In this episode, we sit down with Technical Evangelist Don Poorman for a deep dive into the most engaging and eye-opening questions from the past year of the customer-focused Ask Us Everything (AUE) webinar series. The AUE forum has proven to be an invaluable resource for the Everpure community, driving real-time feedback and high-quality, practical discussions directly with experts. Tune in as we revisit the most pertinent topics and customer use cases, revealing how these community interactions are shaping the Everpure roadmap and delivering tremendous value.

The conversation recaps the biggest AUE sessions, starting with Fusion, where customers were focused on the operational reality of managing fleets, automating data placement across data centers, and multi-tenancy. Next, we discuss the highly attended session on Purity Upgrades and the success of the self-support upgrade model, emphasizing Everpure’s commitment to building confidence and providing tools like AI Copilot to make storage OS upgrades a non-event. The review moves into Cyber Resilience, highlighting the shift from prevention to recovery, the role of SafeMode snapshots, and the importance of ecosystem integration with partners like Rubrik and Superna to address ransomware attacks holistically.

Finally, our discussion covers the rapid evolution of FlashArray File, including the much-anticipated ActiveCluster for Files use case, and a look at the comprehensive value delivered by the Evergreen portfolio—from the included features in Evergreen//One to the Cyber Resiliency SLA add-on and its role in hybrid-cloud environments. The episode wraps up with the highly relevant session on the Nutanix integration, exploring how the Everpure Platform helps decouple storage growth from hypervisor licensing and enables modern container-based workloads with features like NVMe/TCP. This recap provides a high-level overview of the technical and strategic conversations defining the Everpure platform today and what’s coming next.

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00:00 Intro and Welcome

02:25 Ask Us Everything Webinars

06:25 Fusion

10:05 Self Service Upgrades

16:19 Cyber Resilience

24:29 File Services

29:23 Evergreen//One

38:42 Nutanix and Everpure

47:45 Observations on the AUE Program