Name: FlashCrew: Making Sense of Portworx & Kubernetes
Start: 2021-11-30T11:00:00Z
End: 2021-11-30T11:00:45.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.8

Pure is redefining the storage experience and empowering innovators by simplifying how people consume and interact with data.

Manually managed infrastructure and workflows are quickly becoming part of legacy IT operations. Automation has moved to the forefront and Pure Storage is bringing technical innovation to every product in our portfolio.

Join us for an expert-led demonstration on how Pure Storage Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) brings order to complex infrastructure with real automation. See policy-based orchestration across block, file, and object, including Pure1 Workload Orchestration. Then we’ll dive into Pure Fusion™ automation, where provisioning is based on your desired outcomes.

Register now to learn how EDC enables you to:
- Turn storage into intelligent data management with EDC powering AI at enterprise scale.
- Use workflow automation to eliminate manual tasks with policy-based actions.
- Stay in control and eliminate complexity with self-service, outcome-based provisioning.

Accelerated Workflow Automation and the Enterprise Data Cloud

Is your VMware environment meeting the demands of scale, agility, and efficient management?

Join our experts Nelson Elam, Senior Technical Product Specialist and Johannes Geissler, Principal Technologist for a deep-dive TechTalk exploring the latest Pure Storage VMware advancements, including practical demos.

Here’s what’s in store:
- Discover how NFS datastores deliver true VM-level granular control.
- Get hands on with SLA-based provisioning, natively in VMware, for seamless management across all your arrays.
- Learn how Pure Fusion™ integration empowers unified automation and rapid modernization.

VMware and Storage: NFS Datastores Deep Dive and Pure Fleet Integration

Manually managed infrastructure and workflows are quickly becoming part of legacy IT operations. Automation has moved to the forefront and Pure is bringing technical innovation to every product in our portfolio. These expert-led demonstrations will show you how Pure’s Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) brings order to complex infrastructure with real automation; policy-driven, telemetry-aware, and built for compliance and resiliency. First, we’ll show you how AI Copilot assists in automating workflows across block, file, and object storage like its second nature. Then we’ll dive into Pure Fusion automation, where provisioning is based on your desired outcomes, and compliance and performance just work.

Key Takeaways:
- EDC turns storage into intelligent data management—breaking silos, automating control, and powering AI at enterprise scale.
- Pure’s workflow automation eliminates manual tasks with AI-driven, policy-based actions—boosting speed, consistency, and control across your data estate.
- Pure Fusion delivers self-service, outcome-based provisioning, so IT can move faster, scale effortlessly, and stay in control without complexity.

Accelerated Workflow Automation & the Enterprise Data Cloud

For only the second time ever, our host Andrew Miller is joined by a guest who doesn't work for Pure Storage—Hector "Sabu" Monsegur, former technical frontman of the infamous LulzSec hacking collective and now an internationally renowned, cybersecurity expert. He'll be joined by Pure Storage Technical Strategy Director Jason Walker for his deep knowledge of our recent cyber innovations, as well as his amazing 80s movie references.

We'll leverage Hector's unique perspective and Jason's expertise to discuss:
- The current cybersecurity landscape: What Hector is seeing in the wild and his perspective on making storage an active vs. passive component for both cyber recovery and cybersecurity.
- The Pure Storage cyber resilience strategy: How our platform helps you defend against threats and recover when needed with a focus on built-In security, connected detection, and dynamic response and recovery.
- New innovations and partnerships
- New Pure Storage integrations
- What’s next: A look ahead with Hector and Jason on what they see over the horizon, from the latest exfiltration tactics to the evolving impact of AI on the cyber landscape

Ransomware and Resilience Architectures: The Missing Link

Is your SQL Server environment prepared for disruption?

Join our TechTalk to discover how Chaos Engineering—alongside Pure Storage ActiveDR™—helps you uncover vulnerabilities and build a truly reliable disaster recovery strategy for database systems.

