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On the heels of the electrifying keynote, join us as we unpack the latest announcements and what they mean for you and your Pure Data Storage Platform. This dynamic session explores our new advancements and cutting-edge managed data services. It's designed to equip you with the knowledge needed to fully leverage these innovations, preparing you to dive into our technical feature sessions with confidence. Seize this opportunity to position yourself at the cutting edge of data storage innovation.

From AI to EDA, explore how FlashBlade® architecture addresses business challenges and safeguards investments for the future. This session investigates how innovative infrastructure from Pure Storage impacts unstructured data storage, emphasizing scalability, performance, and ease of management. Through real-world applications and case studies, discover how businesses utilize Pure infrastructure for innovation, enhanced efficiency, and a competitive advantage.

Join Shawn Hansen and Venkat Ramakrishnan as they discuss the synergy between Pure Storage and Portworx® in creating a modern data platform. Learn how this combination mitigates risk, simplifies infrastructure management, and enhances agility for innovative application development. Discover why Portworx is key to adopting a cloud operating model for data, ensuring the efficiency, agility, and resilience associated with Pure Storage.

Self-service upgrades with Pure1® and Edge Services aren't just about pressing an upgrade button: They empower you with complete control over appliance lifecycle planning and management, emphasizing security, stability, and reliability. Discover how self-service upgrades simplify software lifecycle management by removing the burdensome tasks.

Take control of your storage with self-service fleet management! Simplify the storage experience with Pure1 Manage from provisioning, monitoring, upgrades, and complete product life cycle management. Gain real-time insights and proactive recommendations to optimize performance, capacity, and data protection. Effortlessly plan complex migrations and replications with self-service tools. Embrace a sustainable future with intelligent management features.

Dig into the next layer of details underneath Pure Storage’s latest announcements and keynotes with moderator Andrew Miller, the host of our always-popular Coffee Break. He will talk with Pure experts about our latest innovations in an interactive, deeper discussion rather than a slide heavy format.  Whether you are interested in unified fleet management, buying SLAs instead of hardware, AI-driven automation or shared infrastructure you will find answers here. Our experts will show you how the Pure Data Storage Platform seamlessly supports the most complex IT workloads and gets you ready for the future.

Come listen to your favorite podcast...live! If you've thought while grocery shopping/mowing the lawn/washing your car, "I wish I could listen to this live!" we have just the session for you. Your hosts Rob, JD, and Andrew will wander through Accelerate announcements with their trademark blend of realism, perspective, and (mild) snarkiness along with a couple of surprise topics.

Learn how investing in an Evergreen® storage architecture helps align corporate environmental goals with streamlined infrastructure spending and responsible resource management.

Understanding artificial intelligence (AI) can be daunting. This session demystifies AI models like language models (LLMs), deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs), and video/image models by covering essential aspects including dataset requirements, power and space considerations, data preparation, training time and resource needs, and inference environment impacts.

Consolidate workloads with confidence and lower costs, enhance array utilization, and simplify management, all without dedicated arrays. Learn how to enable FinOps at the workload level with a unique granular visibility to accurately calculate costs for capacity planning and determine the profitability of workloads. Explore how to easily manage your shared infrastructure or multi-service environment with four times fewer parameters to provision.

Pure1 is the AIOps powered SaaS tool that helps you easily and effectively manage your Pure Storage assets. But are you getting the most value from its many capabilities? This session explores the capabilities of Pure1, including fleet health monitoring, issue alerts, and workload planning, all through product demonstrations.

Balancing technical requirements and financial realities is challenging for nearly everyone in an organization, whether you are on premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. This challenge includes storage which is one of the most utilized resources at any company. Realizing the aforementioned goals may require you to think differently.  This session will not only discuss how to change your mindset to achieve storage success both now and in the future but also how Pure Storage’s Evergreen® can be part of the solution to balance business objectives, acquisition cost, as well as storage goals and growth no matter where you need it.

Everyone says they can offer non-disruptive upgrades, but most vendors simply can't deliver. Learn how Pure Storage designed the Evergreen platform from the ground up to deliver non-disruptive upgrades and get a first-hand account of a forklift-free upgrade from a global FinServ Pure customer.

