The Pure Report

The continuing momentum around container adoption and DevOps creates challenges around the needs for intelligent and persistent storage to more easily scale containerized applications. Co-host Sam Marriccini catches up with Pure Solution Architect Simon Dodsley for a spirited discussion around how Pure is delivering storage integrations in this space that empowers developers and accelerates applic...

Enjoy this special edition of the Pure Report featuring an appearance by Pure's Chief Marketing Officer Robson Grieve on the Disruptive Live podcast program. Robson talks about Pure's customer-first, technology-driven approach, and gives his thoughts on the hybrid cloud revolution, the data hub approach to AI/ML and Pure’s unique Evergreen business model.

Managing a huge estate of VMs presents a significant challenge to admins around mapping VMs to arrays and troubleshooting performance issues. To help solve this problem, Pure offers VM Analytics, available in Pure1®. Hear from Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer, Stan Yanitskiy, about how VM Analytics delivers full-stack visibility, making it easier to view solve performance issues and to view how VM...

Gain deep insight on data management challenges running SAP Applications and SAP HANA from Pure's SAP Field Solution Architect, Ryan Arsenault. Prior to Pure, Ryan spent 15 years as an IT Delivery Manager running complex SAP environments so his level of depth and hands-on experience is legit. Hear about why SAP applications are complex and customized, how SAP HANA really works and why it's tough t...

The Pure Report celebrates its first birthday by welcoming back one of the first guests on the program, Kevin Rickson, Product Marketing Manager for the Evergreen program. Get a deep dive into how Pure engineering makes this program work for customers - delivering non-disruptive software upgrades and capacity expansions while keeping your business running and avoiding data migrations. Also, Kevin...

Join Sam Marraccini on location from Orlando at SAP's annual flagship event, SAPPHIRE 2019. Sam speaks with a variety of Pure's SAP solutions applications team about Pure's growing presence at this show and how customers are learning ways to leverage Pure's integrated capabilities to streamline copy/clone and refresh of SAP applications while driving out operating cost. For more on Pure and SAP so...

Find out how Pure Storage has been ramping up SAP Solutions to help businesses automate complex SAP operations, streamline adoption of SAP HANA, and speed up the journey to analytics and cloud. Hear from Brian Ferrar, SAP Solutions Marketing Manager, about Pure's upcoming presence at SAP's SAPPHIRE event and how the SAP solutions team continues to develop compelling solutions to help users superch...

Listen live from the GPU Technology Conference 2019 (GTC), NVIDIA's annual event around the latest in AI, deep learning, HPC, and more. This year, Pure Storage was a platinum sponsor and in this episode you'll hear from three Pure experts about how modern solutions using FlashBlade and AIRI are improving time-to-insight and simplifying the deployment and operation of infrastructure for AI and anal...

Co-host Sam Marraccini stops by the Pure Report studio to chat about his perspectives on Pure after 6 months into his new role. During this episode, you'll hear about Pure's unwavering customer focus, how Evergreen solves uptime challenges, recent developments in hybrid cloud solutions, upcoming events, and much more. For everything about Pure Storage, check out www.purestorage.com.

Listen live from HIMSS 2019, the leading healthcare IT show where Pure exhibited and held sessions showing how Pure technologies can aid organizations to achieve efficiencies of care delivery, lower costs, and put an end to data silos and migrations. Pure's own Esteban Reubens, Global Principal for Enterprise Imaging, shares his insights on the conference and Pure's momentum in delivering cutting...

Historically host data encryption and array data reduction are like oil and water – they simply don’t mix. But not any longer. Hear from Vaughn Stewart, Pure VP Alliances, and Blake Wood, Thales Director of Business Development, about a new joint solution announcement -- Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framew...

Container adoption is all the rage and increasing rapidly, but lack of persistent storage support for dynamic containerized applications threatens to slow this trend. Hear from two of Pure's experts in this space, Shilpi Srivastava and Raphael Londner, about how Pure Service Orchestrator addresses this challenge, delivering smart provisioning, elastic scaling, and transparent recovery that can acc...

How are application owners impacted by limitations at the data management layer? Hear from Pure's new Applications Solution Manager, Jorge Garcia, with 25+ years of experience at Oracle, about how Pure's technology makes storage issues virtually transparent for application owners - enabling them to meet SLAs, deliver rapid response times, and accelerate development of new features for the business...

