Name: Backups, Snapshots, Microsoft SQL Server, and FlashArray
Start: 2023-05-30T11:00:00Z
End: 2023-05-30T11:00:58.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Pure Storage (NYSE:  PSTG) accelerates possible, transforming businesses in ways previously unimagined. The company's disruptive, software-driven storage technology combined with a customer-friendly business model drives business and IT transformation for customers through dramatic increases in performance and efficiency at lower costs. Visit www.purestorage.com to learn more.

2024 public cloud adoption continues to trend in a strong fashion, as recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research shows that only 12% of mid-large enterprises are not using any form of public cloud. With a digital infrastructure operating model and cost elasticity, public cloud offers consistent benefits.

Nonetheless, organizations often face cost and performance challenges as they look to scale their public cloud deployments. In response, the industry is developing new and innovative solutions that aim to bring enterprise-class capabilities to the public cloud – one such example is Pure Storage’s Cloud Block Store for the Azure VMware Solution (AVS).

In this custom ESG webinar, Principal Analyst of Storage and HCI Simon Robinson joins Cody Hosterman from Pure Storage, Microsoft’s Husam Hilal, and Jason Massae from VMware to evaluate the current state of cloud adoption and offer guidance on navigating common challenges. 

Register today or join the discussion on March 28th at 1pm EST as the experts also spotlight the impact of the distributed hybrid cloud, the need for external hybrid storage solutions, and customer successes with Pure Cloud Block Storage.

Enterprise Strategy Group Talk: Experts Address Cloud Adoption Challenges

When your data and applications are offline, your organization faces significant losses – in time, money, even reputation. Legacy storage is often the culprit, but newer technologies like Pure Storage were designed to stay online, even during upgrades. Learn how you can overcome downtime and increase agility with the right infrastructure.

In this webinar, you will learn:

- How to keep your data available and performing at its peak, no matter what changes come
- Tips to cut downtime
- Why IT agility is essential – and achievable

What Can Non-Disruptive Storage Do For You?

This month, host Andrew Miller welcomes Jason Walker, Global Practice Lead for Modern Data Protection, back as a guest (he’s also a great guest host). While we'll doubtless have some 80’s movie references, we’ll dive into the expansive landscape that is all things Modern Data Protection - it’s far more than just backups.

We’ll cover:

- Tracking Trends through History - how trends in application and IT overall drove constant changes in the backup and recovery landscape. This would also be known as “how did we get here?“.
- Change Velocity - recent Twists & Turns - shifts toward simplicity, cloud protection and enablement, ransomware mitigation, and more. The velocity of change around protecting your data only keeps increasing.
- Choose Your Own Adventure (with Pure) - we’ll wander through scenario driven approaches (RPO, RTO, security, ransomware, and more) to illustrate how the Pure portfolio can address more of your data protection and resiliency needs than you might think.
Need fast restore? Need low cost? Need protection from compromised administrative credentials? Need to deal with rapid data growth? Too much data to backup?
All these themes and more!
As always, we’ll keep it educational while exploring how Pure is offering capabilities and products that benefit you. The team will stay on after the webinar answering any questions for those that want to stay longer!

Choose your Own (Restore) Adventure: Pure’s Modern Cyber Resiliency Portfolio

Tomorrow’s consumer vehicles are electric, autonomous, software-defined, and powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The pace of AI evolution is challenging automotive software development teams to re-think their infrastructure and their processes to move faster.
Join us and autonomous driving software vendor Ghost Autonomy for this webinar as our experts:

Explore how to accelerate end-to-end data pipelines for developing and validating AI-based advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies.
Walk through the various stages of the development pipeline to demystify how AI is built.
Share practical advice for how to optimize the infrastructure and processes behind AI development and training for a competitive advantage.

Accelerating the AI Development Data Pipeline for Software-Defined Vehicles

This is a follow up discussion of the Boldly Go Engage event. The three speakers, Erin, Eric & Dave continued their discussion on Cloud Operating model.

