Patrick Smith
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- Field CTO for EMEA, Pure Storage
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Cyber resilience in the age of AI - why recovery now defines defense
AI is accelerating the speed, scale and sophistication of cyber attacks, making it harder for organizations to rely on Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) processes or perimeter controls alone. That shift demands a change in mindset. Cyber resilience can no longer be treated as a single product or platform problem, or as a matter of simply building a stronger wall around the organization. Prevention and detection still matter, but they are no longer enough on their own.
AI and Sustainability: Is There a Problem 8:06 AM EDT 5/26/2026 - Comtex Introduction By Patrick Smith, VP, EMEA Field CTO, Everpure AI can do more and more. Think of any topic and an AI or genAI tool can effortlessly generate an image, video or text. Yet the environmental impact of, say, generating a video by AI is often forgotten. For example, generating one image by AI consumes about the same amount of power as charging your mobile phone.
How to Leverage AI Without Compromising Sustainability Goals 10:07 AM EDT 3/31/2026 - Comtex Mar 31, 2026 (3BL via COMTEX News Network) -- By Patrick Smith There's no denying that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the fastest growing and largest areas of enterprise technology investment and innovation in recent years.
Why 2026 will be the year of infrastructure reckoning: energy, sovereignty, and AI reality
Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. (©canva.com) As we enter 2026, there are more factors impacting the business landscape than ever before. Global businesses will have to have flexibility built into operations in order to navigate these issues to keep customers, shareholders and employees satisfied. Here are five trends we expect will heavily influence organizations this year.
Cyber resilience success at scale demands synchronized security and storage
Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. We have seen the disruption that a major cloud infrastructure outage in a global data center can cause. The Autumn 2025 outage was more far reaching than expected: taking banks, financial software platforms, and social networks offline for hours.
Manufacturing Performance Benchmarking: A Data Driven Guide
Marketing Coordinator, Gardner Business Media - Gardner Intelligence Manufacturing excellence has transformed dramatically since 1928. What began as a simple focus on production output has evolved into a sophisticated, multi-dimensional measurement of success that defines today's industry leaders.
CW launches 2025 Top Shops benchmarking program
Source | Getty Images CompositesWorld, a Gardner Business Media (Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.) brand, announces the opening of its 2025 Top Shops benchmarking program. This comprehensive initiative invites North American composites manufacturers to participate in an in-depth operational and performance analysis that will provide valuable insights for business improvement.
Driving change in sustainability - understanding reporting and impact accounting
Main content We need to take sustainability seriously at a C-suite level. Not just to signal altruism, but because investors, consumers and workforces demand it. Also because energy savings, including water and electricity are more vital than ever, both from a resource availability and cost perspective. But right now, to achieve increased sustainability is as difficult as it is important, especially with the rise of AI and its rapacious datacenter energy and water consumption.
3 Considerations Before Adding On-Site Solar Power Generation
By Patrick Smith If you type "Should my company invest in on-site solar?" into Google, you're likely to see an extensive list of results comparing pros and cons. While on-site solar offers numerous benefits, determining its suitability for your organization and understanding the benefits can be a process. All this to say, there's still no clear-cut answer to this question that fully considers the pragmatic approach to initiating a solar program.
Why Manufacturers Should Consider Diversifying Their Energy Supply - Facilities Management Advisor
Editor’s note: FM Perspectives are industry op-eds. The views expressed are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect those of Facilities Management Advisor. Even those who aren’t regular consumers of energy industry news have likely come across a news report focused on how (and why) the American power grid is evolving.
A sustainability storm - why should organizations care
Main content There’s another storm brewing around sustainability and for those who have been tracking the topic for years, it’s a surprising one that’s dividing opinion. In the US, there’s a movement from some organizations to minimize environmental considerations for financial investments, with some states enacting regulation to keep ESG off the agenda. Over in Europe, the opposite is happening with companies being taken to court in the Netherlands for not being green enough, fast enough.
How SLAs are transforming data storage consumption
A good experience is fundamental to any storage as-a-service (STaaS) offering. However, in the IT industry, the stakes are especially high. Enterprise customers must rely on vendor service levels in order to make meaningful guarantees to their own users and customers.
A modern data platform - how organizations will benefit
In the first of this two-part series we looked at the all-flash data center and the evolving needs of business in a digital world. What emerged is the need for organizations to be able to react rapidly to new business requirements, meeting performance needs for different workloads, and the simplicity brought by a single operating environment. In this second article we drill down into some other key components of a modern data storage platform.
A modern data platform - the foundation for success
In today’s complex business environment, many organizations are grappling with how to create value from all their data, doing more with less and ensuring productivity. Many are looking for solutions which make their business run in a smoother, more streamlined way to maximize outcomes. Understanding their data is the key to this. But there is a lot of complexity in how data is stored, accessed, managed, protected and analyzed.
How can businesses capitalize on the AI gold rush without compromising sustainability goals?
There’s no denying that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the fastest growing and largest areas of enterprise technology investment and innovation in recent years. Given there are so many practical applications for this technology, it’s no surprise that AI is supporting mainstream use cases, ranging from healthcare and life sciences to semiconductor and chip manufacturing, automotive, financial services, and beyond.
Preparing the infrastructure foundations - how to get ready for successful AI
Generative AI is making headlines globally and organizations are facing increased pressure to have a strategy for their AI deployments. As the hype increases, the key question facing buyers is: how do we make AI work for us? Data is the key, but in order to take full advantage of the opportunity, laying the correct infrastructure foundations is essential. And lots of companies are not prepared.
Creating an all-flash data center - the final nail in the coffin for legacy hard disk
Simplicity and innovation are the foundations on which John ‘Coz’ Colgrove started Pure Storage in 2009. He wanted to keep these principles while achieving a vision to take flash storage mainstream and create an all-flash data center. Innovative vision Today there are well known advantages of flash over legacy disk-based storage. However back then, the main barriers to implementing were the purchase cost, the cost of operating it, and working out how to integrate it into the data lifecycle.
Navigating the complex landscape of sustainability - five focus areas for the C-Suite
It’s no longer a surprise to hear organizations pushing their ESG credentials, particularly around sustainability. It’s become part of the corporate lexicon and so it should. In the aftermath of COP26, keeping a 1.5 degree increase in global warming within reach has kick-started many organizations to focus on setting net zero goals and laying out a plan to achieve them. COP27 has served to keep focus on this critical measure.
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