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Disclosure: Pure Storage Accelerate 2017
Justin discloses the various swag, food, transport, and accommodation used to attempt to sway his opinion during the Pure Accelerate 2017 conference. Read More
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The Eigencast 026: Pure Marketing
Justin talks to Jonathan Martin on his last day as CMO of Pure Storage about data driven marketing. Read More
The Eigencast 014: Pure Startup
Justin Warren talks to Scott Dietzen, CEO of Pure Storage, at Pure’s 2016 //Accelerate conference. Read More
Disclosure Post, Pure Accelerate and SFD9 Edition
Justin discloses the gifts and hospitality provided to him at Pure //Accelerate and Storage Field Day 9. Read More
The Eigencast 007: HDS Goes All Flash
Justin talks to Greg Knieriemen from HDS about the new HDS A-series all flash arrays, and the role of analysts in helping customers to make decisions. Read More
Useful Vendor Swag
Inspired by a question from @jfrappier, here is a bunch of vendor swag I’ve received over the years that has actually proved useful. Hopefully this will help marketing at the various vendors to invest in useful swag and not pointless landfill. The biggest issue with swag is its marginal utility: … Read More
Erasure Coding For Fun and Profit
As part of Data Field Day 1, we spoke to a company called HGST. A team from HGST actually invented the hard drive back in the 1950s, not far from their current office in Silicon Valley. They’ve been bought a sold a few times, most recently to Western Digital, and … Read More
Pure Storage FlashArray//m
What I like most about the FlashArray//m is the combination of very dull things that combine to make this an interesting piece of infrastructure. I tweeted out a cheeky picture of a 6509 with a Pure Storage logo on it, because that’s what the FlashArray//m reminds me of: a modular … Read More
Tech Companies With An OPiuM Problem, Part 3
If you haven’t read them already, check out Part 1 and Part 2 in this series. We discussed the rule of thumb for investor returns of 10-20x money raised in the first post in this series. Let’s have a look at some numbers that we actually know to see if … Read More
SolidFire
Dave from SolidFire was impressive. He had a quiet confidence that comes from knowing exactly what he’s doing. He knows his own product very well, which he should, but he also knows a lot about competitor products, and the market in generally. He was able to talk about all of … Read More