Purity//FB 4.5.8 is now Generally Available!
We are pleased to announce that Purity//FB 4.5.8 is now Generally Available! Purity//FB 4.5.8 supports first generation FlashBlade, FlashBlade//S, and FlashBlade//E. Documentation and Resources: Release and Upgrade Guidelines: Recommended for Proof of Concepts, new installs, and upgrades of FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E systems. Object Multi-Site Replication features require workload fit assessment and feature enablement is required. Please contact your Pure Storage representative. Please refer to the Release Guidelines for more up-to-date information. Release Package: Download here External Release Notes (Support Site) For details on fixes included in 4.5.8, please refer to the links below IMPORTANT: Both 3.3.x and 4.1.x are bridgehead releases which means any existing FlashBlade systems will need to upgrade to 3.3.x and then 4.1.x before upgrading to 4.5.0. Contact fb_field_qual@purestorage.com for any questions regarding an upgrade to this release.Defend Against File Data Migrations
Why Attend? Migrations are complex, costly, and disruptive—but they don’t have to be. Learn how to eliminate file data migration headaches with Pure Storage’s unified architecture, automation, and non-disruptive upgrades. Agenda Highlights: Real-world migration pain points Solutions with Pure Storage FlashBlade & FlashArray Komprise SaaS overview How to defend against migrations with Evergreen architecture Customer case study: zero disruption, major savings BONUS: Self-defense & bleeding control training with The Defense Lab Training LLC Drinks, appetizers, and networking at The Federal Galley Prizes to drive collaboration Space is extremely limited. Reserve your spot today for this informative (and fun!) afternoon. Register Here - https://form.jotform.com/251527339799978 We hope to see you there!Pure Storage Delivers Critical Cyber Outcomes
“We don’t have storage problems. We have outcome problems.” - Pure customer in a recent cyber briefing No matter what we are buying, what we are buying is a desired outcome. If you buy a car, you are buying some sort of outcome or multiple outcomes. Point A to Point B, comfort, dependability, seat heaters, or if you are like me, a real, live Florida Man, seat coolers! The same is true when solving for cyber outcomes, and often overlooked is a storage foundation to drive cyber resilience. A strong storage foundation improves data security, resilience and recovery. With these characteristics, organizations can recover in hours vs. days. Here are some top cyber resilience outcomes Pure Storage is delivering. Native, Layered Resilience Fast Analytics Rapid Restore Enhanced Visibility We will tackle all of these in this blog space (multi-part post alert!), but let’s start with the native, layered resilience Pure provides customers. Layered Resilience refers to a comprehensive approach to ensuring data protection and recovery through multiple layers of security and redundancy. This architecture is designed to provide robust protection against data loss, corruption, and cyber threats, ensuring business continuity and rapid recovery in the event of a disaster. Why is layered resilience important? Different data needs different protection. My photo collection, while important to me, doesn’t require the same level of protection as critical application data needed to keep the company running. Layered resilience indicates that there needs to be different layers of resilience and recovery. Super critical data needs super critical recovery. We are referring to the applications that are the life-blood of organizations, order processing, patient services or trading applications. These may only account for 5% of your data, but drive 95% of the revenue. Many organizations protect these with high availability which provides excellent resilience against disasters and system outages. But for malicious events, such as ransomware, protection is needed to ensure that recoverable data is available if an attack corrupts or destroys the production data. Scheduled snapshots can protect that data from the time the data is born. Little baby data. Protect the baby! Pure Snapshots are a critical feature, providing efficient, zero-footprint copies of data that can be quickly created and restored, ensuring data protection and business continuity. Pure snapshots are optimized for data reduction, ensuring minimal space consumption. This is achieved through global data reduction technologies that