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On the heels of the electrifying keynote, join us as we unpack the latest announcements and what they mean for you and your Pure Data Storage Platform. This dynamic session explores our new advancements and cutting-edge managed data services. It's designed to equip you with the knowledge needed to fully leverage these innovations, preparing you to dive into our technical feature sessions with confidence. Seize this opportunity to position yourself at the cutting edge of data storage innovation.

From AI to EDA, explore how FlashBlade® architecture addresses business challenges and safeguards investments for the future. This session investigates how innovative infrastructure from Pure Storage impacts unstructured data storage, emphasizing scalability, performance, and ease of management. Through real-world applications and case studies, discover how businesses utilize Pure infrastructure for innovation, enhanced efficiency, and a competitive advantage.

Join Shawn Hansen and Venkat Ramakrishnan as they discuss the synergy between Pure Storage and Portworx® in creating a modern data platform. Learn how this combination mitigates risk, simplifies infrastructure management, and enhances agility for innovative application development. Discover why Portworx is key to adopting a cloud operating model for data, ensuring the efficiency, agility, and resilience associated with Pure Storage.

Self-service upgrades with Pure1® and Edge Services aren't just about pressing an upgrade button: They empower you with complete control over appliance lifecycle planning and management, emphasizing security, stability, and reliability. Discover how self-service upgrades simplify software lifecycle management by removing the burdensome tasks.

Take control of your storage with self-service fleet management! Simplify the storage experience with Pure1 Manage from provisioning, monitoring, upgrades, and complete product life cycle management. Gain real-time insights and proactive recommendations to optimize performance, capacity, and data protection. Effortlessly plan complex migrations and replications with self-service tools. Embrace a sustainable future with intelligent management features.

Storage management often requires multiple tools, processes, and extensive training. However, Pure simplifies this with a unified management approach to streamline storage administration. Join our experts to explore how to simplify storage management, including:

• Upgrades that reduce manual processes by 80%.
• Quick ransomware recovery by instantly identifying impacted data.
• Enhanced array utilization through shared infrastructure.

Come listen to your favorite podcast...live! If you've thought while grocery shopping/mowing the lawn/washing your car, "I wish I could listen to this live!" we have just the session for you. Your hosts Rob, JD, and Andrew will wander through Accelerate announcements with their trademark blend of realism, perspective, and (mild) snarkiness along with a couple of surprise topics.

Learn how investing in an Evergreen® storage architecture helps align corporate environmental goals with streamlined infrastructure spending and responsible resource management.

Understanding artificial intelligence (AI) can be daunting. This session demystifies AI models like language models (LLMs), deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs), and video/image models by covering essential aspects including dataset requirements, power and space considerations, data preparation, training time and resource needs, and inference environment impacts.

Consolidate workloads with confidence and lower costs, enhance array utilization, and simplify management, all without dedicated arrays. Learn how to enable FinOps at the workload level with a unique granular visibility to accurately calculate costs for capacity planning and determine the profitability of workloads. Explore how to easily manage your shared infrastructure or multi-service environment with four times fewer parameters to provision.

Pure1 is the AIOps powered SaaS tool that helps you easily and effectively manage your Pure Storage assets. But are you getting the most value from its many capabilities? This session explores the capabilities of Pure1, including fleet health monitoring, issue alerts, and workload planning, all through product demonstrations.

Balancing financial realities with technical requirements can be a challenge for both executives and technologists. This session will demonstrate how Pure Storage Evergreen subscriptions offer a solution, providing flexibility in storage deployment—including capacity and upgrades—while managing acquisition costs. Discover how Evergreen can help you meet both your technical and financial objectives, now and in the future.

Many HCI solutions use inefficient, non-optimized hybrid storage systems. This isn’t ideal for modern application workloads which demand an always-on, high-performance foundation. Combining flash storage with efficient data reduction improves application performance while reducing costs. Learn how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is enhanced by flash storage from Pure. This interactive, action-packed sessions features real-world stories and examples from two industry veterans.

Join us to learn how the Pure Continuum of Cyber Resiliency helps you defend your organization against internal and external threats, and hear from a Pure customer about how they successfully defend their business with SafeMode™ Snapshots, replication, Pure1, and our ecosystem of partners.

