Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Rob Ludeman
Elevating Community: Pure Storage Launches a New Digital Platform for Customer and Partner Collaboration
The new Pure Storage customer community platform is a centralized place where you can connect, share best practices, and troubleshoot challenges with other users, partners, and technical specialists. In the world of enterprise technology, community isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a powerful catalyst for innovation, growth, and shared success.
Meeting the Moment: Welcome to Our Revitalized Reseller Partner Program
Pure Storage’s ability to reach so many organizations worldwide is only possible through our partner ecosystem. This latest version of our program allows our reseller partners to jump on the breadth of net new and refresh opportunities in the market. Over the past decade, all-flash data centers have reshaped the storage industry. At Pure Storage, we haven’t just witnessed this transformation—we’ve led it.
DeepSeek’s Impact on the Future of AI
DeepSeek is revolutionizing AI development with its innovative approach to smaller, specialized models and intelligent data management, paving the way for more efficient, cost-effective, and capable AI systems. DeepSeek has introduced a transformative approach to AI development. DeepSeek isn’t just another AI company; it’s a paradigm shift. The team behind it is composed of engineers who aren’t bound by traditional AI methodologies.
Exploring Modern Data Storage Challenges and Changes with Pure Storage’s Ryan Arsenault
The IT landscape is undergoing rapid change. From automation to all-flash, organizations can stay ahead and drive innovation with transformative solutions that address the needs of modern businesses. DBAs, relational databases, in-memory, all-flash, the cloud. What do all of these things have in common? Change. Rapid change. And yet, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Overcoming the Challenges of Contact Center Data
The evolution of call centers has been nothing short of monumental, from the days of private branch exchange (PBX) phone systems to cloud-based, omnichannel contact centers that seamlessly connect experiences across a growing number of communication channels. And now AI is poised to make the most sweeping advancements in contact centers yet—with the potential to revolutionize both customer and employee experiences.
Advance Institutional Resilience and Reduce Risk for Higher Education
Summary Higher education institutions are making IT investments to deliver exceptional digital experiences for students and faculty, but they also need solutions that can help them speed recovery from a ransomware attack, reduce complexity and costs, and be future-ready. Most higher education institutions today are on a journey to modernize and uncomplicate their IT infrastructure so they can deliver exceptional digital experiences for students and faculty learning and working from anywhere.
The SSD Trap: How a Storage Solution’s Reliance on SSDs Can Impact You (Part 1 of 2)
Summary Some newer NVMe-based, software-defined storage (SDS) startups are leveraging commodity off-the-shelf (COTS) SSDs in their solutions. However, using COTS SSDs poses limitations for these vendors and for customers who choose these systems.
Why a Successful AI Strategy Starts with a Data Strategy
Summary A successful data strategy is the foundation for a successful AI strategy. If you don’t plan for the many underlying data requirements of AI, you’ll run into data problems, which will inevitably lead to AI problems. What makes an AI strategy successful? A stockpile of GPUs? The world’s top data scientists? A bottomless budget? These are all good things—but no AI project will succeed without a successful data strategy.
What is Zero Trust Architecture?
The foundational principle of zero trust architecture (ZTA) is this: Assuming trust anywhere in network security is a flawed approach and no longer sufficient against today’s advanced cyberthreats, implicit trust should never be granted to a user, device, or application based only on that user, device, or application’s location on a secure network.
How Cloud Operating Models Are Transforming the Digital Enterprise
Once the cloud was considered the inevitable destination for everything: operations, development, public apps, storage—and now, AI data—the challenges emerged. The cloud enables quick scaling, but it can be costly with hard-to-navigate pricing. Data governance dictates on-premises storage for certain data. Some workflows suffer from latency and other performance issues when placed in the cloud.
Pure Freedom: 6 Things Orgs Stop Worrying about with Pure Storage
Summary From the beginning, Pure Storage set out to shake up the storage status quo. With no more spreadsheet gymnastics or ripping and replacing, our simple intuitive design is helping make IT people’s lives easier. Pure Storage has always been ambitious: We never sought to form just another data storage company. We wanted to build something revolutionary—that would change the tech world for good and ultimately help make everyone’s lives easier.
Sports and Data: A ‘Match’ Made in Heaven
Where there are games or sports, there’s data. Lots of it. Whether it’s calculating odds for a wager, gathering biometric data, tracking the outcome of a putt, or capturing a Formula One car’s performance through hundreds of sensors, data has not only transformed how we play sports but also how we watch them.