In this session, we’ll cover:
- How Chaos Engineering tests weaknesses in SQL Server and Pure Storage environments.
- How ActiveDR enables disaster recovery testing without risking downtime.
- Practical insights for boosting uptime, resilience, and peace of mind.

Chaos Engineering to Build Resilient Database Systems

In this webinar, Andy Gower, Director of Product and Solutions Marketing for Portworx by Pure Storage, discusses how to accelerate cloud migration with modern virtualization. Traditional virtualization is at a tipping point, with many customers looking to migrate or modernize their Virtual Machines (VMs) to Kubernetes due to rising costs and a desire for new application stacks.

Gower identifies three main challenges on the storage side when moving to VMs on Kubernetes:
1. Mature and scalable storage:** Portworx provides self-service access to high-performance storage for mission-critical VM workloads.
2. Data management:** Portworx offers an HCI-like experience for managing data from a single control panel, providing consistent day-zero, day-one, and day-two data services.
3. One workflow for containers and VMs:** Portworx helps customers manage applications across on-premises and public cloud environments with a single workflow.

Watch this session to get great insight and learn how Portworx by Pure Storage is delivering a single, modern, app platform for all workloads running anywhere.

Accelerate Cloud Migration with Modern Virtualization Anywhere

Infrastructure owners are constantly pushed to do more with less, but legacy storage eats time and budget like it’s a competitive sport. The Enterprise Data Cloud brings everything under one control plane, automating provisioning, protection, and scaling so operations stop feeling like a ticket factory. Policies handle the grunt work, cutting costs, reducing risk, and keeping governance in check without the clipboard brigade. The result: an agile, resilient foundation that keeps pace with business demands and data growth.

Key Takeaways:

- Kill the sprawl before it drains your budget: Unify silos, redundant copies, and vendors under one control plane that actually scales.
- Stop babysitting your infrastructure: Let policies handle provisioning, scaling, and recovery so your team can get back to work that matters.
- Make resilience part of the solution: Protection, recovery, and compliance stay on by default, no bolt-ons or panic drills required.
- Stay ready without constantly ripping and replacing your infrastructure: Add workloads, meet new demands, and roll in fresh tech without starting from scratch.

Get Ahead of Data Growth: Operational Efficiency with Enterprise Data Cloud

Have you ever heard that cloud isn’t a place but rather a strategy? Join us for this month’s Coffee Break as host Andrew Miller and JD Wallace (Principal Technologist Director and Pure Report Unplugged Co-host) explore the data center and cloud landscape, how the Pure Storage Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) strategy is based on customer conversations and where we see the industry going.

We’ll cover:
- Challenges around data control, workload variability, and budget strain
- Transformation options for storage infrastructure, IT operations, dataset management, and more
- Why EDC isn’t something you buy but instead something we help you build
- Intelligent control plane (aka Pure Fusion™)—digging into the history behind fleet management, previous failed industry attempts, and how Pure Storage is building Pure Fusion for both today and tomorrow

We’ll also get practical, looking at capabilities around fleet and remote management, presets and workloads, compliance reporting and being compliant from Day 1, built-in cyber resilience, and workload orchestration.

Cloud - A Place or a Strategy? Unpacking the Pure Storage Enterprise Data Cloud

Join us for a live demo of how Pure Storage enables enterprise AI at scale—without the complexity. See how Claude Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Pure Fusion™ come together to provision a 5TB ML training job in just 60 seconds—with a simple prompt.

Discover how to move from siloed systems to a unified data platform that’s ready for anything AI throws at you.
- Understand how data readiness, governance, and automation are critical to scaling enterprise AI.
- See how AI agents can trigger complex infrastructure tasks—fast, securely, and without storage expertise.
- Identify where you are across five stages of AI maturity and uncover the most impactful next step.
- Learn how an intelligent control plane and unified platform empower IT teams to support AI workloads at scale.

