hardware ROI
• Unified visibility across all unstructured data — Komprise Analysis provides a single view of all file and object data across FlashBlade, FlashArray File Services, and any other storage in the environment; IT teams can see cost projections, data growth trends, and cold data candidates across the full Everpure estate and beyond from one interface
• AI and analytics data preparation — Komprise uses Deep Analytics and Smart Data Workflows to classify and prepare unstructured data in Everpure environments so that the most valuable datasets are easily delivered to AI and analytics pipelines; by filtering out cold data and ensuring AI workloads access curated, meaningful datasets, Komprise reduces processing time and storage overhead while enabling faster insights from Everpure systems; these capabilities require Komprise Intelligent Data Management
• Ransomware defense and disaster recovery — Komprise tiers cold files to immutable object storage destinations and supports asynchronous data replication with object-locked targets; tiering cold data off FlashBlade//S shrinks the active ransomware attack surface while simultaneously creating a protected copy of cold content that can be recovered without paying ransom
• Right-placing data across FlashArray and FlashBlade — Komprise is able to right-place data across Everpure FlashArray File Services, FlashBlade//S, and FlashBlade//E platforms to deliver optimal price-performance; this tri-tier capability means Komprise governs data across the full Everpure portfolio, not just between two FlashBlade variants

How does the 2026 flash storage price surge specifically affect Everpure FlashBlade customers and how does Komprise help?

Everpure FlashBlade customers are among the most exposed enterprises in the current memory market. They have committed to all-flash infrastructure — the right long-term decision — but are now absorbing price increases on the very component that makes their storage expensive. IDC describes the current memory shortage as a potentially permanent strategic reallocation of global silicon wafer capacity, with major memory manufacturers pivoting toward high-margin AI enterprise components; IDC expects 2026 DRAM and NAND supply growth to remain below historical norms at 16% and 17% year-on-year respectively. See a review of the recent customer update from Everpure CEO Charles Giancarlo: Everpure reveals supply chain issues, warns customers.

For FlashBlade customers, this creates a specific set of pressures that Komprise directly addresses:

• Capacity expansion is more expensive than ever — adding FlashBlade//S capacity at current NAND prices costs significantly more than it did at purchase; the FlashBlade customer who would have added a blade to absorb data growth now has a compelling alternative in Komprise intelligent tiering, which reclaims that capacity from cold data already sitting on existing hardware
• The Flash Stretch Assessment quantifies the opportunity — Komprise offers a Flash Stretch Assessment for qualified Everpure customers managing 500TB or more of unstructured data; the assessment identifies exactly how much cold data is consuming FlashBlade//S capacity that could be transparently moved to FlashBlade//E or cloud, and models the cost savings and cost avoidance from doing so before any commitment is made
• Backup costs compound the problem — every cold file on FlashBlade//S is backed up identically to active data; tiering cold files to FlashBlade//E or cloud removes them from the backup footprint, compounding storage savings across hardware, backup licensing, and DR replication simultaneously; by combining tiering and lifecycle automation, Komprise helps enterprises cut flash and cloud storage and backup costs by 70% or more
• Sustainability benefits of staying on flash — moving more data to flash means customers use less energy and can operate more sustainably; FlashBlade//E delivers the capacity efficiency of disk at dramatically lower power consumption; Komprise tiering to FlashBlade//E rather than spinning disk maintains the sustainability benefits of an all-flash architecture while cutting cost
• Everpure and Komprise together address both performance and cost — the combination keeps active, AI-relevant data on high-performance FlashBlade//S while intelligently moving inactive data to cost-optimized FlashBlade//E, ensuring the Everpure investment continues to deliver maximum ROI as NAND prices remain elevated

How does Komprise Intelligent Data Management position Everpure FlashBlade as AI-ready infrastructure and what capabilities does the full platform unlock for Everpure customers?

Everpure positions FlashBlade as AI-ready storage — high-performance, unified file and object, built for the scale that AI workloads require. Komprise is the metadata and orchestration layer for enterprise unstructured AI data that makes that positioning a reality in production. Komprise provides Intelligent Data Management for Everpure, including fast and scalable migration, analytics-driven tiering, lifecycle management, and unified unstructured data visibility across FlashBlade, FlashArray and other hybrid cloud storage; these solutions reduce flash storage costs, optimize hybrid workloads, and prepare unstructured data for analytics and AI workflows by ensuring the right data is in the right place at the right time. What the full Komprise Intelligent Data Management platform unlocks for Everpure customers specifically:

• The Global Metadatabase spans the full Everpure estate — Komprise Intelligent Data Management continuously indexes all file and object data across FlashBlade//S, FlashBlade//E, FlashArray File Services, and any cloud destinations, building a unified metadata layer that makes the entire Everpure data estate searchable, classifiable, and queryable for AI use cases without moving data to a separate catalog
• Deep Analytics identifies AI-ready datasets on FlashBlade — Deep Analytics queries the Global Metadatabase to find exactly the right data for any AI use case across the full Everpure estate; a life sciences organization can identify all genomics BAM files for a specific research project across petabytes of FlashBlade storage in seconds, reducing the dataset before any AI pipeline access
• Smart Data Workflows automate AI data delivery — Komprise is working with the Everpure team to develop Smart Data Workflows into NVIDIA-based AIRI systems and power their AI-ready data storage infrastructure; Smart Data Workflows automate the full sequence of discovering, classifying, governing, and delivering curated datasets from FlashBlade to any AI service without manual curation
• KAPPA enriches FlashBlade data for AI — KAPPA Data Services extract custom, domain-specific metadata from proprietary file formats stored on FlashBlade — DICOM headers, genomics BAM attributes, engineering CAD metadata — using serverless processing at petabyte scale; this enriched metadata is written back to the Global Metadatabase, making FlashBlade-resident data precisely queryable for AI workflows (Read the customer story: With Komprise, Everpure, AWS S3 and PathAI, NewYork-Presbyterian is finding success with AI at the point of care in a bold new initiative to improve treatment and outcomes.)
• Migration is the starting point, not the ceiling — customers who begin with Komprise Elastic Data Migration to move data onto FlashBlade can upgrade to Komprise Intelligent Data Management to unlock the Global Metadatabase, Deep Analytics, Smart Data Workflows, Sensitive Data Management, Intelligent AI Ingest, and KAPPA; every migration into FlashBlade performed with Komprise is the foundation for an AI-ready, governed, continuously optimized Everpure data estate