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It's great to meet you!
Hello everyone, My name is Dave Stevens and I'm a Field Solutions Architect specializing in virtualization integrations, such as hypervisors, as they pertain to Pure Storage. Let's talk about the VMware/Broadcom debacle some time soon. I'm originally from Pittsburgh, PA. I can speak fluent Pittsburghese. My wife and I moved to southern New Hampshire many years ago. Before Pure I held several roles across multiple organizations including, system architecture and design, storage infrastructure, backup infrastructure and security technologies. While I miss my days as a customer, I'm excited to be at Pure talking about our technologies to help make your lives simpler. To read a bit more about me head over to my personal blog and peruse some of the topics I have blogged about over the years. Hint, hint, it's typically about virtualization. There are many of us at Pure that live in the New England region. So, if you are also in New England, please reach out. I would love to meetup and chat about all things Pure and virtualization. Also keep an eye on the Northeast Region Pure User Group (PUG) section of the site here for upcoming PUGs. I hope to see you and I promise to bring along some local Pure folks for you to meet. In the region we cover a bunch of topics ranging from cyber resilience, AI, unstructured data, databases (SAP, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), cloud, automation and much more. I hope to see you soon.
dstevens
5 days ago Place Introductions
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Ask Mike Anything - Exploring Career Growth with Pure Community Member Mike Dehaan
At Pure Storage//Accelerate 2025 last week, one of our community members, Mike_Dehaan, from the Mississippi Dept. of Revenue, had the opportunity to share his career journey on main stage in Las Vegas with Pure's VP of HR and Legal Niki Armstrong. Ask Mike anything in this forum about his experience with Pure and his career path - tag him in your questions and let's get some discussion going! Check out the full video below to hear Mike's challenges, triumphs, and how he's worked to drive better outcomes for the citizens of Mississippi. Hear about the significant role that community and culture played in fostering his progress, both in his own career and for those around him. Reach out to Ludes or legan if you're interested in working with our customer advocacy team to do something similar. Or talk to you local User Group SE leaders about featuring your career path in an upcoming user group meetup. Thanks to bmcdougall for working with Mike to craft his talk track for the segment. https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/exploring-careers-growth-in-the-industry/6374610495112.html?shareVideo=6374610495112
Ludes
8 days ago Place Career Growth
CAREER
help
IT DIRECTOR
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Tip: Use Generative-AI for Interview Prep
For those that are job searching, gen-AI tools like ChatGPT can be incredibly useful for research and preparation. Some useful prompts: > Create an interview preparation brief for (role) at (company) > Summarize the products of (company) at a high level to help me prepare for an interview > List the primary competitors and the partners of (company) and summarize the relationships > List the common interview questions that I should prepare for (this role) at (this company) > My background is (details from your experience), help me with ideas to relate them to responsibilities for (details from target role) at (target company) Good luck out there!
epark
11 days ago Place Career Growth
RESUME HELP
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The Great Beverage Debate
Are you on #TeamCoffee or #TeamTea? Drop your vote — and then tell us: 🍵 Tea lovers — What’s your go-to tea? (Sweet tea, iced tea, herbal, bubble tea… spill the (literal) tea!) ☕️ Coffee crew — How do you take your cup? Jet-black, fancy foam, or basically dessert in a mug? Let’s hear those flavorful preferences!
MacchiSmith
11 days ago Place Fun
drinks
food
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Are Y'all Interested in Certification-Club?
Hi everyone! Nice to meet y'all. I'm part of Pure Storage Product Marketing, but my journey has taken me from software development to technical sales across lots of industries. Is anyone in the community interested in joining me in a certification journey in storage-related areas like cyber-security, cloud, or AI with AWS, Azure, or some other company? All the major tech companies offer free on-demand courses. Open to suggestions from interested parties. Progress and check-ins can take place in a community thread or live zoom sessions, we can sort out logistics. Eager to hear from everyone! Eddie
epark
11 days ago Place Career Growth
CERTIFICATIONS
TRAINING
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Welcome to the New Pure Digital Community
For those of you that joined while at Pure//Accelerate 2025 - Welcome! We're thrilled you're here and look forward to continued engagement both here on digital and in user groups in your area. If you haven't done so already, please hit the Groups tab and look for your User Group and join. As far as getting started, check out this blog post by our Community Manager bmcdougall about getting started here in the new platform. We'd love to hear your feedback about your experience at Accelerate, the product announcements and the Enterprise Data Cloud, and anything else that's on your mind. This is your new place to engage peers and Pure experts around anything Pure and in the Pure ecosystem. Thank you for registering and look forward to seeing you in the forums and groups.
Ludes
12 days ago Place General
GENERAL
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Mudra Hello!!!
Hello from Ohio!!! Joe Mudra here, Pure Systems Engineer supporting State Local & Education Customers in Ohio & Kentucky. Some many know me from the shoes, the beard, or maybe the Christmas Cards. I've been at Pure Storage for 2 years, prior to that I was at Arctic Wolf Networks for 1.5 years, and Veeam Software for almost 7 years!!! But more importantly, I spent most of my time in IT in YOUR shoes, our Users!!! From my humble beginnings at Ohio University in a small IT shop there while going to school, to Enterprise sized Businesses in the Central Ohio region. I'm super excited for this new Pure Storage Community hub and really hope our customers leverage the wealth of knowledge that exists in our customer base. Look forward to seeing what our community makes of this new space!!!
jmudra
27 days ago Place Introductions
north america
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Pure//Launch Blog - May 2025
Go deeper on this month’s latest innovations, including: FlashArray™ for Nutanix, Pure Storage and Varonis integration, and more. Read the Blog-->
Ludes
2 months ago Place General
announcement
launch
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ICYMI - Highlights from the week of May 26!
Here are some community highlights worth checking out! Hot off the Press! Pure Storage Delivers Critical Cyber Outcomes: how resilient is your data today? Facing a similar challenge? Does anyone know if Pure has an integration with Flashblade and vCloud or is maybe working on one? Connect with Pure! Join Pure in-person! Register now for upcoming PUG meetups! Join the fun! What’s your go-to “desk stretch” or movement break?
MacchiSmith
2 months ago Place General
GENERAL
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Screen fatigue is real!
When you’ve been staring at your screen for hours and your body starts to protest—what’s your go-to “desk stretch” or movement break? Do you do a quick neck roll, maybe some stealthy squats between Zoom calls? Or do you go all out with a mini dance break like nobody’s watching? Drop a comment below!
MacchiSmith
2 months ago Place Fun
zeitgeist
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