Automate AI Infrastructure with the Pure Storage Platform

Explore how Portworx® Enterprise 3.3 delivers modern virtualization capabilities at enterprise scale—seamlessly integrating VM workloads into your Red Hat OpenShift environment.

Whether you're running virtualized workloads on-premises or in the cloud, this session will show you how to harness OpenShift for modern, resilient VM deployments—delivering agility, efficiency, and enterprise-class reliability.

In this live technical demo, you’ll learn how to:
- Deploy and manage stateful VMs alongside containers on Red Hat OpenShift
- Leverage unified storage, replication, backup, and high availability using Portworx storage and data management capabilities
- Conduct a live migration of an application using a MongoDB VM
- Use real-world deployment scenarios and command-line walkthroughs to showcase the end-to-end architecture and operational flow

Modern Virtualization on OpenShift: Portworx for Enterprise-scale Workloads

AI is transforming industries, but many enterprises struggle with infrastructure that can't keep up.

Join our experts as they delve into how to prepare your storage infrastructure to meet the demands of AI workloads. Find out how to maximize performance, unify data, simplify management, and plan for unpredictable AI growth.

In this webinar, you'll learn how to:
- Keep GPUs fully utilized with a storage architecture optimized for throughput and efficiency
- Eliminate data silos to create a more connected, AI-ready pipeline
- Plan for AI’s unpredictable growth without over-provisioning or re-architecting

Is Your Data Infrastructure Ready for What’s Next in AI?

If the virtualization landscape has you feeling like you’re stuck in a meeting about TPS reports with eight different bosses, you’re not alone. With uncertainty around VMware’s future, many IT leaders are being asked what they’re doing with their virtualization strategy.

Join this satirical but serious TechTalk as we dust off the old “jump to conclusions” mat to explore the four most common “conclusions” enterprises are being asked to evaluate. We’ll cover:
- Staying on VMware - Sticking with the familiar, despite the licensing and support changes.
- Choosing a new hypervisor - Considering alternatives like Proxmox or AHV and their tradeoffs.
- Moving to the cloud - Running your VMs on hyperscale infrastructure like AWS or Azure.
- Modernizing with KubeVirt - Embracing a Kubernetes-native model that supports both VMs and containers.

What would you say your virtualization does here?

Ransomware attacks and large-scale IT disruptions are becoming more frequent, more complex, and more costly. Traditional backup alone can’t keep up. To maintain business continuity in the face of unpredictable threats, organizations need a layered data resilience strategy that leverages secure and resilient storage as a foundation.

Join Jason Walker, Technical Strategy Director at Pure Storage as he shares practical insights on how to prepare for and respond to today’s evolving cyber and disaster scenarios. The session will be hosted by Jason Langer, Senior Technical Evangelist, Pure Storage.

Key takeaways:
- Why traditional data protection often falls short against modern ransomware and disaster scenarios
- What layered data resilience looks like—and how to start building it today
- Best practices to ensure ransomware and disaster readiness.

Preparing for the Next Attack: Building a Stronger Data Resilience Strategy

The cloud offers multiple paths for virtualization. But, which one is right for your organization? Whether you’re leveraging a managed service like Azure VMware Solution or using cloud native VMs, each approach has its trade-offs in cost, control, and complexity.

Discover how to modernize virtual environments in the cloud—in a way that works for you. Join Principal Technologist Valerie Harrison and Principal Technical Product Specialist Kyle Grossmiller as they break down the key differences between managed and DIY cloud virtualization and share how Pure Storage cloud solutions support both strategies.

Together, they’ll cover:

- Architectural trade-offs between managed services (e.g., Azure VMware Solution, AWS Elastic VMware Service) and native VMs in the cloud.
- How to optimize for costs and control with Pure Storage solutions with any cloud strategy.
- How Pure Storage enables flexible, scalable virtualization—no matter how you build in the cloud.

