The Pure Report welcomes Anthony Nocentino, Sr. Principal Field Solution Architect, to delve into the future of databases and data management. This episode looks at the explosive growth of relational databases and the impact of SQL Server 2025, Oracle 23ai, and AI-driven demands. We explore how Pure Storage is not just keeping pace with database growth but actively simplifying management, scaling, and protection, moving beyond foundational support to offer operational freedom for DBAs and infrastructure teams.

Anthony tackles the pressing challenges faced by database environments today, including fragmented storage infrastructure, manual provisioning, and the complexities of compliance, disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud strategies. Anthony sheds light on how these issues contribute to real-world burnout among DBAs and infra team members. The discussion will also cover the evolving roles of these professionals as they increasingly become platform performance engineers, cloud strategists, and data ops troubleshooters in a world of multiple database engines and unpredictable resource needs driven by AI workloads.

Hear about how Pure's vision for the Enterprise Data Cloud connects to database operations, including key announcements from our Accelerate Vegas and NYC events. We dive into how Pure Fusion with workflow templates and Pure1 offers intelligent, AI-powered workload and resource management, automated policy-based provisioning, and a unified single control plane across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. The episode also explores the implications for enterprise-ready storage with the FlashArray platform family, showcasing how products like FA//XL, FA//X, FA//C, and FA//ST simplify workload expansion and provide significant performance benefits. Finally, we'll get Anthony's "Hot Takes" on critical DBA tasks, dream fixes for database environments, and common myths he'd like to debunk, all while looking forward to Pure's presence at Oracle AI World.

Databases!!! - Redefining Data Management for Infra & DBA Teams

✮  stars  4  u  ✮

Fans of the show know how much Josh and BComp love Mark Waid, but does that love hold up for his retelling of Justice League of America’s origins? And for all those Marvel fans, is this the book to convert them to DC? 

Is “JLA: Year One” the perfect jumping on point for the non-DC fan? We Got Issues #18

Your fave gay millennial’s fave gay millennial dance party. Celebrating 20 sold out weeks at 231 Sydney and the launch of Flash 2.0 at KX Club Sydney! Next party → instagram.com/danceatflash

FEATURING Lady Gaga (x5), Charli xcx (x4), Addison Rae (x3), Sabrina Carpenter (x3), JADE (x2), Tate McRae (x2), Ariana, BLACKPINK, Chappell, Cyndi Lauper, Demi Lovato, Fergie, Florence, HUNTR/X, John Summit, Kelly Clarkson, Kesha, Kylie, La Roux, Lorde, Luciana, Madonna, PinkPantheress, Rihanna, Sam Smith, Timbaland, Tinashe, Troye Sivan and more!

thanks @djdiegovalente, @adamusic-80273405, @altego_music for the edits and inspo <3

FLASH★ | PARTY ROOM FOR DANCING (CUTE)

@netyxk on ig
#PONGOATUNOVIAAMENEARSUCHAPA
LYRICS.
TENGO ANTOJO DE COMER UNA TORTA CUBANA
SI ME PAGAN YO ME LANZO ESTE FIN DE SEMANA
QUIERO LOS BILLETES YO QUIERO TODA LA LANA
TAMBIEN TENGO ANTOJO DE COMER UNA MANZANA
SALIENDO DEL CBT YO NO VOY AL 3B
ELLA SABE YO COMPRO PERO EN EL NETO.
(NO MAMES TE LA CREISTE)
SALIENDO DEL CBT YO NO VOY AL 3B
ELLA SABE YO COMPRO PERO EN EL NETO.

SALIENDO DEL CBT

AMBROIZE 14/10/2025

An altered state of consciousness, I am aware of the worlds around and within.

Sitting

The Pure Report welcomes Shawn Rosemarin, VP R&D, Customer Engineering at Pure Storage, to explore the critical topic of workflow optimization in today's IT landscape. Shawn shares his unique perspective on how the industry is moving beyond a product-centric view to embrace a platform mindset, emphasizing the profound impact this shift has on people and processes. Drawing on decades of experience, he highlights how true value is derived when technology actively evolves the way companies operate, making life better for IT professionals and streamlining essential business functions.

