From Backups to Resilience: The Evolution of Everpure’s Cyber Strategy

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