Name: The Odd Couple: Why a DBA Joined a (Pure) Storage Company
Start: 2024-02-23T15:01:00Z
End: 2024-02-23T15:02:02.000Z
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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.

For September’s Coffee Break, Andrew Miller invites industry veteran and 6+ year Puritan Don Kirouac. Don is currently the technical lead at Pure Storage for product sustainability. Along with his day job, he now dreams at night of kilowatts, supply chains, and full product life cycle analysis. Although in a previous life, he was the top ActiveCluster™ subject matter expert. In some ways, this will be a sequel to last year’s session: “Tired of Energy Savings & Efficiency Gas”-lighting? Better Science is the Answer.” That one was with Brian Gold (yes, that Brian Gold the former rocket scientist).

During this session, we’ll further into:

Don’s history across the industry and career lessons he has learned
How Pure Storage looks at sustainability and energy efficiency across our entire portfolio and why it matters to you (hint: there might be industry-wide energy shortages coming–you can thank AI)
We’ll also prove these bold claims:

Up to 85% less energy than other all flash solutions
Over 800 times improvement in data stored (terabytes) per unit of energy (Watts) consumed compared to our earliest product models
DirectFlash® modules that require 1000 times less DRAM than SSDs with industry leading performance.
About the Pure Storage Coffee Break Series: Each month, we invite experts in technology and business to chat about the themes driving today’s IT agenda. 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 Storage technology, our goal is to educate and entertain, rather than sell.

Eco-wars: Pure Awakens - Sustainability, Power, and Storage Efficiency Unite!

Data often gets trapped in complex infrastructures and scattered silos, ranging from data warehouses and data lakes to disparate storage systems. While each silo serves its original purpose well, they become obstacles for AI models and remain inaccessible to AI clusters. 

In this fast-paced, demo-rich talk, we’ll explore how to break down these silos, unify data, and speed up data pipelines, for faster time to science and faster AI results.

Join us as our experts discuss:
·        Unified ingestion of data for faster AI results
·        CPU vs. GPU pipeline processing comparison
·        Optimized commands for parallel processing

Data Preparation Strategies for Accelerated AI Pipelines

Many organizations are looking at how to evolve their VMware-based workloads following VMware’s acquisition by Broadcom and some of the licensing and product changes that have taken place. And although many customers will likely opt to stay with VMware, others will be looking at ways to further optimize and improve costs for their environments.

One of these options is to move VMware-based workloads to a public cloud provider. In this webcast led by Simon Robinson, Principal Analyst of TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group, you will gain expert insights into the VMware situation and how customers are thinking about their next steps. Panelists will also discuss key questions IT leaders are asking during this transition, including:

• When should you consider public cloud as an option for your VMware workloads?
• What kind of advantages can public cloud provide for customers?
• And more

Register now to find out how you can evolve and optimize your organization’s virtualization environment.

Speaker Information:
Simon Robinson, Principal Analyst, Storage & Converged Infrastructure, Enterprise Strategy Group
Cody Hosterman, Senior Director, Product Management, Pure Storage
Husam Hilal, Senior Partner Solution Architect, Microsoft

Enterprise Strategy Group: The state of virtualized infrastructure in 2024

There is a lot of hype around AI, and rightfully so. Its potential use cases across industries are profound, which is why 77% of CIOs say most of their budget will go toward AI efforts by 2027, according to recent research by Gartner. However, at the same time, only 15% have prepared their infrastructure to scale accordingly.

While all the potential benefits of AI are enticing, the desired outcomes of such an investment cannot be achieved without having the right foundation in place. In this webcast, you’ll be introduced to FlashStack – a joint solution from Pure Storage and Cisco that is designed to power AI workloads at scale while eliminating infrastructure silos and disparate operations.

Tune in now to find out how you can implement the modern infrastructure needed to overcome IT obstacles and democratize AI across your organization.

