Find the sessions that can help you chart your course to IT superhero status. Explore the list of on-demand technical sessions and panels, exclusive Ask the Expert events, and dozens of breakout sessions to build your breakthrough strategy.
Powerful and inspiring stories from Pure leadership and industry thought leaders.
CEO Charles Giancarlo’s Keynote Address May 12, 2021 | 9:00am PT |
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A vision for the industry, customers, and future. Charlie shares three imperatives to make this a breakthrough year.
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The Hero of NASA’s Digital Transformation: Chief Data Officer Ron Thompson May 12, 2021 | 9:30am PT |
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Data is at the core of everything NASA does, from space exploration to maintaining satellites. Ron and Charlie sit down to discuss how the modern application of data is changing so much at NASA.
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Fun and Games with Roblox May 12, 2021 | 9:45am PT |
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With over 1,250 developers building games around the world, Roblox’s Modern Data Experience is all about cloud native innovation.
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How Infrastructure-led Innovation Can Change Your Life - For The Better. A conversation with Gartner’s Julia Palmer May 12, 2021 | 10:00am PT |
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Julia has a front seat to both the emerging technology landscape and the challenges end users face. Hear she and Matt Kixmoeller discuss how changing your technology adoption decision making process can make a big impact.
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Unexpected Superhero: The Story of Cori Gordon May 12, 2021 | 10:25am PT |
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As Amazon’s youngest delivery service partner, hear Cori’s story of determination, drive and true entrepreneurial spirit.
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Making an Impact with Technology: A Conversation with Aegis Sciences CIO Tim Ryan and Pure CIO Cathy Southwick May 13, 2021 | 9:00am PT |
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Faced with skyrocketing demand for COVID-19 testing, Aegis scaled their technology like never before. Tim and Cathy talk CIO-to-CIO on how IT can make an impact.
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Making the Modern Data Experience a Reality May 13, 2021 | 9:15am PT |
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What’s a Modern Data Experience? Much more than a marketing term. Pure Co-Founder John “Coz” Colgrove and CMO Jason Rose break down the real life applications.
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Breakthrough to Something NEW May 13, 2021 | 9:35am PT |
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Pure’s technology leaders announce new innovation and solutions to Modernize, Optimize, Innovate. Then, special guest, AWS’ Joshua Burgin joins to talk about the journey to hybrid cloud.
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Getting the Most From Pure: The Journey to Data Services May 13, 2021 | 10:10am PT |
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An exciting vision for how the portfolio enables a Modern Data Experience. Hear from the engineers who are creating the breakthroughs that make it happen.
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Being Your Own Hero: A Conversation with Zoe Saldana May 13, 2021 | 10:40am PT |
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A Pure exclusive interview with groundbreaking actor, breakthrough activist and philanthropist Zoe Saldana. Starring in 3 major franchises (Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Trek), she is a hero to many in more ways than one, including herself.
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Straight Arrow: Exclusive insight into Marvel’s Hawkeye, Jeremy Renner. May 13, 2021 | 11:00am PT |
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Also starring in 3 major movies (The Avengers, Mission: Impossible, The Bourne Legacy), Jeremy Renner does things his way, on his terms.
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Design and implement your approach to cloud and Kubernetes-based applications while minimizing complexity. In this track you’ll learn how Pure simplifies private, hybrid, managed and cloud native approaches to IT while reducing financial and operational risks.
Exploring The Service Economy & Pure May 13, 2021 | 12:00pm PT |
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IT leaders are finding it difficult, if not impossible, to predict storage needs. Contributing to the challenge: exponential growth in analytics data to support IT operations, sales & marketing and more. You could overbuy, but that adds cost and may leave you stuck on old technology. The answer? As a Service. In this session, industry experts will give you technical and financial insights into changing storage acquisition models and how you can reduce risk while simplifying budgeting.
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How Modern Applications Accelerate Innovation May 13, 2021 | 1:00pm PT |
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As enterprises pursue digital transformation, they are rebuilding core applications to be more modern and investing in completely new platforms capable of delivering on AI, personalization, IoT and other game-changing technologies. In this panel, Murli Thirumale will speak with three Pure customers about how they have led their company's transformation to modern application architectures across a range of industries and use cases, delivering significant business value in the process.
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Cloud Block Store Architecture: AWS vs Azure, Making the most of Each Cloud On-demand |
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Cloud Block Store was built with the same ideals as on-premises. How do we solve customer problems with flash? But instead of flash, it is cloud storage. Cloud storage continues to change, evolve, and proliferate. This session will explain how and why CBS is designed for Azure and AWS, and how that enables you to take advantage of improvements in cloud storage without changing how you deploy your applications.
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Why Customers are Moving to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and vVols On-demand |
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VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) continues to increase in adoption allowing customers to consume the full Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) in a scalable, easy to manage platform. This architecture includes the use of vVols for automating enterprise storage as part of the full SDDC. In this session Henry Villegas, Sr. VMware Architect at WWT will discuss why he continues to see an increase in VCF adoption, architecture considerations for VCF, and why Pure vVols plays a significant role.
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Take It from Our Customers: How to Succeed Building an Enterprise-grade Container-as-a-service Platform on Kubernetes On-demand |
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Most new apps are being built in containers and run on Kubernetes. But building a large scale, multi-tenent container-as-as-service platfom requires planning and insight to avoid challenges down the road. In this talk, the Portworx customer success team will share the most impactful insights from our customers running Kubernetes in the enterprise at scale.
