Last week Stephen Foskett and a host of delegates visited the Bay Area for Storage Field Day 6. The crew stopped by Pure Storage to catch up on our vision and direction, whiteboard on the architecture of Purity OE and FlashArray, and our perspetive on asking the right quesitons when considering an all-flash array. Videos of the visit are online and available for anyone who missed the live stream.
Five Years Driving the Flash Revolution (17:48) Matt KixMoeller, VP Products and Marketing
FlashArray and Purity OE Architecture Whiteboard Session (56:36) Neil Vachharajani, Principal Architect
Asking the Right All-Flash Array Questions (47:00) Vaughn Stewart, Chief Evangelist
If you’re looking for additional SFD6 coverage you can find posts from the delegates here.
Vaughn is a VP of Systems Engineering at VAST Data. He helps organizations capitalize on what’s possible from VAST’s Universal Storage in a multitude of environments including A.I. & deep learning, data analytics, animation & VFX, media & broadcast, health & life sciences, data protection, etc. He spent 23 years in various leadership roles at Pure Storage and NetApp, and has been awarded a U.S. patent.
Vaughn strives to simplify the technically complex and advocates thinking outside the box. You can find his perspective online at vaughnstewart.com and in print; he’s coauthored multiple books including “Virtualization Changes Everything: Storage Strategies for VMware vSphere & Cloud Computing“.
