Exploring 2nd Half Launch Announcements with Andrew Miller and Savas Nicolaides

This week we welcome our Sr. Principal Technology Strategists Andrew Miller and Savas Nicolaides to review the second half launch announcements from the London Accelerate event. We dive into how these announcements build upon earlier Vegas updates within the Enterprise Data Cloud framework. Our conversation begins with the unified data plane, highlighting key advancements including Active Cluster for file, Evergreen//One overdrive performance bursting, Deep Reduce similarity compression, and expanded virtualization and AI capabilities. Our second segment covers the intelligent control plane and the goal of managing entire storage fleets to scale IT team efficiency. Andrew and Savas discuss policy driven management, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, and Pure1 copilot updates. They introduce Configuration Advisor in Pure1 to help teams eliminate policy drift across existing environments, alongside non-disruptive workload mobility and enhanced observability for Portworx clusters. Our final segment focuses on universal data intelligence and the industry shift toward data primacy. Andrew and Savas explain how Everpure Data Intelligence File Edition helps organizations discover, classify, and contextualize unstructured data to solve data sovereignty and compliance challenges. Finally, Savas introduces the Enterprise Data Cloud Success Blueprint framework, offering a practical path for IT leaders to align technical projects directly with core business outcomes. To learn more, visit: https://www.everpuredata.com/pure-launch-updates-releases.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 and Intro 07:47 Enterprise Data Cloud and Data Primacy 12:04 Unified Data Plane 14:13 ActiveCluster for File 16:26 Evergreen//One Overdrive 20:30 Purity DeepReduce Compression 23:08 Virtualization and AI Advancements 27:23 Intelligent Control Plane 32:45 Fusion Rebalance and Workload Mobility 34:07 Configuration Advisor and Remediation 38:30 Observability for Portworx 40:01 Universal Data intelligence 55:55 Data Intelligence File Edition 58:13 EDC Blueprint