In this week’s sponsored episode, Chris chats to Alex McMullan, CTO International at Pure Storage. The discussion covers Pure//Launch and today’s announcements of two SaaS solutions – Fusion and Portworx Data Services. Fusion is a new SaaS management plane for administering and optimising Pure Storage hardware and software products, including FlashArray, FlashBlade and Cloud Block Store. Portworx Data Services enables customers to deploy and operate managed databases using the PX-Enterprise platform. Together, these two solutions provide an insight into the next stage of evolution and growth for Pure Storage.

There’s a lot to unpack in this week’s podcast. Alex starts with some background on why customers are demanding a more cloud-like consumption model from vendors. The conversation then deep-dives into the details of Fusion and Portworx Data Services, finishing with a summary of the new solutions and how they highlight the next growth decade for the company.

You can learn more about today’s announcements through the following links:

* https://www.purestorage.com/enable/modern-data-storage.html* https://www.purestorage.com/enable/pure-fusion.html* https://www.purestorage.com/enable/portworx/data-services.html

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Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intros* 00:01:46 – What is //Launch?* 00:02:45 – How are customers’ requirements evolving?* 00:05:00 – Cloud has changed the demand model for customers* 00:06:20 – What are Fusion and Portworx Data Services?* 00:08:06 – Both new offerings are SaaS* 00:08:42 – Digging down into Fusion* 00:11:00 – Fusion optimises the Pure Storage “fleet” of storage platforms* 00:14:15 – What features in Pure products enable better SRM?* 00:18:00 – Fusion uses Storage Classes and Protection Policies* 00:19:30 – How will Fusion mix multiple commercial business models?* 00:22:45 – What is the charging structure for Fusion?* 00:24:30 – What backend support work is required for Fusion?* 00:26:15 – Observability is a big part of Fusion* 00:28:40 – What is Portworx Data Services?* 00:31:45 – What will the Portworx Data Services “experience” be?* 00:36:30 – PDS enables “complex” storage deployments* 00:39:00 – Portworx Data Services uses a local management “Operator”* 00:40:40 – PDS will aid DBAs, not put them out of a job!* 00:42:15 – How will Pure1, Fusion and Portworx Data Services integrate?* 00:44:10 – Will Portworx Data Services work in private and public cloud?* 00:46:30 – Hardware is not going away?* 00:51:45 – Wrap Up

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