The Pure Report

Back after a brief hiatus, we're picking up with a spirited discussion around the changing nature of Data Protection. Hear from two Pure Storage field data protection experts - Ben Kendall and Chris Sprague - all about the history of data protection and different tradeoffs that were required with various media types - tape archive, cloud and even floppy disks (remember those?). Learn what "Modern"...

Data protection strategies designed for disasters, accidental deletions, or data corruption don't always hold up against ransomware and cyberattacks. in short, backup and recovery is no longer enough to keep your business online and ensure access to critical data. Hear from Matt Bradford, Digital Experience Technical Marketing Director, about a new set of offerings to help enterprises mitigate and...

The notion of as-a-service or utility is often something promoted as a commercial and reflects more of a buying option. But the truth reveals that it's far more than that. Tune in to hear from Pure's Director of Subscription Portfolio, Abraham Barnes, as we take on the myths and the reality of what Storage as-a-Service means for business transformation and operations. What's revealed is that lines...

The Unplugged crew is back with Andrew Miller and JD Wallace continuing to take you through the 15 Pure Architectural Decisions. On this episode, we tackle Pure's adaptive flexible RAID, including a spin thru the history of RAID and how took out the need for user intervention to provide a more intuitive solution. Then we hit on the field perspective for the recent FlashBlade//E announcement and im...

70% of IT organizations will be unifying their storage and data protection infrastructure to make it more cost effective and add new capabilities. Historically, consolidation has always represented trade-offs and compromise… until now. Hear from Don Poorman, FlashArray Technical PMM about Pure's first truly unified block and storage platform built from the ground up with unified as its goal. Don d...

Dive into the latest on what's going on with Pure integrations for VMware with Jason Langer, Pure's Cloud Solutions Marketing lead. Jason has great insights about Pure as a former partner and spent a few years at VMware before arriving here. We discuss the current state of the market with VMware and how VMware has pervaded every workload in the datacenter (databases, data protection, and analytics...

Our own Puritan Sales Leader Adam Apps recently published a book designed to share guidance and best practices for sales leaders to build, nurture and run high-performing teams. Tune in to hear Adam discuss the motivation behind the book, his experience writing and dealing with a publisher, and some of his personal views and insights on strong leaders he has worked with during his career, includin...

Unplugged returns with a Volume 11 edition hitting another of the 15 architectural decisions - this time it's a look at realistic efficiency metrics. Join co-hosts JD Wallace and Andrew Miller for a look into the reality of data reduction, snapshots, CPU utilization, and monitoring relative to evaluating the performance and value of your storage solution. Andrew and JD also go a bit deeper in revi...

The partnership between Pure Storage and Veeam makes choosing the right storage for highly-efficient, enterprise-grade recovery easy. With Veeam's recently announced Veeam Backup & Replication v12 update, we invited Mark Polin, Veeam Solutions Architect, and David Huskisson, Pure Solutions Manager covering Data Protection. to join the program to cover all the details. Thanks to the collaboration a...

Jump in on a second episode of the Better Science series with guest host and Technical Evangelist Justin Emerson interviewing FlashArray engineer Feng Wang about how Pure maps data at scale with a single, scalable data structure. Managing storage in modern times requires a strategy for storing quadrillions of bits: petabytes of data, all stored efficiently on dense flash, with the ability to scale...

Pure Storage recently released version 4.1 of Purity//FB, our latest software release for our unified fast file and object unstructured data platforms. We are joined by Karthik Srinivasan and Andy Kutner from the FlashBlade PM team to get an update on the latest enhancements designed to continue momentum around helping customers solve their most complex scale-out challenges with unstructured data....

The beat goes on as Pure's Purity intelligent software data services receives an important update that delivers greater functionality and flexibility that can be upgraded non-disruptively as always. Hear from FlashArray Sr. Product Marketing Manager Janet Lafleur about new Purity features including a new continuous release model, Active Workload mobility, out-of the box SafeMode ransomware protect...

Unplugged is back with co-hosts JD Wallace and Andrew Miller bringing you deeper insight into Pure's 15 architectural decisions and updates on what's going on at industry events. This episode, the crew tackles "really useable snapshots," with how Pure snapshots were architected around metadata to make them space-efficient and how they are foundations for other Pure technical offerings such as repl...