We hope you enjoyed our first discussion from our event, Boldly Go: The Next Generation of Data Storage. And if we left you wanting more, here’s your chance! With so much to cover on the topic of the benefits and challenges of the cloud, our panelists, Erin, Eric, and Dave, continue their engaging discussion around cloud strategies, and share their insights on:

Trends around the merging of file and object
Controlling costs in the cloud
Advantages to operating like the cloud
The future of cloud and what will come next

Boldly Go - the Discussion Continues

Developers have upgraded to infrastructure in the cloud, but cloud can be costly. And IT is footing the bill.

That’s why Pure Storage is “boldly going” where no one has gone before—bringing the cloud operating model anywhere, with software-defined storage and storage-as-a-service.

Join us for our event, Boldly Go: The Next Generation of Data Storage to see the next frontier where IT has all the benefits of the cloud on-premises—and developers have the freedom to seamlessly deploy applications. You’ll discover how to:
Gain the benefits of the cloud on-premises, with easier management, flexibility, and fast provisioning.
Create a seamless experience for your developers, no matter where they deploy their applications.
Manage all your infrastructure from a single platform, and pay as you go with subscription pricing that meets your needs.

Boldly Go: The Next Generation of Data Storage

With ransomware attacks on the rise, your organization must be prepared. To defend against ransomware, it’s important to understand how hackers operate. Then, use your knowledge to develop a strategy that details the actions to take before, during, and after an attack.
Hector Monsegur—a former black hat and member of the LulzSec and Anonymous hacking collectives—shares his insights and tips to help you safeguard your data. 
Learn:
● What steps to take to prevent an attack or minimize data loss should one occur
● How to recognize attacks and what to do if you detect one in progress
● How to quickly recover and restore your data after an attack

The Hacker’s Guide to Ransomware Mitigation

For IT and security leaders, Tiered Resiliency is the order of the day. As data explodes and sprawls across silos, users work in more places, and containerization reshapes the environment, successful cyberattacks become more likely than ever—perhaps even inevitable. That makes it essential to look beyond cyberdefense and focus on how you’ll keep your data protected no matter what happens.
Join Pure Storage CTO of Americas Andy Stone and Commvault CTO of Security Alex Janas for this session to learn how Tiered Resiliency is redefining modern data protection. Designed for an environment of escalating risk, a tiered resiliency architecture can help you recover data quickly and effectively in the event of a cyberattack, disaster, or administrative accident—so you can get back to business fast.

CTOs on Security

Who knew that the best coffee break conversations would end up happening online? Each month, Pure’s Coffee Break series invites experts in technology and business to chat about the themes driving today’s IT agenda - much more ‘podcast’ than ‘webinar’. This is no webinar or training session—it’s a freewheeling conversation that’s as fun as it is informative and the perfect way to break up your day. While we’ll wander into Pure technology, our goal is to educate and entertain rather than sell.

This month, host Andrew Miller invites SQL DBA and Microsoft MVP Anthony Nocentino (Principal Field Solutions Architect at Pure Storage) to the virtual break room for the second time!

We’ll cover:
- History & Career - what led a DBA to join Pure Storage and some history around the database landscape (goes back to Calculus).
- Core Principles - going deep on some of Pure’s core architecture (snapshots, key/value store, etc.) and how it still matters to DBA’s.
- Cloud - digging into Pure’s expanded partnership with Microsoft Azure & the impact for databases and DBA’s.
- What’s New! - It’s a grab bag - new goodness with SAP, Oracle, and more.
As always, we’ll keep it educational while exploring how Pure is offering capabilities and products that benefit you. The team will stay on after the webinar answering any questions for those that want to stay longer!

The Odd Couple: Why a DBA Joined a (Pure) Storage Company

Knowledge is power. If you want to get more from modern data, Pure’s Tech Talk series can supercharge your storage savvy. Led by Pure solution experts and industry guests, these lively discussions explore features, live demos, and best practices to address the use cases you care most about. You’ll come away informed, inspired—and ready to unleash the full power of modern data for your business. Uncomplicated Data Storage, Forever.