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Cloud 2.0: Data Strategies to Supercharge Your Cloud On-demand |
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The enterprise shift to hybrid cloud is real. But is your hybrid cloud environment drowned by silos and complexity? A modern cloud strategy needs a consistent experience across a hybrid or multi cloud deployment. This session will discuss strategies to deliver a seamless cloud experience in your data center. Learn how to build application mobility into your cloud strategy from the start, and take the complexity out of managing heterogeneous cloud environments to future-proof your cloud journey.
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Getting Started with VMware Tanzu Deployment and Kubernetes On-demand |
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Interested in expanding your use of VMware to include Tanzu? If you’re ready to start your cloud-native journey with Pure Storage and VMware, look no further. Our new Pure Validated Design provides tested and proven instructions on how to stand up a vSphere with Tanzu environment with Pure Storage FlashArray easily and simply. In this talk, we will explain the ins and outs of VMware Tanzu and how to leverage the Pure portfolio for all your modern app needs!
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It's a Brave New World: Demystifying Data Protection for Kubernetes On-demand |
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75% of enterprises think that containers can be backed up the same way as other applications. Nope! In this talk, we explain why and discuss the essential elements of a Kubernetes native data protection solution.
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How Kubernetes Changes the Storage Landscape and What You Need to Do About It On-demand |
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Modern apps like AI/ML, fraud detection, personalization and more that run on Kubernetes are API-driven, distributed and data-rich. How does that affect storage requirements and how can you ensure your company succeeds in your Kubernetes journey? You'll learn that and more in this talk.
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Meet the broadest range of RTO and RPO goals while minimizing risk of data being held ransom. The data protection track covers enhancements in Pure’s ability to serve business continuity, disaster recovery and rapid restore SLAs as well as covering how we secure and safeguard data from cyber threats.
Why Restore is the Next Backup May 20, 2021 | 11:00am PT |
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For years, IT teams have preached the importance of high speed backups to ensure business recovery without slowing down production workloads. But with more data being used to support end users, service desks and internal operations it is also high speed restores that are important. Join our panel of industry, customer and technology experts as they discuss real-world restore requirements and how Pure addresses them.
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Data Protection Made Simple with Pure Storage Purity//FA May 20, 2021 | 12:00pm PT |
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Architecting for zero data loss or operational recovery doesn’t need to be complex. With the right replication features, you can tailor your business continuity and disaster recovery profiles to match contingency plans and operational goals. Dive into this session to learn what's new for Pure FlashArray ActiveCluster, ActiveDR and async replication and learn how you can address your business needs while maintaining continuity within and beyond the data center.
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The Pure Data Protection Portfolio: A CISO’s View On-demand |
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In every organization senior management teams have a focus on data security. This session will discuss how Pure's data protection capabilities support CISO initiatives to protect and defend an organization before, during and after attacks – including ransomware attacks. The session will further focus on how Pure’s portfolio supports a proven security framework and addresses specific requirements from security professionals and security-minded executives.
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Protecting Stateful Kubernetes Applications with Pure Storage On-demand |
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Protecting cloud native Kubernetes environments requires planning to ensure all application data is properly protected. In this session we will look at the importance of protecting Kubernetes objects including StatefulSets, ConfigMaps, Services, Secrets and Persistent Volume Claims to ensure all metadata and actual data can be recovered. We’ll also cover how FlashBlade and PX-Backup can be used to ensure your data protection strategy for Kubernetes is flexible and efficient.
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Ransomware Jail. Is There Any Way Out? On-demand |
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Are you prepared for ransomware attacks much less mitigating them? Are solutions even possible? In this session we will cover threats and concerns facing IT departments; theories of why are people still paying ransoms; how ransomware targets backups; and how Pure’s portfolio can be used with Commvault, Veeam, Veritas and more to safeguard you – or a friend’s IT environment – from data loss.
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The Growing Need for High Performance Data Protection On-demand |
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With more employees working from home and customers engaging with companies online, business continuity has never been more important. Applications that are not backed by high availability, rapid recovery – and rapid backups to prevent business slow downs – are a risk. In this session, we’ll focus on changing SLA requirements and how you can design a hybrid cloud data protection strategy with Pure’s portfolio of offerings to safeguard operations.
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FlashRecover: Recovery at Scale On-demand |
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Pure FlashRecover™, Powered by Cohesity® is the industry’s first modern, all-flash backup solution backed by world-class support from Pure Storage. With the power of FlashRecover, enterprises can recover up to 1PB of data a day, something that is not possible with many other data protection solutions. In this session, we’ll cover the features, functionality and architecture of this solution and show you how to achieve 1PB of recovery a day.
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Safeguard File Workloads from Downtime, Data Loss and Ransomware Destruction with FlashBlade On-demand |
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File data, whether from user shares or file-based workloads, is an important resource for organizations and their staff. Meeting uptime SLAs though is not always straight forward. In this session our team of technical experts will cover best practices for meeting RTO and RPO objectives for file data with FlashBlade. Topics will include setup and management of snapshots and file replication as well as implementation of SafeMode snapshots for ransomware protection.
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Data Protection in a Snap with FlashArray//C On-demand |
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A deep dive on architecting efficient and easy-to-manage data protection solutions with FA//C leveraging built-in data services and integrations with leading data protection software vendors. Learn how to enable business continuity, thwart ransomware and recover faster than using obsolete hybrid storage environments -- all at hybrid storage economics.