Pure Storage continues to innovate with the Pure1 platform. This session provides an overview of the Pure1 disaster recovery as-a-service offering, as well as new Pure1 features including Data Protection Advisor and Ransomware DRR Anomaly Detection. We will conclude the session with an ask-me-anything conversation with Pure1 product architects.

Automation is fundamental to today's on-premises, hybrid, and cloud infrastructures. APIs and SDKs are the underlying technology for providers like PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, and much more. This session walks through Pure APIs, including the new Fusion API endpoints, along with SDKs. This comprehensive demo showcase will help you discover automation solutions designed to enhance your team's success.

The AVS and Pure Cloud Block Store™ integration enhances cloud-first strategies by seamlessly extending on-premises VMware environments to Azure, optimizing costs and providing a scalable, enterprise-grade storage solution. We will showcase how Pure Cloud Block Store helps save money on your cloud bill by eliminating the need for excess AVS nodes for workloads with large storage footprints. Highlights will include examples of how existing AVS and Pure Cloud Block Store customers are already leveraging the benefits of this new joint solution.

There have been many new features, protocols, and services delivered for the FlashArray™ in the past several years. This session is focused on a performance deep dive for each of these features with VMware workloads, such as NVMe over fabrics, file services, virtual volumes (vVols), and more.

Dive into the world of modern virtualization. We'll explore how Portworx and Red Hat are working together to usher in a modern application development platform that supports VMs and containers running side by side. We discuss how to simplify the integration, operation, and management of VMs and their data in a cloud-native environment by leveraging KubeVirt. Discover how to bridge the gap between traditional VMs and cloud-native development, providing a path to innovation and modernization.

This session will demonstrate how Azure VMware Solution (AVS) administrators can simplify storage operation tasks by continuously monitoring and automatically updating AVS-attached Pure Cloud Block Store datastores. Azure provides all the framework you need. Let us show you how you can leverage components like the Pure Storage API and SDK, AVS Run Command and Azure native monitoring services to put your AVS storage on self-drive.

Unearth the treasures of Data Protection and Cyber Resiliency with Pure1 and walk away with a treasure map to navigate the perilous terrain of digital threats. This session equips you to face all data challenges head-on, and the pitfalls we're dodging are those of inadequate data management. There are no slithering surprises here; it's all about mastering your storage strategy in this action-packed FlashTalk. Prepare to embark on an adventure where it's all storage, and no snakes.

Pure1 now offers disaster recovery as a service, orchestrating disaster recovery workflows between on-premises and AWS. Delivering on-demand, as-a-service disaster recovery allows organizations to substantially reduce recurring costs, while providing a toolset that facilitates simple, rapid recovery into DR locations.

The Pure Platform includes the innovative technologies of FlashArray, FlashBlade, Pure1, and Pure Fusion™. Orchestrating and automating these solutions within your infrastructure is critical in today's IT world. This session will walk through the different APIs and SDKs that allow for interoperability and interaction both within the technologies, and with the vast ecosystem of infrastructure software.

In the evolving landscape of database management, adopting cutting-edge technologies is paramount for efficiency, scalability, and driving business value. This session explores the transformative realm of VMware vVols (virtual volumes), their strategic implementation in database environments, and utilization best practices. From enhanced granularity to simplified management, gain insights into how vVols revolutionize storage provisioning, snapshots, and cloning for databases.

Come get the "need to know" details on how to get the best performance, reliability, and stability when using FlashArray with VMware vSphere. Hear from Pure Storage experts and VMware Storage Specialists as they cover networking best practices, NVMe-oF, Virtual Volumes, data protection and recovery best practices and much more!

Join us for a roundtable on cybersecurity and risk reduction for enterprises. Featuring insights from Hector Monsegur and a current customer, this session delves into safeguarding organizational assets against rising cyber threats. Engage with experts on enhancing security frameworks, continuous risk assessment, and adopting innovative solutions. Gain the tools and knowledge for a robust cybersecurity strategy.

Come get the "need to know" details on how to get the best performance, reliability, and stability when using FlashArray with VMware vSphere. Hear from Pure Storage experts and VMware Storage Specialists as they cover networking best practices, NVMe-oF, Virtual Volumes, data protection and recovery best practices and much more!

Every organization is building a strategy to build and deploy around AI. How do you quickly and easily integrate open and proprietary AI models into your developer workflow to speed innovation while maintaining secure and available data? We will explore the use of chatbots, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and iteration for inference experimentation without delays. We'll also cover best practices for building AI platforms on Kubernetes.