FlashStack for AI: Making AI more accessible

For the July Coffee Break, we’re exploring how the public cloud has redefined expectations for IT infrastructure, especially when it comes to data storage. As-a-service is the next frontier in on-premises data infrastructure, allowing you to focus on outcomes instead of fighting fires and making do with inflexible storage.
But not all data storage delivers on the as-a-service promise. You need a flexible, unified, and expandable architecture to meet the challenges of changing needs, cyber resilience, and optimizing costs. The Pure Storage platform delivers this future today—built from the ground up as a fully as-a-service data infrastructure for all workloads. 

We dive into what to look for when considering data infrastructure, so that you can operate like the cloud wherever your data resides.

About the Pure Storage Coffee Break Series: Each month, we invite experts in technology and business to chat about the themes driving today’s IT agenda. 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 Storage technology, our goal is to educate and entertain, rather than sell.

At Your Service: Understanding the Storage-as-a-Service Landscape

For this August Coffee Break, Andrew Miller invites Principal Technologist and VCDX (VMware Certified Design Expert) Rob Quast to explore Rob’s career and why a VCDX (VMware’s top design certification and a true challenge to obtain) is working for a storage company. Yes, this might relate to our conversation in February about why a DBA (Anthony Nocentino) is here at Pure Storage.

For the rest of the time, we’ll continue the great platform discussion with Justin Emerson from May exploring:

Products vs platforms: The many definitions of “platform,” how a platform perspective has helped throughout our careers, and how it may help you.
The Pure Storage platform perspective: Thanks to years of differentiated R&D and an expanding portfolio, the Pure Storage platform is built on four key pillars: storage as a service, effortless management at any scale, simple unified infrastructure, and Evergreen® architecture (also covered in July).
Pure Fusion™: How the current release and future vision of Pure Fusion is enabling the data and storage platform we’ve long dreamed of as an industry but never before been able to realize. First-of-its-kind storage automation? A bold claim we realize…but we’ll back it up.
About the Pure Storage Coffee Break Series: Each month, we invite experts in technology and business to chat about the themes driving today’s IT agenda. 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 Storage technology, our goal is to educate and entertain, rather than sell.

From Product to Platform: Why a VCDX Came to Pure Storage

Unearth the treasures of data protection and cyber resiliency with Pure1® and walk away with a treasure map to navigate the perilous terrain of digital threats. This session equips you to face all data challenges head-on—and the pitfalls we're dodging are those of inadequate data management. There are no slithering surprises here. It's all about mastering your storage strategy in this action-packed TechTalk. Prepare to embark on an adventure where it's all storage, and no snake.

What You Will Learn:
Cost-effective Disaster Recovery: Discover how Pure1 offers disaster recovery as a service, orchestrating workflows between on-premises and AWS to substantially reduce recurring costs and simplify recovery.
Advanced Data Protection: Explore the latest Pure1 features, including Data Protection Advisor and Ransomware DRR Anomaly Detection, to strengthen your data protection strategy.
Disaster Recovery as-a-Service: Gain insights into the innovative Pure1 platform, including its disaster recovery as-a-service offering.
Ransomware Protection: Understand Ransomware DRR Anomaly Detection and how it can safeguard your data against ransomware threats.

Raiders of the Lost Data: Data Protection and Cyber Resiliency with Pure1

Please join Philip Ninan, Alliance Development Manager, AI, Pure Storage | Rajiv Mandal, AI Solutions Architect, Intel in Getting Your Data AI-Ready: Planning Considerations for Enterprise AI Models.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) applications have the potential to increase operational efficiency, improve business process responsiveness, and drive new product innovation. Realizing this potential requires enterprises to leverage massive amounts of their corporate data to train a Retrieval Augment Generation (RAG) model that combines with a Large Language Model (LLM) to fully enable a GenAI solution.  Successfully aggregating significant amounts of corporate data and then processing that data into a RAG inference models requires addressing a number of data challenges including:

• GenAI System Design: Compute Performance and availability, Energy Efficiency & Power Budget,  Storage Capacity, Performance &  Scalability
• Data Preparation: Staging Structured and Unstructured Data, Data cleansing and labeling
• RAG/Inference Pipeline Building: Document and Data Tokenizing, Embedding, Checkpointing
• Governance: Access Policies, Policy Enforcement, Backup/Recovery
• GenAI System Growth: GPU/CPU Scaling, Data Storage Scaling

Intel and Pure Storage will discuss these topics and present a range of recommendations and best practices to address these challenges and to accelerate your organization’s GenAI project deployment.