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Enhance your ability to secure operations, improve IT efficiency and provide real-time business insights. The analytics track is designed for security, IT, sales and marketing operations teams looking to deliver data analytic solutions that empower breakthroughs and eliminate organizational risks.
Data. The Catalyst of a Successful Customer Experience May 27, 2021 | 11:00am PT |
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Business leaders are constantly looking for new ways to build lasting and positive customer experiences. To accomplish this, IT teams are increasing their use of data analytics for pre and post sales efforts. In this session our panel of experts will discuss strategies for tapping into the power of data and provide insights into how Pure uses data to enrich customer - and employee! - engagements.
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Building for Tomorrow: Simplifying Infrastructure for Modern Analytics and Unstructured Data May 27, 2021 | 12:00pm PT |
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The deployment of application specific data silos, warehouses, and lakes has created management complexity that limits access to data. This can hinder your ability to gain insights from data and complicate pipelines. Learn how Pure’s unified fast file and object solutions simplify retention and high speed delivery of data to ensure your life is easier and insights are delivered faster. From ingest to visualization our experts will cover strategies to resolve common analytics challenges.
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Transforming Modern Analytics Pipelines with Kubernetes and Object Storage On-demand |
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To deliver insights in real-time, today’s analytics environments must be agile. They need to support rapid changes to the number and types of applications used by data scientists and developers. Legacy provisioning methods can quickly derail efforts, so IT teams are turning to kubernetes and object storage. In this session we will cover trends in pipeline design and how Pure can help you serve even the most dynamic requests.
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Accelerate Monitoring and Visualization of Analytics Data from Observability Suites On-demand |
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Organizations are investing in observability suites to tackle tough monitoring challenges like poor performance, disjointed tools and gaps in data sets. To get the most out of observability suites though, you need a fast and highly scalable data store. This session will provide you with a background on observability suites, their value and how Pure’s portfolio helps you get the most out of these software packages.
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Improve Scale and Processing Speed for Streaming Analytics Pipelines with Pure and Confluent On-demand |
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Build your own unified messaging platform and get maximum value from recent as well as historical data. In this session we will provide insights on using Pure with the latest release of the Infinite Storage feature in Confluent Kafka. Our experts will provide detailed recommendations on architecting and implementing a distributed streaming data solution on Pure’s FlashBlade so you can quickly and easily leverage data in streaming analytics pipelines.
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Deliver Real Time Analytics & Insights with Pure and Vertica Data Warehouses On-demand |
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Expand your ability to manage Vertica Analytics workloads dynamically and simplify operations beyond public clouds. In this session our technical experts provide detailed insights on reducing costs for Vertica in Eon Mode with communal storage. We’ll also cover strategies for rapid, space-efficient cloning of objects in Vertica Eon mode databases so you can easily offload computation, dev/test and DR validation processes.
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Optimize Ingest and Search for Splunk at High Volumes with S3 On-demand |
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For all of the gains SmartStore provides, search performance can still be a major issue. This often happens because the S3 object stores backing SmartStore backed has been designed for low-performance archival data. The result is that searches are slow or time out before completing. In this session will review best practices for designing a SmartStore architecture and the need for fast object if you wan to avoid data I/O trade-offs.
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Simplify IT & Security Operation Monitoring for Any Environment with Pure and Elastic On-demand |
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For IT and security operations teams, time to insights is critical. The only way to identify and proactively resolve issues is with high speed access to data – and lots of it. During this session, we’ll walk through how Pure helps IT teams store more data and access it in less time with a focus on Elastic platforms. We’ll cover common challenges with scaling, data protection and how you can future-proof investments to take advantage of cloud agility with Elastic Searchable Snapshots.
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Modernize your Data Lake with FlashBlade On-demand |
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Together, Dremio and FlashBlade create a modern data lake with the flexibility of cloud-native query engines and storage. This combination makes it simple to independently scale, operate, and upgrade systems. Your data teams gain agility from the ability to query data in-place, whether stored as files or objects or in managed databases, allowing you to store data at the best location with no extra copies. In this session, learn how to modernize your legacy data lake to create a modern kubernetes-based platform with Dremio and FlashBlade and how this architecture enables radical improvements in time-to-value for your data.
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Accelerate access to the data that powers your company and Improve operational efficiency. In the applications track you’ll get updates on how we are supporting the leading database vendors and insights on how Pure improves the effectiveness of newer, open source database applications.
DBAs and IT Admins of the Future: The Swiss Army Knives of the Datacenter June 3, 2021 | 11:00am PT |
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How can DBAs and other IT professionals learn to live with the reality of ever-expanding automation—and transform their thinking about it so they can see it as an opportunity, not a threat? The evolution of cloud-like experiences and automation everywhere is challenging the classical siloed functional IT roles. Join a discussion to learn about how Admins can capitalize on this trend, and evolve into powerful generalists and consultants that discover new ways to drive business value - because they have more time.
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Scripting Zero to Hero with Pure PowerShell SDKs June 3, 2021 | 12:00pm PT |
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Automation is I.T. and Pure FlashArray is no exception. We will look at some real world examples of scripts that we have created, along with ones from customers and partners, that will get you started on your journey of scripting with the SDKs, or even enhance what you already have. We will look at creating scripts that use the SDK v1, the SDK v2, and even both of the SDKs in a single script.
