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Layered Resilience
Accelerate 2026 is approaching, and I’ve been preparing to speak on a cyber resilience panel. It’s prompted me to reflect on how prepared my organization really is—and I’m curious where others stand. This topic is never far from the headlines and feels like a great discussion point for this community or even a future meet-up. Here’s a snapshot of the layers we currently have in place: Immutable local Snapshots Immutable replication to a secondary site SRM Local WORM copy backups Auxiliary long-term WORM backups Air-gapped replication copy Investigating Cloud snap and Pure Protect This doesn't even include other tools like Varonis, Defender, Cortex...etc. What layers are you implementing today, and what are you working on to better protect your data? Sharing our successes and failures makes us all stronger! -Charlie
(3) Cyber Resilience Trends: In the News...
Recent industry coverage from SiliconANGLE, diginomica, and Coder Legion points to the same conclusion: in an era of AI-accelerated threats, organizations need a trusted recovery point at the storage layer. As Duncan Riley of SiliconANGLE wrote, Everpure is defining storage as the “last line of defense in modern cyber resilience,” with an architecture designed to protect recovery points even if an attacker gains administrative access elsewhere in the environment. That message was reinforced by coverage of a Fortune 100 recovery example in which attackers used stolen credentials and native tools, yet protected snapshots enabled revenue-critical operations to be restored in hours rather than weeks. The coverage also emphasized how AI is changing the threat landscape. diginomica noted that AI is compressing the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, forcing enterprises to rethink patching, resilience, and recovery timelines. Coder Legion captured the practical implication well: controls now need to hold up against attackers moving at machine speed, making out-of-band configuration and immutable snapshots increasingly essential. A third theme was the value of data context. Blocks & Files and SecurityBrief highlighted Everpure’s 1touch acquisition as an important addition to the cyber resilience story, helping organizations understand what data they have, where it lives, and what should be restored first. Together, these reports reinforce a broader shift in the market: cyber resilience is no longer just about preventing attacks, but about ensuring clean data, intelligent prioritization, and fast, confident recovery when the perimeter fails.
Flashblade & Ansible collection
Hello community, We are facing some issues with our FlashBlade when provisioning policies with Ansible. We have updated all the components (py-pure-client and the collection), and we are failing on a simple policy deployment. - name: Test purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy: name: "filesystem_export_policy" enabled: True policy_type: "nfs" at: True client: "mynfsexport.flashblade.local" secure: True security: "sys" permission: "rw" access: "no-squash" fb_url: "{{ fb_host }}" api_token: "{{ fb_api_token }}" The complete stack trace is : The full traceback is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1778656887.1852276-3067455-48057529014464/AnsiballZ_purefb_policy.py", line 107, in <module> _ansiballz_main() File "/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1778656887.1852276-3067455-48057529014464/AnsiballZ_purefb_policy.py", line 99, in _ansiballz_main invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS) File "/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1778656887.1852276-3067455-48057529014464/AnsiballZ_purefb_policy.py", line 47, in invoke_module runpy.run_module(mod_name='ansible_collections.purestorage.flashblade.plugins.modules.purefb_policy', init_globals=dict(_module_fqn='ansible_collections.purestorage.flashblade.plugins.modules.purefb_policy', _modlib_path=modlib_path), File "<frozen runpy>", line 226, in run_module File "<frozen runpy>", line 98, in _run_module_code File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code File "/opt/tmp/tmp/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload_xaietsz7/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload.zip/ansible_collections/purestorage/flashblade/plugins/modules/purefb_policy.py", line 4233, in <module> File "/opt/tmp/tmp/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload_xaietsz7/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload.zip/ansible_collections/purestorage/flashblade/plugins/modules/purefb_policy.py", line 4008, in main File "/opt/tmp/tmp/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload_xaietsz7/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload.zip/ansible_collections/purestorage/flashblade/plugins/modules/purefb_policy.py", line 2392, in update_nfs_policy AttributeError: 'ErrorResponse' object has no attribute 'items' fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => { "changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1778656887.1852276-3067455-48057529014464/AnsiballZ_purefb_policy.py\", line 107, in <module>\n _ansiballz_main()\n File \"/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1778656887.1852276-3067455-48057529014464/AnsiballZ_purefb_policy.py\", line 99, in _ansiballz_main\n invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS)\n File \"/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1778656887.1852276-3067455-48057529014464/AnsiballZ_purefb_policy.py\", line 47, in invoke_module\n