Can your organization benefit from large language models (LLMs) to serve your customers? Maybe. However, if you customize with external data sources, customer information, and internal data, the answer is definitely! Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) makes query answers more accurate, applicable, and current. This session covers vertical use cases of LLM RAG where pre-trained models are augmented with curated data sources, vectorized into a vector database and transformed into higher quality GenAI answers.

Take this opportunity to ask Pure Storage experts and customers how they’ve resolved some of their biggest data challenges, ranging from preparing data for AI or uploading from an IOT device to egressing data from a cloud. Whether you want advice on cost savings, performance issues, or a suggestion for a good API to use, one of our experts likely has the answer you've been looking for. Come check out this practical session on how to find harmony with your data.

This expert panel on the AI ecosystem will examine MLOps' significance in GenAI workloads and GPU scheduling efficiency via run.ai for optimal GPU cluster use. We'll discuss enhancing performance through distributed computing with Ray/Anyscale, focusing on model and data parallelism. Learn how these elements work together for a scalable, efficient AI ecosystem and have your questions addressed.

Modern applications demand speed and efficiency in managing the CRUD operations of machine-scale orchestrators like Kubernetes. Join us to discover why external arrays with CSI drivers fall short in provisioning and managing volumes at scale. You'll gain valuable insights into common technical issues and what to look out for early on in a POC so you can avoid painful setbacks in production environments.

Explore the world of Pure's APIs to enhance automation and optimize your database environments. Unlock the full potential of Pure Storage arrays with mastery over APIs for effortless management and insightful performance analytics. Harness the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK Module for easy access to essential array information. Gain expert knowledge on performance data and beyond.

Explore how internal developer platforms (IDPs) enhance productivity and expedite time-to-market. See how the Portworx team's custom IDP slashed infrastructure costs, boosted consistency, and lightened developers’ cognitive load. Discover their platform engineering strategy that cut cloud expenses by 50% and sped up deployments. Learn strategies for leveraging IDPs to optimize workflows and achieve tangible business benefits from a team that's done it.

In AI and MLOps, storage capacity planning translates to efficiency. This talk covers the challenges and strategies for sizing storage to meet both current and future AI demands. It highlights the importance of anticipating data storage and processing needs, showcasing how the Pure platform excels in managing huge and diverse data. Using examples, we'll illustrate how to align compute, capacity, and workload needs with scalable storage solutions, ensuring they keep pace with complex AI projects.

When databases are down, work stops. How do you ensure SQL Server stays online? Do you use built-in SQL Server availability features like Always On availability groups (AGs) or Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs)? Pure features such as ActiveCluster™ or ActiveDR™? Combine them? How do native SQL Server backups and snapshots in the array fit into this crowded equation? This session discusses how the combination Pure + SQL Server can provide maximum uptime and help you recover quickly.

Gen AI is revolutionizing the financial industry. This session will explore how the next generation of AI is reshaping traditional financial practices. We will discuss how AI algorithms are used to analyze vast amounts of data, predict market trends, automate trading processes, and enhance risk management strategies. Join us as we uncover the transformative power AI holds for the future of financial services.

CoreWeave is a leading provider of cloud-based GPU infrastructure, specializing in high-performance computing and AI. They offer powerful GPU instances optimized for deep learning, rendering, and other compute-intensive tasks, catering to a wide range of industries such as finance, healthcare, and media. With scalable infrastructure and advanced GPU technology, CoreWeave enables organizations to accelerate their workflows and achieve breakthrough performance in data-driven applications.

Learn how to non-disruptively transform your existing Pure infrastructure into a global storage platform. Pure is bringing the power and capabilities of Fusion into the Purity storage operating system, free of charge, for all customers. Reduce labor and complexity for both manual and automated tasks with new federated storage management capabilities in the CLI, GUI and API and integrated AI workload placement assistance. Reduce risks associated with misconfiguration, ensure configuration consistency, and enforce data protection compliance across your whole Pure Storage fleet. Integrate your business and process attributes into the storage provisioning process to improve workload utilization visibility and traceability for chargeback and showback.

Everyone says non disruptive upgrades, but how many actually deliver? Come check out how Pure has designed their Evergreen Platform architecture for non disruptive upgrades from the ground up and see a live NDU. Plus hear from a Financial Services customer on how Evergreen and NDUs improve their operations. We promise there won't be any forklifts!