The Pure Report

Check out the latest news on VMware and Pure Storage joint technology developments with Donald Schubot, Director of the VMware Alliance for Pure. As a former systems engineer and VMware employee, Donald brings credible, technical, and unique perspectives to this conversation. Tune in to hear the latest around VMware Cloud Foundation, the value of Virtual Volumes (vVols), input on the latest VMware...

The 3rd episode in our Purity series welcomes back James Gallegos from the FlashArray team to highlight the ways that Purity agile data services enable ease with data management, access, and mobility. Discover the simplicity that comes with a single orchestration layer for management that improves visibility and ensures consistency while reducing “decision latency.” James also discusses data acces...

Fast matters with healthcare data. Are your physicians frustrated with waiting for their computer to “catch up?” Do patient records and diagnostic images load slowly? Do backups and restores take forever? If so, maybe the problem is your data storage, not your software. If your storage isn’t fast and protecting your data from threats, then it’s a liability. Two healthcare industry veterans join th...

Dive deeper into the ways that Purity gives users the confidence of knowing that their data is stored in a way that ensures data security, efficiency and availability. James Gallegos from the FlashArray product team returns to the Pure Report for a discussion on how Pure's architecture creates an environment that keeps up with rapid data growth and optimizes capacity with unique data reduction. Al...

Discover how the increased financial and operational flexibility provided by storage as a service is changing what customers and the industry think about the future of on-premises and hybrid cloud data management. Hear from Rob Walters, GM of the Pure-as-a-Service Business Unit, and Josh Petty, Director of Pure-as-a-Service Marketing, to learn what it means to deliver a true utility, and why Pure...

Get the details behind the June 10th launch of Purity 6.0, delivering agile data services for improved workload consolidation and data aggregation. James Gallegos from the FlashArray product team joins to deliver highlights of two key new capabilities for FlashArray -- unified block and file protocol support now with NFS and SMB, along with active disaster recovery built on brand new continuous re...

Find out what motivates a data engineer directly from a DBA that has been living it for years. Melody Zacharias. Microsoft Solution Manager, joins the Pure Report to share her experiences working with data and how DBAs and data architects are contending with new challenges brought on by the rise of as-a-service offerings and containers. She also shares details of strategic areas Pure is investing...

Jump on the cloud native bandwagon and hear from Principal Solution Architect Jon Owings about the latest around simplifying data management burdens around container orchestration. Jon also covers the latest feature updates on Pure Service Orchestrator and recent integrations with Kasten and vSphere that deliver smart container provisioning and elastic scaling including Kubernetes clusters. For mo...

Can your storage stay modern without disruption and make your job easier? Hear from Kevin Rickson, Evergreen Marketing Manager, about questions you should ask your storage incumbent vendor about painful forklift upgrades and costly maintenance renewals. Stop settling for the status quo. The alternative is Evergreen, based on an architecture that enables non-disruptive upgrades to controllers, soft...

Be disruptive, not disrupted. Check in with VP of Marketing Sonny Aulakh about why companies are no longer settling for status quo when it comes to storage migrations. Hear how many companies have started looking to Pure and Evergreen to experience an upgradeable architecture that enables continuous technology updates without business disruption. Sonny also shares details of new remote capabilitie...

Get the inside scoop on new advanced data services for Pure FlashBlade from Director of Marketing Gabriel Chapman. The latest Purity//FB 3 updates to FlashBlade enable real-time performance that allow application workflows to take center stage. Architected for tomorrow’s data pipelines and real-time analytics applications, FlashBlade extends its value with new key enterprise features such as repli...

Pure's FlashStack PM Craig Waters checks in with the Pure Report from his home in Australia to update the latest developments with the FlashStack converged infrastructure. Hear exciting new details about general availability of Cisco Intersight FlashArray Connector that extends and unifies deep management for FlashStack. Also get an update on key Cisco Validated Designs including VDI and VMware re...

Technical Solutions Director Barkz returns for a 3rd visit to the Pure Report to talk about solutions integrations for key business applications and databases. Hear about how Pure's open API-driven approach makes it easier to integrate into key third party management frameworks, including Windows Admin Center and SQL Server Management Studio. Users benefit by eliminating "swivel-chair" admin work...

