All-flash array vendor Pure Storage announced FlashBlade, an all-flash storage platform designed to store the biggest and fastest data. FlashBlade is an elastic scale-out system that delivers all-flash performance to multi-petabyte-scale data sets at economics of less than $1/GB usable. Together, Pure Storage FlashBlade and the Pure Storage FlashArray form a complete platform for organizations to build their all-flash cloud, the company said in a press statement. FlashBlade is now available in an Early Access Program for select customers, with a Directed Availability release for production workloads planned for the second half of calendar 2016. Pure Storage also announced a new entry-level model of its purpose-built all-flash storage array, the FlashArray//m10.