The Pure Report

Cisco's Sr. Solutions Manager Erik Lillestolen stops by the Pure Report to talk about how FlashStack converged infrastructure with Cisco UCS and Pure Storage arrays delivers superior business outcomes for application users. Also hear his thoughts on benefits of the Cisco and Pure alliance, the high degree of integration in FlashStack, plus some tidbits about enterprise challenges with running SAP. For more on FlashStack, go to www.flashstack.com, and go to https://www.purestorage.com/cisco for more info on the Cisco and Pure alliance partnership.

Enjoy the first episode in our new Get to Know Pure Executives series, featuring Pure Co-founder and CTO John "Coz" Colgrove. This is Part 1 of a 2 part series since it was a lengthy conversation - Part 2 will release soon. Coz digs into a variety of topics in this episode: from Pure’s 10-year anniversary to our recent Pure//Accelerate event and everything in between. Going forward, we'll feature different Pure executives and have them share their perspectives on business, leadership, their personal lives, and of course, Pure. For more on the leadership team at Pure, go to: https://www.purestorage.com/company/leadership.html

Analyst/influencer Justin Warren from Pivotnine joins the program to provide his interesting perspectives on the relationship among technology, management, and finance. Justin also chimes in around the value he sees for enterprises in using Pure1 and unique features Pure provides in predictive workload analysis to drive improved business outcomes. Finally, hear his take on how IT skillsets are evolving and how Systems Admins can expand their knowledge and opportunity. Quote: "If you don't like change, maybe a career in IT is not for you..." For more on Pivotnine: https://pivotnine.com/ - and to learn more about Pure1: https://www.purestorage.com/products/pure-1.html

Container and new stack technologies continue their rapid adoption across all IT organizations, offering greater agility and flexible consumption models. Hear from two of SHIs Principal Solution Architects, Russ Cantwell and Mike Voss, who partner with Pure to work with customers to accelerate strategies and services to ensure success for hybrid data management adoption. SHI is a leading Pure Storage North America National Partner - for more information on SHI and Pure, go to: www.shi.com/pure - and for info on Pure Storage and Cloud, check out: www.purestorage.com/cloud.

Catch up with Pure's Principal Systems Engineer Andrew Miller who joins the Pure Report to discuss his latest travels and how core Pure technologies provide an excellent springboard to the adoption of hybrid cloud and as-a-service models for agile data management. Andrew also offers a Pure Report first - poetry - a haiku about our Accelerate event. Don't miss this one - he's a great guest and extremely entertaining. Follow Andrew on Twitter at @andriven and for more on Pure Cloud Data Storage Solutions, go to: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/cloud/data-storage.html

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

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.

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

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/

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

"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/

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

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

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

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