Dive into the world of Evergreen subscriptions where innovative architecture meets your goals of modernization with lower total cost of ownership. Learn how embracing Evergreen// One, Evergreen //Flex and Evergreen //Forever offer a strategic pathway to ensuring your storage solutions are perpetually modern and agile. Use consumption based approach to shield against uncertainty , over-provisioning and mitigating risks. Delve into how our storage services and hardware maintain peak performance and remain hassle-free without the need for repeated purchases and data migrations.

In the last five years, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of STaaS offerings available in the market. IDC estimated that by 2025, more than 70% enterprise storage solutions will be consumed entirely as-a-service. However, each Storage as-a-Service Solution (STaaS) offering on the market is completely different from the next. Even experienced customers who are highly adept at purchasing storage systems (CapEx) are becoming increasingly confused in evaluating each service, understanding how they work and exactly what happens when something invariably goes wrong during the service term. This session will be led by Jonas Irwin, Sr Director and a pivotal leader of the Evergreen//One’s(EG1) service along with Linda Metzler - SVP, and longtime EG1 customer at the leading MSP, TierPoint.

IT teams are under incredible pressure to reduce costs while providing seamless data access. To address this challenge, Pure offers a groundbreaking approach to storage cost optimization, enabling organizations to slash expenses on-premises and in the cloud, with instant data accessibility and simplified management. Join us to learn how Match.com found their right partner with Pure’s consistent data storage platform.

Join us for an illuminating session on how Pure Storage is revolutionizing healthcare imaging. Discover how our cutting-edge solutions empower physicians, enhance patient care, and seamlessly integrate with AI technologies to drive better outcomes.

It’s a perfect storm. Data is growing at 30% each year while cloud, infrastructure, and licensing costs increase. Businesses face increased pressure to grow profits and look to IT to lower costs. Join us for a session exploring ways to manage infrastructure costs in the cloud, on-premises, with VMware, and beyond. You'll hear from Ampersand’s VP of IT about how they improved resiliency while lowering costs by working with Pure to migrate an entire disaster recovery data center to the cloud.

In the rapidly evolving enterprise storage landscape, organizations face myriad challenges, from managing increasing data volumes to adapting to modern workload demands. Amidst this complexity, the quest for simplicity, efficiency, and an evergreen architecture remains paramount. Join us for an insightful breakout session where we evaluate Pure Storage as the ideal modern data storage platform and how it fares in comparison to some of the new SDS(-ish) offerings in the market.

This technical session will provide real-world customer examples of how to deploy a modern infrastructure leveraging SLAs as the foundation of providing excellent end-user experience. Leverage machine-learning and AI-operations to drive maximum value out of infrastructure resources and align consumption with spend in a way unheard of outside of the cloud.

Learn how to non-disruptively transform your existing Pure infrastructure into a global storage platform. Pure is bringing the power and capabilities of Fusion into the Purity storage operating system, free of charge, for all customers. Reduce labor and complexity for both manual and automated tasks with new federated storage management capabilities in the CLI, GUI and API and integrated AI workload placement assistance. Reduce risks associated with misconfiguration, ensure configuration consistency, and enforce data protection compliance across your whole Pure Storage fleet. Integrate your business and process attributes into the storage provisioning process to improve workload utilization visibility and traceability for chargeback and showback.

Pure Storage is dominating enterprise file storage with its Enterprise File Services on the Pure Storage Data Platform. This solution merges scale-out and scale-up file solutions into a singular, adaptable platform suitable for any file storage requirement. The platform delivers simplicity and flexibility across both FlashArray and FlashBlade. The Product team will cover key features including support for SMB 3, File Access Auditing, File-Always-On, and enhanced replication, ensuring robust and reliable file management. This comprehensive approach positions Pure Storage File Services as an optimal choice for fulfilling diverse business needs.

For Rivian, every minute of downtime results in significant loss of revenue. Join the electric vehicle manufacturer to learn how they use Portworx to build a highly available, multi-zone data center solution for PostgreSQL and other data services.

Join us to learn how the Pure Continuum of Cyber Resiliency helps you defend your organization against internal and external threats, and hear from a Pure customer about how they successfully defend their business with SafeMode™ Snapshots, replication, Pure1, and our ecosystem of partners.

Pure Storage continues to innovate with the Pure1 platform. This session provides an overview of the Pure1 disaster recovery as-a-service offering, as well as new Pure1 features including Data Protection Advisor and Ransomware DRR Anomaly Detection. We will conclude the session with an ask-me-anything conversation with the Chief Architect of Pure Protect, Suresh Madhu.

