Scottish farm subsidy body slashes dev time with Pure all-flash Rural directorate ditched hybrid flash EMC SAN for Pure all-flash storage and cut developer time in half, while beta testing Cloud Block Store and planning container project Share this item with your network: By Published: 11 Mar 2021 9:17 The Scottish government’s Agricultural and Rural Economy (ARE) directorate has ditched a struggling EMC VNX hybrid flash SAN and deployed Pure Storage all-flash. The move saw it halve build times for up to 100 developers and boost performance all-round. ARE is the department responsible for the claims process and paying subsidies to about 20,000 farmers that have totalled around £750m a year, pre-Brexit. It runs Red Hat and VMware virtualisation with up to 600 virtual servers and 350 virtual desktops.