Planning for RAG and GenAI Deployment at Scale

In this TechTalks session, we’ll cover how data storage infrastructure influences the performance of your Oracle databases. We’ll be giving practical advice on how to:

Manage your large-scale Oracle environment effectively to unlock superior performance 
Simplify and reduce manual processes with AI-driven storage provisioning and streamline snapshot management with powerful API-driven techniques
Gain peace of mind with comprehensive cyber resilience and SLA guarantees
In this TechTalks session, we’ll cover how data storage infrastructure influences the performance of your Oracle databases. We’ll be giving practical advice on how to:

Manage your large-scale Oracle environment effectively to unlock superior performance 
Simplify and reduce manual processes with AI-driven storage provisioning and streamline snapshot management with powerful API-driven techniques
Gain peace of mind with comprehensive cyber resilience and SLA guarantees

In this TechTalks session, we’ll cover how data storage infrastructure influences the performance of your Oracle databases. We’ll be giving practical advice on how to:

Manage your large-scale Oracle environment effectively to unlock superior performance 
Simplify and reduce manual processes with AI-driven storage provisioning and streamline snapshot management with powerful API-driven techniques
Gain peace of mind with comprehensive cyber resilience and SLA guarantees

Enhancing Oracle Success with an Effective Data Storage Platform

Are you avoiding the cloud because you dread refactoring or rebuilding applications? With the changes at VMware, more IT leaders are considering moving to the public cloud. But migrating legacy VMware workloads can be costly and cumbersome. 

In this TechTalks session, we’ll explore how to move to the public cloud effortlessly without refactoring VMware applications. 

Join us on as our experts discuss:
Effortless Migration: Learn how to transition to the public cloud without the need for refactoring or rebuilding applications.
Leveraging Key Technologies: Understand how to use Pure Cloud Block Store™ and Azure VMware Solution to simplify your migration.
Cost Optimization: Discover strategies to optimize your Azure VMware Solution spend by independently provisioning storage, compute, and memory resources.
Maintaining Investments: Find out how to leverage cloud benefits without compromising your existing 

Speakers:
Jason Langer - Technical Evangelist, Product Marketing
Kyle Grossmiller - Principal Technical Product Specialist, Cloud

Cloud-bound: Easy VMware Migration without Rebuilding

In this TechTalks session, we’ll explore RAG, a method of improving the accuracy and relevance of inference capability of LLMs, the evolution of multimodal LLMs, and how they can summarize and extract insights close to real time. Join us as our experts discuss: 

How multimodal LLMs makes extraction of insights from video much simpler and faster
Overall trends shifting from text to video for better precision of answers
Capacity and performance requirements for video data sets 
Why camera companies stand to benefit from the advent of RAG

Reserve your spot now for this exclusive event and gain expert insights on these emerging innovations.


Calvin Nieh - Solutions Marketing Manager AI Pure Storage
Philip Ninan - AI Solution Manager,  Pure Storage
Tom Sells - Field Business Development, Public Sector Pure Storage

Applying Video Understanding and RAG  in Surveillance

It’s music to your ears! Say goodbye to inefficient spinning disks and embrace a world of instant accessibility, unexpected cost savings, and unparalleled sustainability.

Learn to hear how the Pure Storage data platform strategy is the “Sweetest Thing”—helping businesses unify fragmented data environments into a seamless, modern, and efficient system—driving massive TCO savings, in cloud or on-prem.

