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Can we stop the rot in academia?

Emergency Planning

Those who make the transition from intellectual activity to administration are precipitated into a system that enthusiastically applies principles and techniques that were tried out in business half a century ago and rapidly abandoned because they failed to improve the performance of companies.

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Pure Introduces First External Block Storage for Azure VMware Solution

Pure Storage

For customers with storage-intensive VMware workloads, Pure Cloud Block Store ™ provides the flexibility to match your Azure VMware Solution compute needs with your storage capacity needs—optimizing your spend in the cloud. Pure Storage also brings sophisticated data reduction with deduplication, compression, and pattern removal to the cloud.

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Following Recent Incidents, U.S. House of Representatives Examines Counterdrone Protections

Security Industry Association

Lawmakers expressed concern over recent incidents involving unknown drones over sensitive sites in New Jersey , reports of over 45,000 detections of drone activity along the southern border and the growing risk to critical infrastructure sites. Witnesses also addressed privacy concerns in the hearing.

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The Storage Architecture Spectrum: Why “Shared-nothing” Means Nothing

Pure Storage

I use these examples to illustrate the huge difference between a simple active-passive database running on two servers and a scalable cloud-native database that gets lost when you describe a system merely as “shared-nothing.” Conversely, Cloud Spanner in this taxonomy would be considered a partitioned-writer system.

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Understand resiliency patterns and trade-offs to architect efficiently in the cloud

AWS Disaster Recovery

P1 is less expensive because it provisions less compute capacity and relies on launching new instances in case of a failure. Data is actively replicated and application infrastructure is pre-provisioned in the disaster recovery (DR) Region. P5 – Multi-Region active-active. Multi-Region active-active pattern (P5).

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Real Storage as a Service vs. B.S. (Broken Subscriptions)

Pure Storage

If we don’t meet the performance or capacity obligations, we proactively ship more storage arrays and set them up at no cost to you. This is because Pure Storage® is committing to a performance and capacity obligation. Pure’s Capacity Management Guarantee . We’re clear about our obligation in our product guide.

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The Lack of Value in Hard Disk Drives Could Cost You More than You Know

Pure Storage

It’s assumed HDD capacity will scale at the same rate as data growth. Conventional disk drive capacity is growing at a snail’s pace compared to Pure Storage DirectFlash. Figure 2: Capacity comparison of Pure Storage DirectFlash Modules to largest nearline HDD. This is not the case. With a cost under $0.20/GB

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