runpy.run_module(mod_name='ansible_collections.purestorage.flashblade.plugins.modules.purefb_policy', init_globals=dict(_module_fqn='ansible_collections.purestorage.flashblade.plugins.modules.purefb_policy', _modlib_path=modlib_path),\n File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 226, in run_module\n File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 98, in _run_module_code\n File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 88, in _run_code\n File \"/opt/tmp/tmp/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload_xaietsz7/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload.zip/ansible_collections/purestorage/flashblade/plugins/modules/purefb_policy.py\", line 4233, in <module>\n File \"/opt/tmp/tmp/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload_xaietsz7/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload.zip/ansible_collections/purestorage/flashblade/plugins/modules/purefb_policy.py\", line 4008, in main\n File \"/opt/tmp/tmp/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload_xaietsz7/ansible_purestorage.flashblade.purefb_policy_payload.zip/ansible_collections/purestorage/flashblade/plugins/modules/purefb_policy.py\", line 2392, in update_nfs_policy\nAttributeError: 'ErrorResponse' object has no attribute 'items'\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE: No start of json char found\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1 } If the policy is already set, the playbook runs perfectly fine. The problem occurs when a new policy is injected. However, we have to install the collection from GitHub. It seems that the artifact built and installed by Ansible Galaxy is not correct. Some commits are not propagated. For example, with the FlashBlade collection 1.24 (installed from Galaxy), we have: >>> from pypureclient.flashblade import ( ... PolicyRuleObjectAccessCondition, ... PolicyRuleObjectAccessPost, ... PolicyRuleObjectAccess, ... NfsExportPolicy, ... NfsExportPolicyRule, ... Policy, ... PolicyPatch, ... PolicyRule, ... SmbSharePolicyRule, ... SmbSharePolicy, ... SmbClientPolicyRule, ... SmbClientPolicy, ... ObjectStoreAccessPolicyPost, ... NetworkAccessPolicy, ... NetworkAccessPolicyRule, ... WormDataPolicy, ... ) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/user/conda/envs/ansible/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pypureclient/flashblade/__init__.py", line 40, in __getattr__ raise ImportError(f'module {__package__} has no attribute {name}') ImportError: module pypureclient.flashblade has no attribute PolicyPatch We have compared the archive from GitHub and there are many differences with the upstream collection code. To help, find my my env package : Package Version ----------------- ----------- annotated-types 0.7.0 ansible-core 2.18.5 bcrypt 5.0.0 certifi 2026.4.22 cffi 2.0.0 cryptography 44.0.0 dnspython 2.8.0 invoke 3.0.3 Jinja2 3.1.4 MarkupSafe 2.1.1 packaging 24.1 paramiko 5.0.0 pip 24.2 py-pure-client 1.88.0 pycparser 2.22 pydantic 2.13.4 pydantic_core 2.46.4 PyJWT 2.12.1 PyNaCl 1.6.2 python-dateutil 2.9.0.post0 PyYAML 6.0.2 resolvelib 1.0.1 setuptools 75.8.2 six 1.17.0 typing_extensions 4.15.0 typing-inspection 0.4.2 urllib3 2.7.0 wheel 0.45.0 And our flashblades are running the Purity//FB 4.6.9. If anyone has a lead to help us get our Ansible back up and running, I thank them in advance. We appreciate your help. Matth
Announcing the General Availability of Purity//FB 4.7.10 LLR
We are happy to announce the general availability of 4.7.10, the first Long-Life Release (LLR) of the 4.6/4.7 line, providing long-term maintenance of the 4.6 feature set with consistency in capabilities, user experience, and interoperability. For more detailed information about bug fixes and security updates included in each release, see the release notes. Highlights The 4.7 LLR adds many new features and improvements for customers upgrading from the 4.5 LLR: AI and high-performance workload acceleration Major gains for AI, HPC, and other demanding unstructured workloads through higher-performance platform options, increased bandwidth, better read/write concurrency, and S3 over RDMA, provide customers faster time to results, better GPU utilization, and more value from large-scale file and object environments. Lower cost at scale with smarter data placement and efficiency Zero Move Tiering for file and object, larger supported system scale, tenant-level performance controls, and DeepReduce for FlashBlade//E help customers scale capacity more efficiently, improve workload density, and reduce total cost of ownership without adding operational complexity. Stronger security and compliance Important security capabilities including NFS over TLS, mutual TLS, FIDO2 and authentication policy support for SSH, object auditing, and proactive Purity patching, helping customers protect data in flight, strengthen access controls, simplify compliance, and respond faster to risk. Multi-tenancy and service delivery Realms, management access policies, secure multi-tenancy for object, local users and groups, and Fusion workload and preset enhancements give customers stronger isolation, simpler delegated administration, and more consistent service delivery across shared environments and dark sites. Improved observability, resilience, and operations On-box observability, richer protocol and connection statistics, Rapid Replica enhancements, larger-scale file data protection, and hardware-based availability improvements make it easier for customers to troubleshoot faster, protect more data at scale, and run mission-critical environments with greater confidence. This release is supported on the following