Our conversation dives deep into the "death by a thousand cuts" phenomenon, where seemingly minor inefficiencies in IT workflows accumulate into major productivity drains and significant risks. Shawn breaks down key areas such as provisioning and resource allocation, performance management and monitoring, and refresh cycles, illustrating how traditional approaches often lead to wasted time, increased costs, and security vulnerabilities. He uses compelling analogies, from ride-hailing apps to airplane checklists, to underscore the need for automated, consistent, and intelligent solutions that simplify complex tasks and minimize human error.

We ultimately arrive at a discussion around an autonomous operating environment, where human ingenuity is augmented by machine intelligence to proactively identify and resolve issues, reduce risk, and accelerate time to market. Thought the episode we link to how Pure’s platform approach, including innovations like Pure 1 and Evergreen//One, is transforming the way customers manage their data estate, enabling centralized policy controls, self-service upgrades, and seamless cloud integration. 

The Platform Mindset: Driving Workflow Efficiency in the Data Center

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made with my own two paws

catalog no. AP-0003

run.

In our latest episode, we sit down with Ken Hui, Field Solutions Architect, to discuss his journey at Pure Storage and the evolving landscape of data management. Ken shares his unique perspective on Pure Storage's culture, highlighting the emphasis on collaboration and innovation. The conversation delves into the critical role of unstructured data in today's AI-driven world, exploring how enterprises can strategically manage and protect their ever-growing data assets without falling prey to common pitfalls.

Ken, a seasoned veteran in the storage and cloud space, offers valuable advice on approaching new technologies, stressing the importance of starting with the desired end-state and aligning technology with people and processes. He also revisits his early career frustrations with file storage, explaining how Pure Storage's advancements, particularly with FlashBlade and FlashArray, have transformed the experience, making data management simpler and more efficient. The discussion touches on the power of continuous innovation, self-service upgrades, and the multi-tenancy capabilities that empower customers.

Our episode concludes with Ken's "hot take" on industry trends, where he champions object storage as a scalable solution for large-scale data workloads, especially in the AI and analytics space. He also shares a memorable "oops" moment from his career and offers crucial advice for IT professionals: learn programming to effectively leverage automation and APIs in the future of data management. 

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


From File Frustration to Flash Freedom: How a Technologist Learned to Love File at Pure Storage

this is inspired on Nene...like a theme for her and the actions on the solo game of her.
the art is by xXDiminishRain98Xx

fuck you "ivy" (vai se FUDER seu otário)

SLASH THE VEIN

Mango Season

Join Pure Storage Technical Evangelists Don Poorman and Mike Nelson as we dive into Pure Fusion and how Pure Storage is enabling users to focus less on managing storage and more on managing their data.  We start by examining the complexities of managing storage and application workloads in today's rapidly evolving IT landscape. We expose the challenges posed by legacy vendor "portfolios" which often consist of disparate products lacking unified GUIs and APIs. Learn why a fundamental shift is necessary to eliminate silos in enterprise storage, moving beyond mere federation to true integration – a unified management plane with common APIs that seamlessly operate across the entire storage ecosystem. Poorman and Nelson underscore how this integration and automation are not just valuable for traditional workloads but will be absolutely critical for the future of AI implementation, especially for inference.

Our discussion pivots to Pure Storage's groundbreaking solution: Fusion. Learn what Fusion is – a powerful capability included in the latest versions of the Purity operating environment that provides an intelligent control plane for a centralized, unified management experience across an entire fleet of arrays. Our experts explain how Fusion inherently adopts Pure's API-First strategy, offering robust automation capabilities through PowerShell SDK, Ansible, and Python. They highlight how Fusion drives management, compliance, and workload configuration consistency from a single pane of glass, and how it's a vital foundation of Pure's Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) vision.

