Tired of Energy Savings & Efficiency “Gas”-lighting? Better Science is the Answer

Who knew that the best coffee break conversations would end up happening online? Each month, Pure’s Coffee Break series invites experts in technology and business to chat about the themes driving today’s IT agenda - much more ‘podcast’ than ‘webinar’. This is no webinar or training session—it’s a freewheeling conversation that’s as fun as it is informative and the perfect way to break up your day. While we’ll wander into Pure technology, our goal is to educate and entertain rather than sell.

For January, let’s embrace the Merriam-Webster 2022 Word of the Year - gaslighting - but with a positive spin. This month host Andrew Miller invites back a return guest - Brian Gold (both a literal rocket scientist and also the professor you enjoyed listening to) - to explore how Pure’s Better Science enables up to 1) 80% energy savings, 2) 96% less space required, and 3) dramatically higher storage density - all with 4) much longer equipment lifetime (3x lower DirectFlash module failure rates than SSD’s). Yes, we realize it’s almost hard to believe.

As always, we’ll keep it educational and start by exploring the industry landscape, how flash / NAND works at a low level, and then move into Pure’s engineering advantage and application at scale.

Topics will include:

• The History of Flash in the Datacenter - eventually the solution became the problem. Insane data growth didn’t help either.
• The Physics of Flash - Quantum Mechanics, Device Physics, Materials Science, oh my!
• DirectFlash - Pure’s Hardware & Software Co-Design = how we deliver on the dramatic numbers above.
• Start Small & Grow Forever - Exploring Exascale Systems and we to use the same building blocks for a single system as for exascale and pod based architectures. Yes, this involves Pure Fusion.
• The team will stay on after the webinar answering any questions for those that want to stay longer!