Automation is fundamental to today's on-premises, hybrid, and cloud infrastructures. APIs and SDKs are the underlying technology for providers like PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, and much more. This session walks through Pure APIs, including the new Fusion API endpoints, along with SDKs. This comprehensive demo showcase will help you discover automation solutions designed to enhance your team's success.

The AVS and Pure Cloud Block Store™ integration enhances cloud-first strategies by seamlessly extending on-premises VMware environments to Azure, optimizing costs and providing a scalable, enterprise-grade storage solution. We will showcase how Pure Cloud Block Store helps save money on your cloud bill by eliminating the need for excess AVS nodes for workloads with large storage footprints. Highlights will include examples of how existing AVS and Pure Cloud Block Store customers are already leveraging the benefits of this new joint solution.

There have been many new features, protocols, and services delivered for the FlashArray™ in the past several years. This session is focused on a performance deep dive for each of these features with VMware workloads, such as NVMe over fabrics, file services, virtual volumes (vVols), and more.

Dive into the world of modern virtualization. We'll explore how Portworx and Red Hat are working together to usher in a modern application development platform that supports VMs and containers running side by side. We discuss how to simplify the integration, operation, and management of VMs and their data in a cloud-native environment by leveraging KubeVirt. Discover how to bridge the gap between traditional VMs and cloud-native development, providing a path to innovation and modernization.

This session will demonstrate how Azure VMware Solution (AVS) administrators can simplify storage operation tasks by continuously monitoring and automatically updating AVS-attached Pure Cloud Block Store datastores. Azure provides all the framework you need. Let us show you how you can leverage components like the Pure Storage API and SDK, AVS Run Command and Azure native monitoring services to put your AVS storage on self-drive.

Unearth the treasures of Data Protection and Cyber Resiliency with Pure1 and walk away with a treasure map to navigate the perilous terrain of digital threats. This session equips you to face all data challenges head-on, and the pitfalls we're dodging are those of inadequate data management. There are no slithering surprises here; it's all about mastering your storage strategy in this action-packed FlashTalk. Prepare to embark on an adventure where it's all storage, and no snakes.

Pure1 now offers disaster recovery as a service, orchestrating disaster recovery workflows between on-premises and AWS. Delivering on-demand, as-a-service disaster recovery allows organizations to substantially reduce recurring costs, while providing a toolset that facilitates simple, rapid recovery into DR locations.

The Pure Platform includes the innovative technologies of FlashArray, FlashBlade, Pure1, and Pure Fusion™. Orchestrating and automating these solutions within your infrastructure is critical in today's IT world. This session will walk through the different APIs and SDKs that allow for interoperability and interaction both within the technologies, and with the vast ecosystem of infrastructure software.

In the evolving landscape of database management, adopting cutting-edge technologies is paramount for efficiency, scalability, and driving business value. This session explores the transformative realm of VMware vVols (virtual volumes), their strategic implementation in database environments, and utilization best practices. From enhanced granularity to simplified management, gain insights into how vVols revolutionize storage provisioning, snapshots, and cloning for databases.

Come get the "need to know" details on how to get the best performance, reliability, and stability when using FlashArray with VMware vSphere. Hear from Pure Storage experts and VMware Storage Specialists as they cover networking best practices, NVMe-oF, Virtual Volumes, data protection and recovery best practices and much more!

Join us for a roundtable on cybersecurity and risk reduction for enterprises, hosted by Andy Stone. Featuring insights from Hector Monsegur and a current customer, this session delves into safeguarding organizational assets against rising cyber threats. Engage with experts on enhancing security frameworks, continuous risk assessment, and adopting innovative solutions. Gain the tools and knowledge for a robust cybersecurity strategy.

Take a deep dive on key storage considerations for optimizing databases on vSphere, including performance tuning, scalability, and resilience. This session will explore best practices for configuration, the significance of VM storage policies, and leveraging flash storage and vVols for success. Learn to fine-tune your environment to ensure maximum efficiency and reliability for your databases, ensuring they meet the demands of a modern world.

Many HCI solutions use inefficient, non-optimized hybrid storage systems. This isn’t ideal for modern application workloads which demand an always-on, high-performance foundation. Combining flash storage with efficient data reduction improves application performance while reducing costs. Learn how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is enhanced by flash storage from Pure. This interactive, action-packed session features real-world stories and examples from two industry veterans.