Looking for ways to quickly spin up capacity for your virtual desktop workers with a preconfigured and simple converged solution? Cisco and Pure have partnered together to deliver Quick Ship FlashStack VDI bundles that will streamline VDI adoption and keep your remote users productive without limitations. Hear from Cisco's Eric Blonda and Pure's Craig Waters about this exciting new offering for VD...

Achieving meaningful outcomes on data from Artificial intelligence requires careful planning and an understanding of the common challenges to creating a mature model for AI. Pure's AI Solutions Architect Emily Potyraj returns to the Pure Report to share key insights into the 5 ways that enterprises can accelerate insights around their AI initiatives, including guidance around data access, ownershi...

Cody Hosterman returns to the Pure Report for a timely update around all things VMware - as the Technical Director of VMware integrations at Pure, Cody shares work he and his team are delivering around VMware's vSphere 7 announcement that will drive improved admin productivity and better user experiences. We also spend some cycles chatting about VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and the strategic impo...

Data protection is a critical component in risk mitigation, protecting organizational reputation and customer satisfaction. But many legacy solutions are little more than costly insurance. Hear from industry veteran Peter Eicher, Pure Data Protection Solution Manager, about key considerations for planning and developing an end-to-end architecture for data protection that starts with fast restores...

Check out Part 1 of this 2 part series featuring Pure's WW VP of Systems Engineering Shawn Rosemarin. In episode 1, hear Shawn's interesting story and background that brought him into a career in the IT industry. After that, get the scoop on challenges and trends that Shawn is seeing via his interactions with enterprise prospects and customers, and why the challenges on legacy data management need...

Building and streamlining data pipelines is a new challenge that enterprises everywhere are taking on to gain insights for better business outcomes. Hear from Emily Watkins, AI Solution Architect on the Pure FlashBlade team about work she and the team are doing to help users create and streamline data pipelines by developing an AI Data Hub. Learn about how Pure is helping enterprises scale and gro...

Get the scoop on Pure's latest FlashArray//X announcement and a new array that provides more acceleration and consolidation with the same simple user experience that's the hallmark of Pure Storage. Hear from Calvin Nieh from the FlashArray Product team about new enhancements to drive enterprise workloads and databases faster and with lower latency, as well as more capacity options and feature enha...

Ransomware attacks are now constant and increasing in scope and size, impacting enterprises small and large and across every industry. Hear from frequent Pure Report guest and Principal SE Andrew Miller about the evolution of ransomware intrusions, key defense principles, and how Pure can help. Pure has introduced new features in FlashBlade to specifically impact your ability to recover from ranso...

Analyst Stephen Foskett from Gestalt IT returns to the Pure Report for an entertaining discussion around the life cycle of certain influential and historical IT technologies in data management and beyond. From mainframes to storage protocols and microprocessors, tune in to hear the zombie scale rating for each regarding how much viability exists in these technologies. For more info on Stephen Fosk...

Hear from Farhan Abrol, Head of Machine Learning at Pure, about how to build data pipelines and apply AI and predictive analytics to improve customer support experiences. Farhan talks about the origins of Pure1 data analysis and provides guidance and best practices for anyone looking to collect and analyze data to deliver more timely and impactful capabilities around support. For more information...

Kevin Rickson, Pure Evergreen PMM, returns for a third time to the Pure Report to debunk the top five myths and FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) that are commonly created and spread about Pure's innovative Evergreen subscription to innovation. He highlights important aspects of Evergreen Gold, how Evergreen applies across the Pure product line, and how other programs are usually limited to manipu...

Hear from Shobhit Bhutani, Pure's Managed Services Providers (MSP) Marketing Manager, about key market trends & challenges that MSPs face in an increasingly competitive market. See how Pure partners with key MSPs to help them deliver differentiation and keep pace with hyperscalers by simplifying application service delivery, enabling end-to-end data analytics, and delivering agile hybrid-cloud ser...