Pure's Microsoft Solutions Engineer Barkz jumps on the Pure Report again to cover one of his favorite topics - PowerShell SDK. Tune in to hear how Microsoft users can improve extensibility and automation with Pure's integration with PowerShell and associated REST API integration and single-click provisioning and greater control of data repositories. For more on Pure's PowerShell integration: https://blog.purestorage.com/applications/microsoft-powershell/

Pure's resident Microsoft solution expert Barkz joins the Pure Report to provide highlights of the new tech preview of a Pure extension developed for Windows Admin Center. Hear how to gain control of all aspects of your Pure Storage deployments using WAC including connectivity to multiple arrays, performance statistics at the array level, volume and host management, and more. For more details: https://blog.purestorage.com/tech-preview-of-the-pure-storage-extension-for-windows-admin-center/

Tune in to hear from James Kelly, Sr. DBA and Storage Admin at Chapman University in Southern California, about how Pure Storage transformed IT operations and simplified their team's ability to deliver always-on, rapid, and responsive services to students and staff. Recorded on-location at Chapman University, this episode includes a wealth of info direct from one of Pure's happy customers that will give you deep insight in what to expect if you're considering investing in Pure all-flash storage solutions for your business.

Vaughn Stewart, VP Strategic Alliances, returns to the Pure Report for a spirited discussion about Splunk's new SmartStore announcement that evolves deployments from costly and complicated DAS-based architectures to disaggregated compute and storage architectures that leverage S3 object stores. Hear how FlashBlade is an optimal object store solution for SmartStore that delivers performance and simplicity for analytics at enterprise scale.

Pure's VP of Technology Alliances Vaughn Stewart stops by the Pure Report to provide his impressions of a very successful Pure Storage presence at VMWorld before we navigate a discussion of the challenges and tradeoffs with hybrid cloud adoption and data management. Vaughn provides his take on deployment considerations for Pure VVols and vSAN spanning mission critical applications, consolidation, edge, and public cloud deployments.

Ken Steinhardt, Pure's Director of Competitive Intelligence, returns to the Pure Report for an engaging discussion around how Pure delivers data management solutions for customers to solve challenges for mission-critical applications in a way that simplifies operations. This podcast also features a "Lightning Round," where Ken offers a rapid assessment of Pure's capabilities vs. the competition for important feature/functionalities like data reduction, encryption and several others. Make your Enterprise Storage comparison at https://www.purestorage.com/microsites/dell-emc-comparison.html.

On this episode of the Pure Report, we discuss how to manage, move and protect the vast quantities of information in a Data Hub. Christian Smith, VP of Products for Igneous, discusses how PAIGE.AI, a spinout of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), was created to accelerate cancer research through machine learning. Their AI data pipeline is using Pure Storage FlashBlade and Igneous Data Unstructured Data Management services to accelerate and optimize cancer research.

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.