Listeners and viewers will gain invaluable insights into the tangible benefits of Fusion, including the ability to provision storage on any array from any array within the same UI, search and manage storage resources globally, and reconfigure resources without needing to access a specific array. Poorman and Nelson also explore how Fusion simplifies and standardizes workload deployments with pre-configured definitions, enabling end-to-end workload orchestration. They touch upon future enhancements like seamless interoperability across file, object, and block storage in on-site, hybrid, and cloud environments, and the exciting prospect of workload mobility.  
Check out the new Pure Storage digital customer community to join the conversation with peers and Pure experts:  https://purecommunity.purestorage.com/


Pure Fusion: Unified and Automated Data Management enabling the Enterprise Data Cloud

Blending storm-charged atmospheres with a relentless trance engine, “FROM FLASH TO ROAR” traces that electric heartbeat between lightning and thunder—the breathless space where shadows speak and the city wakes. Metallic leads slice through rain-slick pads, while a pulsing low-end keeps time like footsteps in the night. The drop arrives like a sky-split flash, then widens into a roar of layered synths and percussive grit.

Inspired by autumn nights and power lines humming over empty streets, the track carries a whisper-count from flash to roar—one, two, three—before it lands, hard and hypnotic. It’s Halloween techno energy wrapped in neon and cinder: tense, moody, and cathartic on the dancefloor.

From flash to roar

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!


Join Aeric and Malcolm as they conclude Bart Allen’s time as THE FLASH!


Bart Allen heads west to the City of Angels, and trouble follows! With Inertia plotting the downfall of the Scarlet Speedster, Bart will need to grow up fast if he has any hope of saving his relationship AND saving the city! But when the embodiment of Death arrives in the form of the Black Flash, whose life will be claimed in the climactic showdown: Inertia or The Flash?


Covers The Flash: Fastest Man Alive (2006) #7-13 by Danny Bilson, Paul Demeo, Marc Guggenheim, Ron Adrian, Art Thibert, Paco Diaz and Tony Daniel


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00:14:55 Book Club Begins
01:32:30 Break
01:33:40 Speed Force Mailbag
01:54:25 Patreon Shout-outs & Wrap-Up


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Music Sampled:
“Alive” by Warbly Jets


Book Club: Geoff Johns' The Flash Part 12 (FASTEST MAN ALIVE PART TWO)

Dedmos Adventures Soundtrack - Chase.Fla

Dedmos adventure - SACRAFICE.fla

Dedmos adventure - Anamnesis.fla

mais uma vez, essas músicas são feitas com muito carinho e amor, mas ninguém vai ouvir, de qualquer forma, eu não ligo, eu gosto de fazer-las, eu só quero te dizer para não assumir nada sobre mim, você não me conhece, você é só mais um idiota que vai querer ouvir esse lixo, me deixe em paz, e porfavor não diga nada em relação ao que você pensa sobre mim, sua opinião é inválida e eu não gosto de você, se quiser falar algo sobre a track bem, se não apenas não comente nada, só quero dizer que: eu amo cervejas!
minha mensagem: não confie em quem vende música experimental, nunca.

my nickname was MAGISTƎR★☆SHƎNANIGAN★ ☆ ✪.
trying not to neck myself here... (2025)

i dont care, nothing here is serious, no one is gonna listen to it anyway

sole purpose is to post music.

se for brasileiro me mande um beijo amo vcs lindos

discord: @g.ggg1337 (2024)

📍 FLASH★, POOF DOOF, Universal
🎶 Fresh vocal pop dance house

Since 2021, JAMES QUEEN has played Saturday nights at POOF DOOF (ivy, Kinselas, ARQ), DÉJÀVU (Universal) and FLASH★ (231 Sydney, KX Club), Friday nights at FAME Fridays and Sanctuary (Universal), and for Sydney Pride and World Pride at the FINALE Mardi Gras Closing Party in 2022 and 2023 (Home The Venue).

Special events included the official Kim Petras FEED THE BEAST album launch party for POOF DOOF in 2023, the Taylor Swift CLUB ERAS After Party for POOF DOOF in 2024, and BRAT DOOF.

He has supported Absolute, Aluna, Andy Van, Corey Craig, Dan Slater, Dani Brasil, GSP, House of Labs, Horse Meat Disco, Kitty Glitter, Riton, Sagi Kariv, Samantha Jade, Sexshooters and other national and international headliners.

His tunes have been aired on Nova 96.9 FM and triple j in Australia and Gaydio in the UK.

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Way back in the mid-1980s, when the disco gods appeared over the Chicago skyline and proclaimed, “Let there be house,” his acolytes responded, “And let it be deep.” And it was good.

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