The Pure Report

The boys are back in town as we ramp up another Unplugged episode with Andrew Miller and JD Wallace. We arrived at the last of the Pure 15 architectural decisions - evergreen architecture - and all the capabilities it enables and how it was designed into our products from the start. Also, get a preview of our upcoming Accelerate event in Las Vegas - key session, keynotes, engagement activities - a...

"I always feel like somebody's watching me..." go the lyrics of the 1980's Rockwell song - "And I have no privacy." And it's true in this era where technology advances have made video surveillance something we live with on a daily basis. But capturing and using video footage is complicated, frequently compounded by the use of legacy data storage technology. For this episode, we welcome, Tom Sells,...

With a nod to the late 1980's Scorpions song, let's dive into the prevailing forces that are causing organizations to reevaluate their strategies with relational databases. To do that effectively, we welcome back to the program Ryan Arsenault, Principal Field Solution Architect (and heavily accented Bostonian), who has broad experience previously running SAP and Database operations at a large comp...

In case you missed it - the Pure Report is now publishing the audio replay of each month's Coffee Break webinar program, hosted and moderated by our own Andrew Miller and featuring key thought leaders across a range of current topics. This episode features a the March Coffee Break with guest and Data Protection fanatic Jason Walker who joins Andrew to dive into the expansive landscape that is all...

Explore the trends in enterprise imaging with Mark Dobbs, Pure's Global Healthcare Alliances Director who specializes in healthcare imaging solutions. Whether you're directly involved in healthcare IT or just interested in the impact in imaging that affects everyone, this is a great listen to see how Cloud, modern architectures, and AI are changing the game in radiology and clinical pathology. Fas...

The Unplugged crew is back and JD and Andrew are bringing the next architectural decision all around Pure's proactive and predictive support and why we're able to deliver that services value to users. We also riff up front about best practices for interviewers and interviewees - how preparation and knowing something about your interviewer can help you stand out. And we close with a view around wor...

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness." So goes the quote attributed to Oscar Wilde and it's appropriate for this episode where we are joined by Rich Barlow, Principal Technologist at Pure who previously worked at several other storage vendors, most notably as Field CTO. Rich dives into his perspectives after nearly a year at Pure and aspects of Pure tha...

Take a trip down memory lane with two of the original Puritan systems engineers who recently celebrated their 10 year anniversary milestones at the company. Hear from Joe Reynolds, Consulting Systems Engineer, and Jon Owings, Director Cloud Native Strategy about the early days of Pure including Vendor Olympics, executing their first Evergreen customer non-disruptive upgrade, and how early Flash st...

There's plenty of buzz in the market around Storage as a Service (STaaS) and subscription-based solutions to meeting growing demands around managing escalating quantities of data. But what's the reality in offerings that really deliver enterprise value vs. those that are more of a smokescreen for fancy financing models? Hear from Stan Yanitskiy, Digital Experience Solution Architect, in the first...

After a holiday hiatus, the Pure Report is back with a new Unplugged episode featuring Andrew Miller and JD Wallace in Las Vegas while at Gartner IOCS. Joining the intrepid duo is Principal Technologist Rich Barlow as they walk thru a round table conversation designed to show you how they approach conversations introducing Pure Storage to prospects and customers. Hear about market share trends, va...

The Unplugged crew is back with another of the 15 architectural decisions and updates on their latest activities. As always, hear from Andrew Miller and J.D. Wallace as we continue to bring you the Unplugged series that dives deeper into Pure technology and architecture. This episode tackles the notion of the DIY Storage Array - basically delivering storage with simple installation, upgrade and re...

Data scientists and AI administrators can spend over 70% of their time on AI functional tasks such as data preparation, training, modeling, and tuning. The last thing they need to contend with is deploying and managing complex AI infrastructure. To address these challenges, Pure Storage and Cisco recently announced FlashStack for AI, a joint solution intended to simplify, automate, and scale AI in...

