The Pure Report

In this episode, we welcome Ernie China, who recently joined Everpure after a decade at VMware and Broadcom. Ernie brings deep expertise in the virtualization ecosystem and offers a unique perspective on the industry landscape during this pivotal time. Our conversation serves as a warm introduction to Ernie and sets the stage for a broader discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing IT teams today.

The core of our discussion explores the current state of virtualization, particularly how enterprises are reacting to the recent changes following the Broadcom acquisition. Ernie explains why customers are feeling significant turmoil as they navigate shifts from perpetual licenses to subscription models. They discuss the common struggle many organizations face, describing a transitional phase where leaders are weighing whether to stay the course with their existing VMware investment or explore alternative hypervisors and container based strategies.

Finally, we highlight Everpure's commitment to supporting customers throughout this transition. Everpure remains fully invested in the VMware ecosystem while providing a robust foundation for those looking to modernize their infrastructure through containers or other hypervisors. We make a compelling case for why IT leaders must elevate data management as a strategic priority, ensuring that decisions about performance, security, and efficiency are made long before infrastructure choices are finalized.

To learn more, visit: https://www.everpuredata.com/solutions/virtualization.html

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

00:00 Coming Up
00:29 Intro to our Guest
04:32 Inside the Broadcom Transition
09:11 Stats of the Episode on Virtualization Trends
15:10 Alternative Hypervisors and Options
19:50 Dual Strategies
24:50 Data Management is Imperative
27:44 Hot Takes Segment

Watch a special on location episode of the Pure Report recorded at Pure Accelerate 2026 in Las Vegas. In this segment, we are joined by three public sector technology leaders representing the Mississippi Department of Revenue, Spring Branch Independent School District, and the Louisiana Office of Technology Services. These innovators share their unique journeys in managing complex IT landscapes while navigating the immense pressure of serving citizens and students at scale.

Our discussion dives deep into the operational reality of government and education technology. We explore the critical shift from aging infrastructure to modernized platforms, focusing on database consolidation, cyber resilience strategies, and the transition to subscription based models like Evergreen//One. They offer candid insights into the technical hurdles of maintaining high availability and scaling data services to support unprecedented demand while keeping security and compliance at the forefront of every deployment.

Beyond the architecture and hardware, our conversation highlights the human side of IT leadership in the public sector. Each leader emphasizes the importance of building empowered teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning, and navigating the challenges of organizational silos. Whether sharing lessons learned from past failures or discussing the future of AI and data intelligence, these professionals provide a blueprint for how to lead technology teams that are not just keeping the lights on, but are actively delivering better services to their communities.

To learn more, visit: https://www.everpuredata.com/solutions/industries/government/state-and-local.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 to Mike Dehaan from MS-DOR
05:53 Hot Takes on NVMe and Openshift
09:15 Mike’s IT Oops Story
13:22 Intro to Troy Neal from Spring Branch ISD
15:47 Troy’s Path to Cyber Learning
20:06 Customer Blueprint for Cyber Success
22:25 What’s Next at Spring Branch
26:51 Intro to Adrian Erwin from LA-OTS
28:58 Adrian’s Career Journey to Databases
31:32 Database Mythbusting about Snapshots
33:15 Avoiding Downtime for Citizens

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