Discussions on the latest news in video games including reviews, previews and coverage of the biggest stories in the industry.
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It's a first for the podcast as we bring the Pure Report Unplugged to the Las Vegas Strip and record live on location in front of an audience at Pure Accelerate 2024. New locale, same format and co-hosts JD Wallace and Andrew Miller as we navigate thru the highlights of the week at Pure's customer and partner event. Up top, we hit on our favorite m…
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Unplugged Volume 17: Evergreen Architecture and Accelerate Preview
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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 …
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Pixels and Petabytes: The Intersection of Data and Vigilance
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"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 te…
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The Winds of Change Altering Relational Database Strategy and DBA Operations
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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 r…
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Coffee Break Rewind: Choose your Own (Restore) Adventure: Pure’s Modern Cyber Resiliency Portfolio
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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…
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Trends in Enterprise Imaging: How Better Storage Can Drive Better Patient Outcomes
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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…
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Unplugged Volume 16: Proactive, Predictive Support, Workload Planning, Interviewing Best Practices
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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 …
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What Other Storage Vendors Say They Can Do...And Why They Can't
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"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 a…
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10 Year OG Puritans Looking Back...and Ahead
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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 custo…
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Reality Check On Storage as a Service and Evergreen//One
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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, Di…
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Unplugged In Vegas - "Why Pure" Roundtable with Andrew, JD, and Rich Barlow
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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…
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Unplugged Volume 15: Simple and Intuitive, Events Update, and Tip of the Week
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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 deliverin…
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Simple and Secure AI at any Scale - FlashStack for AI from Cisco and Pure
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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 soluti…
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Pure's Continuing Commitment to VMware - Round Table Panel with Pure VMware Advocates
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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 …
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Put Away Your Spacesuit: Insights from a Customer Who Became a Puritan
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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 …
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Tales From The Script: Solving Scary Database Management Problems
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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 ch…
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Things Legacy Storage Made You Worry About (That You Shouldn't Have To)
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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…
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Healthcare Health Check: Trends Driving New Storage Approaches in the Healthcare Sector
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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 …
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Letters To My 22 Year Old Self with Shawn Rosemarin
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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…
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Unplugged Volume 14: Metadata - the Secret Sauce, Events and Disk Retirement webinar recap
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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 capabilit…
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Making the Cloud Fit Your Business - The 6 States of Cloud Deployment
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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 t…
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Kyndryl Distinguished Engineer Mark Chitti on Cyber, AI, and IP-Based Storage
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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 m…
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Astrophysics, Dinosaurs, and Data Analytics with Dr. Kirk Borne, Data Science and Big Data Expert
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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 us…
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Azure VMware Solution: Cost-Effective, Performant, and Resilient Hybrid Cloud Powered by Pure
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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 cust…
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Top 6 Ways Pure Solves Common Database Challenges
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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 …
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Unplugged Vol 13 - Security/Encryption, Unified Block & File, Accelerate Recap
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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 environme…
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The Evolution of Modern Data Protection - What Makes it Modern?
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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 f…
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Discover Actual Data Resiliency Solutions You Can Use Daily
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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…
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The Power Of As A Service - Go Beyond the Commercials
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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 transforma…
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Unplugged Vol 12 - Adaptive Flexible RAID, FlashBlade//E and Auto-On SafeMode
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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 perspectiv…
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The First Truly Unified File and Block Platform
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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 …
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VMware, VMware Everywhere with Jason Langer
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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 dat…
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Adam Apps, Author of Sh*tty Sales Leaders And How To Not Be One
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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 lead…
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Unplugged Vol. 11: Realistic Efficiency Metrics, Deeper Purity dive, and More
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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 so…
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Veeam V12 And Pure Better Together - Faster Recovery and Better Cyber Resiliency
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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 co…
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Better Science Volume 2: Maps, Metadata, and the Pyramid
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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 eff…
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New Purity//FB 4.1 - Innovation for File and Object at Scale
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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 co…
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Purity 6.4 - Workload Mobility, Foolproof Security and Continuous Release Model
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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 mo…
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Unplugged Vol. 10: Deep Dive on Snapshots, Replication Tip of the Week
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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 foundatio…
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The Value of Aligning Energy And Data Strategies
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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 d…
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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, cus…
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Stop Making End Users Sad - What DBAs Need to Know About Storage
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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. An…
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Latest News From Microsoft Ignite with Microsoft MVP Melody Zacharias
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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 …
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Unplugged Vol. 9: Controller Architecture, Oracle Cloud World Preview, Tip of the Week
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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 Oracl…
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Unplugged Vol. 8: SQL Server Special Guest, VMware Explore, and Why Code Paths Matter
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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…
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What Can a Modern Infrastructure Stack Do for You?
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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 …
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Empowering Sustainable Tech Infrastructure
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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 studie…
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Evergreen: The Most Choice in Data Storage Consumption
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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 Evergr…
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Unplugged Volume 7: Why Stateless Matters, The Meaning of Uncomplicate, and Tip of the Week
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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 …
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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 i…
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