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.

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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

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