A Deep Dive Into Platform Innovations: Part One

On this episode we reunite with Everpure technologists and frequent friends of the podcast Andrew Miller and JD Wallace for a deep dive into our major product announcements from June at our Accelerate conference. One year after our influential 15 architectural decisions series debuted, the team returns to uncover the latest Everpure platform advancements and explain why these specific innovations are significant for today’s enterprise data environments. We explore the concept of the unified data plane, moving beyond traditional storage hardware to address modern performance, efficiency, and cloud flexibility needs. We then dissect new developments like the FlashArray XL190 and performance breakthroughs for FlashBlade, while discussing how Everpure is shifting its strategy to meet the demands of a data centric world rather than an application centric one. Beyond hardware, Andrew and JD explain the business value of these technologies, emphasizing how Evergreen One Overdrive helps customers handle demand spikes and how Everpure is adapting to the fragmented virtualization landscape. This technical breakdown provides the foundation for understanding how Everpure has evolved into a comprehensive data management platform. We also set the stage for part 2 around intelligent control plane and data intelligence with data context. 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 and Intros 03:15 Strategic Implications and EDC 07:45 Keynote and Data Primacy 16:29 Launch Announcements Setup 18:06 FlashArray XL//190 with Turbo 22:11 FlashBlade Benchmarks 24:38 Virtualization Integrations 31:01 Portworx and Kubevirt 33:46 File and Object 36:58 Everpure Data Stream GA 37:58 Evergreen//One Overdrive