Pure Storage Evolve Highlights Video

In 2013, I was fortunate to be a guest speaker at Pure Storage‘s first EVOLVE conference. I had a great time talking about how their solid state storage dramatically improved my employer’s infrastructure in terms of stability and performance. EVOLVE 2014 is in the works, and will again take place immediately after VMworld 2014. It …

Pure Storage and Round Robin

Yesterday, Pure Storage support and I performed a non-disruptive upgrade of the operating system (called Purity) that runs the controllers for our solid state SAN (storage area network). Prior to the upgrade, Pure Storage support wanted to confirm that all of our LUNs were configured to use Round Robin. Specifically, their “VMware ESXi 5.1 Best …

My comments on Pure Storage

My employer recently purchased a Pure Storage solid state SAN. I had a lot of influence on this project and lead the technical proof-of-concept testing. The Pure Storage team was great to work with. And while we did experience some problems during testing, their customer support responded quickly, took ownership, and resolved the issues — …