FlashBlade Platforms: FB//S100, FB//S200 (R1, R2), FB//S500 (R1, R2), FB//ZMT, FB//E, FB//EXA Release recommendations Customers looking for long-term maintenance of the complete 4.6 feature set are encouraged to upgrade to the 4.7 LLR. Customers looking for the latest features as soon as they are available should upgrade to the 4.8 FR. Check out our AI Copilot intelligent assistant for deeper insights into release content and recommendations. EOL schedule The 4.6/4.7 release line is planned to reach End-of-Life (EOL) in April 2029. Links and References Purity//FB 4.7 Release Notes Everpure Product Lifecycle and Support Policies Overview Purity//FB Release and End-of-Life Schedule Purity//FB Release Guidelines FlashBlade Hardware and End-of-Support FlashBlade Capacity and Feature Limits Pure1 Manage AI CopilotEverpure Platform and Enterprise Data Cloud Sessions at Accelerate 2026
Accelerate 2026 is right around the corner! Explore all things Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) with sessions that show how the Everpure platform automates policy-driven storage, simplifies data management, and maximizes performance for critical workloads. If this sounds right up your alley, we’ve curated a list of must-attend breakout sessions focused on the Everpure Platform and EDC. Check out these don’t miss sessions: Everpure Fusion: One Fleet. Zero Complexity FlashBlade Innovations for Modern Workloads: Predictable Performance, Lower Cost, and Simpler Operations Across Varying SLAs Double-Click on the Keynote Announcements: Accelerate the Build of Your Enterprise Data Cloud ActiveCluster File in 15 Minutes: Overview, Setup, and Live Failover Fusion MCP: AI-Powered Fleet Intelligence and Action — On Your Terms 🎤 Featured Speaker We are thrilled to have JD Wallace (jd) leading the charge and sharing deep-dive insights into the future of the platform. Will you be joining us in person? 🙌 Drop a comment below with the session you're most interested in and what you hope to learn! We can't wait to see you there!Want a Sneak Peek at What's Next for Pure1? We Need Your Feedback!
Hey Everpure Community — We're Sarah and Pranav, a user researcher and designer on the Everpure team working to make Pure1 and Evergreen//One subscriptions work better for the people who rely on them every day. We'd love to hear directly from you, so if this sounds like your world, we hope you'll join us. What we're doing We're redesigning how subscriptions work in Pure1, and we want your hands on it before it ships. Our team is working on updates to Service Mode that make Evergreen//One subscriptions easier to navigate and understand. What we're asking We're looking for storage and infrastructure admins who are Pure1 users with active Evergreen subscriptions to join a 1-hour 1:1 interview over Zoom. No prep needed. No right or wrong answers. Just your perspective as someone who lives in these tools day-to-day. Timeline We're looking to conduct the feedback sessions in mid-June. What's in it for you Early access to upcoming designs before anyone else sees them A direct line to the product team shaping the tools you use Your feedback, built into the product — this is how features get better Interested? 👉Fill out this short form to sign up👈 Just drop your name, email, company, and job title. We'll reach out shortly to schedule a session that works for you!FlashArray//XL… Toy Building Brick edition!
The creativity of our marketing department is something special but this latest project from Canada crew Sangeeta and Principal Technologist Dan might just be my favorite. The build quality is exceptional and there are more than a few little hidden surprises; like the NFC chip hiding under the Pure logo. Looks just like a miniature version of our XL shipping box. Includes a removable controller and bezel. Incredible detail on the printed bricks. Fit for every datacenter, large or small. FlashArray//XL Building Brick edition.Can you recover?
How do you ensure you can recover from ransomware attacks and malicious incidents? Start with SafeMode. Is it enabled? Have you verified that all critical workloads and recovery environments are fully protected? Everpure FlashArray SafeMode provides immutable snapshot protection that helps organizations recover from ransomware attacks by preventing deleted snapshots or volumes from being permanently eradicated until a defined retention period expires — even if attackers compromise administrative credentials. SafeMode creates a storage-level immutability layer independent of operating systems, hypervisors, or backup software, helping preserve known-good recovery points for rapid restoration. Recommended best practices include enabling locked SafeMode through Everpure Global Technical Services, extending eradication timers to 14–30 days to account for delayed ransomware detection, implementing multi-person authorization for protected operations, and applying automated snapshot policies across critical workloads such as databases, virtual machine datastores, identity services, and backup repositories. Additional technical guidance and demonstrations are available through the SafeMode Documentation, SafeMode Introduction and SafeMode 101 (Tutorial).Everpure Accelerate 2026
Hey gang, Everpure Accelerate is approaching fast. June 16-18th in Las Vegas. Chime in if you will be attending. I've been fortunate to have attended the last few years and always find this event to be full of great information. Not to mention the training classes and certification tests are included. Hope to see some of you out there!
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