The Pure Report

ESG Analyst Christophe Bertrand joins the Pure Report to discuss the requirements and market trends driving a new approach to data protection. Hear about how to move beyond classic DR and backup/recovery use cases to capitalize on opportunities to improve data insight for both on-prem and cloud-connected deployments. Christophe brings 25 years of experience in services, software, and high-end stor...

Andrew Miller, Principal SE, returns to the Pure Report to share his talk track around FlashStack and how IT orgs can improve their Day 0/1/2 ramp experiences because of the flexibility and pre-tested capabilities of FlashStack converged infrastructure from Cisco and Pure. Learn about tradeoffs across best-of-breed, converged, and hyperconverged, and how Pure's design philosophy addresses historic...

Hear from Juan Orlandini, Chief Architect at Insight, about the new ways customers are innovating around data management including analytics, cloud native applications, containers, and hybrid cloud. Juan discusses typical challenges in implementing next generation data solutions and ways to successfully deploy cloud-connected ecosystems. Insight is a Pure Platinum partner - for more information on...

Dave Evans, Infrastructure Engineer at Duquesne Light, describes his experience automating development activities for Oracle with Terraform and Go libraries on FlashArray. Hear about how he used Pure Code (code.purestorage.com) and Pure's integrated REST APIs to build consistent scripted templates to improve efficiency around automating the provisioning of compute and storage nodes for developers....

Join this episode featuring Roger Weeks, Technical Marketing Engineer from the Pure1 team, to hear about the powerful capabilities in Pure1, Pure's AI-Driven management stack. Roger highlights value added and unique Pure1 features that can enhance user experiences with Pure1 - including data filtering, shortcuts, REST API integration, mobility, and more. For more info on Pure1: https://www.puresto...

Check out Part 2 of our new Get to Know Pure Executives series, featuring Pure Co-founder and CTO John "Coz" Colgrove. In Part 2, you'll hear about an average day in the life for Coz at Pure and delve into his personal life including favorite books, travel destinations, and more. Stay tuned for upcoming Get to Know Pure Execs episodes debuting soon. For more on the leadership team at Pure, go to:...

Hear from Mark Gonzalez, Regional VP of Sales at ePlus, to hear his thoughts on what makes a great technology partner. Mark delivers interesting anecdotes from his 30+ years of industry experience and takes you through his 4 P's of partnership - including great products and compelling programs, partnerships that count, and passion for what you do. ePlus is a Pure Storage national partner - for mor...

Hear from Adam Morrison, Director of IT Engineering at Pearl River Resorts, about the unique challenges of managing IT operations for a 24/7 always-on enterprise supporting multiple casino resorts. He talks about sleeping better at night knowing that critical SQL Server databases, casino applications and VMs will stay up and run fast, while leveraging the intuitive support and monitoring capabilit...

Cisco's Sr. Solutions Manager Erik Lillestolen stops by the Pure Report to talk about how FlashStack converged infrastructure with Cisco UCS and Pure Storage arrays delivers superior business outcomes for application users. Also hear his thoughts on benefits of the Cisco and Pure alliance, the high degree of integration in FlashStack, plus some tidbits about enterprise challenges with running SAP....

Enjoy the first episode in our new Get to Know Pure Executives series, featuring Pure Co-founder and CTO John "Coz" Colgrove. This is Part 1 of a 2 part series since it was a lengthy conversation - Part 2 will release soon. Coz digs into a variety of topics in this episode: from Pure’s 10-year anniversary to our recent Pure//Accelerate event and everything in between. Going forward, we'll feature...

Analyst/influencer Justin Warren from Pivotnine joins the program to provide his interesting perspectives on the relationship among technology, management, and finance. Justin also chimes in around the value he sees for enterprises in using Pure1 and unique features Pure provides in predictive workload analysis to drive improved business outcomes. Finally, hear his take on how IT skillsets are evo...

Container and new stack technologies continue their rapid adoption across all IT organizations, offering greater agility and flexible consumption models. Hear from two of SHIs Principal Solution Architects, Russ Cantwell and Mike Voss, who partner with Pure to work with customers to accelerate strategies and services to ensure success for hybrid data management adoption. SHI is a leading Pure Stor...