If you’re uncertain about the future of your virtualization strategy, you’re not alone. Changes at VMware have IT leaders everywhere reevaluating their current application architecture. Join us for a discussion on what’s happening at VMware and what it means for you and your organization. In this webinar, we'll cover: (1) How to navigate the changes at VMware, (2)Various pathways to optimize your VMware, virtualization, and architecture deployments, and (3) The future of virtualization and how you can modernize on your terms.

Every organization is building a strategy to build and deploy around AI. How do you quickly and easily integrate open and proprietary AI models into your developer workflow to speed innovation while maintaining secure and available data? We will explore the use of chatbots, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and iteration for inference experimentation without delays. We'll also cover best practices for building AI platforms on Kubernetes.

Can your organization benefit from large language models (LLMs) to serve your customers? Maybe. However, if you customize with external data sources, customer information, and internal data, the answer is definitely! Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) makes query answers more accurate, applicable, and current. This session covers vertical use cases of LLM RAG where pre-trained models are augmented with curated data sources, vectorized into a vector database and transformed into higher quality GenAI answers.

Take this opportunity to ask Pure Storage experts how they’ve resolved some of their biggest data challenges, ranging from preparing data for AI or uploading from an IOT device to egressing data from a cloud. Whether you want advice on cost savings, performance issues, or a suggestion for a good API to use, one of our experts likely has the answer you've been looking for. Come check out this practical session on how to find harmony with your data.

This expert panel on the AI ecosystem will examine MLOps' significance in GenAI workloads and GPU scheduling efficiency for optimal GPU cluster use. We'll discuss enhancing performance through distributed computing focusing on model and data parallelism. Learn how these elements work together for a scalable, efficient AI ecosystem and have your questions addressed.

Modern applications demand speed and efficiency in managing the CRUD operations of machine-scale orchestrators like Kubernetes. Join us to discover why external arrays with CSI drivers fall short in provisioning and managing volumes at scale. You'll gain valuable insights into common technical issues and what to look out for early on in a POC so you can avoid painful setbacks in production environments.

Explore the world of Pure's APIs to enhance automation and optimize your database environments. Unlock the full potential of Pure Storage arrays with mastery over APIs for effortless management and insightful performance analytics. Harness the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK Module for easy access to essential array information. Gain expert knowledge on performance data and beyond.

Explore how internal developer platforms (IDPs) enhance productivity and expedite time-to-market. See how the Portworx team's custom IDP slashed infrastructure costs, boosted consistency, and lightened developers’ cognitive load. Discover their platform engineering strategy that cut cloud expenses by 50% and sped up deployments. Learn strategies for leveraging IDPs to optimize workflows and achieve tangible business benefits from a team that's done it.

In AI and MLOps, storage capacity planning translates to efficiency. This talk covers the challenges and strategies for sizing storage to meet both current and future AI demands. It highlights the importance of anticipating data storage and processing needs, showcasing how the Pure platform excels in managing huge and diverse data. Using examples, we'll illustrate how to align compute, capacity, and workload needs with scalable storage solutions, ensuring they keep pace with complex AI projects.

When databases are down, work stops. How do you ensure SQL Server stays online? Do you use built-in SQL Server availability features like Always On availability groups (AGs) or Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs)? Pure features such as ActiveCluster™ or ActiveDR™? Combine them? How do native SQL Server backups and snapshots in the array fit into this crowded equation? This session discusses how the combination Pure + SQL Server can provide maximum uptime and help you recover quickly.

Gen AI is revolutionizing the financial industry. This session will explore how the next generation of AI is reshaping traditional financial practices. We will discuss how AI algorithms are used to analyze vast amounts of data, predict market trends, automate trading processes, and enhance risk management strategies. Join us as we uncover the transformative power AI holds for the future of financial services.

The integration of data and AI can enhance operations across industries, enabling data-driven decision-making, streamlined workflows, and improved user experiences. By leveraging advanced analytics and AI-powered solutions, organizations can gain valuable insights, automate tasks, and boost productivity. This session explores the tangible benefits of integrating these technologies, including cost savings, and efficient operations, that our customers are using today.

