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How to Master AI Growing Pains Mar 09, 2020

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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 grow AI projects from infancy to maturity while breaking down data silos and increasing access to data for all users. For more info on FlashBlade and Data Hub: https://www.purestorage.com/why-pure/data-hub.html

Accelerate Everything with Next-Gen FlashArray//X Mar 02, 2020

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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 enhancements across the product line. For more information on the new FlashArray//X: https://blog.purestorage.com/announcing-flash-array-xr3/

Ransomware Jail - Is There Any Way Out? Feb 24, 2020

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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 ransomware attacks and ensure your backups aren’t compromised by attackers even in scenarios where admin credentials have been compromised. For more information on ransomware and Pure FlashBlade: https://www.purestorage.com/content/dam/pdf/en/solution-briefs/sb-protect-against-ransomware-with-pure.pdf

Technology Zombies - Dead or Alive? Feb 06, 2020

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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 Foskett and Gestalt IT: https://gestaltit.com/

Using Analytics to Improve Customer Experience Jan 31, 2020

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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 on Pure1 and Meta, our predictive analytics engine, go to: https://www.purestorage.com/products/pure-1.html

Top 5 Evergreen Myths Debunked Jan 15, 2020

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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 manipulating financing. For more information on Pure Evergreen, go to www.purestorage.com/evergreen.

Taking Managed Services to the Next Level Jan 10, 2020

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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 services. For more information about Pure and the Managed Services Providers program: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/industries/managed-service-providers.html

Modern Data Protection: Beyond Backup Jan 06, 2020

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ESG Analyst Christophe Bertrand joins the Pure Report to discuss the requirements and market trends driving a new approach to data protection. Hear about how to move beyond classic DR and backup/recovery use cases to capitalize on opportunities to improve data insight for both on-prem and cloud-connected deployments. Christophe brings 25 years of experience in services, software, and high-end storage systems to deliver unique perspectives for this important and fast growing data management space. For more detail on ESG's take on Data Protection: https://www.purestorage.com/pure-folio/showcase.html?item=/type/pdf/subtype/doc/path//content/dam/pdf/en/white-papers/protected/wp-esg-modernizing-data-protection.pdf

FlashStack - More than A Reference Architecture Dec 20, 2019

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Andrew Miller, Principal SE, returns to the Pure Report to share his talk track around FlashStack and how IT orgs can improve their Day 0/1/2 ramp experiences because of the flexibility and pre-tested capabilities of FlashStack converged infrastructure from Cisco and Pure. Learn about tradeoffs across best-of-breed, converged, and hyperconverged, and how Pure's design philosophy addresses historical challenges with complexity in deployment and operations. For more on FlashStack - go to www.flashstack.com

Insight and the New Frontiers of Data Dec 19, 2019

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Hear from Juan Orlandini, Chief Architect at Insight, about the new ways customers are innovating around data management including analytics, cloud native applications, containers, and hybrid cloud. Juan discusses typical challenges in implementing next generation data solutions and ways to successfully deploy cloud-connected ecosystems. Insight is a Pure Platinum partner - for more information on Pure and Insight, go to: https://www.insightcdct.com/About/Partners/Pure-Storage

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