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Welcome & Intro
I'm VERY excited about this new Pure Storage Community site! Paired with the return of the PUG (Pure Users Group) these are both GREAT opportunities for the MOST important people out there, YOU, our customers to meet others in the industry tackling similar problems. Thought I'd start off with a thread for introductions. Joe Mudra (or just Mudra) here, been at Pure storage ~3 years, prior to that I was a Sr. SE at Arctic Wolf Networks and before that Veeam Software (for a while, ~6 yrs). I started in IT at Ohio University while attending school there before moving to the Columbus area where I worked at a variety of IT shops locally (Omnicare, Residential Finance, Pacer Logistics, XPO Logistics, & Commercial Vehicle Group). I'm currently working with State, Local & Education accounts in Ohio. Needless to say, in that time, I worked with a lot of Network, Server, Storage Infrastructure stacks. But I honestly got my start in software administration (Esker Deliverware (faxing software), Microsoft Server administration, (Whole slew of MSFT products), VMWARE!!! (rip), Cisco, Cisco UCS, IBM, NetApp, EMC, HPE & Dell. Was a bit of the "Give it to Joe, he'll figure it out." guy for a while, and I got learned so much by just raising my hand when asked if anyone wanted the new (sometimes tedious) sounding project. I've been a Pure fanboy from the start. Unfortunately, in my years in the data centers, Pure at the time was out of my price range, as Flash was $$$ back then (wish I had ran the long term TCO for my employers!) and I didn't understand Pure's Evergreen//Forever program. i.e. Refreshed storage for the cost of normal maintenance + flat maintenance costs. (My apologies to my old employers for missing this opportunity.) I learn the most when I get to chat with customers and hear about their challenges. So THANK YOU! To every one of you who take the time to share, I am forever grateful and appreciative!!! Personally, got 2 daughters in Dublin Jerome HS, one who will graduate this year and head off to College, and another in her Freshman year. I spend as much time as life allows with them. And the newest member of my family... a new Jeep Wrangler Willy's ER (Annie). Let's talk about Jeeps!!! :)