compress and deduplicate data, making snapshots space-efficient. They are designed to be simple and flexible, with zero performance overhead and the ability to create tens of thousands of snapshots instantly. They are also integrated with Pure1 (part of our Enhanced Visibility discussion) for enhanced visibility, management and security, reducing the need for complex orchestration and manual intervention. Snapshots can be used to create new volumes with full capabilities, allowing for mounting, reading, writing, and further snapshotting without dependencies on one another. This flexibility supports various use cases, including point-in-time restores and data recovery. In events that require clean recovery, and secure recovery at that, it would be much more desirable to leverage snapshots for recovery, where you could scan and determine cleanliness and safeness, often in parallel efforts and the reset time for going to an earlier period of time is a matter of seconds rather than days. But not even these amazing local snapshots are enough. What if your local site is rendered unavailable for some reason? Do you have control of your data to be able to recover in that scenario? Replicating those local snapshots to a second site could enable more flexibility in recovery. We have had customers leverage our High Availability solution (ActiveCluster) across sites and then engage snapshots and asynchronous replication to a third site as a part of their recovery plan. Data that requires extended retention and granularity is typically handled by a data control plane application that will stream a backup copy to a repository. This is usually a last line of defense in case of an event, as the recovery time objective is longer when considering a streaming recovery of 50%, 75%, or 100% of a data center. Still, this is a layer of resiliency that a comprehensive plan should account for. And if these repositories are on Pure Storage, these also can be protected by SafeMode methodologies and other security measures such as Object Lock API, Freeze Locked Objects, and WORM compliance. And most importantly, this last line of defense can be supercharged for recovery by the predictable, performant platform Pure provides. Some outcomes of this layer of resilience involves Isolated Recovery Environments to incorporate even security and create those Clean Rooms to isolate recovery to ensure you will not re-introduce the event origin back into production. In these solutions, the speed benefits that Pure provides is critical to making these designs a reality. Of course, the final frontier is the archive layer. This is a part of the plan that usually falls into compliance SLA, where data is required to be maintained for longer periods of time. Still, more and more, there are performance and warm data requirements for even these data sets, where AI and other queries can benefit from even the oldest of data. One never knows what layer of resilience is required for any single event. Having the best possible resilience enables any company to recover, and recover quickly, from an attack. But native resilience is just one of the outcomes we deliver. Come back to read how we are delivering fast analytics outcomes in an environment that seeks to discover anomalies as fast as possible. Exit Question: How resilient is your data today? Jason Walker is a technical strategy director for cyber related areas at Pure Storage and a real, live, Florida Man. No animals or humans were injured in the creation of this post.Purity//FB 4.5.7 is now Generally Available!
We are pleased to announce that Purity//FB 4.5.7 is now Generally Available! Purity//FB 4.5.7 supports first generation FlashBlade, FlashBlade//S, and FlashBlade//E. Documentation and Resources: Release and Upgrade Guidelines: Recommended for Proof of Concepts, new installs, and upgrades of FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E systems. Object Multi-Site Replication features require workload fit assessment and feature enablement is required. Please contact your Pure Storage representative. Please refer to the Release Guidelines for more up-to-date information. Release Package: Download here For details on fixes included in 4.5.7, please refer to the links below: External Release Notes (Support Site) IMPORTANT: Both 3.3.x and 4.1.x are bridgehead releases which means any existing FlashBlade systems will need to upgrade to 3.3.x and then 4.1.x before upgrading to 4.5.0.
FlashCrew London & Glasgow May/June 2025 !!!! Register NOW...
