PUG Cincinnati - Pure//Virtual: Strategies for a More Open and Flexible Future
Topic: Feeling overwhelmed by the challenges of managing your virtualization platforms? Join our Virtualization Anonymous meeting, a supportive and open forum where we’ll recover together, share experiences, and explore solutions to streamline your virtualization journey. You’re not alone in finding the right fit—we’ll navigate this step-by-step as a group. This customer-driven discussion will focus on your experiences and challenges as we work toward building a future-ready virtualization strategy. Pure Storage experts will offer insights and guidance to help you take that first step. Anonymous Group Feedback: Share your thoughts and experiences in regards to your virtualization journey. What worked? What didn’t? No judgment here. Understanding Your Needs: What does your organization need in a new platform? Scalability? Cost efficiency? Security? We’ll help you pinpoint what truly matters. Breakthrough Stories: Listen to success stories from those that took the journey Exploration Circle: Hear from Pure’s subject matter experts on what they are seeing in regards to the latest virtualization platforms and where the industry is going. Support & Resources: Find out where you can get additional help, training, and resources to ensure a smooth transition. Date: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2-4pm ET Location: Fretboard Brewing Company, 5800 Creek Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45242 Speaker: A customer will share their Pure Storage journey. They will share how they discovered Pure Storage, how they use Pure Storage today to support their business, and other Pure Storage real world stories. Our speaker is both a FlashArray and FlashBlade Certified Professional, and will be attending Accelerate next week in Las Vegas. As a added-bonus to our virtualization focused topic; our speaker will share their Pure//Accelerate experience with the group. Your Pure Storage team will also be in attendance in partnership with our speaker to share all the exciting announcements we will be sharing in Las Vegas. RSVP: https://info.purestorage.com/2025-Q2AMS-COMREDTFSPUGCincinattiLP_01---Registration-Page.html
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Hey Connecticut PUG members! I want to introduce myself. I'm a Field Solutions Architect who specializes in virtualization integrations, such as hypervisors, as they pertain to Pure Storage. I don't live in Connecticut, but I'm not far. I'm up in southern New Hampshire. Before I came to 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. There are many of us at Pure that live in the region. So, as we get ready to announce our first PUG in July I hope to see you and I promise to bring along some local Pure folks for you to meet. In the region we can cover a bunch of topics ranging from cyber resilience, AI, unstructured data, databases (SAP, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), cloud, automation and many more. I hope to see you soon.Welcome to the New Pure Digital Community
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