Vaughn Stewart

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“.
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4 Reasons Why VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Is Simply Better On FlashStack

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Splunk SmartStore on Pure Storage: Simple, Efficient & Accelerated

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Something interesting has been occurring over the past 12 months, as the year has progressed, we've seen more and more customers deploy hyper-converged infrastructures (HCI) alongside all-flash arrays (AFAs) in their vSphere environments. Customers are leveraging the strength of VMware's SDDC technologies to align deployment success criteria to the type of infrastructure best capable of exceeding the success threshold.

End-to-End Data Encryption with Data Reduction from Thales & Pure Storage

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage - the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. This new...

Pure Storage Plug-in and Integrations with Veeam

Recently Pure and Veeam jointly announced the release of the Pure Storage plug-in and support for FlashBlade with Veeam Backup & Replication. These integrations provide joint customers with enhanced data protection capabilities that included...

Actifio AppFlash DevOps appliance powered by FlashArray//m

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Like the Phoenix, the vSphere Storage Best Practices Returns for VMworld 2016

I am happy to announce the return of the vSphere Storage Best Practices technical breakout session in an all-new and improved format. This is the brain child Cody Hosterman, Pure's Sr. VMware Reference Architect....

Pure Storage at VMworld 2016 #PaintItOrange

Just a quick post to share all Pure Storage has going on next week at VMworld 2016. To begin, we've got a great two-story booth (#923) located at the front of the partner pavilion. We're...

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