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Deliver SQL Server Business Resilience in the Hybrid Cloud On-demand |
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This session will go over the details of the Pure Validated Design created to ensure high levels of availability and resilience for SQL Server databases, both on-premises and in the cloud. Learn how to leverage stretched clusters, SQL Failover Cluster Instances, FA//X, FA//C, ActiveCluster, Pure Cloud Block Store, asynchronous replication, snapshot offload ,SSMS & WAC integration and more for the highest levels of business resilience.
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Automate More and Manage Less with Pure's Updated SQL Server Management Studio Extension On-demand |
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Pure’s SQL Server Management Studio extension helps automate management and backups of local and remote databases. This session will cover new enhancements to Pure’s SSMS extension. Specific areas detailed will include:
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Improve SAP HANA TCO with Data-Tiering and Intel Optane Acceleration On-demand |
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The combination of SAP HANA’s data-tiering solution, Native Storage Extension (NSE) with Intel Optane storage class memory allows users to tier HANA data without performance penalties and to achieve dramatic TCO improvement. During this session, learn about Optane-based DirectMemory Cache from Pure Storage, and how it reduces the latency associated with your data’s return trip to HANA. Your users won’t notice a difference compared to leaving their entire dataset in-memory, but your IT budget will love you.
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Do More for Less with Your SAP Workloads On-demand |
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In this session, learn more about how deploying a Pure Storage solution can further reduce cost and risk, while easily growing and scaling on demand to meet your SAP needs.
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Running Oracle Databases on Kubernetes - Deep Dive On-demand |
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In this presentation learn about Oracle on Kubernetes and how to containerise an Oracle Database for use on a Kubernetes Cluster. View demonstrations of how to use Portworx to persistent storage to deliver true multi-Cloud database solutions. Throughout this session view code examples to help get started with your Oracle containers journey.
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Discover Why Oracle and VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) Are Better Together On-demand |
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In this session, you will hear about how mission critical Oracle workloads benefit from the speed, simplicity, and performance of VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols). VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) technology was introduced in vSphere 6.0 to radically simplify storage management for vSphere admins as well as storage admins. vVols addresses the challenges of over-abstraction of virtual disks in VMFS datastores on one end, and rigidity of RDM (Raw Device Mapping) datastores on the other, by exposing virtual disks as native FlashArray volumes. Explore and understand the trade-offs, best practices as well as migration strategies to jumpstart your vVols adoption journey.
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How to Avoid Data Gravity Nightmares and Scale Faster on MySQL On-demand |
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MySQL environments can evolve into enormous manageability nightmares with little flexibility. Starting with a simple DAS deployment, a few servers can quickly become a landscape of isolated machines unable to adapt to business requirements. Pure Storage offers a number of ways to help simplify, consolidate and future proof these deployments. This session will cover how storage solutions can solve the gravitational pull of large databases landscapes towards complex and inflexible architectures.
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Get an in-depth understanding of our newest offerings and latest upgrades to Pure’s portfolio. At Basecamp our experts will deliver detailed updates on Pure as-a-Service, Evergreen, FA, FB, Pure1 and services you know as well as new ones like Portworx that extend your ability to serve cloud native initiatives.
The Agility Imperative: Developing a Digital Infrastructure That’s Ready for Anything June 10, 2021 | 11:00am PT |
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Today’s world requires a digital infrastructure that can quickly respond to anything the business throws at it. Application agility: check. Orchestrated operations: check. Always on secure access: check. Yet many organizations still struggle with legacy investments and gaps in staffing that no longer serve them or their customers. Join three IT leaders and Pure Storage CIO, Cathy Southwick, as they share their strategies for successfully navigating the complexities of digital transformation, lessons learned along the way, and their thoughts on the role of IT as a leader for the business.
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Public, Private, or Hybrid: Making the Cloud Fit Your Business June 10, 2021 | 02:00pm PT |
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Explore strategies for making the cloud fit your business. Starting out with Day 0/1/2 in the Datacenter (Architecture to Implementation to Operation), we'll explore the history of trade-offs involved in Reference Architecture to CI to HCI to Hybrid Cloud to Cloud. Last but not least, Bare Metal as-a-Service (BMaaS) is an interesting new development with Metal being a unique offering from Pure & Equinix in this space.
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FlashArray Architecture Deep Dive and Futures On-demand |
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FlashArray has led the industry with all-flash, Evergreen innovation. Join members of Pure's FlashArray engineering team, for a technical conversation about our FlashArray portfolio. Get insight on what has made FlashArray the leading primary storage platform in the enterprise as well as new, leading edge innovations. To top it off, get a glimpse into the future of next-generation storage technologies that will impact the industry and learn what Pure is doing to keep FlashArray at the cutting edge.
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Technical Deep Dive: What Makes FlashBlade the Leading Unified Fast File and Object (UFFO) Platform? On-demand |
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FlashBlade is the industry-leading Unified Fast File and Object (UFFO) storage platform, engineered from the ground up for flash to deliver the simplicity and multi-dimensional performance to meet the modern, unstructured data requirements and support modern applications. Learn about why the FlashBlade architecture makes it the ideal UFFO platform and how it differs from traditional unstructured storage, and how you can drive improved outcomes for your workloads and applications.
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Top Five Reasons Your Data Center Needs Purity 6.1 Data Services On-demand |
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Have you heard that Pure has ramped up its "enterprise creds?" That’s how Chris Mellor of Blocks and Files described Purity 6.1 for FlashArray when it debuted back in February. Attend this fast-paced overview of the capabilities unlocked in Purity 6.1 and learn how new features can help your organization recover faster from ransomware attacks, speed up enterprise applications, deliver extensive business continuity, and share unified storage pools across block and file with replication.
