eMeter, a California-based provider of smart grid software platform has reportedly deployed the Pure Storage FlashArray. According to Pure Storage, its all-flash enterprise arrays are 10 times faster and 10 times more space and power efficient than traditional disk-centric arrays.

According to its maker, PurStorage Flash arrays have been specifically designed for high performance workloads, including server virtualization, desktop virtualization (VDI), database (OLTP, real-time analytics) and cloud computing.

According to press release, Pure Storage FlashArray enabled eMeter to implement a shared services model for Engineering, QA, Support and Training. The new solution has reportedly allowed the company to quickly provision eMeter application instances on-demand, for a variety of use cases.

Depending on the result of the current implementation, eMeter may broaden the deployment of the FlashArray within its engineering and IT infrastructure in future.

eMeter has to often support a diverse set of engineering, QA, support, training and customer demo needs within its environment. With each environment consisting of five separate physical machines, the process proved quite a time-consuming affair. The environments also needed to be capable of scaling far beyond customer usage so that deployments could be tested in QA and replicated in support.

“For businesses like eMeter that need to rapidly process large amounts of data, the Pure Storage FlashArray is a natural fit, delivering the performance, flexibility and scalability without the added complexity,” Matt Kixmoeller, vice president of Product at Pure Storage noted in a statement.

Pure Storage FlashArray provided a solution to this challenge. The solution was implemented by virtualizing independent database, application, web and integration servers with VMware, running on a single Pure Storage FlashArray.

This new solution has allowed eMeter to provision full stack environments quickly and flexibly on a shared model. This ensured that the eMeter applications can deliver superior performance, while meeting the largest testing requirements.

“We simply could not have done this on the filer we had. After implementing Pure Storage, we are now CPU-bound on our hosts, and storage no longer limits our scale. The data reduction results have been nothing short of phenomenal -- we looked at the numbers two or three times because we didn't believe them at first,” Bryan Bond, senior systems administrator at eMeter noted in a statement.

In December 2011, Siemens (News - Alert) Industry acquired all the assets of eMeter Corp. The move was aimed at further penetrating the smart grid market and to solidify its position in platform and meter data management (MDM) application software.