Video Blog: Pure Storage Architecture Whiteboard Session
Talking to customers about flash and the Pure Storage FlashArray is fun. New technology, new architectures, new approaches…all the stuff that makes for really good technical exchanges with customers, and makes my job the best of my career. There comes a point in almost every customer meeting I have that it hits people that “wow…this…
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Solving VMware $torage $henanigans
Here are Pure Storage, virtualized environments have been one of our strongest deployment use cases for early adopter customers, both virtual server and VDI environments. This should really come as no surprise, since storage has emerged as one of the biggest “speed bumps” in the deployment of virtualization. The Challenge: The IO Blender Many…
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The SSD is Key to Economic Flash Arrays
Robin Harris of StorageMojo penned an interesting post yesterday, asking Are SSD-based Arrays a Bad Idea? The premise of his piece was that the traditional 2.5”/3.5” HDD disk form factor that SSDs use today is largely a byproduct of rotating hard disk history, and if you were starting fresh to build an all-flash array, you…
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CEO Scott Dietzen Speaks Out on Storage and Startups
Last week, Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen (@scott_dietzen) spoke to the Cube’s John Furrier and Wikibon’s David Vellante about why the transition from mechanical disk to flash memory is such a hot topic in the enterprise market. Hosted at the Strata Conference in Silicon Valley, the show was a sold-out epicenter of discussions around the…
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