Rising energy costs have hit at a critical time, as businesses face explosive growth in data production. Hear from Kevin Rickson, Director CX Marketing and Dean Wooton, Sr. Manager, Global Partner Demand, on why aligning your data management and energy strategies can unlock strategic advantages while helping you meet sustainability goals. Today’s data success hinges on energy efficiency. Whether i...

Jump back in after a brief hiatus to hear how Artificial Intelligence is impacting business and industries in interesting ways. Our guest is Sandeep Phadke, Director of Product Management for Pure1 Meta. He brings his years of experience in this space to provide insight on how AI is changing the data landscape for manufacturing, transportation, customer service, and healthcare industries. We also...

End users don't often know that the challenges they are facing are due to deficient data management solutions. Hear from Principal Field Solutions Architect and Database guru Anthony Nocentino about the reasons it's important the Database Administrators understand aspects of storage to improve how data is delivered to app owners and other users. Anthony has a fascinating background that enabled us...

Catch up with the key announcements from the recent Microsoft Ignite conference with our resident Microsoft solutions expert and MVP Melody Zacharias. Hear about new services add to Microsoft intelligent data platform including expansion of database coverage to MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB and more. Microsoft also clearly is investing heavily into the AI/Analytics space and added more functionality in...

It's a quick turn for Unplugged as we quickly welcome back JD and Andrew to cover the usual segments including our next of the 15 architectural decisions. This time it's all about the Pure controller architecture and implications around stateless on IT operations and non-disruptive upgrades. We spend some time up front previewing the upcoming Oracle Cloud World show and the Ransomware + DevOps ses...

Unplugged returns with Volume 8 and an exciting special guest diving into cool stuff with Microsoft SQL Server including snapshot, backup and virtualization best practices. Join fabulous co-hosts Andrew Miller and JD Wallace as we recap the recent VMware Explore event in San Francisco and hear key insights from attendees and anecdotes from the show. Are in-person events coming back strong? And get...

IT departments continue to struggle with staffing, meeting datacenter environmental goals, and supply chain issues. Hear from Brian Ferrar, FlashStack Marketing Director, about the myriad of ways the innovative and modern FlashStack software-defined infrastructure can help. Jointly engineering by Cisco and Pure with UCS compute and networking plus Pure all-flash storage, FlashStack delivers rapid...

Pure envisions a future in which all of our stakeholders can thrive in a sustainable environment. Listen as we caught up with the cerebral and thoughtful Jeff Pickett, FlashArray Marketing Manager and one of the leads for Pure's outbound ESG initiative. Jeff describes his circuitous journey to arriving at Pure, including a background in film studies and with environmental startups. After, we explo...

Long time friend of the program Kevin Rickson, Director of CX Marketing, returns to chat about the continuing evolution of Pure's groundbreaking Evergreen portfolio. We first reset on how and why Evergreen is possible at Pure via architectural decisions that enable multiple years of non-disruptive upgrades. From there, learn about the recent Evergreen rebranding to bring multiple subscriptions und...

Unplugged is back for an exciting new episode featuring co-hosts Andrew Miller and JD Wallace with a quick recap of everything Pure Accelerate techfest 2022 and the ongoing roadshows around the world. From there, we take on yet another of the 15 core design principles - this time a dive into why stateless matters and what that means for innovation and an Evergreen program delivering multiple gener...

The momentum around Portworx and containers adoption continues to grow. And that's why it was tremendous to welcome back to the Pure Report, Bhavin Shah, Portworx Technical Marketing Manager, to check in on the latest content he shared at Accelerate techfest 2022 and chime in on other key Portworx developments. Listen as we navigate through a Day in the Life of a Kubernetes Admin, chat about Portw...

After a brief vacation hiatus, the Pure Report returns with a special guest episode of a new Better Science series, designed to bring you closer to the differentiation delivered by Pure Storage engineering. Guest host Justin Emerson will be featuring key Pure subject matter experts on a host of topics in this series. The first one introduces Hari Kannan, a member of Pure's Platform Engineering tea...