​​As data grows exponentially, businesses face challenges in data protection, availability, and recovery. Traditional backups struggle to meet modern demands. Storage array-based snapshots offer a compelling alternative, providing efficient and reliable backup solutions. Learn how snapshots evolved, exceeding traditional methods in speed, scalability, and integrity. Explore SQL Server 2022 innovations, including using snapshots for database backups and protection and building AlwaysOn Availability Groups.

This session delves into the power of log analytics to bolster the security posture of storage devices. We guide attendees through the nuances of using log analytics for enhanced security, directly impacting the safeguarding of critical data assets. Part 1 explores log analytics stored directly on FlashArray or FlashBlade systems for applications such as Splunk, Elastic, and LogStash. Part 2 transitions into the practical applications of using log analytics for the direct security of storage devices.

Discover the value of modern data estates with a platform designed to efficiently manage enterprise database systems such as SQL Servers. This session explores automation concepts, robust architecture frameworks, high availability solutions, and streamline Day Two Operations including automated backups. You will learn how these innovations can drive immediate business impact to the efficiency of your developer and operations teams.

Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank is building large scale AI/ML infrastructure to power new GenAI services and is developing a new large learning model, specialized for the Japanese language, culture, and business practices. Join this session for Pure’s perspectives in this space and best practices from SoftBank on building highly scalable, efficient, resilient, and secure AI infrastructure and ecosystems to accelerate the adoption of AI for end user customers.

​​As data grows exponentially, businesses face challenges in data protection, availability, and recovery. Traditional backups struggle to meet modern demands. Storage array-based snapshots offer a compelling alternative, providing efficient and reliable backup solutions. Learn how snapshots evolved, exceeding traditional methods in speed, scalability, and integrity. Explore SQL Server 2022 innovations, including using snapshots for database backups and protection and building AlwaysOn Availability Groups.

How to implement AI today with best practices reducing time to market and raising your ROI?  For 10 years, Cisco and Pure Storage have invested in FlashStack Converged Infrastructure documenting best practices in Cisco Validated designs.  This session reviews the most recent designs for Generative AI Inferencing and MLOps including components from RedHat, NVIDIA, Intel and Portworx Enterprise.  VDI, RDBMS, and Cloud Native with Pure Portworx will also be covered.  Hot topics, great solutions!

Deploying generative AI requires robust and scalable storage solutions due to unpredictable data needs from diverse training sources. This session explores the challenges of sizing storage for AI environments and introduces Pure Storage Evergreen One as a solution. Discover how its storage-as-a-service model offers the flexibility to efficiently manage and scale resources, ensuring your AI projects stay agile and cost-effective.

AI is consuming power and space at a frenetic pace and customers are worried about hallucinations, vendor lock-in, responsible and sustainable solutions. Intel is driving standards like OPEA with industry leaders in AI and providing choice to Enterprises. Come hear how we enable economical AI solutions that deploy on CPU, GPU and AIPC.

Modernizing traditional applications into microservices on container platforms can complicate persistent data management. Portworx Enterprise offers a dependable and scalable solution for this challenge. It enables organizations to manage data across multiple container platforms with features like replication, backup, and disaster recovery.

Additionally, Portworx Enterprise provides a unified data view across containers and nodes, simplifying data management and protection at scale. By integrating Portworx Enterprise with Kubernetes, Converge effectively meets clients' persistent data needs, achieving near-zero RPO and RTO for critical applications on container platforms.

Research shows that organizations today are overspending on cyber defense. Prevention, while important, is no longer considered a comprehensive strategy for organizations to protect themselves from inevitable cyber threats. Investing in a balance of cyber defense and cyber resilience is key to keeping your critical data secure. Join Veeam as we discuss how our cyber resilient solutions with Pure Storage enable you to respond to and recover from threats with minimal disruption.

Pure Storage builds incredible storage hardware. Equinix owns and operates the largest footprint of top tier data centers and the most powerful and interconnected private network on the planet. Through Equinix and Pure's collaboration, we are able to offer simple, cloud-like consumption for unadulterated, single tenant and dedicated Pure storage //block, //uffo, and //udr appliances, deployed at Equinix and natively integrated with an ever-evolving suite of digital services and solutions. Come learn about how it works, why customers love it, and how it can help you unlock the true promise of hybrid-multicloud!

Learn how Pure and Commvault are collaborating together to create Cyber Resilient solutions for their customers, and how we won together to beat the competition at a large healthcare provider in the New York area.