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Transforming Your File Workloads with Fast SMB on FlashBlade UFFO Platform On-demand |
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Learn about all things new in Purity//FB, the software that delivers proven innovation to deliver the infrastructure enterprises need to capitalize on modern and next generation data. This session will provide a glimpse of fast native SMB, granular permission controls and many other exciting features which are enabling customers achieve better business outcomes across a wide variety of use cases.
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The Teammate You Didn’t Know You Had - Pure1 Meta & AIOps On-demand |
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Everything in our lives is becoming more convenient, evident in how we order goods and services, pay bills, get a taxi and dine at home. The impact of digital as-a-service offerings has changed our lives with everything available at the click of a button. How does this translate to data services? Learn how we’re making digital business easier with simple as-a-service offerings and AI to automate complex tasks, help plan for the future, and predict problems before they occur.
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Top 10 Things You Need to Know about Portworx On-demand |
Tech Byte |
You might know that Pure acquired Portworx, the leading Kubernetes Data Services Platform, but what else do you know? In this talk, Portworx founder Gou Rao will walk you through the top 10 things you need to know about using Portworx to manage your modern applications running on Kubernetes.
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PX-Backup: Complete Data Protection for All Your Kubernetes Applications On-demand |
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Kubernetes creates a shift from machine-based infrastructure and operations to application-focused operations. This shift increases agility and reduces friction, but it creates problems for enterprises dependent on traditional backup tools for data protection. These solutions, built to backup machines, don’t understand key Kubernetes concepts like container-granularity, namespaces, Kubernetes configurations, backing up distributed databases, and multi-cloud operations. Enter PX-Backup, the Kubernetes-native data protection solution from Portworx.
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How To Win at Digital Business: Evergreen Is Your Ace In the Hole On-demand |
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The challenges and lessons of the past year only accelerated many organizations’ transformation into a Digital Business. The legacy approach to storage, with forklift upgrades and rebuys, just can’t deliver the IT agility you need to adapt in today’s world. In this session we’ll explore how Evergreen Storage provides your organization with a strategic advantage to not only achieve IT goals, but also make your life easier.
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The All-flash Data Center. How FlashArray//C Gets You There Faster On-demand |
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We all know the benefits of all-flash: predictable performance, higher reliability, better sustainability and lower environmental costs, etc. The challenge has been justifying movement of ever workload to all-flash. Worry no more! In this session we’ll look at the lastest updates to the FlashArray//C —the first all-QLC flash array – and how it breaks down cost and complexity barriers so you can use all-flash everywhere.
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Building a Hybrid Cloud Data Center. Insights Into a Customer’s Journey On-demand |
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Are you struggling to build out your hybrid cloud strategy due to constant on-prem fire fighting? Does it sometimes feel like the IT industry has forgotten the data center and the role it plays in your IT strategy? In this session we’ll look take a practical look at creating a hybrid cloud strategy that includes your data center. We’ll also cover architecture trade-offs, how FlashStack can make hybrid cloud easier and take a “Day in the Life of a Customer” view on turning strategy in to reality.
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Pay as You Go. Delivering Uninterrupted Growth and Lower Risk with Pure as a Service On-demand |
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This session will dive into the evolving ‘utility’ economy where individuals only pay for what they use. You’ll gain insights around pay-as-you-go models, applying these models in multi-cloud environments and why IT leaders across the world choose Pure-as-a-Service. We’ll also get into details on building a platform for continuous innovation that is uninterrupted, predictable, and financially transparent.
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Solving Real World Challenges With Cloud Block Store On-demand |
Tech Byte |
There are a variety of ways Cloud Block Store can be deployed and provide value in the cloud. In this session our technical experts will provide an overview of the common use cases for Cloud Block Store including data mobility, high-availability, application migration and enhanced data management.
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FlashBlade Object: Reimagine Your IT Environment with High Performance Object On-demand |
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This session will shed new light on how you perceive object storage. Listen to Pure experts talk about FlashBlade object capabilities, including object storage performance, the modern use-cases it powers, and benefits to customers.
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Understanding NVMe performance - which "NVMe" is right for "Me"? On-demand |
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FlashArray with Purity 6.1 new features speeds up your enterprise applications including critical applications, databases, virtual environments and data analytics. Attend this and see how Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database workloads gain performance improvements with NVMe-Of over Fibre Channel with Brocade.
