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Pure Storage Presents at Virtualization Field Day 3



Virtualization Field Day 3


This Presentation date is March 5, 2014 at 16:00 - 18:00.

Presenters: Joel Mckelvey, Matt Kixmoeller, Neil Vachhrajani, Vaughn Stewart



Welcome to Pure Storage with Matt Kixmoeller


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An introduction to Pure Storage, their technology, company & culture. Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Marketing, shares the vision of Pure Storage, how the initial efforts to democratize Flash storage have enabled organization to embark on a path towards a flash-fueled enterprise.

Personnel: Matt Kixmoeller

Advancing Virtualization with All Flash Storage


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A provocative discussion with Vaughn Stewart, Chief Evangelist, around the challenges of storage with virtualization highlighted by an unlikely root cause. Discussion continues with a review of innovation in the storage industry and dives into the 5 forms of data reduction technology available in the Pure Storage FlashArray.

Personnel: Vaughn Stewart

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Flash


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A technical conversation with Neil Vachhrajani, Software Engineer, one of the brightest minds at Pure Storage discussing NAND flash technology. Topics include SLC, MLC, eMLC, Flash Resiliency, Program and Erase Cycles, Garbage Collection, Over Provisioning, Write Amplification, Data Reduction and more. This is a fantastic session to better understand SSD.

Personnel: Neil Vachhrajani

VMware on Pure Storage Demos


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A technical session with Joel Mckelvey, Product Marketing Manager, covering how storage best practices evolve with all-flash storage arrays. Topics include FlashArray Configuration, vCenter plug-in, VAAI, Misalignment, T10 SCSI UNMAP, Thin vs. Eager-Zero Thick virtual disks, Data Management, Performance Bottlenecks in the Hypervisor stack, Hyper-V, and more. This session includes live demos of some of the technologies.

Personnel: Joel Mckelvey


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