Pure User Group - July 2026
Hit the Links... Cincinnati PUG Style What’s up Cincinnati Pure Community? I hope you all are doing well, preparing for the approaching holiday weekend, and making those summer vacation plans. Speaking of, if you are making those summer vacation plans, make sure to avoid the week of June 29th. Why? We’re hosting our next Pure User Group meetup on Wednesday, July 1st, from 3-6pm at Oakley Greens. Join the community once again for an afternoon of conversation, and hit the links afterwards for some community fun! Call for Speakers With that said, we are looking for a speaker for the meetup. I know some don’t enjoy speaking in public. That’s completely understandable. I was one of those people for a long time. If you’re considering speaking, but are nervous, here are a couple of ideas that I can offer to help you. Bring a Friend - Whether it’s a colleague, a partner, or an application vendor; ask someone to present with you. This way you can split the topic in half, and you can help each other if one of you get “stuck” during the presentation. Just make sure the topic is how you and the partner / vendor together helped your business be successful. Upcoming Project - When asked to present, we immediately consider a project or task that we recently completed, that we want to share the success of the project with the community. Another speaking option would be to share an upcoming project or task, and ask the community their thoughts and feedback. Something along the lines, this is what we’re doing, we plan on doing this, but I’ve also considering that. Community, what do you think? Have you done something similar? If so, what worked well? What didn’t? Lean on Everpure - Have a topic in mind, but need help from a content or delivery perspective. A member of the Everpure team would be more than happy to help. We can help with content creation, or create a lab environment that would allow you to perform your own demo. Interested in speaking? Let charles_sheppar or your Everpure AE/SE know. Again, we are all happy to help. Attendance... It's Summer Y'all Make sure to click 'Attending' on the event page to let us know you’re coming. We know the days around the July 4th holiday are a popular choice for vacations, so if we determine that attendance might be a little “light”, we can reschedule for mid to late July. Topics To Be Determined, but we have some ideas. Let's get back to basics and talk about performance and capacity management? Too boring, how about a Fusion enablement session? Or, let's discuss how the community is managing the current supply chain crisis? Or, we can do a little bit of everything. Again, Everpure doesn't determine the topic, the community does. Date & Time Wednesday, July 1st, 3-6pm Location Oakley Greens, 3065 Vandercar Way, Cincinnati, OH 45209 https://oakleygreens.com/Cincinnati PUG Community; We Need Your Help!
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity". These are the words of Sun Tzu who famously wrote The Art of War. While customers, partners, and Puritans all get acquainted to the rebrand from Pure Storage, to EverPure; it also provides us the opportunity to create a unique identity for our PUG chapter. And this is where we need your help. We know our community is filled with creative minds. And Cincinnati has many unique identities, from our beautiful skyline (and chili), to our sports teams (Reds, Bengals, FCC, Cyclones, UC, X), to our landmarks (Roebling Bridge, the Museum Center and Zoo, Fountain Square). This is your chance to help us create our own PUG identity. Get your creative juices flowing and visit the below link for additional details and how YOU can help us create the Cincinnati PUG logo. Help create your chapter's logo | Everpure CommunityCatching up
Hey all! It's been a while since I've posted here and I feel compelled to reach out to see what everyone is working on. Like all of us, I've been pulled in many different directions lately (power, cooling, security camera's), and it has made me appreciate that managing our Everpure environment allows me cycles to focus elsewhere. Current storage related projects are, Cloudsnap: working with the Everpure support team to get cloudsnap working so that we can investigate long term backups to our Flashblades or S3 in the cloud. Integration with CyberArk: Again, working with the Everpure support team to enable privileged users with rotating passwords to work with our Everpure management environment. Pureprotect: Chad Montieth and Suresh Madhu have been instrumental in our testing and development of a case to possibly replace SRM for DR failover and testing. Don't forget about Accelerate June 16th - 18th in Las Vegas. This is a worthwhile event that provides free training classes and certification tests. Jason Finley and I from SEHP get to attend this year. register here Begin Registration - Pure Accelerate 2026 What are you working on? Share with the group any success or challenges. Keep an eye on the community page next week for an update from Nick Fritsch. Happy Easter all! - CharlieSpring is Calling, and so is Reds Baseball