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Modernize Gaming Industry Software Version Control with Perforce on Pure Storage On-demand |
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The large code bases of video games create performance challenges. Pure provides a hybrid architecture, both block and file, to accelerate Perforce performance at scale for a greatly enhanced user experience and improved developer productivity. |
Four Reasons Retailers Love Pure FlashArray On-demand |
Industry Insight |
There’s a reason why half of the top retailers use Pure FlashArray. Retail users love Pure’s simplicity/ease of use, performance that meets even unexpected transaction spikes, reliability, and future-proof design. Get the details in this session. |
Unlocking AI on PACS Data using Radiologics, Clara and Performant Storage On-demand |
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This session covers common performance impacts on medical imaging AI workflows. We use the NVIDIA Clara Imaging framework with Radiologics backed by XNAT and FlashBlade with NVIDIA GPUs for the infrastructure to drive thousands of exams per hour. |
The Evolution of Data-Driven Digital Transformation in Financial Services During Unprecedented Times On-demand |
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Financial firms are going through deep digital transformation. In this short session, learn how Pure’s Cloud strategy and vision perfectly aligns with the firm-wide initiatives and data-intensive demands from the lines of business in today’s financial enterprises. |
Beyond the EHR: Implementing a Unified Architecture That Finally Delivers Digital Transformation On-demand |
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Healthcare IT faces complex architectures and infrastructure. There’s a wealth of EHR data, yet other data is stored in silos and clouds. Let’s look beyond the EHR to simplify and implement a unified architecture that finally delivers digital transformation. |
What’s on Your Back End? Architecting PACS and VNA Environments. On-demand |
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PACS and VNAs require a complex environment. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. This session evaluates what’s necessary when architecting a solution with multiple storage protocols, replication, storage tiers, data protection, and file counts. |
Is Your Firm Safe From Cyber Bank Robberies? On-demand |
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The rise in the number and sophistication of cyberattacks and ransomware is testing the resilience of financial institutions. Pure helps eliminate the complexity of keeping data safe with data protection solutions that improve resiliency and keep your business running. |
Modern Government Transformation On-demand |
Industry Insight |
Federal, state, and local governments need mission-ready data storage and management solutions to change their IT transformation journey. Learn how to future-proof your path to IT modernization wherever you are on the digital transformation journey. |
Public Sector Modernization: As a Service On-demand |
Industry Insight |
Public sector organizations are lamenting having postponed modernization initiatives. Shutdowns have exposed shortcomings in legacy systems, workflows, networks, and remote work. It’s time to take stock and consider a new path to digital transformation. |
Find out how customers turned bottlenecks into breakthroughs with a Modern Data Experience™ backed by Pure’s leadership in innovation and cloud-ready solutions.
City of Denver. Breaking through to deliver on the promise of digital government, overnight. On-demand |
Industry Insight |
When almost 80% of government employees transitioned to a remote workforce in 2020, the City of Denver was prepared to make the shift -- literally overnight. FlashArray delivered via Pure as a service has accelerated the City and County of Denver’s breakthrough to a digital future—one that makes services more accessible and convenient for both residents and employees.
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City of New Orleans. Locking down data and recovering from ransomware, New Orleans style. On-demand |
Industry Insight |
When ransomware took the City of New Orleans, IT leadership turned to Pure Storage to get the city back online. Learn how IT leadership partnered with Pure to assess the damage, cleanse the data and get systems back online for the city's citizens.
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Domino’s Pizza. The most important ingredient is data. On-demand |
Industry Insight |
Domino’s Pizza considers itself a technology company that sells pizza. And in recent years, Domino’s has been out-front, innovating its customer experience to be unmatched in the restaurant industry. Learn how Pure Storage® underpins their success and prepared the company to scale to its customers’ needs in this Q&A with Dan Djuric, VP of Global Infrastructure and Enterprise Information Management at Domino's and Matt Kixmoeller, VP Strategy at Pure.
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Smart Digital Concepts. Enabling proactive decisions through AI analysis of videos and images. On-demand |
Industry Insight |
Austrian start-up, Smart Digital Concepts, looks at the world differently. The company uses drones to gather nearly a petabyte of unstructured data and images every year and run AI and analytics to help its customers make better business decisions. Learn how SDC is breaking through barriers to deliver the information its customers need faster than ever before with FlashBlade unified fast file and object storage.
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Involta. Secure, remote workforce solutions that can scale at a moments notice. On-demand |
Industry Insight |
The future of work is here, and Involta is helping guide its customers’ transition to enact modern, remote workforce strategies. With customers across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and technology, the company had to scale fast to support its clients’ move to supporting staff that could be anywhere. Learn how Involta uses a Pure Storage infrastructure to manage over 8PB of client data while cutting management time by 50%.
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Micro Focus. Deliver cloud flexibility on-premise and get a 360 degree view of customers. On-demand |
Industry Insight |
As companies grow, customer data can easily become scattered and locked in silos. To drive smarter, real-time decision making, you need a solution that can consolidate information and provide, high speed access to data. Hear CB Bohn, Principle Data Engineer at Micro Focus, share his strategies for fueling customer success with FlashBlade and Vertica, and how these insights are driving new breakthroughs across Micro Focus.
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Aegis Science. Increase the speed of testing while eliminating barriers to scale. On-demand |
Industry Insight |
With the outbreak of COVID 19 forensic toxicology and healthcare lab, Aegis Science, needed to scale up testing capabilities – fast. Changes like doctors’ office lockdowns and a 20x in testing volume per day required a new infrastrucuture. Hear Aegis Sciences' CIO, Tim Ryan, share how having the right infrastructure in place made it possible for the organization to shift gears, scale to meet unprecendented demand and provide the security needed in the medical testing industry.
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Options Technology. Split-second quantitative analysis and faster time-to-market IT services for financial powerhouses On-demand |
Industry Insight |
In the world of finance, speed and scale matter. Options Technology gets its financial institution customers answers, and rock solid data protection, fast. Using modern business applications and AI built on FlashArray and FlashBlade, Options Technology meets the IT and real-time analysis needs of the world’s largest financial institutions. And with Pure as-a-Service, Options Technology can provide game-changing flexibility to meet the most challenging demands.
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Kelsey-Seybold Clinics. A CISO's perspective on safeguarding your most critical asset, data. On-demand |
Industry Insight |
Data Protection and ransomware prevention is nothing to ignore for any organization -- especially in Healthcare. Hear from Martin Littman, CTO and CISO for Kelsey-Seybold Clinics, about his strategies and success building a world-class infrastructure based upon Pure Storage FlashBlade.
