This white paper explains how exploding data volumes, fragmentation, and poor visibility undermine governance, security, and AI readiness. It introduces the Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) as a unified architecture that virtualizes block, file, and object storage across on-prem and cloud environments. Key capabilities include predictive intelligence, policy-based automation, real-time telemetry, autonomous governance, and built-in cyber resilience (illustrated in diagrams on pages 6–7). The paper highlights Pure Storage as the only vendor delivering this full EDC vision today, offering unified control, high-performance scalability, automated lifecycle management, audit-ready compliance, and Evergreen//One SLAs. EDC eliminates silos, accelerates innovation, reduces risk, and shifts organization

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