This week Chris and Martin talk to Rob Walters, GM for Pure-as-a-Service at Pure Storage. The company has recently announced upgrades and expansion of the “as-a-service” model, formerly known as Evergreen storage. The name change and the widening of the portfolio represents an opportunity for customers to see transparent pricing and a greater depth of service offerings.

In this sponsored episode, we review the origins of the service and look at how that has evolved into the capability for customers to consume Pure block and file products as true services. We discuss the challenges in implementation, that are mitigated through customer service and data collections from Pure1.

You can learn more about Pure-as-a-Service here – https://www.purestorage.com/products/staas/pure-as-a-service.html and more on the announcement with the press release here – https://www.purestorage.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/pure-expands-pure-as-a-service-offerings.html

Architecting IT and Storage Unpacked coverage of Pure Storage is available through the Pure Storage Microsite.

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Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intros * 00:01:50 – What is Pure as a Service? * 00:03:00 – What is the demand for storage as a service? * 00:04:55 – How much of “as a service” is being is being driven by Public Cloud? * 00:06:55 – Is opex rather than capex driving service demand? * 00:08:20 – The initial offering was Evergreen Storage Service (ES2) 00:10:00 – What are the details of the offering? * 00:11:30 – Minimum 50TiB and 12 months * 00:12:40 – Customers need to evaluate and understand their requirements * 00:15:00 – PaaS aims to “rightsize” customer requirements * 00:18:00 – Pure1 is an essential component to delivering service offerings * 00:19:44 – How are mixed service levels delivered? * 00:21:30 – How do operational processes change to manage the hardware? * 00:24:20 – Are Pure publishing pricing? * 00:26:30 – How hard is it to find out the details of what a vendor charges for storage? * 00:28:00 – What happens if SLA guarantees aren’t met? * 00:31:00 – Datacentre deployment needs planning * 00:34:00 – Wrap Up

Related Podcasts & Blogs

* Pure Storage Microsite* Democratising Enterprise Storage Pricing* #118 – Pure Accelerate 2019 with Patrick Smith

Rob’s Bio

Rob Walters joined Pure in 2019 to lead the

new Storage as a Service (StaaS) business

unit, responsible for defining strategy and

establishing a high-growth new business

portfolio.

In a career spanning more than 20 years,

Rob has worked in Enterprise IT and built

products and services for both SMB and

Enterprise that span systems and application

management, managed services, and the

public cloud.

Prior to Pure, Rob spent four years at Amazon as General Manager of Search Services for AWS, responsible for the introduction and scaling of Amazon Elasticsearch Service, as well as Amazon CloudSearch. In this role,