Session Speakers: Martin Littmann, Chief Technology & Information Security Officer, Kelsey-Seybold Clinics |
Nanyang Technological University. Accelerating genetic research and new discoveries. On-demand |
Industry Insight |
Even when researchers use high performance computing, it can take decades to complete scientific analysis. At Nanyang Technological University, researchers anticipated it would take 20 years to complete their genomic project and deliver insights into solving climate issues. To analyze 1000s of plant genomes in a fraction of the time, they turned to Pure. Attend this session with CIO Alvin Ong to learn how Pure Storage FlashBlade speeds new discoveries.
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St. Joseph’s Health. Supporting Electronic Health Records and Lab Tests On-demand |
Industry Insight |
St. Joseph’s Health turned to Pure Storage for faster performance. In the process, they set the stage for a more data-driven healthcare organization, supporting initiatives such as AI-powered analytics and the cloud. Learn how the technology allowed St. Joseph’s to streamline hospital operations and speed up the application login process to bring patient care to new levels.
Session Speakers: Jesse Fasolo, Director, Technology Infrastructure & Cyber Security, St. Joseph’s Health |
Data Recovery At The Speed Of Flash On-demand |
Cohesity Tech Byte |
IT's performance is measured on not just protecting data but also meeting SLAs and supporting business transformation. With the growing demand of keeping operations afloat after major outages or ransomware attacks, you need a modern data protection solution that provides predictable and rapid recovery at scale. Learn how Pure FlashRecover™, Powered by Cohesity®, combines ultra-rapid operational recovery while also radically simplifying data protection. |
Improve SAP HANA TCO with Data-tiering & Intel Optane Acceleration May 12, 2021 | 12:00pm PT |
Intel Food 4 Thought |
SAP HANA’s data tiering solution, Native Storage Extension (NSE), supports S/4HANA and allows you to move up to 80% of HANA data into a warm data tier. Housing this data outside of in-memory HANA, generally reduces costs by a similar percentage!
But traditionally such savings also came with a stiff performance penalty when you bring that warm data back into HANA for processing. No More.
Pure Storage has partnered with Intel to integrate their new Optane SSD memory into our FlashArray solutions for SAP. Optane dramatically reduces the latency associated your data’s return trip to HANA. With Optane SSD, aka DirectMemoryTM Cache from Pure Storage, your users will not notice any difference compared to leaving their entire dataset in-memory. But your IT budget will love you.
Think of all you can do with the savings!
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Three Requirements for Modern Data Experience On-demand |
Intel Tech Byte |
In the data-driven world IDC calls the “Global Datasphere,” companies that transform how they leverage ever more massive volumes of data quickly for superior outcomes and competitive advantage will be the new winners.
Join us for this webinar to learn how you can become one of those winners by employing these three characteristics:
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Kubernetes Migration and Storage Management for Data Centers, AWS and Outposts June 1, 2021 | 12:00pm PT |
AWS Food 4 Thought |
In this session we will take a deeper looking at Kubernetes and using the AWS cloud for containers workloads. We will provide an introduction to AWS Outposts on how it allows you to run your Kubernetes based workloads on-premises in a fully managed way. We will also look at how Portworx and AWS work together to address your data management and application mobility needs whether you are running in your Data Center, in a AWS region, or as a hybrid solution. |
Realizing your Hybrid Cloud: Pure as-a-Service and AWS Outposts May 12, 2021 | 1:00pm PT |
AWS Panel Discussion |
Come hear a conversation between leaders from both AWS and Pure, as they discuss how customers can realize the benefits to a hybrid datacenter approach. Both AWS and Pure are customer obsessed, and the voice of the customer lead each company to respond with solutions that can actually deliver on the benefits that hybrid clouds have been promising for a long time. You will learn how Pure as-a-Service and Outposts pair perfectly to deliver the cloud pricing, consistency, and flexible scaling, regardless of where your solutions need to run. |
Modernizing Data Center Operations: A Conversation with BlueCross BlueShield Of Louisiana June 1, 2021 | 11:00am PT |
Cisco Panel Discussion |
BCBS LA, like many IT organizations, is innovating using convergence, cloud, integration and automation as they modernize their operations. Join this customer-focused dialogue as we discuss the journey. |
The Business Value of FlashStack June 1, 2021 | 12:00pm PT |
Cisco Food 4 Thought |
A look into a comprehensive, real-world research performed and analyzed by research firm IDC published in March 2021. Cisco hosts this discussion with the lead analyst on this project from IDC to highlight value through simplicity, flexibility and speed. |
What's New in FlashStack On-demand |
Cisco Tech Byte |
An overview of the new FlashStack solutions introduced recently. Features include infrastructure solutions, applications support, Cisco Validated Designs (CVD's), solution briefs and white papers. |
FlashStack Data Protection with Veeam On-demand |
Cisco Tech Byte |
This presentation elaborates on the reference architecture for protection of virtual infrastructure on FlashStack with Veeam v11. It provides customers a choice of Backup Infrastructure platforms with key determining factors such as RPO, RTO and data efficiency of stored backups. |
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for FlashStack On-demand |
Cisco Tech Byte |
COVID caused companies to enable remote workers via a cloud. Was this the best, most cost-effective, VDI approach? This 20 min session provides an overview of FlashStack for VDI, highlights latest designs, and an incentive for customers can get a free installation up to 1000 seats. |
Accelerate Storage Initiatives with Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer and FlashStack On-demand |
Cisco Tech Byte |
This session elaborates on using Intersight Workload Optimizer with FlashStack to enhance organization’s application modernization and performance. It shows how to efficiently use compute, network and storage infrastructure and prevent unnecessary over-provisioning in FlashStack environment. |
Cisco Intersight Managed Mode for FlashStack On-demand |
Cisco Tech Byte |
Cisco Intersight provides global visibility along with advanced management and support capabilities for FlashStack. In this session we will demonstrate configuring Cisco UCS in Intersight Managed Mode and the ability to manage inventory and orchestration of Pure FlashArray and VMware Virtualization from within Cisco Intersight. |
Achieving Scalability and Performance with VMware Virtual Volumes on Pure Storage for Oracle Workloads On-demand |
VMware Tech Byte |
VMware Virtual Volumes is an integration and management framework for external storage that provides finer control at the VM-level, streamlines storage operation and offers flexibility of choice implementing the core tenets of the VMware SDS vision. Mission critical Oracle workload demand HA, performance and the ease of provisioning database using Storage Based Policy Management helps meet new business demands and SLA. Pure Storage VVol along with Oracle Workloads ensures that key business needs are met along with providing all of the above capabilities.
