Pure//Accelerate 2025 - Watch the Keynote Replays
What a week it was in Las Vegas. Pure hosted customers and partners for a highly engaging and informative week all about the Enterprise Data Cloud enabled by the Pure Platform. ICYMI - we already have the keynote replays up and available for viewing. Check out Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo introducing the Enterprise Data Cloudor catch up with Pure founder Coz talking about 300 TB DFMs and eliminating disk for good. It's all there - watch and let us know your favorite session and why in the comments below. dpoormanPost Accelerate '25 - The Best Part of Vegas for Me...
...is when I board my plane to fly home 😂. Though I am not a fan of the city, I was a BIG fan of what we pulled off this week for our annual show. MASSIVE, MASSIVE props to all the folks behind the scenes who made it happen so butter smooth. If you went - what was the biggest highlight for you? The hands on labs were overwhelmed - something we like to see. How about that new Pure cert you got so you can hit the boss up for a raise? Did you get a chance to take in that "new controller smell" for the new //XL R5? I didn't get to see the Oz mentalist, but heard he blew peoples' minds. For me, though, the highlight was hearing Mike "Mississippi Mike" Dehaan, who had a session on the main stage on how his career has benefited from implementing Pure. That's a pretty powerful statement and appreciative feather in our cap - adopting Pure over the 800 lb gorilla incumbents can grow your career. I know NOBODY out there ever grew up saying, "...when I grow up, I want to manage data storage," but at least Pure can help you along where your career has landed. 👍 Post your favorite moments!Alternative Virtualization Meet-Up at //Accelerate
Our company like many others have parted ways with VMWare. We decided not to renew this last April and are currently running unsupported/perpetual as we look for a replacement hypervisor. Costs on a 7000+ core renewal came in at about 5x what we paid in previous years. Just a little backstory, but this post is not to discuss that. For hardware we currently run Cisco ACI, Cisco UCS and Pure Storage in a converged architecture. What Cisco/Pure call Flashstack. 4 Sites, 200+ blades, Mix of 14 //x and //c Arrays. We are heavy Vvol users today. We have narrowed our search down to Proxmox, XCP-NG, and OpenShift Virtualization. Successes with Proxmox have been great, deployment (iSCSI Boot), automation, migration, etc. Winning so far. XCP-NG, similar to Proxmox. Some issues with Migrations. But overall working. OpenShift, just started vetting. Have a workshop scheduled with RedHat to really test out and see if the product is a good fit. Would require Portworx. Now to what I am wondering, would any of you that will be attending Pure //Accelerate be interested in a meet-up to network and discuss the trials and tribulations with these or other alternative hypervisors on Pure Storage? I am happy to present my decision process, success criteria, testing results and implementation configuration for each. If we get enough people I can ask my AE/SE to see if Pure would allow us use of a breakout meeting room. If interested let me know, I would prefer to keep this vendor neutral other than Pure, as we would not be going to a Pure conference if not interested or already running Pure Storage.Unifying VMs and Containers: Adopting Modern Virtualization with Portworx and Red Hat OpenShift
I'll be at Accelerate in a couple of weeks talking about how you can manage your virtual machines side by side with your containerized workloads on Kubernetes. Drop by the session to learn about the options that Portworx by Pure Storage and Red Hat OpenShift provide you for managing your VMs in Kubernetes Be sure to register:
