The Pure Report

This week we welcome back Senior Technical Evangelist Mike Nelson and introduce podcast newcomer and Product Manager Ameerul Shah. Our conversation centers on the latest developments with Fusion and how it is redefining and automating data management. We explore how the Everpure is moving beyond simple storage management by leveraging the Fusion automation engine to empower IT teams to become true data strategists.

A major focus of our discussion moves to the new Fusion MCP server release. Mike and Ameerul explain the Model Context Protocol, describing it as the important bridge between infrastructure data and large language models. By providing the right context, the new Fusion MCP allows AI agents to move past confident guessing and hallucinations, enabling them to safely execute real world tasks like provisioning workloads and resolving incidents with supervised actions.

We then highlight the open source commitment behind Fusion MCP, designed to help power users and dark site customers integrate their full infrastructure stacks. Mike and Ameerul discuss the power of API first development, the importance of human in the loop supervision for agentic AI, and the broader shift toward autonomous management. Listeners will gain practical insights into how this technology is helping organizations streamline operations and scale their data services more effectively.

To learn more, visit: https://blog.everpuredata.com/purely-technical/smarter-ai-powered-data-management-with-everpure-fusion-mcp-server-2/

Check out the new Everpure digital customer community to join the conversation with peers and Everpure experts:
https://purecommunity.purestorage.com/

00:00 Intro and Welcome
06:38 What Product Managers Actually Do
09:55 Origin of Fusion
14:05 Applying AI to Data Management
16:18 What is Model Context Protocol (MCP)
25:45 Observe, Triage, and Act
35:15 MCP is Open Source
38:25 Availability of MCP for Users
42:49 Hot Takes Segment
48:31 Oops IT Stories

In this episode of the Pure Report, we sit down with Ashish Gupta, General Manager of Data Management at Everpure. Following the recent acquisition of 1touch, Ashish shares his excitement about joining the team and discusses how the new Everpure Data Intelligence solution fits into the broader Enterprise Data Cloud vision. Our conversation marks the third installment in our ongoing launch series, providing a capstone on the foundational work done with the unified data plane and intelligent control plane with Chadd Kenney.

Ashish explains the core technology behind the platform, which centers on the ability to discover, classify, and provide critical context to data across complex and heterogeneous environments. By applying business logic and understanding the relationships between and among data points, Everpure Data Intelligence enables organizations to move beyond basic data management. This approach helps companies address significant challenges related to data sovereignty, compliance requirements like GDPR, and the growing complexity of unstructured data.

Our discussion highlights why context is king when navigating modern IT landscapes. Whether it is preventing risks like data mismanagement or ensuring organizations are prepared for the rise of artificial intelligence, Ashish emphasizes the importance of building intelligent, actionable data layers. Listeners will gain insights into how the platform helps enterprises become AI ready while maintaining security and governance in a world where data is constantly in motion.

To learn more, visit: https://www.everpuredata.com/launch

Check out the new Everpure digital customer community to join the conversation with peers and Everpure experts:
https://purecommunity.purestorage.com/

00:00 Intro and Welcome
03:13 Everpure Platform and Data Intelligence
05:40 Origin Story with GDPR and Compliance
09:55 Career Journey
12:05 Stat of the Episode on Unused Data
18:55 Customer Examples on Data Intelligence
24:30 What is Everpure Data Intelligence
27:19 Understanding Context
34:04 Implications for AI
40:45 Guidance for Storage Practitioners
47:18 Hot Takes

In episode 2 of our special 2026 launch series, we are joined again by VP of Product Management Chadd Kenney to discuss Everpure’s Unified Data Plane innovations announced at Pure Accelerate. Our conversation covers the shift away from traditional, fragmented storage management toward an intent-based, unified approach that allows customers to manage their entire infrastructure as one holistic fleet.

Our episode details key product innovations from Accelerate, including the FlashArray//XL 190 with Turbo for added performance flexibility and the continued success of FlashBlade in supporting large-scale AI and GPU-based workloads. Additionally, we explore the new Overdrive capability within the Evergreen//One subscription portfolio, which provides organizations with a risk-reduction mechanism to handle performance spikes without entering new procurement cycles.

Looking beyond core storage, we look at strategic workload flexibility for virtualization, including new advancements in Azure Local, the Nutanix partnership, and the use of Teleport technology for seamless VM to Kubevirt migrations. Our episode concludes by highlighting Everpure Data Stream in the context of upcoming focus on Everpure Data Intelligence, emphasizing how the platform is evolving to prepare data for AI applications through a new semantics layer.

To learn more, visit: https://www.everpuredata.com/launch

Check out the new Everpure digital customer community to join the conversation with peers and Everpure experts:
https://purecommunity.purestorage.com/

00:00 Intro and Series Preview
04:03 Stat of the Episode
06:02 FlashArray//XL 190 with Turbo
07:59 FlashBlade//EXA
09:40 Evergreen//One Overdrive
11:47 File ane Object Expansion
14:57 Modern Virtualization Innovations
21:11 Everpure AI Data Stream
22:58 Summary on Unified Data Plane

In this episode of the Pure Report, we sit down with Everpure VP of Product Management, Chadd Kenney, to kick off a three-part series celebrating the company's annual June launch. We explore the evolution of storage management into autonomous data operations, emphasizing the critical shift from managing siloed infrastructure to treating data as a strategic, unified asset. Our conversation centers on Everpure’s Intelligent Control Plane, highlighting how Everpure is moving beyond traditional volume and filesystem management to a declarative model where policies and intent drive storage behavior.

Chadd breaks down the power of the Intelligent Control Plane, drawing an analogy to autonomous vehicles where intent-based communication eliminates traffic and friction. Our discussion shifts to how Everpure is using Fusion to unify data fleets, allowing for policy enforcement and automation across both greenfield and brownfield deployments. We also touch on the broader impact of AI, discussing how improved visibility into application data and service-level objectives enables IT teams to move from tactical, manual tasks to high-level strategic partnerships with their business units.

Finally, we preview upcoming innovations in openness, compliance, and autonomous agentic features, such as automated rebalancing and enhanced anomaly detection. By abstracting the infrastructure layer and enabling policy-based intent, Everpure is empowering customers to set and forget complex storage tasks, significantly reducing management overhead. Whether you are already using Fusion capabilities or looking to rationalize your storage environment, this episode offers a clear roadmap for embracing a more autonomous, intelligent future in data management.

To learn more, visit: https://www.everpuredata.com/launch

Check out the new Everpure digital customer community to join the conversation with peers and Everpure experts:
https://purecommunity.purestorage.com/

00:00 Intro and Series Preview
02:28 Elevating Data Above Apps
5:10 Intelligent Control Plane Primer
10:05 Stat of the Episode
13:16 New Fusion and Pure1 Capabilities
16:20 App Intelligence, Policy, and Compliance
20:30 AI Copilot and Agentic Workflows
24:10 The Meaning of Intent around Data

The Pure Report welcomes Chad Monteith, Principal Field Solutions Architect to the studio to discuss the critical evolution of cyber resilience. Having joined the company through the StorReduce acquisition in 2018, Chad reflects on his journey from the early days of modern data protection to the current cyber resilience solution area including Everpure Resilience service. We dive into how the industry has fundamentally shifted from simple, reactive backups to proactive, operational resilience—an essential pivot in an era where data availability is a board-level imperative.

Our conversation explores the technical and strategic nuances of this shift. Chad explains why the move to as-a-service models is about more than just subscription pricing—it is about leveraging real-time telemetry to reduce resolution times and simplify operational complexity. By integrating flash storage with software-based recovery, Everpure helps customers move beyond binary failover/failback scenarios to flexible, automated recovery zones, clean rooms, and Isolated Recovery Environments (IREs). These tools are designed to make recovery demonstrably provable and fast, allowing organizations to recover entire application stacks in minutes rather than days.

Finally, we pivot to looking at the human side of IT and the expanding remit of the CISO, who is increasingly tasked with owning disaster recovery alongside incident response. Chad introduces the Apple Corollary—that people prefer buying systems that work together—and emphasizes that the ultimate goal of any technologist is to combine innovation with tangible business requirement. From his early days as a sysadmin to his current role helping organizations build resilient architectures, Chad underscores that in an age of AI-driven attacks, the most powerful defense is a recovery strategy that is simple, constantly tested, and ready at the push of a button.

To learn more, visit: https://www.everpuredata.com/products/cyber-recovery.html

Check out the new Everpure digital customer community to join the conversation with peers and Everpure experts:
https://purecommunity.purestorage.com/

00:00 Intro and Cyber Landscape
05:15 Denver Talk
08:05 Career Journey
14:45 Origin of Everpure Resilience service
23:45 Stat of the Episode on CISOs
31:18 Resilience and Isolated Environments
36:18 Everpure Resilience service
50:19 Hot Takes Segment