Pure Storage

Backup

Rubrik expands enterprise capabilities in major new Alta release

June 15, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik expands enterprise capabilities in major new Alta release
The enhancements, which include support for Oracle RMAN and SQL, as well as the Hyper-V and Nutanix Acropolis hypervisors, strengthen the Rubrik enterprise play.

Solution Provider News

Pure Storage upgrades Canadian investment to meet market opportunity

June 14, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage upgrades Canadian investment to meet market opportunity
Pure Storage recently appointed their first-ever Canadian country manager, and Canada channel manager as part of this increased focus.

Cloud

Toronto’s Breqwatr sees Pure Storage partnership as key in U.S. expansion

June 14, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Toronto’s Breqwatr sees Pure Storage partnership as key in U.S. expansion
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.

Internet of Things

Pure Storage leverages Internet of Things with new Pure1 META AI platform

June 14, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage leverages Internet of Things with new Pure1 META AI platform
The first product of this technology, designed to understand complex workload relationships with machine learning, is the Pure1 Workload Planner.

Storage

Pure Storage makes multiple object storage announcements around FlashBlade

June 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage makes multiple object storage announcements around FlashBlade
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.

Storage

Purity//FA 5.0 software announcement highlights Pure Storage Accelerate event

June 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Purity//FA 5.0 software announcement highlights Pure Storage Accelerate event
Pure Storage makes the biggest software release in its history, with new features and enhancements designed to increase their credibility in the enterprise.

Storage

Pure Storage looks to mainstream NVMe with FlashArray//X

April 11, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage looks to mainstream NVMe with FlashArray//X
The NVMe offering will complement the existing Pure //M array, for higher performance at what Pure Storage promises will be a modest price premium.

Backup

Commvault extends Pure Storage partnership to Cisco FlashStack

March 8, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault extends Pure Storage partnership to Cisco FlashStack
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.

Storage

Pure Storage announces GA for FlashBlade unstructured workload solution

January 26, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage announces GA for FlashBlade unstructured workload solution
FlashBlade has been in Directed Availability since last July, but it is now broadly available to all customers through the Pure Storage partner channel.

Storage

Pure Storage CEO Dietzen sees strong momentum in new Pure announcements and metrics

October 13, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage CEO Dietzen sees strong momentum in new Pure announcements and metrics
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.