This session highlights primary use cases for VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) and Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) by leveraging Pure Storage VVols technology including database backup and restore, refreshing, cloning, patching etc.
Presenters: Jason Massae, Sudhir Balasubramanian |
Pure vVols Are a Game Changer for Database as a Service On-demand |
VMware Tech Byte |
In this session we will look at the unique capabilities provided by Pure Storage vVols for database management. We will then look at a solution from Scalegrid (DBaaS solution) that leverages vVol capabilities to provide cloud like DBaaS for hybrid clouds. Modern and legacy databases are addressed by this solution.
Speakers: Mohan Potheri, Sudhir Balasubramanian |
Space Reclaim and Best Designs for Efficiency June 8, 2021 | 12:00pm PT |
VMware Food 4 Thought |
Jason and John will cover their thoughts on getting the best performance, availability, efficiency and security out of your VMware storage experience. |
FlashStack Data Protection On-demand |
Veeam Tech Byte |
Explore Veeam® modern data protection options for FlashStack, along with the four key capabilities and the value of Veeam’s storage snapshot integration with FlashStack. Learn about the ransomware protection provided by Pure Storage and Veeam. |
Ransomware Resiliency: Mitigation Strategies and Technologies May 18, 2021 | 11:00am PT |
Veeam Panel Discussion |
Are you prepared for a cyber threat? Join Veeam® and Pure to learn best practices that can prepare you in case of an attack. We will also share insights into deploying an end-to-end infrastructure that will prepare you and give you confidence that you will be able to recover quickly and confidently. |
SAP HANA and Pure Storage for Scale On-demand |
SAP Tech Byte |
SAP HANA launched as the 1st in-memory platform purpose-built for business enabling analytics on live transactions. But as data grows so has our philosophy on data residence. We’ve pulled the data closer and done-away with “cold” storage realizing all data has something to share. Intel has been with us every step of the way and offers optimized chips at every level. And partners like Pure Storage ensure simple access to all data through SAP HANA. |
When It Comes to Data, Connect, Don’t Collect June 1, 2021 | 11:00am PT |
SAP Panel Discussion |
Evolving business needs have demanded more consolidation of different types of rapidly growing data. So organizations (and databases) have needed to pivot in how they collect, store, and tier data. In this session join leaders from SAP and Pure Storage to understand how SAP HANA connects all different types of data with a unique business focus that only SAP can provide. |
Why and How of Cloud Block Store on Azure On-demand |
Microsoft Tech Byte |
Join Cody Hosterman, Pure Storage and Karl Rautenstrauch, Microsoft for a discussion of what Cloud Block Store brings to Azure customers and see a demo on how to leverage CBS in Azure. |
Storage in the Cloud – What You Need to Think of Now and in the Future! June 1, 2021 | 11:00am PT |
Microsoft Panel Discussion |
An open conversation with insights and attendees’ burning questions – Answered!
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Use Case Study into Business Value of CBS On-demand |
DXC Tech Byte |
We will review the business value of Cloud Block Store (CBS) with a walk of real world use cases that we are working with customer on today. What are the major issues that customer are facing with the business transformation and how can innovative technologies like CBS help accelerate those transformations? As people are looking to also reduce costs and move into cloud, how can CBS address these considerations not just on movements to single cloud, but multi-cloud and hybrid cloud. |
AI Is Here but Is Your Data Center Ready? On-demand |
NVIDIA Tech Byte |
AI platforms that deliver enhanced customer experiences, streamlined supply chains, and better clinical outcomes are now accessible in weeks, instead of months. Learn how to deploy the right IT infrastructure to scale AI faster, and simpler than ever. |
Snapshot Automation and Orchestration for App, VM, and Cloud Workloads on Pure On-demand |
Catalogic Tech Byte |
Can your IT storage and DBA teams rapidly create, manage, and secure copies of data across your Pure environments? And do this for data protection and business automation use cases? Join our session to learn how Catalogic ECX can be your copy data mobility and management engine to fill this automation gap and add application awareness to:
As a bonus, get a preview of how CloudCasa, a Catalogic venture, brings these capabilities to Kubernetes applications and cloud databases. |
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