Catch up with Pure's Principal Systems Engineer Andrew Miller who joins the Pure Report to discuss his latest travels and how core Pure technologies provide an excellent springboard to the adoption of hybrid cloud and as-a-service models for agile data management. Andrew also offers a Pure Report first - poetry - a haiku about our Accelerate event. Don't miss this one - he's a great guest and extr...

This episode features two Pure Storage users from Direct Technology, a SaaS and managed services provider located in the Sacramento, CA area. Hear from Nick Saechow, Director of IT Technology, and Brandon Nguyen, Sr. Systems Engineer, about how Pure Storage solutions make it easier for them to deliver managed application services for mission-critical projects, and how Pure saves them time in opera...

Chris Evans, IT industry analyst and host of the Storage Unpacked podcast joins the Pure Report to weigh in on the latest Pure Storage announcements at Accelerate, including his unique perspective on Cloud Block Store. Chris also looks into his crystal ball and provides some predictions regarding prevailing trends in the Storage industry to look for in the next 18-24 months. For more from Chris Ev...

The highly entertaining Gestalt IT analyst and influencer Stephen Foskett joins the Pure Report to recap a busy day 1 of Pure Accelerate in Austin. Listen to get Stephen's perspectives on all the latest Pure announcements including FlashArray//C, Storage Class Memory, Cloud Block Store, FlashBlade, Pure1 and more. For more information on Gestalt IT, go to: https://gestaltit.com/ and for the latest...

Catch up with all the latest FlashArray announcements from Day 1 of Pure Accelerate 2019 with James Gallegos from the FlashArray product team. Hear about details of the launch of new value added Pure Storage technologies and products including FlashArray//C, Storage Class Memory and the GA of Cloud Block Store for AWS. For more information, check out: https://www.purestorage.com/pure-folio/showcas...

Enjoy a special Accelerate 2019 edition of the Pure Report featuring James Gallegos and Tago Navonne from the FlashArray product team to dive into the impact of new Storage Class Memory for FlashArray. Announced at Accelerate, this new Direct Memory technology can be non-disruptively added to FlashArray and can reduce latency up to 50% for mission-critical apps like SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server an...

"Without change, there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement." Enjoy a thought provoking episode of the Pure Report with Paul Ferraro, Senior Director, Business Optimization and Cloud Technology, where we discuss a range of topics from financial engineering to the user-based economy. Paul provides interesting use case examples outside of the storage industry to provide inspira...

Learn how to overcome the data management challenges of running Microsoft SQL Server by tuning in to this new episode of the Pure Report featuring Field Solution Architect Marsha Pierce. As a former enterprise DBA, Marsha has practical and hands-on experience streamlining database operations and fascinating perspectives on helping storage admins and DBAs find common ground to improve how they func...

Wonder what's in the minds of the next generation of high tech workers that will be creating the future of IT? Or maybe you hire interns and need insight on what makes for a valuable internship? Hear from three of Pure's summer interns about their perspectives on interning at Pure, details around their department projects, and how their time at Pure will help jumpstart their careers after college....

Enterprises continue to rely on Microsoft Exchange Server on-premises for their employees' communications and calendaring needs. Hear from Pure's resident Microsoft Exchange Solution Architect Robert Quimbey ("Q") about his perspectives on the evolution of Exchange (Q worked at Microsoft in the 90's and 00's)and recent solution enhancements on Pure FlashArray to deliver improved uptime, response t...

Just in time for VMworld 2019, Pure's Technical Director of VMware solutions Cody Hosterman drops by the Pure Report to talk all things VMware, virtualization, and integrations with Pure Storage. Hear about how Pure's tight alignment with VMware enables easier data management operations for highly virtualized environments including Cody's favorite subject, Virtual Volumes (VVols). You'll also get...

The Pure Report welcomes Justin Emerson, Director of AI/ML Solutions at ePlus Technology, for a discussion around key enterprise challenges in harnessing analytics to improve insight and develop competitive advantages. Hear about how ePlus can design and implement solutions using Pure and other alliance partners to make AI initiatives a success. For more information on ePlus AI/ML solutions: https...

Despite continuing advances in Database functionality, today's Database Administrators (DBAs) still spend too much time on mundane tasks like tuning IO subsystems, and troubleshooting slow performance. Jorge Garcia, Apps Solutions Architect, returns to the Pure Report to discuss the common challenges that DBAs encounter around slow response times, constant tuning, complex data protection strategie...