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Veeam V12 And Pure Better Together - Faster Recovery and Better Cyber Resiliency Mar 03, 2023

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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 cover all the details. Thanks to the collaboration and joint engineering between Pure and Veeam, automating snapshots and backups has been a breeze for Pure customers using Veeam for several years. And now with v12, it gets even better with the addition of enhanced snapshot orchestration, improved ransomware protection and recovery, cloud and S3 object updates, and much more. All of these exciting features have a common thread around the joint engineering and integration work that exemplifies the strong partnership between Veeam and Pure. For more information on the announcement: https://blog.purestorage.com/news-events/major-update-to-veeam-backup-replication-to-benefit-pure-customers/

Better Science Volume 2: Maps, Metadata, and the Pyramid Feb 14, 2023

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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 efficiently on dense flash, with the ability to scale even larger in the future. But, how do you find anything in this huge ocean of bits? In this episode, Justin and Feng explore how the industry at large has approached this problem historically, talk about the current state of the art, and how Pure’s approach to this mapping problem is uniquely suited to today’s modern data landscape. Get ready to dive deep into why Pure makes architectural decisions to approach problems in new, innovative ways that have game-changing and long-lasting impacts. For more information on Better Science, go to: https://blog.purestorage.com/perspectives/better-science-volume-2-maps-metadata-and-the-pyramid/

New Purity//FB 4.1 - Innovation for File and Object at Scale Feb 10, 2023

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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 complex scale-out challenges with unstructured data. The duo covers new capabilities on object lock and quotas, plus file scaling enhancements, snapshot policies, and a deeper dive into TCO, environmental and security improvements. Get everything you need to know on this new release in this episode of the Pure Report. For more info on Purity//FB 4.1, go to: https://blog.purestorage.com/products/flashblade-4-1-more-performance-security-and-flexibility-for-all-flashblade-customers/

Purity 6.4 - Workload Mobility, Foolproof Security and Continuous Release Model Jan 09, 2023

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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 mobility, out-of the box SafeMode ransomware protection, and new non-disruptive upgrade capabilities for FlashArray//XL. This is an important and meaty release of Purity to tune in and take a listen to get all the details and more. The Purity 6.4 release is available today - for more details, check out: https://blog.purestorage.com/products/announcing-purity-fa-6-4-with-continuous-releases/

Unplugged Vol. 10: Deep Dive on Snapshots, Replication Tip of the Week Dec 19, 2022

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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 foundations for other Pure technical offerings such as replication and SafeMode. Listen to the end to hear the Tip of the Week around FlashArray replication including a customer anecdote for Active DR. All that and more on the latest Unplugged. For more info on snapshot technology and Pure's Purity data services software stack: https://www.purestorage.com/products/storage-software/purity.html

The Value of Aligning Energy And Data Strategies Dec 05, 2022

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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 data success hinges on energy efficiency. Whether it’s an on-prem data center, “colo,” or hyperscaler, every data center must be optimized for power utilization, cooling costs, and space to avoid a costly, high-emission future. Pure is committed helping you move toward a data-driven and sustainable future, with data storage that costs less to run, takes up less space, and lasts longer than legacy storage. For more information on Pure and energy strategies to drive out cost, go to: www.purestorage.com/energy.

The Impact of AI Across Industries Nov 28, 2022

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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, customer service, and healthcare industries. We also dive into how and where Pure uses customer data and applies AI and machine learning to improve support services and predictive workload capabilities. For more on how Pure provides smarter infrastructure for AI, go to: www.purestorage.com/AI

Stop Making End Users Sad - What DBAs Need to Know About Storage Nov 04, 2022

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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. Anthony has a fascinating background that enabled us to explore the changing landscape of Database and system administration including the trend toward generalists. We also get up to speed on the latest in SQL 2022 and Pure integrations that make it easier for storage admins and DBAs to work more closely together. Check this one out - Anthony is a wealth of knowledge. For more on how to accelerate your data with Pure Storage, check out: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/applications.html

Latest News From Microsoft Ignite with Microsoft MVP Melody Zacharias Oct 26, 2022

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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 AI/Analytics space and added more functionality into Azure Arc (SSO, AKS improvements, Security updates) as the single control plane for SQL Server containers development. Per Melody, Microsoft's announcements continue along the theme with meeting users and developers where they are and to use the tools and applications they want. Very powerful updates and fun conversation. For more on how Pure partners with Microsoft, go to: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/applications/microsoft.html

Unplugged Vol. 9: Controller Architecture, Oracle Cloud World Preview, Tip of the Week Oct 03, 2022

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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 Oracle Cloud World show and the Ransomware + DevOps session our own Oracle ACE Ron Ekins will be delivering. JD has some cool career news and we hit tip of the week about snapshot sizing relative to SafeMode and Ransomware mitigation. All that and more on Volume 9 of Unplugged. To connect with the Pure Report crew, email us at purereport@purestorage.com

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