The Pure Report

The Pure Report welcomes Justin Emerson, Director of AI/ML Solutions at ePlus Technology, for a discussion around key enterprise challenges in harnessing analytics to improve insight and develop competitive advantages. Hear about how ePlus can design and implement solutions using Pure and other alliance partners to make AI initiatives a success. For more information on ePlus AI/ML solutions: https://www.eplus.com/solutions/digital-infrastructure/data-analytics

Despite continuing advances in Database functionality, today's Database Administrators (DBAs) still spend too much time on mundane tasks like tuning IO subsystems, and troubleshooting slow performance. Jorge Garcia, Apps Solutions Architect, returns to the Pure Report to discuss the common challenges that DBAs encounter around slow response times, constant tuning, complex data protection strategies, expensive disaster recovery solutions, and costly downtime. Hear how Pure innovations tied to the Purity operating system help DBAs free up time to innovate, and spend less time and money on time-consuming activities. For more details on how Pure helps DBAs: https://blog.purestorage.com/pure-storage-helps-oracle-dbas-sleep-better-at-night/

The continuing momentum around container adoption and DevOps creates challenges around the needs for intelligent and persistent storage to more easily scale containerized applications. Co-host Sam Marriccini catches up with Pure Solution Architect Simon Dodsley for a spirited discussion around how Pure is delivering storage integrations in this space that empowers developers and accelerates application delivery times. For more info on Pure and Containers: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/infrastructure/containers.html

Enjoy this special edition of the Pure Report featuring an appearance by Pure's Chief Marketing Officer Robson Grieve on the Disruptive Live podcast program. Robson talks about Pure's customer-first, technology-driven approach, and gives his thoughts on the hybrid cloud revolution, the data hub approach to AI/ML and Pure’s unique Evergreen business model.

Managing a huge estate of VMs presents a significant challenge to admins around mapping VMs to arrays and troubleshooting performance issues. To help solve this problem, Pure offers VM Analytics, available in Pure1®. Hear from Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer, Stan Yanitskiy, about how VM Analytics delivers full-stack visibility, making it easier to view solve performance issues and to view how VMs map to arrays. Learn how current customers and prospects can access VM Analytics to see what it can to simplify operations. For more information on VM Analytics: https://blog.purestorage.com/vm-analytics-now-available-in-pure1/

Gain deep insight on data management challenges running SAP Applications and SAP HANA from Pure's SAP Field Solution Architect, Ryan Arsenault. Prior to Pure, Ryan spent 15 years as an IT Delivery Manager running complex SAP environments so his level of depth and hands-on experience is legit. Hear about why SAP applications are complex and customized, how SAP HANA really works and why it's tough to adopt, and various ways that he sees Pure solutions for SAP as the best choice to make SAP run more efficiently and at lower cost. For more info on SAP solutions: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/applications/sap.html

The Pure Report celebrates its first birthday by welcoming back one of the first guests on the program, Kevin Rickson, Product Marketing Manager for the Evergreen program. Get a deep dive into how Pure engineering makes this program work for customers - delivering non-disruptive software upgrades and capacity expansions while keeping your business running and avoiding data migrations. Also, Kevin details aspects of competitive programs out there that try to duplicate Evergreen but usually fall short. For more information on Evergreen - https://www.purestorage.com/products/evergreen.html.

Join Sam Marraccini on location from Orlando at SAP's annual flagship event, SAPPHIRE 2019. Sam speaks with a variety of Pure's SAP solutions applications team about Pure's growing presence at this show and how customers are learning ways to leverage Pure's integrated capabilities to streamline copy/clone and refresh of SAP applications while driving out operating cost. For more on Pure and SAP solutions, go to www.purestorage.com/SAP.

Find out how Pure Storage has been ramping up SAP Solutions to help businesses automate complex SAP operations, streamline adoption of SAP HANA, and speed up the journey to analytics and cloud. Hear from Brian Ferrar, SAP Solutions Marketing Manager, about Pure's upcoming presence at SAP's SAPPHIRE event and how the SAP solutions team continues to develop compelling solutions to help users supercharge SAP for optimum business impact. For more information on Pure Solutions for SAP: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/applications/sap.html

Kevin Liebl, Sr. Director for Evergreen Marketing, returns to the Pure Report to describe new capabilities for the Evergreen Storage Service that provides a unified ES2 subscription across FlashArray on-premises and Cloud Block Store in AWS. Now users can flexibly and simply move all or any portion of their pay-per-use block storage capacity between environments (including hosted) without any adjustments to their service contract. With Pure ES2 your on-premises investment today can move transparently to the cloud as needed based on business requirements. For more information: https://www.purestorage.com/products/evergreen-storage-service.html

Listen live from the GPU Technology Conference 2019 (GTC), NVIDIA's annual event around the latest in AI, deep learning, HPC, and more. This year, Pure Storage was a platinum sponsor and in this episode you'll hear from three Pure experts about how modern solutions using FlashBlade and AIRI are improving time-to-insight and simplifying the deployment and operation of infrastructure for AI and analytics. For more information: https://www.purestorage.com/au/solutions/applications/artificial-intelligence.html

Today, historical data is critical business currency. Pure Storage ObjectEngine offers a cloud-native solution to restore data rapidly in hybrid cloud, so forward-looking enterprises can do more with their data. Hear from Vanessa Wilson, Director of Business Development and former CEO of StorReduce, about how ObjectEngine modernizes existing data protection strategies to a “flash-to-flash-to-cloud” approach and meets increasingly stringent backup and restore SLAs without any changes to existing backup workflows. For more information, visit: https://www.purestorage.com/objectengine

Co-host Sam Marraccini stops by the Pure Report studio to chat about his perspectives on Pure after 6 months into his new role. During this episode, you'll hear about Pure's unwavering customer focus, how Evergreen solves uptime challenges, recent developments in hybrid cloud solutions, upcoming events, and much more. For everything about Pure Storage, check out www.purestorage.com.

Listen live from HIMSS 2019, the leading healthcare IT show where Pure exhibited and held sessions showing how Pure technologies can aid organizations to achieve efficiencies of care delivery, lower costs, and put an end to data silos and migrations. Pure's own Esteban Reubens, Global Principal for Enterprise Imaging, shares his insights on the conference and Pure's momentum in delivering cutting edge healthcare solutions. For more on Pure in Healthcare: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/industries/healthcare.html

Historically host data encryption and array data reduction are like oil and water – they simply don’t mix. But not any longer. Hear from Vaughn Stewart, Pure VP Alliances, and Blake Wood, Thales Director of Business Development, about a new joint solution announcement -- Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. This new capability removes the compromise between encryption and storage efficiency, providing the granular access controls security professionals have come to expect from Thales combined with the industry-leading data reduction technologies from Pure Storage. For more information, check out: https://go.thalesesecurity.com/rs/480-LWA-970/images/pure-storage-and-thales-esecurity-sb.pdf