The Pure Report

Container adoption is all the rage and increasing rapidly, but lack of persistent storage support for dynamic containerized applications threatens to slow this trend. Hear from two of Pure's experts in this space, Shilpi Srivastava and Raphael Londner, about how Pure Service Orchestrator addresses this challenge, delivering smart provisioning, elastic scaling, and transparent recovery that can accelerate application delivery times and empower developers. For more information: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/infrastructure/containers.html

How are application owners impacted by limitations at the data management layer? Hear from Pure's new Applications Solution Manager, Jorge Garcia, with 25+ years of experience at Oracle, about how Pure's technology makes storage issues virtually transparent for application owners - enabling them to meet SLAs, deliver rapid response times, and accelerate development of new features for the business. For more information: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/applications/mixed-workloads.html

SaaS companies compete in a fast-paced environment where IT is a critical element enabling aggressive rollout schedules to meet customer demand. Hear from Nihal Mirashi, SaaS Solution Manager at Pure, about how SaaS companies are increasingly looking to Pure All-Flash storage to advance service levels, accelerate time to revenue, and achieve operational advantages in a highly competitive space. For more information on Pure solutions for SaaS providers: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/industries/saas.html.

Learn how Pure is making self-driving storage a reality, leveraging machine learning and predictive analytics to give you storage that drives itself. Pure1 PM Nick Cox and PMM Anwesa Chatterjee join the Pure Report to describe the features and benefits of Pure1 including simple storage management, full stack visibility and analytics, and how predictive intelligence links with Pure's world-class Support. For more info on Pure1: https://www.purestorage.com/products/pure-1.html

Ring in the New Year with this new episode featuring new Pure Report co-host Sam Marraccini who turns the tables on our regular host Rob Ludeman and dives into the latest on Pure solutions for Oracle and a recap of Oracle OpenWorld. Going forward, Sam will be a regular contributor to the Pure Report in addition to his duties as a Technical Evangelist for Pure.

Experiencing glacially slow ETL for your Oracle Data Warehouse? Trying to figure out how to adopt analytics with your existing Warehouse strategy? Hear from Laura Chu, FlashBlade Product Marketing Manager at Pure, who joins the Pure Report to explain how FlashStack with FlashBlade solves common challenges associated with data warehouses solutions. Learn how to modernize your data warehouse and unify analytics data in a highly efficient data hub on Pure's FlashBlade array. For more info: https://www.purestorage.com/content/dam/purestorage/pdf/Solution%20Brief/modern-data-warehouse.pdf

Prakash Darji, GM for the FlashArray BU, stops by the Pure Report to share his insight into the challenges with cloud deployment models and data storage. Hear about how to transform your on-premises infrastructure to run in a cloud model, fully-automated platform that hosts both traditional and webscale apps and speeds your journey to an effortless hybrid cloud. For more information on Pure Storage Cloud: https://www.purestorage.com/au/solutions/cloud/data-storage.html

Pure's Microsoft Solutions Engineer Barkz jumps on the Pure Report again to cover one of his favorite topics - PowerShell SDK. Tune in to hear how Microsoft users can improve extensibility and automation with Pure's integration with PowerShell and associated REST API integration and single-click provisioning and greater control of data repositories. For more on Pure's PowerShell integration: https://blog.purestorage.com/applications/microsoft-powershell/

Pure's resident Microsoft solution expert Barkz joins the Pure Report to provide highlights of the new tech preview of a Pure extension developed for Windows Admin Center. Hear how to gain control of all aspects of your Pure Storage deployments using WAC including connectivity to multiple arrays, performance statistics at the array level, volume and host management, and more. For more details: https://blog.purestorage.com/tech-preview-of-the-pure-storage-extension-for-windows-admin-center/

Tune in to hear from James Kelly, Sr. DBA and Storage Admin at Chapman University in Southern California, about how Pure Storage transformed IT operations and simplified their team's ability to deliver always-on, rapid, and responsive services to students and staff. Recorded on-location at Chapman University, this episode includes a wealth of info direct from one of Pure's happy customers that will give you deep insight in what to expect if you're considering investing in Pure all-flash storage solutions for your business.

Vaughn Stewart, VP Strategic Alliances, returns to the Pure Report for a spirited discussion about Splunk's new SmartStore announcement that evolves deployments from costly and complicated DAS-based architectures to disaggregated compute and storage architectures that leverage S3 object stores. Hear how FlashBlade is an optimal object store solution for SmartStore that delivers performance and simplicity for analytics at enterprise scale.

Kevin Liebl, Sr. Director of Marketing, drops by the Pure Report to talk about Pure's Evergreen Storage Service (ES2), a true Storage-as-a-Service offering for a true OPEX, non-stop data storage service in cloud – private, hybrid or multi-cloud models. Hear about how ES2 delivers Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) providers choice, flexibility and agility based on enterprise grade storage with a transparent consumption model of the public cloud for workloads.

Pure's VP of Technology Alliances Vaughn Stewart stops by the Pure Report to provide his impressions of a very successful Pure Storage presence at VMWorld before we navigate a discussion of the challenges and tradeoffs with hybrid cloud adoption and data management. Vaughn provides his take on deployment considerations for Pure VVols and vSAN spanning mission critical applications, consolidation, edge, and public cloud deployments.

Ken Steinhardt, Pure's Director of Competitive Intelligence, returns to the Pure Report for an engaging discussion around how Pure delivers data management solutions for customers to solve challenges for mission-critical applications in a way that simplifies operations. This podcast also features a "Lightning Round," where Ken offers a rapid assessment of Pure's capabilities vs. the competition for important feature/functionalities like data reduction, encryption and several others. Make your Enterprise Storage comparison at https://www.purestorage.com/microsites/dell-emc-comparison.html.

On this episode of the Pure Report, we discuss how to manage, move and protect the vast quantities of information in a Data Hub. Christian Smith, VP of Products for Igneous, discusses how PAIGE.AI, a spinout of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), was created to accelerate cancer research through machine learning. Their AI data pipeline is using Pure Storage FlashBlade and Igneous Data Unstructured Data Management services to accelerate and optimize cancer research.