The Pure Report

The rising cost of downtime means that even short outages are completely unacceptable. And as ransomware continues to grow as a threat costing global organizations $Ms annually in fees and downtime, you need comprehensive protection and quick recovery. Hear from Veeam's Rickatron (Rick Vanover), and Pure's JD Wallace about how Veeam and Pure partner together to deliver the "triple play" of immutability and protection. This combination of File Immutability with Pure Safemode and Cloud protection means unmatched backup resiliency for all your data. Rick and JD go deep into the integrations between the two companies, including snapshot management, ransomware protection, rapid restore with FlashBlade and a new Cisco Validated Design. For more information on Veeam and Pure: https://www.purestorage.com/company/technology-partners/veeam.html

Our digital-first world is taxing IT systems and IT operations teams. Keeping pace isn’t easy, but the right digital infrastructure can lighten the load. Hear from Lucas Sweany, one of Pure's IT Security Architects about best practices in dealing with the rising volume of security log data and why and how Pure uses Pure infrastructure to simplify security log data management and speed time to analysis. Lucas talks about his journey into Security operations and provides insight as an expert on techniques for ingest, real-time analysis, and triage. For more information: https://www.purestorage.com/docs.html?item=/type/pdf/subtype/doc/path/content/dam/pdf/en/solution-briefs/sb-it-operations-analytics-without-compromise.pdf

From paper to digital and analytics - learn from a three decade Healthcare veteran about data management trends that are shaping the future of patient care and hospitals today. Hear from Jon Kimerle, Pure's EPIC Solution Alliance Manager about key insights gained from recent Healthcare CIO focus groups and how new specialized leadership roles around analytics and digital transformation are emerging. Jon and I discuss the new and next frontiers of Healthcare IT - Cloud/As-a-Service, Hosted offerings, next-generation archiving and analytics, and the need for robust data protection. For more information on Pure for Healthcare: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/industries/healthcare.html

Hit the Wayback Machine in this episode as we welcome Pure1 Technical Marketing Director Ralph Ronzio to the program for a spirited discussion around 80s retro video games. From there, Ralph provides an update on the new Pure1 Digital Service Catalog, allowing Pure Storage customers to explore, discover, trial, and order Pure offerings including Cloud Block Store, Professional Services, and Portworx - all from within Pure1. Users can select and purchase any of these services directly from the catalog and keep track of the status of orders. And once a subscription is in place, Pure1 provides a wealth of usage data and renewals information - making it easier to run your digital business. For more information: https://www.purestorage.com/products/storage-management/pure1/act.html

What happens when industry leaders join forces to develop and deliver joint solutions to deliver robust data protection and rapid recovery performance to keep your critical applications available? Hear from Commvault Director of Product Management Shawn Smucker and Pure's Field Solution Architect Jason Walker about ways that Commvault and Pure are taking data protection to new heights. We look back at the origins of backup and recovery and how all-flash from Pure and Commvault's intelligent orchestration capabilities combine to make data protection easier and modern, even as your data is growing. Specific integrations discussed include Intellisnap, Rapid Restore to the Cloud, a Pure Validated Design, and ransomware protection. For more information on this partnership and solutions you can use today: https://www.purestorage.com/company/technology-partners/commvault.html

2020 rapidly accelerated the shift from brick-and-mortar retail to e-commerce as record numbers of people sheltered at home and shopped online. Hear from Peter Eicher, Vertical Solution Specialist, about how retail businesses need to rapidly shift to the right IT infrastructure to support their online marketplaces and deliver shopping experiences customers expect. We discuss new and emerging retail trends, including improved self-service engagement, sustainability, and the impact of emerging tech like 5G, AI, and IoT. Pure helps retailers evolve digitally with simplicity, rapid and consistent transactions, and predictable uptime with reduced risk via Evergreen and Pure-as-a-Service. For more information: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/industries/retail.html

Many medical organizations rely on outdated technology to manage their critical imaging services, unaware that better solutions exist that can improve the time to determine patient outcomes. Hear from Mark Dobbs, Pure's Enterprise Imaging Specialist, about how imaging is better on Pure - providing medical imaging departments with advanced data-services and financial flexibility to transform their traditional PACS storage to new modern architectures - and bringing innovation and new real-time services to patients and clinicians. Learn about how Pure's recent Purity FB 3.2 release brings modern SMB capabilities in FlashBlade that can deliver faster imaging outcomes compared to hybrid and disk arrays. Mark also provides insight on the impact and resourcing challenges that new technologies like Artificial Intelligence are having - creating a "new user" for imaging services and forcing hospitals to free up limited budgets for adoption. For more information: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/industries/enterprise-imaging.html

As application and infrastructure strategy evolves to include the public cloud, moving data across on-premises and cloud environments with a consistent experience and no application re-writes will be a key to success. Hear from frequent friend of the program, Cody Hosterman, Pure Technical Solutions Director, about our recent GA announcement that extends Cloud Block Store to Microsoft Azure. Cloud Block Store for Azure delivers bi-directional data mobility and a consistent experience across private and public clouds by bringing FlashArray features and experiences directly to the Azure public cloud. Key use cases include: seamless application mobility, dev/test and DR, and massive efficiencies leveraging Pure's data reduction, thin provisioning, instant snapshots, and cloning. For more information: https://www.purestorage.com/resources/webinars/bringing-enterprise-grade-block-storage-to-microsoft-azure.html