SaaS companies compete in a fast-paced environment where IT is a critical element enabling aggressive rollout schedules to meet customer demand. Hear from Nihal Mirashi, SaaS Solution Manager at Pure, about how SaaS companies are increasingly looking to Pure All-Flash storage to advance service levels, accelerate time to revenue, and achieve operational advantages in a highly competitive space. Fo...

Learn how Pure is making self-driving storage a reality, leveraging machine learning and predictive analytics to give you storage that drives itself. Pure1 PM Nick Cox and PMM Anwesa Chatterjee join the Pure Report to describe the features and benefits of Pure1 including simple storage management, full stack visibility and analytics, and how predictive intelligence links with Pure's world-class Su...

Ring in the New Year with this new episode featuring new Pure Report co-host Sam Marraccini who turns the tables on our regular host Rob Ludeman and dives into the latest on Pure solutions for Oracle and a recap of Oracle OpenWorld. Going forward, Sam will be a regular contributor to the Pure Report in addition to his duties as a Technical Evangelist for Pure.

Experiencing glacially slow ETL for your Oracle Data Warehouse? Trying to figure out how to adopt analytics with your existing Warehouse strategy? Hear from Laura Chu, FlashBlade Product Marketing Manager at Pure, who joins the Pure Report to explain how FlashStack with FlashBlade solves common challenges associated with data warehouses solutions. Learn how to modernize your data warehouse and uni...

Prakash Darji, GM for the FlashArray BU, stops by the Pure Report to share his insight into the challenges with cloud deployment models and data storage. Hear about how to transform your on-premises infrastructure to run in a cloud model, fully-automated platform that hosts both traditional and webscale apps and speeds your journey to an effortless hybrid cloud. For more information on Pure Storag...

Pure's Microsoft Solutions Engineer Barkz jumps on the Pure Report again to cover one of his favorite topics - PowerShell SDK. Tune in to hear how Microsoft users can improve extensibility and automation with Pure's integration with PowerShell and associated REST API integration and single-click provisioning and greater control of data repositories. For more on Pure's PowerShell integration: https...

Pure's resident Microsoft solution expert Barkz joins the Pure Report to provide highlights of the new tech preview of a Pure extension developed for Windows Admin Center. Hear how to gain control of all aspects of your Pure Storage deployments using WAC including connectivity to multiple arrays, performance statistics at the array level, volume and host management, and more. For more details: htt...

Tune in to hear from James Kelly, Sr. DBA and Storage Admin at Chapman University in Southern California, about how Pure Storage transformed IT operations and simplified their team's ability to deliver always-on, rapid, and responsive services to students and staff. Recorded on-location at Chapman University, this episode includes a wealth of info direct from one of Pure's happy customers that wil...

Vaughn Stewart, VP Strategic Alliances, returns to the Pure Report for a spirited discussion about Splunk's new SmartStore announcement that evolves deployments from costly and complicated DAS-based architectures to disaggregated compute and storage architectures that leverage S3 object stores. Hear how FlashBlade is an optimal object store solution for SmartStore that delivers performance and sim...

Pure's VP of Technology Alliances Vaughn Stewart stops by the Pure Report to provide his impressions of a very successful Pure Storage presence at VMWorld before we navigate a discussion of the challenges and tradeoffs with hybrid cloud adoption and data management. Vaughn provides his take on deployment considerations for Pure VVols and vSAN spanning mission critical applications, consolidation,...

Ken Steinhardt, Pure's Director of Competitive Intelligence, returns to the Pure Report for an engaging discussion around how Pure delivers data management solutions for customers to solve challenges for mission-critical applications in a way that simplifies operations. This podcast also features a "Lightning Round," where Ken offers a rapid assessment of Pure's capabilities vs. the competition fo...

On this episode of the Pure Report, we discuss how to manage, move and protect the vast quantities of information in a Data Hub. Christian Smith, VP of Products for Igneous, discusses how PAIGE.AI, a spinout of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), was created to accelerate cancer research through machine learning. Their AI data pipeline is using Pure Storage FlashBlade and Igneous Data...