Name: What’s New (and Actually Good) in SQL Server 2022
Start: 2023-07-24T16:00:00Z
End: 2023-07-24T16:00:50.000Z
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.

The benefits and ROI of Generative AI for enterprises are clear with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). RAG provides company-specific responses by enhancing generic large language models (LLMs) with proprietary data. 

This session will show how an enterprise implementation of RAG with Pure Storage® and NVIDIA speeds-up data processing, increases scalability, and provides real-time responses more easily than creating custom LLMs from scratch. 

Attend to get technical insight and see a demonstration of distributed and accelerated GenAI RAG pipelines:

Learn the benefits of enhancing LLMs with RAG for enterprise-scale GenAI applications

Understand how to accelerate the RAG pipeline and deliver enhanced insight using NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservices and the Pure Storage FlashBlade//S™

Enhance LLMs with RAG and Accelerate Enterprise AI with Pure and NVIDIA

This month, host Andrew Miller welcomes back Justin Emerson, Principal Technical Product Specialist AND also “Flash Man” (according to his internal Slack profile). You may remember Justin from last year’s discussion around the launch of FlashBlade //E and the Better Science that allowed its creation.

We’ll continue that conversation and leverage Justin & Andrew’s customer and partner background to broaden the discussion to some larger industry “armchair analyst” perspective covering:

From Niche to Mass Adoption - how great technologies and platforms start, germinate, and then seemingly suddenly hit mass adoption. We’ll explore Crossing the Chasm, the Hype Cycle, and other concepts we wish we’d understood better when we were customers when deciding technology strategy.

When Flash Goes Everywhere! - building on the FlashBlade //E discussion from Justin’s last appearance, we’ll cover what these concepts mean for flash, the FlashArray //E introduction, and how the //E family only exists because of Pure’s unique flash optimization capabilities. Yes, this might be a bit more Better Science depth.

A Different Company - how the //E family (FlashArray & FlashBlade) has morphed Pure into a different company than even just several years ago…and how that benefits you more than you might expect.

Clue: it’s similar to the “network effect” - the same capabilities we’ve discussed for 40 Coffee Breaks but across your whole data center and cloud can provide outsize benefits.

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!

When 1 + 1 = 3: The Outsized Impact of Taking Flash from Niche to Mainstream

Deploying artificial intelligence (AI) within your existing infrastructure poses numerous challenges. From developing the capability to manage vast amounts of AI data to ensuring heightened security for sensitive information, the demands are manifold. Integration with existing workloads, managing, and supporting new AI infrastructure, and mitigating deployment risks and staying within budget further complicate the process.

But for Cisco UCS and Pure Storage users, navigating AI infrastructure complexities becomes markedly simpler. Learn how our jointly developed FlashStack for AI solution offers rapid, risk-free deployment that integrates seamlessly with your current environment. With capacity on demand and integrated management across hybrid-cloud landscapes, FlashStack for AI reduces the complexity associated with setting up an AI environment and simplifies expansion of your AI infrastructure as your needs grow.

Join us to learn more.

FlashStack for AI, Making AI More Accessible

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Whether you want to cut data storage costs in the cloud, move to a balance-sheet friendly pay-as-you-go model, reduce costly energy consumption in your data center, or eliminate resource-heavy management complexity with simple, automated management ,  Pure Storage offers all-flash solutions for every need -- at costs that will surprise you. 
Don't miss this opportunity to discover how Pure can empower your organization with a unified storage architecture that also reduces your total cost of ownership by up to 40%.  Register now to secure your spot and embark on the path to storage optimization.

Speakers:

Brian Ferrar
FlashStack Marketing Director, Pure Storage

Jean-François Marie 
Pure - Senior Systems Engineer // RSE practitioner

Chanda Dani
Senior Director Product Marketing

Unlock Hidden Savings with All-Flash Storage Solutions!

The benefits and ROI of Generative AI for enterprises are clear with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). RAG provides company-specific responses by enhancing generic large language models (LLMs) with proprietary data. 

This session will show how an enterprise implementation of RAG with Pure Storage® and NVIDIA speeds-up data processing, increases scalability, and provides real-time responses more easily than creating custom LLMs from scratch. 

Attend to get technical insight and see a demonstration of distributed and accelerated GenAI RAG pipelines:

Learn the benefits of enhancing LLMs with RAG for enterprise-scale GenAI applications

Understand how to accelerate the RAG pipeline and deliver enhanced insight using NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservices and the Pure Storage FlashBlade//S™

See our proof of concept demonstration, showing accelerated RAG in an enterprise use case

Enhance LLMs with RAG and Accelerate Enterprise AI with Pure Storage and NVIDIA

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 back Miroslav Klivansky, Global Practice Lead for AI & Analytics at Pure Storage, to walk through a topic you’ve probably not heard much about recently - Artificial Intelligence / AI. Or maybe, you’ve heard so much about it that a reality check + technical depth would be welcome - that’s our hope.

We’ll cover:

Rapidly evolving landscape - what AI meant 2 years ago and the major shifts that have led to today’s acceleration. We might even mix in some hyperscalar + industry financial commentary.
Making AI work for your business - what’s exciting about Fine Tuning, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and their applicability to your data, processes and business.
Pure’s Architecture that uniquely fits AI needs - training models is not for the faint of heart…or those lacking in throughput. We’ll provide an update on how the Pure Data Storage Platform for AI is enabling these trends.
Deeper Partnerships & New Solutions - let’s talk NVIDIA DGX BasePod, GPUDirect Storage, Cisco Validated Designs for GenAI and MLOps, AIRI, and OVX. Got another buzzword? We’ll likely cover it!

GenAI, RAG, Say What? Going beyond the AI Buzzwords to Business Value

In the face of rising cyber threats, organizations must reduce operational risk and prioritize robust cybersecurity.
Jason Walker dives into the transformative power of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) in fortifying your cyber resilience.

Cyber Resilience Odyssey: Charting Paths with NIST CSF

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

It's May 2023, and believe it or not, some of the flagship features in Microsoft's latest version still aren't ready for prime time yet. Good news, though: there are a few things that genuinely make your life easier with minimal work required on your part.
Forget rewriting code, though - in this session, Brent Ozar will show what to turn on to determine:
- When to migrate to SQL Server 2022
- What metrics to watch
- Which dials to turn to make SQL Server faster

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