June 19, 2024

Storage Unpacked 261 – Pure Storage Platform Announcements at Accelerate 2024 (Sponsored)

38 minutes

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.

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Timeline

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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