While commercial AI offerings have existed for over 50 years, 2023 is shaping up to be a breakout year as enterprises and businesses of all sizes invest in AI to advance their goals. AI advances including creative and generative AI, AI-human collaboration, low or no-code AI are just the tip of the iceberg.

Join Dr. Kirk Borne, an acclaimed data scientist and AI expert, and a panel of Pure Storage AI experts in this exciting discussion on what’s HOT in AI today, opportunities with AI in the future, and lessons learned from our expert panel on small to massive AI initiatives that they’ve each had hands-on experience with.

Additional topics include:
* Optimizing outcomes with infra/storage architected for AI
* Aligning goals between data/AI/analytics teams with IT/Infra teams for optimal AI (AI Centers of Excellence)
* Meeting ESG goals associated with AI projects
* Top Impacts to AI with the right storage platform
* Consolidation of app data and the benefits of that

Future of AI & Lessons Learned from a Former Space Scientist, now Data Scientist

In the world of alpha generating trading strategies, data has and will continue to be gold, but how one transforms data in its seemingly limitless sources is what sets things apart.  Join us as we speak to the value Time Series Databases (TSDBs) + Pure brings to the Financial Sector and enabling firms to remain creative and competitive as the trading landscape continuously evolves.

During our webinar we’ll discuss:
- How this unique data can enhance or hinder a firm’s ability to generate alpha
- How TSDBs + Pure enables scientists and traders to be agile in the development, testing and launching of trading strategies / models.
- How to cost effectively utilize previously inaccessible historical TSDB data. 
- How this space will evolve in the next 3-5 years

The Alchemy of Transforming Data to Alpha with Time Series Databases

Data is the new oil, but raw data is not valuable. It needs to be cleaned and augmented to be useful. 
While everyone wants to get the most out of their data with AI, it can be slow and painful to prepare the data, train your models, and create checkpoints at scale. 

This requires new technologies and collaboration between teams to go from raw data to business outcomes. 

Join Markus Grau, JB Thomas, and Michael Kaspers to hear about their first-hand experience tackling these challenges.
You might be surprised where storage can enable your AI journey.

Boost Your AI Initiatives from Ingest to Inference in a Flash

Who knew that the best coffee break conversations would end up happening online? Each month, Pure’s Coffee Break series invites experts in technology and business to chat about the themes driving today’s IT agenda - much more ‘podcast’ than ‘webinar’. This is no webinar or training session—it’s a freewheeling conversation that’s as fun as it is informative and the perfect way to break up your day. While we’ll wander into Pure technology, our goal is to educate and entertain rather than sell.

This month, host Andrew Miller welcomes Principal Technologists Chris Sprague and Rich Barlow to the Coffee Break for an unabashed celebration and exploration of Evergreen - how Pure delivers products and services which get better with age AND without disruption.

We’ll cover:

- Career Evolution - from generalist to specialist and back again.
- “Too Good to be True” - why “an array that gets better over 5-10 years” sounds “too good to be true” (even to Rich before he joined Pure)
- More than just marketing - throwing back to the 15 Architectural decisions Coffee Break with JD Wallace last year, we’ll explore the technical foundation underneath the Evergreen business and financial programs.
- Genealogy View - a secret superpower in Pure 1 where you can see the history of your array over time (where “time” might be 10+ years).
- New Capabilities / Offerings - from Ransomware Recovery SLA’s to “Paid Power and Rack” (join to find out what that is) to “Zero Data Migration” and “Zero Planned Downtime” Guarantees.

As always, we’ll keep it educational while exploring how Pure is offering capabilities and products that benefit you. The team will stay on after the webinar answering any questions for those that want to stay longer!

Often Impersonated, Never Duplicated - 10+ Years of Evergreen

Ransomware attacks have been unrelenting for nearly 20 years, threatening the viability of every business. So after all this time, why do two-thirds of organizations consider ransomware to be  one of the top three most serious threats to their organization?

