In this podcast episode, Chris discusses the platform update announcements from Pure Accelerate 2024 with Prakash Darji, VP and GM of the Digital Experience BU at Pure Storage. The new features focus on usability and operational enhancements, including AI-based features and support for AI workloads. Highlighted in this discussion are:

• Fusion automation enhancements for fleet management and individual arrays
• New Generative AI Copilot for storage to provide querying capabilities and advice
• Evergreen//One for AI – an AI-level tier of Storage-as-a-Service
• NVIDIA SuperPOD Ethernet Certification
• Secure application Workspaces using Portworx
• Cyber Recovery and Resilience SLAs
• Security Assessment SLA
• AI-Powered Anomaly Detection enhancements
• Site Rebalance SLA
• AI-Powered Reserve Expansion recommendations

As the list shows, there are lots of new updates to make the management and operation of a Pure Storage fleet more efficient and easy. As Prakash explains the reasoning behind the features, it is clear that AI is being used to deliver simplicity, while the platform will provide support for customers wanting to build AI-focused workloads.

To learn more, follow the news from Pure Accelerate 2024 here (link). Prakash mentions two blog posts, which can be found here – Ransomware is a Darwinian Problem That Will Never Be Solved and Editorial: Why Centralised Storage Refuses to Go Away.

• 00:00:00 – Intros
• 00:00:51 – It’s not all about AI!
• 00:01:34 – What changes have been announced to the Pure Storage platform?
• 00:02:37 – New features include cybersecurity enhancements and simplicity of management
• 00:03:30 – How do we manage systems at scale?
• 00:04:27 – Applications need policy management
• 00:05:08 – Fusion has been enhanced to enable array or fleet management at the same time
• 00:08:10 – Pure is introducing a GenAI Copilot in preview
• 00:12:19 – Evergreen now has an AI storage-as-a-service tier
• 00:14:00 – Pay for performance and capacity is a feature of Evergreen
• 00:15:55 – SuperPod certification for Ethernet is coming to Pure Storage arrays
• 00:16:40 – There must be many Jensen clones
• 00:18:27 – Pure is introducing secure application workspaces using Portworx
• 00:22:32 – New cybersecurity features include a security assessment for configuration settings
• 00:23:19 – There is also a security SLA for fixing and certificating security settings
• 00:24:01 – The AI Copilot will also recommend security improvements
• 00:24:32 – Anomaly detection is now performance-based, looking at typical profiles
• 00:30:45 – Reserve expansion recommendation is now AI-powered
• 00:31:55 – Reserve commit across sites can now be rebalanced once per year
• 00:33:40 – It’s easy for storage to become fragmented between sites
• 00:36:27 – When will the new features be made available?
• 00:37:45 – Wrap Up

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• Storage Unpacked 257 – The Future of Data Storage in the Enterprise
• Storage Unpacked 252 – A Vision of Storage Future with Coz from Pure Storage
• Storage Unpacked 251 – Modernising Storage as a Service with Prakash Darji
• Pure Storage Microsite
• X-Ray: Pure Storage, Inc.

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