Name: Building the Extremely Efficient Data Center
Start: 2023-09-22T18:08:00Z
End: 2023-09-22T18:08:55.000Z
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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.

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 November, host Andrew Miller has invited Lou Chiorazzi (Senior Director, Global Professional Services) and Dmitri Filenko (Director for Pure’s Migration Center of Excellence) to the Coffee Break.
For better or worse (you decide), even the simplest products often need business consulting and professional services wrapped around them to move from “product to solution”...if only because today’s datacenters, clouds, and org charts aren’t simple either. Success requires People, Process, AND Technology and after all.
As well, even if migrating to Pure is your last migration, you still have to navigate through said migration - something you may not have done in years. A solid migration, well-executed migration plan is critical to delivering on the ROI/TCO promised to the business after all.
Thanks to Lou and Dmitri’s background, this month we’ll explore:
- Navigating from Customer to Partner/Vendor in the Professional Services space - some of Lou and Dmitri’s background and career lessons.
- Migration Center of Excellence Principles - whether working with Pure or not, there are key principles when it comes to successful migrations especially at scale. Real world stories here albeit wholly anonymized.
- Pure’s Professional Services Philosophy and Overview - if Pure is so simple, are professional services needed? Let’s answer that question theoretically AND practically.
- Your Last Migration - how Pure specifically approaches migrations along with our partners.

When Evergreen Dreams Meet Migration Realities: Professional Services and You

As businesses operationalize Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives, an increased focus on the importance of sustainability and energy efficiency is transforming IT purchase decisions. Volatile energy prices as well as expectations on near-term regulatory requirements add to the urgency of making energy efficiency a greater priority in IT infrastructure decisions and design. 

Pure Storage, a leader in enterprise flash technology, offers the FlashStack® systems in conjunction with Cisco to deliver software-defined infrastructure which transforms the way IT leaders can optimize their hybrid cloud environment for ESG and energy efficiency moving forward. 

Join this webinar to evaluate the current and future impact of ESG and sustainability on your IT and storage infrastructure, and to learn about:
● The role of software-defined infrastructure in changing energy consumption expectations for data center environments.
● How Pure Storage’s innovations impacts Pure Storage’s FlashStack customers.
● A case study from a large sustainability award-winning customer deployment. 

Topics planned to cover:
● The state of ESG and sustainability initiatives in enterprise organizations 
● How IT organizations are increasing focus on energy efficiency
● The role of software defined  infrastructure in changing energy consumption expectations for data center environments
● How Pure Storage’s innovations impacts Pure Storage’s FlashStack customers

Deploying FlashStack to Deliver a Sustainable, ESG-compliant Hybrid Cloud

Whether you’re trying to increase efficiency in IT or security operations, improve customer experience through real-time insights, or drive competitive success via sales and marketing performance metrics, the need for modern analytics environments is clear. What's less clear, however, is the impact data infrastructure choices can have on the effectiveness of these tasks and processes. The existence of massive amounts of critical data is a given; the availability, access, and usefulness of the data is not. 

In this webinar, learn how problems crop up while trying to scale analytics environments as your needs grow in volume and variety. Find out why your storage platform is foundational to how quickly you can mine data for insights and how easily you can provision for growing petabytes. Discover how Pure Storage can help your organization gain value from all your data housed across the enterprise, to simplify data pipelines and speed up time to insights with cloud-like agility.

Modern Data Pipelines for Faster Time to Insights

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 this month, host Andrew Miller has invited Dr. Ratinder Ahuja, CTO of Security & Networking at Pure Storage, to the Coffee Break. This session is intentionally complementary to the previous month’s session with Hector focused on ransomware + resiliency architectures by focusing inward on how Pure builds secure products via DevSecOps and embracing industry frameworks.
We’ll go deep and cover topics such as:
-Ratinder’s history in the security space - multiple startups, 70+ patents, even a 6th degree TaeKwonDo black belt.
-DevSecOps - digging past the buzzword into the reality. There’s a lot here to understand.
-NIST Security Frameworks - understanding how they apply to software development.
-How Pure Implements DevSecOps in a way that uniquely fits our vision and product portfolio.

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

Building Security in from Day 1 - The Pervasive Impact of DevSecOps

We live in an era of unprecedented data growth. For all the diversity in IT strategy,, there are nevertheless some very common workloads that have become nearly ubiquitous in modern Data Centers:
SAP ERP & HANA
MySQL, the most popular open source database
A top Patient Care application for Healthcare

Please join our experts as they discuss best practices for simplifying data center infrastructure and the workloads they run, in the context of growing pressure to improve compliance, costs, performance, and the emergence of alternative cloud and consumption models.

