IT Consultant, Chris Williams, examines Kubernetes and containers after participating in the Pure Storage Spotlight Podcast.
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Pure Storage FlashBlade Purity 3.0
In this Tech Talk, Joep Piscaer explores Pure Storage’s FlashBlade Purity 3.0 and how it works. With the FlashBlade’s distributed scale-out architecture, the load is spread across all blades in the cluster, maximizing performance. Pure Storage is helping operators manage the lifecycle of not just the data, but the storage platform itself, too.
Conquering Container Complexity
Following his appearance in the Pure Storage Spotlight Podcast, Tech Blogger, Drew Conry-Murray, explores how storage vendors are embracing containers.
Orchestration is the Reason Enterprises Haven’t Adopted Containers
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Pure Storage Spotlight: Orchestration is almost synonymous with containers nowadays. One popular opinion is that maybe the reason enterprises haven’t adopted containers quickly is that people are hungry for a way to orchestrate containers that fits into their overall environment. Is this the reason why containers have yet to be widely adopted? Follow this discussion, featuring Jon Owings – Principal Solution Architect at Pure Storage, and Cormac Hogan – Director and Chief Technologist at VMware, and decide for yourself.
Recovering From Backup: The Cost of Delay
In this Pure Storage Tech Talk, Zoë Rose discusses how costly yet necessary backups can be, and why the best defense against ransomware is preparation aligned to the realistic needs of the organization.
What Makes Ransomware Such a Terrifying Attack?
In this Pure Storage Tech Talk, Zoë Rose explores the dangers of backup ransomware attacks and how Pure Storage approaches this resilience and proportionate backup through their FlashBlade solution.
The Simplicity of ActiveDR by Pure Storage
In the Pure Storage Showcase, Pure announced its new software offering, Active DR. Panelist, Josh Fidel, explains what ActiveDR is and how he feels about it. ActiveDR is software-only, so it will be included with FlashArray™. No extra licensing is required. Josh gives kudos to Pure for making this decision.
Pure FlashArray™ File Services
In the Pure Storage Showcase, Pure announced its addition of FlashArray™ File Services to its Purity management software. Panelist, Gina Rosenthal, reflects on what this means for Pure Storage, which is that you can now run the storage services needed, block or file, to match the requirements of your workload
Pure Introduces ActiveDR
Pure Storage announced in a Gestalt IT Showcase two new offerings to their portfolio of services to bolster their product offerings: asynchronous replication with ActiveDR and FlashArray File Services. Panelist, Paul Woodward reflects on Pure’s announcement of these two offerings and believes Pure Storage continues to improve its product portfolio. An easy to utilize and configure disaster recovery solution built into the existing storage platform provides even the most understaffed IT departments with the ability to protect their business and data.
Pure Storage File Services: One Step Closer to Data Intelligence
One of the great strengths of Pure Storage has been their operating system, Purity. After participating in the Pure Storage Showcase, panelist, Max Mortillaro believes we are witnessing the logical conclusion of the Compuverde purchase by the integration of file services in Purity 6. Deploying file services across the entire portfolio was a necessity for Pure Storage; a necessity well understood, and the reason why Compuverde was acquired.