With all the speculation around the future of VMware, it seemed like a good time to gather our Pure Storage VMware advocates and community participants for a round table discussion. Hear from Cody Hosterman, Director Product Management, Tristan Todd, Field Solution Architect, David Stamen, Global Practice Lead, and Jason Langer, Tech Evangelist on their thoughts and opinions of the situation with...

What happens when a long-time admirer of Pure culture and products joins the company? Find out with this latest episode featuring Pure System Engineer Scott Nawalaniec, a former customer who joined Pure around a year ago. Hear about Scott's career journey including how he came to consider Pure and the technical and business reasons that led to his now 8 year relationship with the company. Scott pr...

As we exit the spooky season, we're checking in with our resident database expert and Field Solutions Architect, Anthony Nocentino, to revisit the common problems that plague data management. Anthony shares customer anecdotes around several places that DBAs struggle to maintain consistent database operations and how Pure can help alleviate these challenges. Why is it important to businesses to del...

Ever wondered about the origin of certain storage or IT administrative tasks? Because of legacy architectures, IT practitioners have been forced to worry about and repeatedly carry out certain administrative tasks because, well, "that's how it's always been with this product." Join Justin Emerson, Principal Product Manager, for a journey through 10-12 different legacy worries that are solved by Pu...

We’re all human…meaning we all care about healthcare. Pure does too - it’s one of our most developed solution areas with many customers. Hear from Thomas Whalen (TDUBS), Pure's Sr. Epic Solutions Architect, about the latest trends in healthcare driving more modern storage approaches to improve patient care and clinician effectiveness. Thomas talks about his journey in the healthcare space that eve...

On this episode we take a pause on deep technology dives and deliver career introspection via our own Shawn Rosemarin, VP R&D, Customer Experience. Shawn is in the midst of writing a series of Letters to his 22 year old self as a way to celebrate 25 years of working in technology. No matter where you are in your career - whether you're just getting started or are in the midst of a transition - the...

The intrepid Unplugged crew returns for an exciting Volume 14 where Andrew Miller, JD Wallace and I take on another of Pure's architectural decisions - this time we dig deep into the use of Metadata in the software stack. The extensive use of Metadata enables FlashArray to deliver efficiency across data reduction, compacting, and snapshot capabilities. We also riff on experience at the latest acti...

We often hear that the cloud is not a destination but rather a journey. But we continue to hear from customers that the journey is not linear and various phases of cloud maturity are becoming clearer. To learn more, we brought back VP of Cloud Alliances (and former Pure customer) Jack Hogan to share what he's been hearing from customers and the 3 types of challenges (past, present, and future tech...

The Pure Report is pleased to welcome Kyndryl Distinguished Engineer Mark Chitti who joins to share his thought on trends impacting data storage and where the combination of Kyndryl and Pure Storage can help. We first chat about the Distinguished Engineer role and where Mark focuses his time to stay up on trends and engage across Kyndryl teams to make an impact. From there, we dig into AI and what...

Dive into the mind of astrophysicist and data science pioneer Dr. Kirk Borne as we discuss the history of big data and analytics leading up to current challenges organizations face in leveraging data for predictive and prescriptive insights about business. We navigate through the hype cycles of related technologies, and dig into the "why" behind using data and the insights of data including newer...

Dig deeper into the exciting news around Pure's Azure VMware Solution announcement leveraging our strong partnerships with VMware and Microsoft to deliver faster, more cost effective adoption of cloud services. Hear from Jason Langer, Sr. Cloud Solutions Manager and VMware guru about how Pure brings unique capabilities to AVS that solve common customer challenges around cost reduction, higher resi...

Database administrators and data architects continue to encounter challenges as they administer systems with different requirements and behavioral patterns. Hear from Andrew Sillifant, Database Solutions Manager, about how Pure Storage is well-suited as a partner for database management systems and helping organizations scale business applications faster. We tackle the top 6 ways practitioners can...

It's time for another edition of Unplugged with Andrew Miller and JD Wallace bringing you the 15 Pure Architectural decisions and more. We start out with a quick recap of Pure's recent Accelerate industry event and some of the key highlights and takeaways. Then hear about how Pure addresses security and encryption via the Purity operation environment. We finish with a quick lookback at the signifi...