The Pure Report

Discover the details of a major university customer's journey with Pure and how the experience has delivered consistently superior outcomes for students and faculty. Hear from Chris Gomez, IT Director, about how his initial engagement with Pure and how the promises around Evergreen, Pure1 monitoring, data reduction, intuitive operations and non-disruptive upgrades all came to life. Chris also desc...

Go right to the source for details of Pure's new FlashBlade//S announcement that was made at Accelerate techfest 22. Hear from Amy Fowler, VP FlashBlade Strategy and Solutions, and Biswajit Mishra, Director of FlashBlade Product Marketing, about the exciting new FlashBlade//s that is powering the future of unstructured data. Highlights include discussion about the new FlashBlade//S modular archite...

It's time for everyone's favorite Pure Report format - Unplugged - this edition, Volume 6, bring back co-hosts JD Wallace and Andrew Miller to chat in detail about the next architectural decision - Data Reduction - and what it means to using Pure arrays. We also welcome our first special guest to the program (and I blow the surprise) - Zane Allyn who just returned from VeeamON and updates about th...

Pure continues to innovate and deliver new features to scale enterprise data services. But how does this expanding portfolio address legacy deployment challenges and ease the operational burden on storage admins while speeding up application development? Hear from Scott Dedman, AVP of Global Strategy and Solutions who joins to share his views on what makes the full Pure Portfolio distinct and how...

We cover Ransomware frequently here on the Pure Report. But what are the most common questions our field experts are getting from customers and prospects looking to tackle this growing problem? Take a fun ride thru the top 5 questions we hear most often with our own resident co-host Andrew Miller who brings insight from several years and 100s of customer interactions on the subject. SafeMode snaps...

Everyone's favorite co-hosts Andrew Miller and JD Wallace return to stamp their mark on the 5-timers club for the Unplugged version of the Pure Report. In this episode, we chat quickly about Pure's upcoming Accelerate event in June before pivoting into a deep dive into the tradeoffs of flash architectures and consumer flash and how that architecture choice contributed to Pure's product development...

Purity is the software-defined heart of Pure Storage's all-flash arrays. Customer benefit from Industry-leading data reduction, Tier 1 resiliency, and built-in data protection and more. And it keeps improving over time. Hear from Michael Leworthy, Director of FlashArray Product Marketing about the latest enhancements in the Purity 6.3 release that delivers a more intuitive customer experience and...

Check in with frequent guest Shawn Rosemarin, VP of Emerging Technology Sales for an always engaging conversation including his forward-looking perspectives around security and ransomware trends. We start with an update to our annual predications episode - the challenges with hybrid work continue to have ramifications for IT teams across the board. Then we pivot to the latest on new Ransomware att...

Everyone's favorite co-hosts Andrew Miller and JD Wallace are back for another fun Unplugged episode of the Pure Report. The gang chat initially about upcoming events and customer stories before pivoting to a deeper dive discussion around the tradeoffs with scalable architectures and how stateless models enable efficiencies. We also hit on Fusion, a bit on Ransomware tales from the field, the late...

How do you deploy a state-of-the-art, hybrid-cloud infrastructure that supports tomorrow's business needs, enables agility and flexibility, and reduces future business risks? Hear from Brian Ferrar, FlashStack Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager, about how FlashStack as-a-Service is the first unified subscription model designed for a full-stack infrastructure. Delivered in partnership with Cisco, Flas...

The usership economy is gaining ground in all traditional IT infrastructure areas, and the benefits are clear: it's no longer about purchasing anything; it's about consuming a service. Pure as-a-Service continues to set the bar in helping organizations accelerate modernization with a cloud experience and economics. Hear from Errol Hayward, Sr. PMM for Pure as-a-Service, and Ben Lee, Sr. Solutions...

Net Promoter Score (NPS) is the industry gold standard for measuring customer satisfaction. But how is it measured and what does it mean to an organization like Pure or to the customers we support? Hear from Kathleen Stringfield, Sr. Manager of NPS Programs and Don McCullough, Sr. Services Marketing Manager about how NPS is calculated and what it means to Puritans, partners, and customers. Kathlee...

