Pure Storage recently appointed their first-ever Canadian country manager, and Canada channel manager as part of this increased focus.
Solution Provider News, Storage
Pure Storage upgrades Canadian investment to meet market opportunity
by Mark Cox •
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Cloud, Partnerships
Toronto’s Breqwatr sees Pure Storage partnership as key in U.S. expansion
by Mark Cox •
Breqwatr, which makes an easy-to-deploy private cloud appliance, and sells through an all-channel model, now has an OEM deal with Pure which is significantly expanding their addressable market.
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Internet of Things, Storage
Pure Storage leverages Internet of Things with new Pure1 META AI platform
by Mark Cox •
The first product of this technology, designed to understand complex workload relationships with machine learning, is the Pure1 Workload Planner.
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Storage
Pure Storage makes multiple object storage announcements around FlashBlade
by Mark Cox •
An upgrade to 75 blades in a single system provides 5x capacity and speed, a new 17TB blade was announced for mid-range deployments, and a new ultra-flash S3 object store was unveiled.
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Storage
Purity//FA 5.0 software announcement highlights Pure Storage Accelerate event
by Mark Cox •
Pure Storage makes the biggest software release in its history, with new features and enhancements designed to increase their credibility in the enterprise.
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Pure Storage looks to mainstream NVMe with FlashArray//X
by Mark Cox •
The NVMe offering will complement the existing Pure //M array, for higher performance at what Pure Storage promises will be a modest price premium.
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Backup
Commvault extends Pure Storage partnership to Cisco FlashStack
by Mark Cox •
Commvault sees the new converged collaboration between themselves, Cisco and Pure Storage as offering an excellent opportunity for joint channel partners of all three vendors.
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Storage
Pure Storage announces GA for FlashBlade unstructured workload solution
by Mark Cox •
FlashBlade has been in Directed Availability since last July, but it is now broadly available to all customers through the Pure Storage partner channel.
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Pure Storage CEO Dietzen sees strong momentum in new Pure announcements and metrics
by Mark Cox •
Pure has announced an expansion of its relationship with Cisco, and its new (very high) Net Promoter Score, and sees a strong outlook both in Canada and its business generally.
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Cloud, Storage, Virtualization
Pure Storage unveils FlashBlade all-flash platform for petabyte-scale unstructured data
by Mark Cox •
In addition to the FlashBlade, which becomes Pure’s new high end offering, the company also introduced the FlashArray//m10, a new entry level extension, to its FlashArray//m family, as well as several new FlashStack converged infrastructure solutions.
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Channel Programs, Storage
Pure Storage adds Microsoft, Citrix to FlashStack CI reference architectures
by Mark Cox •
New solutions for Microsoft SQL Server and Citrix XenDesktop, and a new FlashStack CI support program for resellers who don’t provide Level 1 and 2 support, will expand FlashStack’s partner reach. Pure is also looking to reach deeper into Canada, with two western road shows following up today’s announcement.
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Pure Storage moves into hardware with its next-gen FlashArray
by Mark Cox •
In a trio of announcements, Pure announces its next-gen array, which features its first custom built hardware, as well as Pure1, an integrated cloud-based management and support offering, and Evergreen Storage, which is both a vision and a new upgrade model.
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Channel Programs, Storage
Pure Storage targets top partners with channel program changes
by Mark Cox •
Notable changes include funding a dedicated resource for Platinum partners, enhancing the Demo program with six months of free support and the ability to resell Demo units, and a fourfold increase in MDF funds.
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Data Centre, Storage
Pure Storage enters converged infrastructure market with all-flash FlashStack solutions
by Mark Cox •
Two solutions were announced, both of which use Cisco and VMware as partners, but more converged all-flash solutions are coming from Pure, and these will use additional vendor partners as well.
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Operating Systems, Storage
Pure Storage joins OpenStack Foundation, announces two OpenStack solutions
by Mark Cox •
Pure sees OpenStack as providing a great services opportunity to help customers adapt OpenStack for private clouds, since it is necessary to help them adapt OpenStack to different customer circumstances.
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Data Centre, Storage
Permabit unveils appliance to let large storage OEMs strike back at hyperscale upstarts
by Mark Cox •
Permabit’s SANblox appliance is the software vendor’s first hardware product, requested by the big storage OEMs to help them fend off competition from the new hyperscale vendors.
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Pure Storage ups ante on flash array services
by Chris Gonsalves (Channelnomics) •
Pure Storage is looking arm partners with a business model that changes the way end users buy and maintain their enterprise storage.
