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Differentiated Managed Services and SaaS Delivery Oct 10, 2019

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This episode features two Pure Storage users from Direct Technology, a SaaS and managed services provider located in the Sacramento, CA area. Hear from Nick Saechow, Director of IT Technology, and Brandon Nguyen, Sr. Systems Engineer, about how Pure Storage solutions make it easier for them to deliver managed application services for mission-critical projects, and how Pure saves them time in operational tasks, enabling one person to manage over 600 VMs at one time. For more information on Direct Technology: https://directtechnology.com/ and check out Pure's benefits for MSPs at: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/industries/managed-service-providers.html

Analyst Chris Evans from Architecting IT and the Storage Unpacked Podcast Oct 07, 2019

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Chris Evans, IT industry analyst and host of the Storage Unpacked podcast joins the Pure Report to weigh in on the latest Pure Storage announcements at Accelerate, including his unique perspective on Cloud Block Store. Chris also looks into his crystal ball and provides some predictions regarding prevailing trends in the Storage industry to look for in the next 18-24 months. For more from Chris Evans, go to: https://blog.architecting.it/ and to subscribe to the Storage Unpacked Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/storage-unpacked-podcast/id1163615701.

Accelerate Day 1 Recap with Stephen Foskett from Gestalt IT Sep 19, 2019

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The highly entertaining Gestalt IT analyst and influencer Stephen Foskett joins the Pure Report to recap a busy day 1 of Pure Accelerate in Austin. Listen to get Stephen's perspectives on all the latest Pure announcements including FlashArray//C, Storage Class Memory, Cloud Block Store, FlashBlade, Pure1 and more. For more information on Gestalt IT, go to: https://gestaltit.com/ and for the latest on Accelerate 2019: https://www.purestorage.com/accelerate.html

FlashArray Announcements at Accelerate 2019 Sep 18, 2019

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Catch up with all the latest FlashArray announcements from Day 1 of Pure Accelerate 2019 with James Gallegos from the FlashArray product team. Hear about details of the launch of new value added Pure Storage technologies and products including FlashArray//C, Storage Class Memory and the GA of Cloud Block Store for AWS. For more information, check out: https://www.purestorage.com/pure-folio/showcase.html?item=/type/iframe/subtype/blog/path/pure-focused-experience/

Turbocharge Apps With Plug-and-Play Storage Class Memory Sep 17, 2019

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Enjoy a special Accelerate 2019 edition of the Pure Report featuring James Gallegos and Tago Navonne from the FlashArray product team to dive into the impact of new Storage Class Memory for FlashArray. Announced at Accelerate, this new Direct Memory technology can be non-disruptively added to FlashArray and can reduce latency up to 50% for mission-critical apps like SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server and DAS databases. For more info, check out: https://www.purestorage.com/pure-folio/showcase.html?item=/type/pdf/subtype/doc/path//content/dam/pdf/en/datasheets/ds-direct-memory-cache.pdf

Converting Cost Into Innovation Sep 04, 2019

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"Without change, there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement." Enjoy a thought provoking episode of the Pure Report with Paul Ferraro, Senior Director, Business Optimization and Cloud Technology, where we discuss a range of topics from financial engineering to the user-based economy. Paul provides interesting use case examples outside of the storage industry to provide inspiration when approaching business and digital transformation initiatives. Paul's extensive enterprise experience reveals critical strategies for multi-cloud adoption that are fiscally transparent and emphasize people. For more detail, go to: https://blog.purestorage.com/unified-cloud-as-service/

SQL Server and Understanding DBAs Aug 23, 2019

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Learn how to overcome the data management challenges of running Microsoft SQL Server by tuning in to this new episode of the Pure Report featuring Field Solution Architect Marsha Pierce. As a former enterprise DBA, Marsha has practical and hands-on experience streamlining database operations and fascinating perspectives on helping storage admins and DBAs find common ground to improve how they function jointly. For more information on overcoming SQL Server challenges: https://www.purestorage.com/resources/type-a/pure-primer-overcoming-sql-server-storage-challenges.html

Summer Intern Extravaganza Aug 21, 2019

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Wonder what's in the minds of the next generation of high tech workers that will be creating the future of IT? Or maybe you hire interns and need insight on what makes for a valuable internship? Hear from three of Pure's summer interns about their perspectives on interning at Pure, details around their department projects, and how their time at Pure will help jumpstart their careers after college. For more information on Pure Storage internships and careers, go to: https://www.purestorage.com/company/careers.html

Old Dog, New Tricks - Microsoft Exchange on FlashArray Aug 20, 2019

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Enterprises continue to rely on Microsoft Exchange Server on-premises for their employees' communications and calendaring needs. Hear from Pure's resident Microsoft Exchange Solution Architect Robert Quimbey ("Q") about his perspectives on the evolution of Exchange (Q worked at Microsoft in the 90's and 00's)and recent solution enhancements on Pure FlashArray to deliver improved uptime, response times, and ease of management for Exchange admins. For more information on Pure solutions for Microsoft: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/applications/microsoft.html

VMware Virtualization Unleashed And VMworld 2019 Aug 15, 2019

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Just in time for VMworld 2019, Pure's Technical Director of VMware solutions Cody Hosterman drops by the Pure Report to talk all things VMware, virtualization, and integrations with Pure Storage. Hear about how Pure's tight alignment with VMware enables easier data management operations for highly virtualized environments including Cody's favorite subject, Virtual Volumes (VVols). You'll also get a preview of what Pure is showcasing at VMworld 2019 from August 25-28. Don't miss this episode! For more information on Pure and VMware/Virtualization, go to: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/infrastructure/virtualization.html

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