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Modern Virtualization and Containers Sessions at Accelerate 2026
Accelerate 2026 is fast approaching! Explore deep dives on integrating the Everpure platform with VCF, Nutanix, Proxmox, and Kubernetes (Portworx). Learn migration roadmaps, best practices for TCO reduction, and how to build a flexible, high-performance platform for all your modern workloads. If this sounds right up your alley, we’ve curated a list of must-attend breakout sessions focused on all things modern virtualization. Check out these don’t miss sessions: Mastering VCF 9: Unified Management Meets Pure Storage Performance Workload Migrations Simplified with Everpure and Nutanix Reduce VMware cost pressure with VMs on Kubernetes (KubeVirt): Strategy and Implementation What's new with Everpure and the Virtualization Landscape Modern Virt: What's Next(iva)? The Journey to Open Source Virtualization! 🎤 Featured Speaker We are thrilled to have David Stevens (pictured on the left) sharing deep-dive insights into this special subject. 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 live in Las Vegas!203Views1like1CommentA Petaflop in Your Backpack: RTX Spark and the Shift to Local AI
Alt headlines to A/B test: The Cloud-Bill Killer? RTX Spark Puts a Full Petaflop of AI on Your Lap Local AI Just Got Serious: 128 GB and a Petaflop, Unplugged Stop Renting GPUs. RTX Spark Brings Data-Center AI to Your Desk — and Your Bag For the last few years, doing real AI work meant one thing: renting someone else's hardware. Spin up an instance, watch the meter run, ship your data to a server you don't control, and hope the latency cooperates. RTX Spark is a bet that the next era looks different — that the most interesting AI will run where you are, on hardware you own. And the spec sheet backs up the ambition. The numbers that matter to builders Up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance Up to 128 GB of unified memory Up to 6,144 cores of Blackwell RTX GPU Up to 20 cores of ultra-efficient CPU If you build with AI, two of these should stop your scroll. A full petaflop of FP4 is the kind of throughput that turns "let it run overnight" into "let it run over lunch." And 128 GB of unified memory is the unlock almost no portable machine offers: CPU and GPU share one giant pool, so you can hold large models and big context entirely in memory — no swapping, no artificial caps on the size of what you load. The workloads that used to demand a rack now fit in a bag. Why this is a big deal for AI work CUDA runs natively. The platform that accelerates the world's AI runs at full speed on RTX Spark — meaning the frameworks, libraries, and agentic stacks you already use just work. No exotic ports, no "supported soon." That changes the day-to-day in three concrete ways: Fewer cloud bills. Prototype, fine-tune, and run inference locally instead of burning credits every time you iterate. Your data stays yours. Sensitive datasets never leave the device — a quiet superpower for anyone working under compliance or NDA. Build agents anywhere. A genuinely portable petaflop means you can develop and test agentic workflows on a train, in a client's office, or off the grid entirely. For the wave of teams building agents and AI products right now, "local-first" stops being a compromise and starts being an advantage. A petaflop that doesn't need a power brick Here's the part that makes the rest believable: RTX Spark is built around the most power-efficient RTX chip ever made. That efficiency is why a petaflop can live in a slim chassis and last all day. Performance you can only use while tethered to a wall isn't really portable performance — and that's the trap RTX Spark is designed to avoid. When the work is done It's not all inference and fine-tuning. The same silicon makes RTX Spark a creator's machine — hundreds of creative apps and AI tools accelerated by RTX and NVIDIA Studio — and a genuine gaming rig after hours, with ray tracing, the full DLSS suite, NVIDIA Reflex, and G-SYNC. One device, three lives. The takeaway The story of AI has been a story of renting access to power. RTX Spark points at a different future: owning it, carrying it, and pointing it at whatever you're building — without the meter running. So here's the real question If you had a portable petaflop with 128 GB of unified memory, what's the first thing you'd run on it — a local LLM, an agent swarm, your own fine-tune? Drop it in the comments. I'm genuinely curious what this community would build first.31Views1like0CommentsDatabase Solutions Sessions at Accelerate 2026
Accelerate 2026 is right around the corner! Explore modernizing database infrastructure for consistent low latency, hybrid cloud simplicity, and reduced operational overhead across SQL Server, Oracle, and SAP. If this sounds right up your alley, we’ve curated a list of must-attend breakout sessions focused on all things Database Solutions. Check out these don't miss sessions: Maximizing Hybrid SQL Server 2025 on Azure with Everpure Cloud Database Mythbusters: What Actually Matters in the AI Era (and What Doesn’t) Preparing for Oracle 26ai: Best Practices for Performance, Scale, and Resilience Accelerating SQL Server Operations from Hours to Minutes 🎤 Featured Speaker We are thrilled to have Anthony Nocentino (left) sharing deep-dive insights into this much sought after topic. 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!37Views0likes0CommentsICYMI: Azure Local webinar replay now available
Missed our Azure Local webinar? Catch the replay! This is a really exciting new joint solution between Everpure and Microsoft to deliver Azure services and Hyper-V virtualization in your data center, on your favorite FlashArray, all managed through the Azure portal. The webinar explains the value of the joint solution as well as details about how it works.30Views0likes0CommentsCyber Resilience Sessions at Accelerate 2026
Accelerate 2026 is right around the corner! Explore ways to transform your storage into an active defender. Achieve operational survivability by adopting a recovery-first mindset, weaponizing infrastructure with layered resilience from Everpure. If this sounds right up your alley, we’ve curated a list of must-attend breakout sessions focused on Cyber Resilience at Accelerate. Check out these don’t Miss Sessions: The Cyber Resilience Checklist Architecting for Survival: The Customer Blueprint for Resilience Stop Planning for Downtime. Start Building for Survivability. Target to Defender: Neutralize Attacks Before They Paralyze You36Views0likes0CommentsArtificial Intelligence (AI) Sessions at Accelerate 2026
Accelerate 2026 is right around the corner! 🚀 Learn how to build a blueprint for AI competitive advantage with the Everpure platform. Hear from industry experts and customers about best practices to create your AI factory—from pilot to production. If this sounds right up your alley, we’ve curated a list of must-attend breakout sessions focused on all things AI. Check out these don’t miss sessions: The State of AI, 2026: Top Advances and Their Impact on Global Enterprises Come See What We've Been Building: A Guided Tour of Everpure's Enterprise AI Portfolio Data Stream: Zero Friction from Storage to AI How are NeoClouds, Enterprises and Commercial Customers Adopting AI at Scale with Everpure 🎤 Featured Speaker We are thrilled to have Par Botes sharing deep-dive insights into the State of AI in 2026. You won't want to miss this keynote! 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!273Views1like0CommentsLayered 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.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).Azure Local now works with FlashArray
A little bit of catch up here, but Azure Local is now fully GA with support for on-premises FlashArray. That means you can easily expand your current environment with FA external storage, or start a net new deployment. And yes, you can use an existing FlashArray to do it. Azure Local is shaping up to be a good VMware alternative as well as a strong solution for those needing soverign clouds, as Microsoft has a lot of support for regulatory frameworks and in-country data centers. You can learn more about it in the blog and feel free to post any questions here. We also have a webinar coming up on May 21, 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET, so you can learn more about it.380Views1like0Comments