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We are setting up two new Arrays (Purity//FA 6.9.4) and for the phone home we need to access the internet. In our environment that is possible via a proxy. But for internal traffic (servers, etc) I don't want to go via the proxy server. Is it possible the set a proxy exclusion list in the array itself? And how do I do that?Community Meetups at 2026 Pure//Accelerate
Excited to announce that we are growing our community meetups at Accelerate in June. Building on the successful Modern Virtualization and Cyber gatherings last year, we have added new topics so you can engage with peers and fellow attendees to share and learn in the topics you care most about. Check out the community meetup sessions at this link and plan to add to your session builder once it goes live in the Event app. All meetups will run at 5:30PM local time and feature customers and Everpure discussion leaders across Pure1, Database solutions, Modern Virtualization, Cyber, Cloud and a special Women in Tech meetup led by our own Flashmaven​ Valerie Harrison. https://www.purestorage.com/accelerate/learning-tracks.html?filter5=tag%3Ainline%2Faccelerate%2Fsession-type%2Fcommunity-meetup
Did anyone attend RSA 2026?
Everpure exhibited and attended at RSA 2026, the biggest annual gathering of cyber security and cyber security professional and companies. Besides an booth, we presented and sponsored several activities. Let us know if you attended and share what your observed with the community. Here are key trends noted by Everpure at the RSA 2026 conference: The RSA 2026 Narrative RSA 2026 signaled a significant shift in the industry’s mindset, moving away from reactive defense toward a proactive business configuration that leverages "active" systems to sense, pivot, and self-correct. Agentic AI: We are officially in an "AI vs. AI" war. RSAC 2026 highlighted that adversaries now have the upper hand, leveraging Agentic AI to expose vulnerabilities that have remained undiscovered by humans for 10+ years. Because human-led defense cannot keep pace with machine-speed exploits, the focus has shifted from "human-in-the-loop" to "human-on-the-loop." This model relies on autonomous, self-healing systems to isolate threats and restore environments in real-time, allowing humans to act as strategic governors of AI insights rather than manual controllers of the recovery process. In addition, identity security must deal with emerging polymorphic social engineering attacks. MTTA: JPMorgan introduced Mean Time to Adapt, prioritizing real-time posture reconfiguration over static recovery (RTO) to neutralize active threats. Data Integrity: Bruce Schneier identified a "resilience gap" from silent AI corruption, making integrity checks a mandatory prerequisite for trustworthy recovery. Quantum Readiness: Resilience now requires migrating to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) to shield long-lived data from "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" tactics. Defense to Disruption: "Active Defense" aims to increase attacker costs and efforts. Future Threats: Panels warned of "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" quantum risks and polymorphic social engineering, while honoring quantum networking breakthroughs.Data Intelligence and Cyber Resilience
Over the next few months you will be hearing more about data intelligence from Everpure. What is it? How is it relevant to cyber resilience? Data intelligence is the practice of transforming raw data into actionable insights through automated discovery, classification, and metadata analysis. In the modern threat landscape, it is the essential bridge between simple "backup" and true Active Resilience. Without intelligence, resilience is blind. Data intelligence provides the "who, what, and where" of your digital estate, allowing you to: Prioritize Recovery: Identify mission-critical applications and sensitive PII to ensure the most vital services are restored first. Accelerate Detection: Use AI-driven behavioral analysis to spot "silent" corruption or unauthorized access at the storage layer. Ensure Clean Restoration: Precisely tag compromised data to prevent re-infecting environments during recovery. By unifying data security with intelligence, organizations move from being passive targets to Active Defenders, ensuring operational survivability even in the face of sophisticated agentic attacks.Cincinnati PUG Community; We Need Your Help!