In this webinar, Enterprise Strategy Group shares the results from their most recent study on ransomware preparedness, Lighting the Way to Readiness and Mitigation with Pure Storage.

Attendees will understand: 
• The proactive and reactive measures organizations use to defend against ransomware
• The state of mitigation best practices across all phases of an attack
• Priorities and plans associated with mitigating ransomware threats in the coming 12-18 months

Lighting the Way to Ransomware Readiness and Mitigation

Who knew that the best coffee break conversations would end up happening online? Each month, Pure’s Coffee Break series invites experts in technology and business to chat about the themes driving today’s IT agenda - much more ‘podcast’ than ‘webinar’. This is no webinar or training session—it’s a freewheeling conversation that’s as fun as it is informative and the perfect way to break up your day. While we’ll wander into Pure technology, our goal is to educate and entertain rather than sell.

For December, Jason Walker (king of 80’s movie references currently Global Practice Lead for Data Protection at Pure) will be guest hosting for the second time and inviting Matt Bradford to the Coffee Break. Matt comes from a customer background and is currently a Technical Evangelist with a recent focus on all things Pure 1 and VMware before that. You may very well know him from the excellent Digital Bytes series - which has some amazingly succinct walkthroughs and demo’s.

Join us for:
Matt’s history from customer to VMware to Pure and lessons learned in his career
What goes into crafting compelling walkthroughs and demos - more than meets the eye.
Following the demo theme to explore recent Data Protection / Cyber Resiliency items in Pure 1 (with demos!) such as:
- Resiliency Score in the Data Protection Assessment
- Sustainability Assessment with Peer Rating
- Anomaly Detection - relates to ransomware and more!
- Snapshot Space Simulator
- Pure Protect DR as a Service - announced last month in London

As always, we’ll keep it educational while exploring how Pure is offering capabilities and products that benefit you.

Don't You (Forget About Resiliency): Brewing a Strong Data Defense Demo

Hosted by industry experts Mike Russo and Rob Glanzman, leaders of Pure's Global Financial Services vertical, you’ll gain insights into establishing a solid foundation for monetizing external data feeds, spanning from traditional analytics to the training of cutting-edge AI/ML models.

We’ll also explore how Pure Storage's innovative solutions portfolio can significantly simplify key considerations like cost, regulatory compliance, complexity, and security when it comes to retaining historical data. Tune in to begin transforming data cost centers into profit centers!

Cash It, Don’t Trash It: Unlocking the Value of Historical Data

In Partnership with Intel
The need for rapid analytics and AI is the key to mining meaningful insights.  Groundbreaking discoveries depend on quick access to clinical and research data. The pace of life sciences research has never been more accelerated – all because of innovation and technology. Discuss how a new wave of technology is addressing the vast explosion of genomics data and turning it into meaningful insight and a faster time to science.

Pure, with Intel technology, can speed Genomics pipelines by up to 24x faster.
Pure Flashblade is a single, scale-out storage solution for Genomics and other HPC use cases.
Pure can be run on-prem or cloud adjacent, reducing or eliminating onerous cloud storage fees.

A Faster Time to Science: Speeding Research Pipelines

Backing up systems is not optional for any environment. For those using Microsoft SQL Server, that also means considering databases to ensure you meet recovery point objectives (RPOs).
In this TechTalk, we will discuss traditional SQL Server backups and their strategies versus snapshots in FlashArray as well as address common questions and concerns when using snapshots including, but not limited to:
How are snapshots both different as well as similar to a traditional SQL Server backup?
What are the use cases for both?
When should you combine for a more robust disaster strategy?
Whether you are a DBA, storage admin, or just someone responsible for SQL Server on FlashArray, attend this TechTalk to not only take advantage of what FlashArray offers, but also ensure you have the right backup and recovery/restore strategy for your SQL Server deployments.

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