When Evergreen Dreams Meet Migration Realities: Professional Services and You

Who knew that the best coffee break conversations would end up happening online? Each month, Pure’s Coffee Break series invites experts in technology and business to chat about the themes driving today’s IT agenda - much more ‘podcast’ than ‘webinar’. This is no webinar or training session—it’s a freewheeling conversation that’s as fun as it is informative and the perfect way to break up your day. While we’ll wander into Pure technology, our goal is to educate and entertain rather than sell. For November, host Andrew Miller has invited Lou Chiorazzi (Senior Director, Global Professional Services) and Dmitri Filenko (Director for Pure’s Migration Center of Excellence) to the Coffee Break. For better or worse (you decide), even the simplest products often need business consulting and professional services wrapped around them to move from “product to solution”...if only because today’s datacenters, clouds, and org charts aren’t simple either. Success requires People, Process, AND Technology and after all. As well, even if migrating to Pure is your last migration, you still have to navigate through said migration - something you may not have done in years. A solid migration, well-executed migration plan is critical to delivering on the ROI/TCO promised to the business after all. Thanks to Lou and Dmitri’s background, this month we’ll explore: - Navigating from Customer to Partner/Vendor in the Professional Services space - some of Lou and Dmitri’s background and career lessons. - Migration Center of Excellence Principles - whether working with Pure or not, there are key principles when it comes to successful migrations especially at scale. Real world stories here albeit wholly anonymized. - Pure’s Professional Services Philosophy and Overview - if Pure is so simple, are professional services needed? Let’s answer that question theoretically AND practically. - Your Last Migration - how Pure specifically approaches migrations along with our partners.