Register now to reserve your seat and learn how Pure Storage all-flash storage solutions can help you achieve:

Operational savings from a consistent, efficient, and reliable data storage platform
Energy savings that slash data center electric bills, save space, and reduce e-waste
Subscription savings that lower your upfront costs with an “as-a-service” storage platform that is ever-improving and self-updating

Unlock Savings from On-Prem and Cloud Storage: Music to Your Ears

Exponential data growth and industry regulations around data governance are overwhelming healthcare providers, driving unsustainable storage costs, complexity, and stressors to IT, as well as unplanned downtimes that are both costly and potentially life-threatening. 


In healthcare IT, data management decisions directly impact clinical workflows, not just the bottom line. Organizations often turn to OPEX solutions, like cloud storage, but costs can prove unsustainable, especially in large data sets like enterprise imaging. 

In this session, learn how Pure Storage can help flatten the cost curve while unleashing the full potential of your quickest growing medical data—enterprise imaging.

Register now to discover:
How Pure Storage simple, scalable, all-flash solutions deliver extreme density to effortlessly handle ballooning imaging data volumes from radiology, cardiology, pathology, and more—without breaking the bank 
How to accelerate AI/ML adoption by eliminating slowness when algorithms process large imaging datasets
The benefits that cloud storage brings without the added fees and unpredictability

Prescribing Healthcare Cost Predictability

Strategies for Continuous Uptime and Rapid Recovery

Healthcare payers hold the crucial responsibility of maintaining 24×7 system uptime to manage member inquiries, claims processing, and provider interactions—activities vital for life-altering decisions. With the constant threat of ransomware attacks, how can healthcare organizations safeguard their data and maintain continuous system availability? 


Join our experts to learn how organizations like yours can keep systems and data defendable, resilient, and recoverable. We’ll cover:
Insights into the latest ransomware tactics
Best practices for cyber resilience, including robust backup solutions with offsite copies, disaster recovery (DR) planning and testing, and more
Implementing tiered resiliency models so your systems can withstand and recover from cyber incidents 
How payers are deploying cleanrooms to prevent extended downtimes and ensure service continuity

Safeguarding Healthcare Payers Against Ransomware

Strategies for Continuous Uptime and Rapid Recovery
Healthcare payers hold the crucial responsibility of maintaining 24×7 system uptime to manage member inquiries, claims processing, and provider interactions—activities vital for life-altering decisions. With the constant threat of ransomware attacks, how can healthcare organizations safeguard their data and maintain continuous system availability? 

Join our experts to learn how organizations like yours can keep systems and data defendable, resilient, and recoverable. We’ll cover:
Insights into the latest ransomware tactics
Best practices for cyber resilience, including robust backup solutions with offsite copies, disaster recovery (DR) planning and testing, and more
Implementing tiered resiliency models so your systems can withstand and recover from cyber incidents 
How payers are deploying cleanrooms to prevent extended downtimes and ensure service continuity

In this TechTalks session, we'll explore the dynamic landscape of data security and explain the intricate interplay between exponential data growth, evolving compliance mandates, and the omnipresent threat of cyberattacks in the era of artificial intelligence (AI).
Join us as our experts discuss:
The evolving landscape of data utilization and its implications for security in the Age of AI
Proactive strategies to fortify response, backup, and recovery protocols against cyberthreats, including ransomware.
Strategic partnerships to deploy integrated hardware and software solutions for enhanced data security and resilience
Reserve your spot now for this exclusive TechTalk event and boost your data  defense. 

Speakers: 
Jason Walker
Global Practice Leader - Cyber ResiliencyBill Oyler

Practice Director, Professional Services ‑ Data Center
Presidio

Talbert Houle
Principal Cybersecurity Consultant

Proactive Data Defense: Combating Cyberthreats in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape

n this session, we’ll explore how a well-designed data storage platform optimized for AI serves as the backbone for AI-powered innovation and operations.

What you’ll learn: 

Efficient end-to-end AI workflows with industry examples and use cases
Key elements of AI-ready and AI-optimized infrastructure stacks
How to futureproof AI storage to meet dynamic and growing AI data needs.

Considerations for Strategic, Accelerated, Enterprise AI Infrastructure

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

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