I'd like to invite you to our upcoming FlashCrew Customer User Group in London on May 15th, from midday. Throughout May, we'll be taking our FlashCrew User Group on the road to share ideas, best practices and network on all things Pure over some drinks and food. Plus, as a thank you for your continued support and attendance we will of course have the latest FlashCrew branded gifts for you to take with you! If you can make it, please register at this link below. London 10-11 Carlton House Terrace Thursday 15th May: REGISTER HERE for FLASHCREW LONDON Glasgow Radisson Blu Hotel Thursday 5th June: REGISTER HERE for FLASHCREW GLASGOW These are user group meetings, targeted at a technical audience across Pure's existing customers. Not only will you hear the latest news on the Pure Enterprise Data Cloud, but will also get to network with other like-minded users and exchange ideas and experiences. Agenda: 12:00 - 12:50 Arrival, Lunch and Welcome 13:00 - 14:00 Pure Platform: Features and Roadmap: with demo 14:00 - 14:15 Break 14:15 - 14:45 SQL Databases and Pure 14:45 - 15:15 Voice of the Customer 15:15 - 15:30 Break 15:30 - 16:15 Portworx and the Enterprise Data Cloud 16:15 - 16:45 Modern Virtualisation 16:45 - 17:00 Open Floor Q&A, Raffle, Wrap Up 17:00 - 19:00 Drinks and NetworkingFlashCrew London & Glasgow May/June 2025 !!!! Register NOW...
I'd like to invite you to our upcoming FlashCrew Customer User Group in London on May 15th, from midday. Throughout May, we'll be taking our FlashCrew User Group on the road to share ideas, best practices and network on all things Pure over some drinks and food. Plus, as a thank you for your continued support and attendance we will of course have the latest FlashCrew branded gifts for you to take with you! If you can make it, please register at this link below. London 10-11 Carlton House Terrace Thursday 15th May: REGISTER HERE for FLASHCREW LONDON Glasgow Radisson Blu Hotel Thursday 5th June: REGISTER HERE for FLASHCREW GLASGOW These are user group meetings, targeted at a technical audience across Pure's existing customers. Not only will you hear the latest news on the Pure Enterprise Data Cloud, but will also get to network with other like-minded users and exchange ideas and experiences. Agenda: 12:00 - 12:50 Arrival, Lunch and Welcome 13:00 - 14:00 Pure Platform: Features and Roadmap: with demo 14:00 - 14:15 Break 14:15 - 14:45 SQL Databases and Pure 14:45 - 15:15 Voice of the Customer 15:15 - 15:30 Break 15:30 - 16:15 Portworx and the Enterprise Data Cloud 16:15 - 16:45 Modern Virtualisation 16:45 - 17:00 Open Floor Q&A, Raffle, Wrap Up 17:00 - 19:00 Drinks and NetworkingHow could real-time enterprise file services enhance your operational efficiency or customer experience?
How could real-time enterprise file services enhance your operational efficiency or customer experience? Say goodbye to slow file systems! Pure Storage is excited to announce Zero Move Tiering for FlashBlade. Now you can unlock faster, smarter, and more efficient data workflows - from AI and ML to hybrid cloud strategies, Pure is making sure your storage keeps pace with your innovation.STAC Summit, London
STAC Summit - London Come visit us at STAC Summit London on April 29th! Pure Storage will be sponsoring and presenting so join our session or stop by our table. STAC Summits bring together CTOs and other industry leaders responsible for solution architecture, infrastructure engineering, application development, machine learning/deep learning engineering, data engineering, and operational intelligence to discuss important technical challenges in trading and investment. Topics tend to cluster in four areas: Quant technology. Architectures for big data and big compute workloads such as model training, strategy research & backtesting, tick analytics, alt data processing, market and credit risk, portfolio optimization, fraud detection, and compliance. Low-latency infrastructure. Architectures for fast decision making and trade execution, primarily in automated trading. Networks, FPGA, servers, software, and other technologies for market data, trading and matching algorithms, execution, and trade-time risk. Command and control. Monitoring of trade flows, time synchronization, and orchestration and management of on-prem and cloud-based infrastructure. AI/ML. Architectures and infrastructure for models and data exploration, training, and inference with deep neural networks (especially LLMs) and statistical machine learning on-prem and in the cloud. While applied AI may be part of quant technology and low-latency topics, there will be a separate, dedicated AI Track at the London STAC Summit that focuses on the AI infrastructure needs of finance, from banking and insurance to trading and investment —from the model to the metal™.