Virtualization in the Cloud: Managed, DIY, or Both?

Ransomware attacks are more relentless than ever—46% of organizations face attempted breaches at least once a month. The question isn’t if an attack will happen, but when. Is your data protection strategy strong enough to recover?

Discover how zero trust data resilience can safeguard your business against cyber threats. Alex Arcilla, Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, will share insights from her latest technical review on building a cyber-resilient data strategy with Pure Storage and Veeam. She’ll be joined by Jason Walker, Technological Strategy Director, Cyber Resilience at Pure Storage, and Mark Polin, Senior  Solutions Architect, Product Management Alliances, at Veeam, to discuss how organizations can strengthen their defenses against ransomware and ensure rapid recovery.

Together, they’ll cover:

- The latest ransomware trends and their business impact
- Why zero trust is the foundation of modern data protection
- How Pure Storage and Veeam deliver end-to-end data immutability and rapid recovery
- Real-world case studies of organizations bouncing back after an attack
- Practical strategies to simplify backup and recovery—without adding complexity

Establishing Zero Trust Data Resilience with Pure Storage and Veeam

Cloud migrations are complex, but with Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) and Pure Storage, you can clear a faster, simpler path to AWS without replatforming or sacrificing enterprise-grade capabilities. Join experts from AWS and Pure Storage to learn how this powerful integration helps you move VMware workloads to AWS faster. Learn how to optimize costs and maintain full control using the same VMware and Pure tools you rely on today—with NVMe-oF/TCP, advanced replication, and consistent enterprise-grade data services across environments.

Clear the Path to VMware in AWS: Pure Storage + Amazon EVS

This month, host Andrew Miller invites SQL DBA and Microsoft MVP Anthony Nocentino (Senior Principal Field Solutions Architect at Pure Storage) to the virtual breakroom for the third time.
We’ll cover:
- The AI Shift into enterprise databases - Something many didn’t expect but makes sense once you dig into the reasons
- RAG architectures and relational databases - Exploring AI-ready, secure, and high-performance features
- Vector indexing in SQL Server 2025 and Oracle 23 AI - Real world reasons to use SQL Server (for instance) as a Vector Datastore
- FlashArray™ performance testing and data - So much performance for all workloads and especially databases. We’ll also share the results of recent performance testing from Pure Storage and its newest, fastest ever FlashArray - FlashArray//XL™ 170 R5

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

Database Performance Unleashed: Where AI and Enterprise Meet

Oracle environments are evolving to support a growing mix of transactional, analytical, and AI-driven workloads. Infrastructure and application teams are under mounting pressure to deliver performance and efficiency at scale, ensure uptime, and reduce complexity, all while keeping costs in check. In this session, we’ll explore proven data platform strategies that help organizations modernize Oracle environments with higher performance per footprint, simplified operations, and greater cost efficiency.

Learn how to:
- Eliminate performance bottlenecks
- Reduce backup and recovery times while protecting critical data
- Simplify and automate storage operations with an intelligent control plane.

Winning Data Platform Strategies for Modern Oracle Workloads

The latest FlashCrew webinar is one not to be missed! Join Joe Gardiner, Head of Cloud Architecture, EMEA Pure Storage to hear all about Portworx & Kubernetes. 

Joe will be giving an overview of:

- What and why organisations are building with Kubernetes 

- How Portworx is helping businesses run mission-critical applications in containers

- How with Portworx, you can accelerate your digital transformation by easily running any cloud-native data service, in any cloud, using any kubernetes platform with built in high availability, data protection, data security & hybrid cloud mobility

Joe will also be joined by Neill Smith, Head of IT Infrastructure, Scottish Government to hear why the Scottish Government decided to use Portworx, the benefits they are seeing and what their initiatives were to support it. 

You will also receive a free coffee voucher for attending! Don't miss out and register now.

FlashCrew: Making Sense of Portworx & Kubernetes

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