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Pure Storage (NYSE:  PSTG) accelerates possible, transforming businesses in ways previously unimagined. The company's disruptive, software-driven storage technology combined with a customer-friendly business model drives business and IT transformation for customers through dramatic increases in performance and efficiency at lower costs. Visit www.purestorage.com to learn more.

For this month’s Coffee Break, Lead Principal Technologist Andrew Miller welcomes Scott Sinclair, Analyst and Practice Director at ESG. With a deep background in storage and data center technologies, Scott brings a unique, real-world perspective on where the industry has been—and where it’s going.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
- Where Do Analysts Come From? - Scott will share his journey to becoming an analyst, offering insights into his deep technical background and how it shaped his expertise.
- Top Trends to Watch For - Explore the key industry trends Scott is tracking, backed by in-depth analysis and data. Topics include GenAI, cyber resilience, and new challenges driven by scaling and automation demands.
- An Analyst Perspective on Pure Storage - Scott will provide his candid take on Pure Storage distinct strengths while drawing on his experience with other industry players. Highlights include: the customer impact of Evergreen® and its “NPS in action", QLC and continuing flash innovation, and the transformative potential of storage-as-a-service.
As always, this session will be packed with valuable insights and practical knowledge. Stick around after the webinar for a live Q&A with the team!

About the Pure Storage Coffee Break Series: Each month, we invite experts in technology and business to chat about the themes driving today’s IT agenda. 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 Storage technology, our goal is to educate and entertain rather than sell.

Analyze This! An Analyst’s Take on the Future of Storage and Emerging Trends

AI is transforming organizations in countless ways, driving innovation, agility, and performance. Yet the rapid evolution of AI is also bringing new data challenges that demand a high-performance, scalable, and future-proof infrastructure—especially for storage. 
Join Pure Storage and NVIDIA experts for an exclusive that will help you simplify AI adoption and build a foundation for long-term success.
Watch now for valuable insights to help you:  
- Fast-track your AI evolution
- Reduce time-to-value
- Ensure your infrastructure meets the demands of tomorrow’s AI advancements
You’ll also hear from Zack Kass, former Head of Go-to-Market at OpenAI, who will share actionable strategies to enable you to thrive in an evolving AI landscape

Accelerate and Simplify AI Adoption

The evolution of cybersecurity threats is accelerating rapidly, increasing your need for a strong, cyber resilience strategy.

Pure Storage and Rubrik offer a comprehensive approach to building cyber resilience to defend against modern cyber threats while ensuring continuity and rapid recovery at scale. 

Join our Tech Talk as we dive into our three-layered, cyber resilience solution that secures data and minimizes downtime. During this information-packed session, you’ll learn how to:

-Secure your data with immutable, indelible, and access-controlled backups
-Deploy advanced data threat analytics that continuously monitor your platform for threats and indicators of compromise
-Identify and monitor sensitive data exposure through ongoing intelligent risk monitoring
-Improve cyber resilience and readiness with petabyte recovery speeds, minimizing the time your data and business are offline due to a cyber event

Pure Storage and Rubrik: A Multi-layered Approach to Cyber Resilience

Join us for a deep dive into how Pure Storage® FlashArray™ revolutionizes VMware Cloud Foundation, turning it into a next-generation hybrid-cloud powerhouse. Discover how this integration delivers unmatched performance, unparalleled simplicity, and game-changing efficiency. Join the webinar to learn how to harness the full power of Pure Storage and VMware for breakthrough results. 

Topics include:

- Learn how FlashArray+ VMware Cloud Foundation delivers a future-ready IT infrastructure
- Insights on deployment best practices
- How to leverage FlashArray tools to right size VMs and ESXi licensing

Elevate VMware Cloud Foundation with Pure Storage FlashArray

Lead Principal Technologist and Coffee Break host Andrew Miller welcomes Dr. Richard Galvez—an AI practitioner who started in academia but over the last several years has worked on many AI projects and built teams at multiple startups. This includes a stint at NASA. And yes, he just recently joined Pure Storage as part of new hire cohort 42! (Coincidence? I think not.)

Join us as we cover:

- AI/ML in the real world - We’ll discuss Richard’s experience and projects at multiple companies. This might inspire ideas for what AI / ML can do for your business.
- Core AI concepts - You’ll learn how to identify the difference between supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning (and why you should care). Pure Storage agnostic data performance platform for AI - This is what brought Richard to Pure Storage. We’ll discuss how it matters for AI today—and even more in the future.
- Recent Pure Storage AI Announcements - Everything from Evergreen//One™ to the upcoming NVIDIA Superpod Certification to Secure Application 
Workspaces and more.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the AI Universe: A Practitioner Comes to Pure Storage

Automakers are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver new services, drive more value from their engineers, solve business problems to create tangible value, and more. In a fiercely competitive industry, those who can crack the AI code early stand to reap major advantages of faster time to value and insights.

This open discussion webinar will feature speakers from Pure Storage and NVIDIA, who will discuss what’s happening with AI for automotive. A major focus will be around software development and the shift from Autonomous Vehicles 1.0 to 2.0. This shift will entail a massive expansion in data footprints, as much as 30x or more. 

