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Pure//Accelerate 2025 - Watch the Keynote Replays
What a week it was in Las Vegas. Pure hosted customers and partners for a highly engaging and informative week all about the Enterprise Data Cloud enabled by the Pure Platform. ICYMI - we already have the keynote replays up and available for viewing. Check out Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo introducing the Enterprise Data Cloudor catch up with Pure founder Coz talking about 300 TB DFMs and eliminating disk for good. It's all there - watch and let us know your favorite session and why in the comments below. dpoormanPost Accelerate '25 - The Best Part of Vegas for Me...
...is when I board my plane to fly home 😂. Though I am not a fan of the city, I was a BIG fan of what we pulled off this week for our annual show. MASSIVE, MASSIVE props to all the folks behind the scenes who made it happen so butter smooth. If you went - what was the biggest highlight for you? The hands on labs were overwhelmed - something we like to see. How about that new Pure cert you got so you can hit the boss up for a raise? Did you get a chance to take in that "new controller smell" for the new //XL R5? I didn't get to see the Oz mentalist, but heard he blew peoples' minds. For me, though, the highlight was hearing Mike "Mississippi Mike" Dehaan, who had a session on the main stage on how his career has benefited from implementing Pure. That's a pretty powerful statement and appreciative feather in our cap - adopting Pure over the 800 lb gorilla incumbents can grow your career. I know NOBODY out there ever grew up saying, "...when I grow up, I want to manage data storage," but at least Pure can help you along where your career has landed. 👍 Post your favorite moments!Alternative Virtualization Meet-Up at //Accelerate
Our company like many others have parted ways with VMWare. We decided not to renew this last April and are currently running unsupported/perpetual as we look for a replacement hypervisor. Costs on a 7000+ core renewal came in at about 5x what we paid in previous years. Just a little backstory, but this post is not to discuss that. For hardware we currently run Cisco ACI, Cisco UCS and Pure Storage in a converged architecture. What Cisco/Pure call Flashstack. 4 Sites, 200+ blades, Mix of 14 //x and //c Arrays. We are heavy Vvol users today. We have narrowed our search down to Proxmox, XCP-NG, and OpenShift Virtualization. Successes with Proxmox have been great, deployment (iSCSI Boot), automation, migration, etc. Winning so far. XCP-NG, similar to Proxmox. Some issues with Migrations. But overall working. OpenShift, just started vetting. Have a workshop scheduled with RedHat to really test out and see if the product is a good fit. Would require Portworx. Now to what I am wondering, would any of you that will be attending Pure //Accelerate be interested in a meet-up to network and discuss the trials and tribulations with these or other alternative hypervisors on Pure Storage? I am happy to present my decision process, success criteria, testing results and implementation configuration for each. If we get enough people I can ask my AE/SE to see if Pure would allow us use of a breakout meeting room. If interested let me know, I would prefer to keep this vendor neutral other than Pure, as we would not be going to a Pure conference if not interested or already running Pure Storage.Unifying VMs and Containers: Adopting Modern Virtualization with Portworx and Red Hat OpenShift
I'll be at Accelerate in a couple of weeks talking about how you can manage your virtual machines side by side with your containerized workloads on Kubernetes. Drop by the session to learn about the options that Portworx by Pure Storage and Red Hat OpenShift provide you for managing your VMs in Kubernetes Be sure to register:Accelerate 2025 Registration is now open!
We are thrilled to announce that registration is now open for Pure//Accelerate ® 2025! Register Here ---> https://www.purestorage.com/accelerate.html Here's what you need to know: Customers, prospects and partners must register online via the event website: https://www.purestorage.com/accelerate.html Partners who would like to attend Pure//Partner Forum (on June 17) can register for both Accelerate and Pure//Partner Forum through the Accelerate event registration site. Registration is FREE! Customers can enjoy everything the event has to offer at no cost (other than travel and accommodations, if needed). With the success we saw last year with the non-attendance fee, we are bringing it back again. So, what is it? It's a $400 USD fee for non-attendance that will be charged to anyone who registers and does not attend the event or does not cancel their registration before 5:00 PM pst on June 5, 2025. This is to ensure we operate with reliable attendance information and to reduce our environmental impact and carbon footprint at the event (e.g. wasted food). All proceeds collected from this fee will be donated by the Pure Good Foundation to local Las Vegas, NV area charities. Last year we were able to donate $7,000 to local charities! $5,700 value in free training is included with every registration. Spaces in training courses are limited and must be booked in advanced via the registrant website (releasing in early April) or the mobile app (releasing in May). Pure//Accelerate attendees will have access to exclusive Vegas hotel room rates (starting only at $95/night). Will you be joining us in Vegas this June? Comment below with your answer.On Tuesday, September 24 |9:00 AM - 7:00 PM GMT |
On Tuesday, September 24 |9:00 AM - 7:00 PM GMT | Join us for Pure//Accelerate in London! Dive into Pure//Accelerate Keynote and General Sessions, hear from our guest speaker, Louis Theroux - Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker and Broadcaster, and more. | Register here!Countdown to Pure//Accelerate London!
🕖 Countdown to Pure//Accelerate London! We’re just around the corner from an event filled with exclusive insights on enterprise data storage. Get ready to dive into real-time file updates, Evergreen//One universal credits, a brand-new VM assessment tool, and so much more. Mark your calendars: This Wednesday, October 30th | 11:00 AM PDT • 2:00 PM EDT | 11:00 AM CET | 1:00 PM SGT |Secure your spot today!Get ready for an exclusive front-row experience into
Get ready for an exclusive front-row experience into the future of data storage with Pure’s top experts! *Join us at our upcoming webinar, Pure//Accelerate London,* to explore the latest innovations, from real-time enterprise file to Evergreen//One universal credits, and a new VM assessment tool. Wednesday, October 30th 11:00 AM PDT | 2:00 PM EDT | 11:00 AM CET | 1:00 PM SGT *https://www.purestorage.com/meet-real-time-enterprise-file-on-the-pure-storage-platform.html?utm_theater=All&utm_region=all&utm_campaign=tfos&utm_medium=community&utm_source=slack&utm_content=text&utm_creative=&utm_term=&utm_keyword=|Register now* and be part of the action!