Taming 3 Common Data-Centric Workloads

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.

Saving you up to 85% in your storage environment is just the beginning. To help you achieve your sustainability goals, Pure Storage also helps reduce energy consumption, e-waste, and rack space footprint while improving data center efficiency and utilization. At a time when data centers consume up 1-2% of global energy usage—with the same environmental impact as the global airline industry—more sustainable storage can make a big difference for the world we share.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how you can use our products and services to:
- Reduce your energy usage and data center footprint while improving efficiency
- Replace inefficient legacy spinning disks with sustainable high performance solutions
- Increase IT’s contribution to corporate emission Net Zero goals

Sustainability and Storage: The Expanding Story

According to IDC, over 90% of organizations admit to being hit with malware—87% successfully. Victims scramble to respond after an attack, but the right time to deal with the threat of ransomware is before it strikes. A comprehensive plan for data resiliency can be the best defense. Learn how Pure Storage can help protect your business with data protection best practices, anomaly detection, timely patch compliance and upgrades, comprehensive monitoring, and rapid recovery from an attack.

Join Pure Storage specialists to lean how you can ensure data resiliency for your business with:
- A complete ransomware recovery plan including clean storage arrays
- Onsite expert assistance to quickly restore your environment to normal operations—not just temporary fixes
- Proactive AIOPs management across the full operational lifecycle so you’re always in compliance

Ransomware: Protection, Detection, and Recovery

Are you getting the most out of your existing data storage system for Oracle environments? Do you know of the ASM features and other details that can give you full benefits? It’s time to move away from legacy design approaches. Join this webinar where our Oracle experts will focus on real world examples that have improved Oracle database performance. In this session, we will share best practices to successfully apply some of the modern techniques and see immediate results.

Watch this webinar and you will:

-Learn great tips on how to improve performance
-Discover the role that data services and storage play in optimizing database environments 
-Hear more about lesser known features and modern design approaches

Modern Techniques to Optimize Oracle database storage

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.

It's been (unscientifically) observed that over 90% of today's SQL Servers are virtualized on VMware.  As such, DBAs and virtualization admins interact regularly to deal with a variety of challenges. Enter VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols), which changes the game for virtualized storage, not only for the virtualization admin but for the DBA as well!

Join Pure Storage VMware and SQL experts for an exploration of VMware vVols, MS SQL Server, and Pure Storage FlashArray. The webinar walks through real-world scenarios, demoing the granularity advantages of vVols, near-instantaneous copy data management with vVols + Pure Storage snapshots, and the ease of disaster recovery with vVols.

When you leave, you'll have gained a new appreciation for the benefits of vVols + Pure Storage's vSphere integration, and hopefully enjoyed a few laughs along the way.

A DBA and a vSphere Admin walk into a bar (to talk vVols)

Companies of all sizes deserve an outstanding customer experience. Pure lowers barriers to entry so even customers with limited budgets and staff can accelerate business benefits. SLA-driven storage as a service (STaaS) and actionable insights help you reduce costs, avoid complications, assure performance and availability,  become more sustainable, and optimize day-two operation for critical workloads.

Join us for this webinar to learn:

- How Pure’s built-in AIOps capabilities help you do more with less
- How you can adopt always-modern storage infrastructure that stays aligned with your IT, finance, and business strategies
- What STaaS and AIOps can deliver for database workload management

Get Smart About Storage Management with AIOps and STaaS

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 the first time ever, host Andrew Miller will be joined by a guest who doesn’t work for Pure - Hector "Sabu" Monsegur, former technical frontman of the infamous LulzSec hacking collective turned internationally-renowned cybersecurity expert.

We’ll leverage Hector’s unique experience to discuss:
- Hector’s history as a hacker and experience against companies, governments (even the CIA) before he turned good guy.
- Current Cybersecurity landscape - what Hector is seeing including Business Email Compromises, the continuing growth of ransomware, MFA security and challenges.
- Resiliency Architectures - how you can defend and where Pure can help.
- What’s Coming - looking into the future for 1) the overall security landscape, 2) where Hector is focusing, and 3) where Pure is investing.

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!

