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| As the industry's most performant consistent and sustainable storage solution we are well positioned to serve both the energy and data-intensive demands of artificial intelligence |
| We had a solid Q4 performance and ended the year with increasing sales momentum and balanced performance across our theaters and product portfolio |
| This momentum and growing customer interest in our platform strategy provides us with increased confidence for the coming year |
| And as we said before, they continue to realize incredible value from our solutions in place |
| FY '24 total contract value sales for Evergreen/One and Evergreen/Flex grew to over $400 million, more than doubling over the prior year |
| product and platform innovation was strong as evidenced by FlashBlade now exceeding $2 billion in total sales since launch |
| Our relationship with Meta is stronger than ever |
| Look, we're very pleased with the win |
| Charles Giancarlo As we indicated, I think, at the end of our -- in our Q3 call and now in Q4, we are seeing strong indications of improving demand both, I think, in the actual results as well as in pipeline as we go forward and in our conversations with customers overall |
| Pure's direct reliability and economics continue to be unmatched and customers appreciate our Evergreen guarantee of no application downtime with system upgrades |
| So Charlie mentioned, very excited about this win |
| And as we look to FY '25, we're again expecting to expand our operating margin to 17% while also returning to double-digit revenue growth |
| But look, pleased with both gross margin and operating margin performance as we think about it in '24, and it really is consistent with our philosophy of driving profitable growth |
| And so when you kind of map that, you got to step back from that and map that down to the Pure portfolio, very pleased with our position, right? You can see where our single consistent software and hardware operating environment with Fusion, really helping customers emerge from that fragmented data storage position |
| This high 8-figure deal comprised almost all of Pure's products and services and represents our growing success in large enterprise |
| So really pleased with that win |
| Pure's data storage platform and Evergreen architecture delivers substantial business value to our customers by reducing complexity, while increasing reliability, flexibility and unparalleled power and cost efficiencies |
| We are pleased with our expectations of getting back to double-digit revenue growth and continuing strong growth from our nev Storage as a Service, and Evergreen/Flex offerings |
| We expect to return to double-digit revenue growth in FY '25, growing 10.5% to $3.1 billion |
| Pure's balance sheet and liquidity remains very strong, including approximately $1.5 billion in cash and investments at the end of Q4 |
| Product and subscription services gross margin both contributed to total gross margin strength of 73.7% in Q4 and 73.2% for the year |
| Portworx had a record year and accelerated growth based on customers increasingly graduating their container-based development projects to production scale |
| Portworx saw strong sales in the financial sector this past quarter |
| A leading global financial institution significantly improved the efficiency and lower the cost of critical Tier 0 applications by automating its internal cloud infrastructure with Portworx |
| Portworx industry leadership was recognized by IDC, which positioned Portworx as an industry leader in their new and latest Kuganetes container data management category |
| As we reported all year, Evergreen/One consistently experienced breakout growth |
| In Q4, subscription services annual recurring revenue or ARR grew 25% to approximately $1.4 billion, highlighting the strong traction for our consumption and subscription-based service offerings |
| Total RPO, which also includes product orders grew 31% year-over-year in Q4, exceeding $2.3 billion |
| Key contributors of our operating margin strength were strong gross margins across our data storage platform reflecting the value of our solutions and disciplined investing |
| Our commitment to offering the most sustainable storage solutions in the industry continues to drive competitive advantage for customers focused on their environmental reporting |
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| Customers are beginning to realize that their current fragmented data storage environment will significantly hinder their ability to leverage AI to unlock the full potential of their data |
| Our ability to get access to that data is very poor |
| Charles Giancarlo And then when you think about timing, what I'm seeing is it's the most -- it's the companies that are the most advanced in their thinking and analysis of what they might do with that are just beginning to realize, oh my gosh, regardless of how many GPUs we buy or lease or rent, at our data governance is very poor |
| And you're right, Tim, this would then imply a slight decline in gross margins, which we expect to be derived principally within product gross margins as we continue to penetrate the disk market and scale our E-family |
| Kevan, I'm trying to understand the guidance and kind of the assumption around your TCV bookings for Evergreen/One last year -- or fiscal '24 when you guided, we obviously -- you had to raise the assumption on Evergreen/One bookings contribution through the year, and that led to a headwind to top line growth, what gives you confidence that 50% is kind of the right number and that at the end of the year or through half the year, it's not going to be 100% |
| It does look like that's probably guided a little bit lower |
| Current data storage environments inhibit AI deployments in 2 ways |
| Furthermore, the energy demands of AI is outstripping the availability of power in many data center environments |
| But I'm trying to understand just the risk to the top line guide |
| I'm sorry, I'm going to be the bad guy so that the others don't get upset with us |
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