In this fireside chat, recorded at Pure//Accelerate® techfest22, Jack Hogan, VP of Technology Strategy at Pure Storage and Zac Smith, Managing Director of Equinix Metal, Equinix discussed the following:
Many organizations have a legacy of building, managing, and hosting their IT environments on their own, which does not translate to effective delivery models. This can lead to massive cost overruns in cloud environments due to the fundamental differences and challenges of porting traditional applications to run in the cloud.
This discussion goes deep into how Equinix and Pure have come together to create a revolutionary offering, Bare Metal as-a-Service, Powered by Pure. It provides a simple, on-demand, full-stack (network, storage, compute) hosted solution, with deployment and support from a single vendor, under one contract, with Pure Storage embedded.
Jack Hogan, VP of Technology Strategy at Pure Storage
Jack Hogan has been the Vice President of Technology Strategy for Pure Storage since late 2017. He is responsible for Pure’s Strategy for Cloud providers. In this role, Jack functions as a Strategic Advisor, Technology Strategist, and Customer Advocate providing guidance and insight as someone who has been on the other side of the table, as a Customer CTO for over 20 years.
Zac Smith, Managing Director of Equinix Metal - Equinix
Zac has clocked 20 years in the data center and is still passionate about silicon, hardware, networks, software, and the people that make it all go. Currently Managing Director, Bare Metal at Equinix.
In addition, they discuss:
- The total cost of ownership between a DIY approach and the Pure Storage on Equinix Metal approach.
- The cost implications of the do-it-yourself approach related to staff and workload refactoring.
- The ability to provision physical, dedicated, single tenanted servers with cloud-like ease and speed.
- How to manage hardware simply with a disaggregated, single-tenanted storage layer and easy, on-demand network and compute procurement.
- A solution that includes hosting, deployment, and support of all physical aspects of your IT environment.
- How to lower operational costs and risk while enabling flexible, scalable as-a-service IT infrastructure.
