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.

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.