Storage Unpacked 261 – Pure Storage Platform Announcements at Accelerate 2024 (Sponsored)

In this podcast episode, Chris discusses the platform update announcements from Pure Accelerate 2024 with Prakash Darji, VP and GM of the Digital Experience BU at Pure Storage. The new features focus on usability and operational enhancements, including AI-based features and support for AI workloads. Highlighted in this discussion are: Fusion automation enhancements for fleet management and individual arrays New Generative AI Copilot for storage to provide querying capabilities and advice Evergreen//One for AI – an AI-level tier of Storage-as-a-Service NVIDIA SuperPOD Ethernet Certification Secure application Workspaces using Portworx Cyber Recovery and Resilience SLAs Security Assessment SLA AI-Powered Anomaly Detection enhancements Site Rebalance SLA AI-Powered Reserve Expansion recommendations As the list shows, there are lots of new updates to make the management and operation of a Pure Storage fleet more efficient and easy. As Prakash explains the reasoning behind the features, it is clear that AI is being used to deliver simplicity, while the platform will provide support for customers wanting to build AI-focused workloads. To learn more, follow the news from Pure Accelerate 2024 here (link). Prakash mentions two blog posts, which can be found here – Ransomware is a Darwinian Problem That Will Never Be Solved and Editorial: Why Centralised Storage Refuses to Go Away. Elapsed Time: 00:38:33 Timeline 00:00:00 – Intros 00:00:51 – It’s not all about AI! 00:01:34 – What changes have been announced to the Pure Storage platform? 00:02:37 – New features include cybersecurity enhancements and simplicity of management 00:03:30 – How do we manage systems at scale? 00:04:27 – Applications need policy management 00:05:08 – Fusion has been enhanced to enable array or fleet management at the same time 00:08:10 – Pure is introducing a GenAI Copilot in preview 00:12:19 – Evergreen now has an AI storage-as-a-service tier 00:14:00 – Pay for performance and capacity is a feature of Evergreen 00:15:55 – SuperPod certification for Ethernet is coming to Pure Storage arrays 00:16:40 – There must be many Jensen clones 00:18:27 – Pure is introducing secure application workspaces using Portworx 00:22:32 – New cybersecurity features include a security assessment for configuration settings 00:23:19 – There is also a security SLA for fixing and certificating security settings 00:24:01 – The AI Copilot will also recommend security improvements 00:24:32 – Anomaly detection is now performance-based, looking at typical profiles 00:30:45 – Reserve expansion recommendation is now AI-powered 00:31:55 – Reserve commit across sites can now be rebalanced once per year 00:33:40 – It’s easy for storage to become fragmented between sites 00:36:27 – When will the new features be made available? 00:37:45 – Wrap Up Related Podcasts & Blogs Storage Unpacked 259 – Sustainable Storage in the World of AI with Shawn Rosemarin Storage Unpacked 257 – The Future of Data Storage in the Enterprise Storage Unpacked 252 – A Vision of Storage Future with Coz from Pure Storage Storage Unpacked 251 – Modernising Storage as a Service with Prakash Darji Pure Storage Microsite X-Ray: Pure Storage, Inc. Copyright (c) 2016-2024 Unpacked Network. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #