Case Study: Black Duck Software achieves simplified storage and major cost savings with Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade

FlashBlade and FlashArray Enable Continued Growth for Black Duck Software

Black Duck Software, which maintains a 120TB KnowledgeBase of more than 2 million open‑source projects used by its products and 2,000+ customers, faced growing data volumes, limited IOPS from spinning‑disk storage, and disruptive, slow capacity upgrades that constrained virtualization and long‑term planning.

By standardizing on Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade, Black Duck gained high IOPS and bandwidth, non‑disruptive scalability, and centralized management. The deployment enabled ~90% server virtualization, seamless live expansions, and dramatic data reduction (about 9:1 overall and 19.6:1 for Postgres replicas), shrinking rack space and lowering capital and operating costs while improving performance for concurrent workloads and accelerating new service delivery.

Black Duck

Kevin Smith

Senior Director of IT