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity". These are the words of Sun Tzu who famously wrote The Art of War. While customers, partners, and Puritans all get acquainted to the rebrand from Pure Storage, to EverPure; it also provides us the opportunity to create a unique identity for our PUG chapter. And this is where we need your help. We know our community is filled with creative minds. And Cincinnati has many unique identities, from our beautiful skyline (and chili), to our sports teams (Reds, Bengals, FCC, Cyclones, UC, X), to our landmarks (Roebling Bridge, the Museum Center and Zoo, Fountain Square). This is your chance to help us create our own PUG identity. Get your creative juices flowing and visit the below link for additional details and how YOU can help us create the Cincinnati PUG logo. Help create your chapter's logo | Everpure CommunityCatching up
Hey all! It's been a while since I've posted here and I feel compelled to reach out to see what everyone is working on. Like all of us, I've been pulled in many different directions lately (power, cooling, security camera's), and it has made me appreciate that managing our Everpure environment allows me cycles to focus elsewhere. Current storage related projects are, Cloudsnap: working with the Everpure support team to get cloudsnap working so that we can investigate long term backups to our Flashblades or S3 in the cloud. Integration with CyberArk: Again, working with the Everpure support team to enable privileged users with rotating passwords to work with our Everpure management environment. Pureprotect: Chad Montieth and Suresh Madhu have been instrumental in our testing and development of a case to possibly replace SRM for DR failover and testing. Don't forget about Accelerate June 16th - 18th in Las Vegas. This is a worthwhile event that provides free training classes and certification tests. Jason Finley and I from SEHP get to attend this year. register here Begin Registration - Pure Accelerate 2026 What are you working on? Share with the group any success or challenges. Keep an eye on the community page next week for an update from Nick Fritsch. Happy Easter all! - CharlieSpring is Calling, and so is Reds Baseball
I don't know about you, but I am more than ready for Spring; though I could definitely skip the rain. Wiping muddy dog paws after every walk is getting old! On the bright side, who else is ready for some Reds baseball? I have a few exciting updates and resources to share with the community: 🚀 PUG Meeting Update charles_sheppar​ and I are currently hard at work on the next PUG meeting. Details to come. 🛡️ Strengthening Your Cyber Resilience Given the current geopolitical climate and the rise in cyber threats, now is the perfect time to audit your data protection. Features like SafeMode and Pure1 Security Assessments act as a resilient last line of defense. If you want to see these tools in action, we recently hosted an expert-led demo on building a foundation for cyber resilience. Watch the recording here: https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/the-foundations-of-cyber-resilience/6389889927112.html Questions? Reach out to your Everpure SE or partner for a deeper dive. 📅 Upcoming Events March 12: Nutanix Webinar Exploring virtualization alternatives? Nutanix is hosting a session tomorrow focused on simplifying IT operations and highlighting the Everpure partnership. https://event.nutanix.com/simplifyitandonprem March 19: Or perhaps you're interested in running virtual machines alongside containerized workloads within K8s clusters. If that's the case, join Greg McNutt and Sagar Srinivasa for Virtualization Reimagined: Inside the Everpure Journey. https://www.purestorage.com/events/webinars/virtualization-reimagined.html March 19: Ask Us Everything About Storage for Databases. Join experts Anthony Nocentino, Ryan Arsenault, and Don Poorman for a live Q&A session. https://www.purestorage.com/events/webinars/ask-us-everything-about-storage-for-databases.html March 24: Presets & Workloads for Consistent DB Environments. We’re extending the database conversation to discuss how Everpure helps you transition from "managing storage" to "managing data" through automated presets. https://www.purestorage.com/events/webinars/presets-and-workload-setups-for-consistent-database-environments.htmlEverPUG?
Let's get the elephant in the room cleared up first. PUGS are staying PUGS. Now with that out of the way, let's move onto what this post really is for. With the rebrand to Everpure, we have the opportunity to create distinct visual identities for PUG chapters. To ensure this is a truly community-driven process, we are requesting community members (YOU & your peers) create a mood board for your chapter. So....lay it on us. Your funniest, snarkiest, most professional, most IT-Related ideas for what our new spiffy PUG logo should be. I'm told that it will become a "mood board." I'm not sure what that means and I generally would think it a dangerous thing to publicly display the mood of a bunch of IT folks. But the designers have asked, so in the words of the Special Man, "Let 'em have it." -t Don't know the Special Man? You're missing out: https://youtu.be/XI7jC57GuZM?si=_bkicOxNGFdipf4zAsk Us Everything About ActiveCluster for File!
💬 No April Fools here! Get ready to kick off this month with an edition of Ask Us Everything, this Friday, April 3rd at 9 AM Pacific. For this session, we are all about ActiveCluster for File! If you have a burning question, feel free to ask it here early and we'll add it to the list to answer on Friday. Or if we can't get it answered live, our Everpure experts can follow up right here on this thread. Russell Pope, qsummers​ Flashman​ & dpoorman​ ​ are the experts rallying and answering your questions during the conversation as well as here on the community. See you all this Friday! (Oh, and if you haven't registered yet, there's still time!) Or, check out these self-serve resources: Blog Post: https://blog.purestorage.com/products/introducing-activecluster-for-file/ Demo: https://www.purestorage.com/demos/platform/what-is-the-pure-storage-platform/introducing-activecluster-for-file-on-flasharray/6390644453112.htmlEverPUG?
Let's get the elephant in the room cleared up first. PUGS are staying PUGS. Now with that out of the way, let's move onto what this post really is for. With the rebrand to Everpure, we have the opportunity to create distinct visual identities for PUG chapters. To ensure this is a truly community-driven process, we are requesting community members (YOU & your peers) create a mood board for your chapter. So....lay it on us. Your funniest, snarkiest, most professional, most IT-Related ideas for what our new spiffy PUG logo should be. I'm told that it will become a "mood board." I'm not sure what that means and I generally would think it a dangerous thing to publicly display the mood of a bunch of IT folks. But the designers have asked, so in the words of the Special Man, "Let 'em have it." -t Don't know the Special Man? You're missing out: https://youtu.be/XI7jC57GuZM?si=_bkicOxNGFdipf4z
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