The impact of cybersecurity attacks is well-known and far-reaching. With millions of dollars spent annually to protect and defend against intrusions, new attacks and methods of breaching IT continue to make the headlines. Hear from a former "black hat" and now Ethical Hacker, Hector Montsegur, about the complex landscape of modern cybersecurity and how he works with IT teams to prevent intrusion and recover rapidly from breaches. Hector provides practical expertise gained over 3 decades and highlights the latest defense in depth techniques, the growing business behind cybercrime, and security risks he forecasts as employees start coming back to the office post-pandemic. For more information: https://www.purestorage.com/au/resources/webinars/protect-ransomware-next-target-backups-on-demand.html

Analysts are starting to recognize the value to enterprises for hosted bare metal environments to deliver a cloud-like experience and speed time to market. Hear from Jack Hogan, Pure VP of Technology Strategy, about a new partnership offering with Equinix that delivers bare metal as-a-service capabilities and solves challenges with cloud cost overruns, legacy technical debt, and skillset gaps. The new Pure Storage on Equinix Metal offering provides high-performance, on demand, single tenant environments with full control over provisioning and administration. Whether you have legacy on-prem applications, high volume data driven workloads, or are ramping cloud-native and next gen apps, the new BMaaS offering delivers a single platform for your cloud journey. For more information: http://www.purestorage.com/baremetal and http://www.purestorage.com/equinix

Real-time event streaming based on Apache Kafka is enabling digital transformation in nearly all industries globally. Hear from Marc Selwan, Confluent PM and Pure's Vaughn Stewart, VP Alliances, about how Pure and Confluent have partnered to offer offer an integrated real time event streaming solution that supports global scale and the most stringent regulatory requirements. With Confluent and Pure Storage FlashBlade, users can infinitely retain and elastically scale their Apache Kafka data simply, without compromising performance. For more information: https://www.purestorage.com/resources/webinars/tiered-storage-for-kafka-nov4.html and https://www.purestorage.com/company/technology-partners/confluent.html

Downtime is undesirable in any industry, but downtime in healthcare environments poses an additional element of risk. Healthcare is dependent upon electronic data and computer systems. Downtime – whether planned or unplanned – can jeopardize patient care. Hear from Pure's Healthcare EHR and MEDITECH solution experts, Priscilla Sandberg and Chris Bokis, about a new solutions approach to reducing risk and maintaining operations during planned downtime. Built on top of Pure FlashArray and MEDITECH, iPeople Offline stores 100% of a hospital’s patient data on a separate server instance so during planned downtime, clinicians are able to find the information they need to continue performing their patient care responsibilities. Add Pure's always modern non-disruptive upgrades via Evergreen, and planned downtime no longer needs to be scary. For more information: https://landing.ipeople.com/revenue-cycle-webinar-download

The rapid shift to digital transformation is putting a spotlight on business requirements for enhanced data security and operational efficiency for modern applications. Hear from David Yu, Sr. Product Marketing Manager for FlashBlade, about new Purity FlashBlade 3.2 data services enhancements that were announced on 2/16 - native SMB to drive faster restores, sparse file support for improved application efficiency, better object security, and more granular user performance monitoring. FlashBlade continues to lead the unified file and object category delivering broad workload acceleration, improved security and better operational efficiency - all things that benefit the acceleration of digital business. For more information about FlashBlade and UFFO: https://www.purestorage.com/products/file-and-object/flashblade.html

Catch up with the latest announcements on Purity for FlashArray with new data services that extend the Modern Data Experience. Product Marketing Director and frequent friend of the program, James Gallegos, joins to talk about the latest Purity and FlashArray//C enhancements to help customers store, safeguard, manage, access, and mobilize data, eliminating the frustrations of legacy storage and making it easier for users to achieve digital transformation initiatives. We cover it all - new ActiveCluster replication capabilities, advances in NVMe over FIbre Channel, new FlashArray//C options, Safemode protection against ransomware, and a new Pure Validated Design for VMware vSphere Tanzu. Get all the news in one place with this episode of the Pure Report. For more information: https://www.purestorage.com/products/storage-software/purity.html

Simple, fast and accessible are words that historically have not been associated with government technology systems. Ask any agency leader who balances the burden of legacy IT with demands to rapidly meet pressing mission needs. In this episode, Nick Psaki, Principal System Engineer for North American Federal at Pure Storage, discusses five priorities he has gleaned from agency customers as they focus on enterprise transformation in 2021 and beyond. Nick elaborates on his 5 S's that every government (and commercial business) need to be successful - security, sustainment, simplicity, scale, and speed - and how Pure's simple and intuitive, always modern, and flexible on-demand architecture is helping government users fast-track their modernization journey. For more information on Pure Storage in Public Sector: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/industries/government.html