Pure Storage

Storage

Pure Storage goes all-in on NVMe with expanded FlashArray//X line

May 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage goes all-in on NVMe with expanded FlashArray//X line
While many customers are still on the fence about NVMe adoption in its early days, Pure Storage is making it easier for them to buy FlashArray//X now and upgrade later, by making the upgrade path simple, and changing pricing policies to encourage people to buy //X now.

Artificial Intelligence

Pure Storage unveils AIRI Mini as ‘game changer’ to democratize AI in the enterprise

May 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage unveils AIRI Mini as ‘game changer’ to democratize AI in the enterprise
AIRI Mini is a joint engineering initiative between Pure and NVIDIA that provides an AI-focused solution with much less compute capability than AIRI, announced in March. It thus has a much lower entry point, and the companies think it will lead to strong interactions between infrastructure teams and data scientists.

Backup

Veeam CEO says aggressive strategic partnering strategy central to recent – and future – growth

May 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam CEO says aggressive strategic partnering strategy central to recent – and future – growth
Veeam CEO Peter McKay credited Veeam’s expansion of their strategic relationships as critical to their success in 2017, and indicated they plan significant further expansion here going forward.

Big Data

Pure Storage, NVIDIA introduce AIRI AI-ready infrastructure

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage, NVIDIA introduce AIRI AI-ready infrastructure
A jointly engineered ‘AI-in-a-Box,’ AIRI allows customers to cut simulation training time by 4x, in a much tinier footprint than it took before.

Storage

Pure Storage plays to packed house in Toronto stop on Live tour

October 10, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage plays to packed house in Toronto stop on Live tour
Brent Allen, Pure Storage’s Canadian country manager, was at the Pure//Live event and discussed the company’s progress in Canada with ChannelBuzz.

Storage

Pure CEO Dietzen steps down for leader with skillset for growth at scale

August 25, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure CEO Dietzen steps down for leader with skillset for growth at scale
Scott Dietzen moves over to Chairman of the Board, with Charles Giancarlo replacing him as CEO of Pure.

Software

Catalogic Software reaches out to Pure Storage partners

June 19, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Catalogic Software reaches out to Pure Storage partners
Catalogic, which makes ‘in place’ copy data management software, had strong results at last week’s Pure Accelerate event.

Channel Programs

New service provider program highlights Pure Storage channel program enhancements

June 16, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New service provider program highlights Pure Storage channel program enhancements

In addition to a three tier program for service providers, Pure Storage is adjusting how its internal sales people are compensated to remove what service providers believed was a tendency to favor working with traditional partners over ones selling Pure as a service.

Backup

Pure Storage, Cohesity expand partnership with FlashBlade integration

June 15, 2017 Mark Cox 1
The new integration between Pure and Cohesity follows up an integration around Pure’s FlashArray//M earlier this year.

Backup

Pure Storage to be directly integrated in next release of Veeam Availability Suite

June 15, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage to be directly integrated in next release of Veeam Availability Suite
Partners and customers of both Veeam and Pure have been requesting the integration, although it won’t become generally available until the fourth quarter of 2017.