November 17 | Register Now
While we may be past the eye of the virtualization storm, the landscape continues to evolve, and so does Everpure. Perhaps we can call the weather now more of a…November Rain.
Following up on last November's episode, "Welcome to the (Virtualization) Jungle: How Pure Storage Can Help" with Cody Hosterman, host Andrew Miller invites Matt Webb (Consulting Field Solutions Architect, Virtualization, with two tours at VMware across vSAN, VCF, and Azure VMware Solution) to look at where virtualization is heading and why Everpure continues to provide value whichever hypervisor you land on.
We'll explore:.
- Career lessons from the eye of the storm: Matt lived through VMware going from EMC to Dell and then becoming a standalone company—“we can do whatever we want”—before being acquired by Broadcom.
- We’ll discuss lessons in career planning in an ever-changing technology landscape, what you tie your professional identity to, and the lasting impact of communities like VMUG and vExpert
- Today’s virtualization landscape: We’ll explore the results from two recent analyst reports, how and why the average hypervisor count at customers is 2.9 (according to 451 Research), and unpack Matt’s perspective on the rationale behind why Nutanix, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware occupy the Gartner MQ for this space, plus the challengers (Proxmox!).
- Everpure's core value—nothing to tune and no trade-offs: The same core value that’s been tested over time but with new relevance in a world of shifting infrastructure layers. Even better, the core engineering work has new relevance with alternative technologies such asOpenStack Cinder.
- What's new for virtualization at Everpure: eEverything from major advances on the PX-CSI front (14 major releases with 20+ feature enhancements), increasing hypervisor support to follow where customers are going, and last but not least, continued deep work with VMWare, including Everpure FlashArray™ Management Pack for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations as an example that brings array health and risk insight right into VCF Operations.
Whether you're a VMware admin weighing your next move, an architect planning for more than one hypervisor, or a leader trying to keep the next renewal from becoming the next lock-in, grab your favorite beverage, come in out of the rain, and join the conversation. We'll stay on after the session to answer your questions live!