AI-enabled use cases that are top of mind among automakers include:

-Autonomous driving (AD/ADAS)
-Customer experience
-Connected vehicles
-AI-driven manufacturing

Embracing AI: The Automotive Revolution That’s Happening Now

In today’s digital landscape, cyber resilience is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. As cyberattacks like ransomware become the top cause of data outages, organizations are facing costly downtime, damaged reputations, and potential compliance penalties. To combat these threats, security and IT operations teams must collaborate effectively to ensure that data is protected and recovery processes are reliable.

Join Henry Baltazar, research director of the 451 Research Storage channel within S&P Global Market Intelligence, as he explores key findings from his recent report on achieving cyber resilience through successful collaboration. 

In this discussion, you will learn:

- The impact of outages on business
- Key elements of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- How fostering collaboration between IT and security teams can reduce downtime, speed recovery, and minimize business impacts
- Best practices for creating a robust, integrated recovery plan that keeps your organization operational, even in the face of serious threats

Cyber Resilience: Bridging Security and IT Operations for Seamless Recovery

In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, organizations are embracing AI to drive innovation and stay competitive. Pure Storage empowers enterprises to achieve this transformation by offering cutting-edge AI storage solutions that deliver superior performance, reliability, and efficiency.  By accelerating AI model training and delivering real-time insights, Pure helps businesses unlock the full potential of their data while optimizing operational costs and energy use. With a proven track record of zero downtime and flexible scaling, Pure Storage provides the ideal foundation for future-proofing AI workloads.

o             Maximize Performance and Efficiency

o             Simplify AI Storage Management

o             Solve the Unpredictability of AI Growth

Transforming Enterprise IT with Future-proof AI Storage

The digital age has changed the nature of cyber threats as attacks can come from many access points and spread rapidly across an organization. A successful defense calls on more than traditional technical skills. You need a team primed for collaboration. 

Join us for an inspiring and insightful Engage Series webinar as we explore the transformative power of teamwork in achieving cyber resilience.

Discover how teamwork applies to cyber resilience through:

Collaboration across teams that strengthens cyber defenses
Broadening responsibilities beyond traditional backup admin roles
Strategies for streamlining security cycles and implementing effective data protection measures

Crossing The Currents: How Teamwork Transforms Cyber Resilience

"n the race to harness the power of AI, organizations often encounter significant challenges moving from the prototyping phase to production. Performance bottlenecks, operational inefficiencies, and the ever-present uncertainty of future demands can all hinder progress, delaying time-to-value and escalating costs. 

Join us on October 17 for an information-packed session that explores these critical challenges, offering insights into how Pure Storage can be a game-changer. Optimized for AI, the Pure Storage platform delivers unmatched performance, ensuring your AI workloads run faster and more efficiently. 
By addressing operational inefficiencies with a streamlined, data-driven approach, and providing scalable, future-proof solutions, Pure Storage empowers organizations to overcome the hurdles of AI integration and stay ahead in the fast lane of innovation with:
Multi-Node Query Scale Out Performance
Checkpoints at Scale
Partners for value add workflow

AI in the Fast Lane: Strategies for Swift Integration

When you pass in a query, how does SQL Server build the results? Let’s say Brent Ozar is an  end user sending queries, and you'll act as the SQL Server engine. Using simple spreadsheets as your tables, you'll learn how SQL Server builds execution plans, uses indexes, reads data from storage, and caches it in memory. 

This session is for DBAs and developers who are comfortable writing queries, but not as comfortable when it comes to explaining nonclustered indexes, PAGEIOLATCH waits, and physical reads. We’ill also cover the role of storage in optimizing SQL Server operations. 

In this TechTalk, you’ll:
Learn how SQL Server builds execution plans, which are critical for understanding how a query will be executed.
Gain clarity on indexes and how SQL Server reads data from storage and caches it in memory.
Explore the importance of storage in optimizing SQL Server operations, highlighting the impact of storage on query performance

How to Think Like the Engine: Bigger Data Edition

Firms within the financial services industry face a challenging, dual mandate. 

They must innovate or be disrupted by nimble competitors while maintaining strict compliance and high resilience in the face of rising cyberthreats. 

Join us for an exclusive event tailored for financial services leaders that will explore how containers and Kubernetes provide a robust foundation for rapid innovation and resilience. 

You’ll learn:

How a Kubernetes data strategy can accelerate innovation and alpha generation through app dev and machine learning projects
Use cases from financial services firms that have created a cloud-operating model for developers and data scientists using Portwork® to manage containers and Kubernetes
How to jumpstart your Kubernetes data strategy to support AI and ML efforts. 
Don’t miss this chance to learn how a Kubernetes data strategy can boost your app development and AI/ML innovation.

How a Kubernetes Data Strategy Accelerates Application Development and Innovation in Financial Services

For September’s Coffee Break, Andrew Miller invites industry veteran and 6+ year Puritan Don Kirouac. Don is currently the technical lead at Pure Storage for product sustainability. Along with his day job, he now dreams at night of kilowatts, supply chains, and full product life cycle analysis. Although in a previous life, he was the top ActiveCluster™ subject matter expert. In some ways, this will be a sequel to last year’s session: “Tired of Energy Savings & Efficiency Gas”-lighting? Better Science is the Answer.” That one was with Brian Gold (yes, that Brian Gold the former rocket scientist).