Enjoy this bonus content provided via Pure's partnership with Global SI DXC and featuring DXC's Mark Hughes, President of Security, with Pure's own Andy Stone, CTO and Andrew Miller, Principal Technologist. The trio met to discuss DXC and Pure's relentless joint focus on developing and assisting customers with ransomware recovery strategies and dives into techniques and best practices for reducing...

For people in charge of data and storage, the pressure is mounting when ransomware, other cyberattacks, or even just maintenance take down data resources. That's why it's no longer about speeding up the backup process, it's about solutions that can restore data as fast as—or faster than—they can actually back it up. Hear from David Huskisson, Data Protection Solutions Director, about how ransomwar...

What do you get when you extend the industry's leading all-flash array into the high-end enterprise space? The answer: FlashArray//XL. Pure recently announced an extension of the FlashArray architecture into a new tier, with the same software-led approach, simple operating model, and a performance optimized architecture. Hear from Michael Leworthy, Director of FlashArray Product Marketing, about t...

The size of your organization (or workload) shouldn't dictate the value of your data. So why do legacy storage providers offer high-end, “enterprise” functionality but force everyone else to put up with the diminished features available on “mid-range” systems? Catch up with Moor Insights & Strategy Sr. Analyst Steve McDowell and Pure Report podcast favorite Kevin Rickson, Director of Customer Expe...

The pace of digital transformation in Financial Services continues in 2022. Find out how the landscape is changing and get a primer on the latest technology trends in the vast FSI space from an industry expert. Hear from Diane Saucier, Pure's Financial Services Director, about the challenges modern finance and fintech institutions are facing during this turbulent period of time. We discuss the key...

Guess who's back? Back again...it's Shawn Rosemarin, Pure's Global VP for Emerging Tech Sales, and one of my favorite episodes every year where we look into our collective crystal balls and predict what the next calendar year has in store. We start with trends in the workplace - where will hybrid work go? What are opportunities from the "Great Resignation," and how will employee collaboration evol...

Just in time for holiday listening - the Unplugged crew returns again with details of Pure's exciting new FlashArray//XL announcement. Catch up co-hosts JD Wallace and Andrew Miller around the new FlashArray//XL including details about architectural decisions, implications for various workloads, and what it means for orgs looking to improve sustainability. Andrew recaps AWS re:Invent and JD talks...

A new wave of technological innovation built around artificial intelligence is changing the landscape of life sciences. Data and intelligence are powering a new age of discovery that will speed up development of treatments and reduce high costs associated with work in life sciences. In this episode, Dr. Devika Garg, Healthcare Marketing Manager at Pure, discusses how innovation is impacting drug d...

By 2025, it's predicted that 75% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed at the edge – outside a traditional centralized data center or cloud. To be successful capitalizing on this trend enterprises must develop cloud native workloads that take full advantage of the cloud’s operational model with containers. Hear from CloudOps VP of Product, Maddison Long, about key trends in ma...

High performance computing workloads using electronic design automation (EDA) tools require a high magnitude of compute resources to run jobs in a 24/7 queue for design and manufacturing processes. And semiconductor companies need to quickly provision infrastructure on demand to accelerate the chip design process and drive faster time to market. Hear from Ravi Poddar, Pure's Director of EDA Soluti...

Shift gears with another Unplugged episode featuring co-hosts Andrew Miller and JD Wallace who take you deeper into Pure technology and current events. In this one, the guys recap the Fusion and Portworx Data Services announcements with a rehash of the latest Magic Quadrant news. JD delivers his Tip of the Week - learn about SafeMode capacity planning tips before the duo takes on the concept of Si...

It's Pure's 12 birthday so let's celebrate by checking in on the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant news with Amy Fowler, VP FlashBlade Strategy and Solutions, and Dan Kogan, VP Product, FlashArray. Pure FlashBlade is positioned for the first time as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems & Object Storage, and Pure FlashArray continues to be positioned highest for Abil...

As modern applications running on Kubernetes move from stateless to stateful, developers need to maintain access to Azure Arc-enabled data services for SQL Server, Postgres, and more. The legacy approach to managing these databases is highly manual and prone to human error, excessive downtime, and can’t be easily automated with existing tools. Hear from Melody Zacharias, Microsoft Solution Manager...