Ransomware & Resiliency Architectures: A Former Hacker’s Perspective

Today’s data centers are power-hungry. They consume up to 3% of the world’s total energy usage, and your storage can be up to 25% of the total energy costs of data centers today. Any ability to reduce energy consumption while keeping up with performance SLAs and data growth requirements is a significant balancing act. Learn how Pure Storage, with its recently announced new FlashArray R4 releases, targets this need for extreme efficiency while continuing to provide the performance and density to support your critical growth needs. In this webinar, you will learn:
• Pure Storage’s latest advances in flash storage systems to drive extreme efficiency.
• How Pure Storage is able to deliver an all-flash system at the acquisition cost of 7200 RPM HDD storage. 
• The simplicity and efficiency benefits that arise from an ultra-dense all-flash data center approach.
• Critical recent advancements from Pure Storage in the fight against ransomware.

Building the Cost-Efficient, Secure Data Center

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 August, host Andrew Miller has invited Jack Hogan (previous customer and Vice President of Technology Strategy) to join the Coffee Break for the 3rd time. We’ll discuss what we’ve both been seeing over the last year in talking with customers about their cloud journey. Since the last Coffee Break, Jack’s role has expanded to cover all things at Cloud at Pure. Topics will include….

- What we’ve been hearing in the last year from customers about their cloud journeys - it’s not always one way.
- 6 States of the Cloud Journey - with so many options we’re started to see some clarity around what we call the “6 States of the Cloud Journey”
- Analyst & Customer Perspective -  discussions with analysts (even an IDC Bare Metal as-a-Service report) and actual customers benefiting from - - Bare Metal as-a-Service, Powered by Pure capabilities.
- New Announcements from Pure around BMaaS/Cloud Capabilities - a perspective from the field and the “why” behind the new offerings and capabilities
Believe it or not, some options are “no cost up front” - almost too good to be true.
As always, we’ll keep it educational while exploring how Pure is offering capabilities and products that benefit you.

Datacenter Fatigue? Need a Cloud Bridge? Make the Cloud Fit Your Business

Did you know that, according to new research from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), today’s data centers consume up to 3% of the world’s total energy usage? What’s more, storage can comprise up to 25% of the total energy costs of your data center.

ESG has carved out a position as one of the world's leading primary research and analyst firms. So what does the data say about the best approach to data center efficiency and energy consumption?

In this session, ESG Practice Director Scott Sinclair sits down with experts from Pure Storage to discuss what you can do to reduce energy consumption while keeping up with performance SLAs and data growth requirements. Highlights of this session include:

• Key tenets of data center efficiency
• Which tech makes the difference in data center design
• Blueprint: How to build the most efficient data center possible
• And more

Enterprise Strategy Group on data center efficiency vs. costs: Key research

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 July, host Andrew Miller invites Pete Kirkpatrick (VP of Engineering & Chief Platform Architect, Platform) to the Coffee Break to explore his 10 years at Pure and relentless pursuit of leveraging core industry standards and technologies in ways you might not expect.

This month we’ll explore:
- Pete’s History at Pure - how he came to Pure and why he’s stayed.
- TLC, QLC, NVMe, PCIe, Optane - say what? All the different trends and technologies Pete’s evaluated over the years, what worked, and what hasn’t.
- DirectFlash - why it isn’t crazy for Pure to make our own flash modules instead of buying SSD’s.
- Recent platform hardware releases and the story behind each - FlashArray //XL, FlashBlade //S, FlashBlade //E, 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!

Love Software? Make Hardware. Behind the Curtain of Pure’s (Hardware) Labs

Disaster-recovery planning is a major challenge for MySQL database professionals.
Does your company’s current infrastructure lack the ability to recover rapidly from a disaster, data loss, or security breaches like ransomware attacks? Are you looking for best practices that can enable fast recovery of mission-critical application data? Is your team measured on recovery point and time objectives for new digital transformation initiatives? 

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this exciting session is for you! Arm yourself with knowledge that will help you deliver on the promise of fast recovery and meet SLA commitments!

In this webinar, you will learn:
-Tips to cut downtime
-Common approaches to MySQL backup and recovery procedures
-Role of data services in optimizing database environments

Optimal Strategies for Potecting MySQL Data from Disasters

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.

Performance and efficiency. It’s what’s needed to drive your business forward, but two things are typically at odds. You want to help your company innovate but are trapped in a cycle of day-to-day operations, just keeping all the different systems you use to manage data running. Isn’t it time to break free and never worry about legacy storage systems again?

Pure is revolutionizing the storage industry by delivering the largest-ever advancements in performance, efficiency, and security with our next-generation FlashArray platform.

Join us for this webinar and discover how you can obtain:
- 40% higher overall performance
- Up to 80% more energy efficiency

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