During this session, we’ll further into:

Don’s history across the industry and career lessons he has learned
How Pure Storage looks at sustainability and energy efficiency across our entire portfolio and why it matters to you (hint: there might be industry-wide energy shortages coming–you can thank AI)
We’ll also prove these bold claims:

Up to 85% less energy than other all flash solutions
Over 800 times improvement in data stored (terabytes) per unit of energy (Watts) consumed compared to our earliest product models
DirectFlash® modules that require 1000 times less DRAM than SSDs with industry leading performance.
About the Pure Storage Coffee Break Series: Each month, we invite experts in technology and business to chat about the themes driving today’s IT agenda. 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 Storage technology, our goal is to educate and entertain, rather than sell.

Eco-wars: Pure Awakens - Sustainability, Power, and Storage Efficiency Unite!

Data often gets trapped in complex infrastructures and scattered silos, ranging from data warehouses and data lakes to disparate storage systems. While each silo serves its original purpose well, they become obstacles for AI models and remain inaccessible to AI clusters. 

In this fast-paced, demo-rich talk, we’ll explore how to break down these silos, unify data, and speed up data pipelines, for faster time to science and faster AI results.

Join us as our experts discuss:
·        Unified ingestion of data for faster AI results
·        CPU vs. GPU pipeline processing comparison
·        Optimized commands for parallel processing

Data Preparation Strategies for Accelerated AI Pipelines

Many organizations are looking at how to evolve their VMware-based workloads following VMware’s acquisition by Broadcom and some of the licensing and product changes that have taken place. And although many customers will likely opt to stay with VMware, others will be looking at ways to further optimize and improve costs for their environments.

One of these options is to move VMware-based workloads to a public cloud provider. In this webcast led by Simon Robinson, Principal Analyst of TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group, you will gain expert insights into the VMware situation and how customers are thinking about their next steps. Panelists will also discuss key questions IT leaders are asking during this transition, including:

• When should you consider public cloud as an option for your VMware workloads?
• What kind of advantages can public cloud provide for customers?
• And more

Register now to find out how you can evolve and optimize your organization’s virtualization environment.

Speaker Information:
Simon Robinson, Principal Analyst, Storage & Converged Infrastructure, Enterprise Strategy Group
Cody Hosterman, Senior Director, Product Management, Pure Storage
Husam Hilal, Senior Partner Solution Architect, Microsoft

Enterprise Strategy Group: The state of virtualized infrastructure in 2024

There is a lot of hype around AI, and rightfully so. Its potential use cases across industries are profound, which is why 77% of CIOs say most of their budget will go toward AI efforts by 2027, according to recent research by Gartner. However, at the same time, only 15% have prepared their infrastructure to scale accordingly.

While all the potential benefits of AI are enticing, the desired outcomes of such an investment cannot be achieved without having the right foundation in place. In this webcast, you’ll be introduced to FlashStack – a joint solution from Pure Storage and Cisco that is designed to power AI workloads at scale while eliminating infrastructure silos and disparate operations.

Tune in now to find out how you can implement the modern infrastructure needed to overcome IT obstacles and democratize AI across your organization.

FlashStack for AI: Making AI more accessible

For the July Coffee Break, we’re exploring how the public cloud has redefined expectations for IT infrastructure, especially when it comes to data storage. As-a-service is the next frontier in on-premises data infrastructure, allowing you to focus on outcomes instead of fighting fires and making do with inflexible storage.
But not all data storage delivers on the as-a-service promise. You need a flexible, unified, and expandable architecture to meet the challenges of changing needs, cyber resilience, and optimizing costs. The Pure Storage platform delivers this future today—built from the ground up as a fully as-a-service data infrastructure for all workloads. 

We dive into what to look for when considering data infrastructure, so that you can operate like the cloud wherever your data resides.

About the Pure Storage Coffee Break Series: Each month, we invite experts in technology and business to chat about the themes driving today’s IT agenda. 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 Storage technology, our goal is to educate and entertain, rather than sell.

At Your Service: Understanding the Storage-as-a-Service Landscape

Join us to explore how you can lower your TCO, simplify operations, and future-proof your environment with innovative solutions tailored for VMware. 

Managing VMware environments efficiently is critical to controlling infrastructure costs. Whether on premises or in the cloud, Pure Storage® empowers you to optimize your VMware infrastructure for unparalleled stability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. Join us to explore how you can lower your TCO, simplify operations, and future-proof your environment with innovative solutions tailored for VMware.
- Learn how Pure Storage FlashArray™ reduces VMware costs up to 30%.
- Hear what’s new from Pure Storage for VMware, including stretched clusters on vVols and VM Assessment tools.
- See how our newest cloud service—Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution (AVS), an Azure Native ISV Service—delivers up to 50% cost savings versus AVS alone, by enabling independent scaling of storage and compute.
- Dive deep into TCO for both on-premises and cloud VMware deployments.

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