I don't know about you, but I am more than ready for Spring; though I could definitely skip the rain. Wiping muddy dog paws after every walk is getting old! On the bright side, who else is ready for some Reds baseball? I have a few exciting updates and resources to share with the community: 🚀 PUG Meeting Update charles_sheppar and I are currently hard at work on the next PUG meeting. Details to come. 🛡️ Strengthening Your Cyber Resilience Given the current geopolitical climate and the rise in cyber threats, now is the perfect time to audit your data protection. Features like SafeMode and Pure1 Security Assessments act as a resilient last line of defense. If you want to see these tools in action, we recently hosted an expert-led demo on building a foundation for cyber resilience. Watch the recording here: https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/the-foundations-of-cyber-resilience/6389889927112.html Questions? Reach out to your Everpure SE or partner for a deeper dive. 📅 Upcoming Events March 12: Nutanix Webinar Exploring virtualization alternatives? Nutanix is hosting a session tomorrow focused on simplifying IT operations and highlighting the Everpure partnership. https://event.nutanix.com/simplifyitandonprem March 19: Or perhaps you're interested in running virtual machines alongside containerized workloads within K8s clusters. If that's the case, join Greg McNutt and Sagar Srinivasa for Virtualization Reimagined: Inside the Everpure Journey. https://www.purestorage.com/events/webinars/virtualization-reimagined.html March 19: Ask Us Everything About Storage for Databases. Join experts Anthony Nocentino, Ryan Arsenault, and Don Poorman for a live Q&A session. https://www.purestorage.com/events/webinars/ask-us-everything-about-storage-for-databases.html March 24: Presets & Workloads for Consistent DB Environments. We’re extending the database conversation to discuss how Everpure helps you transition from "managing storage" to "managing data" through automated presets. https://www.purestorage.com/events/webinars/presets-and-workload-setups-for-consistent-database-environments.htmlPure Certifications
Hey gang, If any of you currently hold a Flash Array certification there is an alternative to retaking the test to renew your cert. The Continuing Pure Education (CPE) program takes into account learning activities and community engagement and contribution hours to renew your FA certification. I just successfully renewed my Flash Array Storage Professional cert by tracking my activities. Below are the details I received from Pure. Customers can earn 1 CPE credit per hour of session attendance at Accelerate, for a maximum of 10 CPEs total (i.e., up to 10 hours of sessions). Sessions must be attended live. I would go ahead and add all the sessions you attended at Accelerate to the CPE_Submission form. Associate-level certifications will auto-renew as long as there is at least one active higher-level certification (e.g., Data Storage Associate will auto-renew anytime a Professional-level cert is renewed). All certifications other than the Data Storage Associate should be renewed separately. At this time, the CPE program only applies to FlashArray-based exams. Non- FA exams may be renewed by retaking the respective test every three years. You should be able to get the CPE submission form from your account team. Once complete email your recertification Log to peak-education@purestorage.com for formal processing.Pure1 Manage Assessment
Hey Cincy PUG, I found a cool feature for detecting changes on your Flash Array. Looking at Data Protection under the Assessment menu I saw a lightning bolt on one of my arrays. That lightning bolt led me to an evaluation showing that there had been a significant drop in DRR for a group of volumes. Turns out that change was benign because one of my teammates refreshed an environment causing the change in the Data Reduction Ratio. I see this as just another way Pure 1 Manage can help admins detect threats or problems with data sets. How are you using the tools in Pure1? Share something with the group! -CharlesWe are just one week away PUG#3
January 28th, the Cincinnati Pure User Group will be convening at Ace's Pickleball to discuss Enterprise file. We will be joined by Matt Niederhelman Unstructured Data Field Solutions Architect to help guide conversation and answer questions about what he is experiencing amongst other customers. Click the link below to register and come join us. Help us guide the conversation with your ideas for future topics. https://info.purestorage.com/2025-Q4AMS-COMREPLTFSCincinnatiPUG-LP_01---Registration-Page.htmlWho's using Pure Protect?
Hey everyone, Just wondering if anyone else is using Pure Protect yet. We have gone through the quick start guide and have a VMWare to VMWare configuration setup. We have configured our first policy and group utilizing a test VM but it seems to be stuck in the protection phase. I would be very interested to hear what others have seen or experienced. -Charles
