Nicole Johnson, Executive Director of the Pure Good Foundation, joins this episode of the Pure Report to share her experiences launching and running Pure Good. Pure Good was established in 2015 to facilitate employee engagement in philanthropic initiatives with a focus on empowering and educating youth via technology. For more information on the Pure Good Foundation, go to: https://www.purestorage.com/company/careers/puregood.html

Chas Dye, Oracle Solutions Architect, returns to the Pure Report for another discussion around Pure Storage solutions for Oracle with a specific focus on how DBAs and Storage admins benefit from the technical innovations in Pure FlashArray and FlashBlade products. He also shares insight into 2 recent customer success stories highlighting benefits for Oracle OLTP and OLAP/Data Warehouse workloads. For more information on Pure Solutions for Oracle, go to: https://www.purestorage.com/solutions/applications/oracle-database.html.

In this episode, Ken Steinhardt and Ben Woo from Pure's Competitive Intelligence Agency join to provide a detailed comparison of the features and benefits of Pure Storage all-flash arrays against key competitive offerings. Listen to hear why customers are moving on and moving up with Pure Storage for their enterprise storage requirements.

This episode of the Pure Report features Craig Waters, Sr. Product Manager, who discusses industry trends around Converged Infrastructure solutions. Hear about how Pure Storage is building momentum in this space with FlashStack, a solution developed jointly with Cisco that delivers a smart, simple, and efficient CI infrastructure for a wide range of enterprise workloads.

Pure's resident Oracle Database expert Chas Dye delivers insight on Pure Storage solutions for Oracle Database on this edition of the Pure Report. Chas provides technical proof points and best practices for how to optimize Oracle performance, while sharing some of his most interesting stories working with prospects.

Catch the highlights of Pure's marquee annual Accelerate event in this episode of the Pure Report. Jason Nadeau, Pure's VP of Product Marketing, joins to share his insights on key announcements and what it means for today's enterprises to have a Data-Centric Architecture. Also hear about new offerings including the new FlashArray//X, the Evergreen Storage Service (ES2), and the AIRI (AI Ready Infrastructure) Mini announcement. For everything Accelerate 2018, go to https://www.purestorage.com/accelerate/thank-you.html

Roy Kim, Director of FlashBlade Product Marketing at Pure, joins the Pure Report to discuss the technology disruption caused by the rise of artificial intelligence and analytics. Hear how Pure Storage is best addressing the data management challenges of analytics plus other use cases for the FlashBlade array like Fast Restore. Later in the episode, he discusses the AI Ready Infrastructure (AIRI), built in partnership with NVIDIA to help enterprises accelerate AI projects.

On this episode of the Pure Report, Rahul Ponnala, Microsoft Solutions Manager, joins to highlight the tightly aligned partnership between Pure and Microsoft, and the broad range of solutions available for SQL Server, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-V, DevOps, and more. Tune in to hear how Pure + Microsoft delivers performance and simplicity for all your data used across Microsoft applications.

On this episode of the Pure Report, Calvin Nieh, PMM for FlashArray products, joins to cover highlights of Pure's recent FlashArray//X announcement at our 2018 Accelerate event. Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation of business-critical mixed workloads. Listen to hear more about how FlashArray//X can deliver a Data-Centric Architecture for your organization.

Kevin Rickson, Product Marketing Manager for Evergreen Storage, joins the Pure Report to share details about how Pure's revolutionary Evergreen Storage offering continuously delivers Pure innovations in software and hardware to you, keeping your storage fresh and modern with next-gen technologies like low-latency NVMe, faster CPUs, and ActiveCluster – all without any disruption, downtime, or performance impact.