The Flash Storage-AI Connection, Explained
Summary Data storage plays a critical role in AI’s interlocking pipeline of technologies. But not just any storage will do. When it comes to performance and savings on space, power, and cooling, flash storage has disk beat.
Beyond the Hype: The Truth behind the Marketing Claims of Many New Data Storage Platforms
Summary Many new storage solutions promise groundbreaking functionalities but actually have stability, maturity, and operational limitations. A true modern data storage platform offers intuitive design and simplicity, seamless integration of the latest advancements, power and space efficiency and cost-effective scalability. This is Part 1 of a five-part series diving into the claims of new data storage platforms.
Experts Answer 5 Key Questions About AI
Summary The quest to leverage AI may be in full swing, but there are still many questions about implementing, managing, and accessing AI solutions. A recent Pure Storage webinar explored the priorities and challenges organizations face when using AI and how they can overcome them. The quest to leverage AI may be in full swing across many industries, but there are still a truckload of questions about implementing, managing, and accessing AI solutions.
Take Stock of Your Data Retention and Deletion Policies |
Data Privacy Week is an annual reminder to brush up on and fine-tune our privacy and compliance best practices. As an ISO 27001 Certified provider, Pure is committed to keeping customers’ data safe. In fact, compliance is a huge part of the data privacy conversation. There’s a critical aspect of compliance that’s often overlooked, and it’s nearly as important as how a customer’s data gets used: data retention and deletion policies.
Data Storage, Pure and Simple
Every time you open your feed, another groundbreaking innovation has changed the game. But complexity and challenges are never far behind. With every new tech that dazzles us, there’s a team squeezing every last drop out of their infrastructures to make it happen. If you talk to them—and we have—you’ll hear that one thing tends to slow them down: data storage. It’s the elephant in the data center, the necessary evil, the cost center, the dinosaur. At Pure Storage, we disagree.
Why FlashStack Is Right for Your Customers
This blog post on FlashStack is co-authored by Darren Williams, Director, Global Compute Storage Solutions at Cisco, and Mark Bridges, Sr. Director of Alliances, at Pure Storage. What keeps business owners and executives awake at night? Is it security of the infrastructure? Cost efficiency? Simplified management of your data? Whatever your answer, chances are it has something to do with being more successful and having the right infrastructure in place to support growth.
How to Achieve IT Agility: It's All About Architecture
In our conversations with business and IT leaders, one overarching theme comes up again and again: “How can your company help me achieve my tactical and strategic IT goals, without straining my budget and resources?” As we drill further down, often what they’re really looking for is IT agility—the ability to quickly and easily respond to the needs of the organization and achieve strategic IT objectives.
Can Data Help Us Unlock the Secrets of the Universe?
Two very different types of intelligence have been dominating the headlines these days: artificial intelligence (AI) and extraterrestrial intelligence (EI). One is practical; the other is existential. But despite their differences, both are, at their core, a search for answers. And, as it turns out, the answers could lie in analytics, data, and how that data is managed and stored—from deep-space images and physics experiments to electromagnetic radio waves and even sonified data we can hear.
The Three Rs of Data Storage: Resiliency, Redundancy, and Rebuilds
At our Pure//Accelerate® conference in June, Pure Storage showed the world some incredible technology with two big announcements. The first was that we would be introducing a 75TB DirectFlash® Module (DFM) this year and 150TB and 300TB DFMs to follow in the next few years. The second was what I would call a pretty hot take (as far as hot takes go in the storage industry): With the rapid pace of flash innovation, we predicted that there would be no place for hard drives in the data center by 2028.
Data Storage and the Future of the Automotive Industry
The automotive industry has undergone remarkable transformations over the last five years, with advancements in technology driving major shifts in design, safety, efficiency, and connectivity. The automotive industry has actually been leading the way in digital transformation. One of the most significant changes brought about by these technological advancements is the explosion of data and its role in shaping the future of the automotive industry.
Driving Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
I am often asked how a company drives Diversity and Inclusion. Is it from the top-down? From the bottom-up? Or somewhere in between? My answer: All of the above. The factors that lead to a homogenous workforce must be acknowledged and addressed for an organization to create a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Building a heterogeneous, inclusive, and diverse workplace is not only the right thing to do, it results in greater innovation, a better culture, and a stronger bottom line.
How the SF Giants Use Data Analytics for Partnerships and Marketing
Like most Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, the San Francisco Giants often experiment with new and innovative ways to bring people to Oracle Park. The team’s novel marketing campaign for the 2023 season, “Nothing Like It,” which targets baseball “skeptics,” is a testament to that.¹ And once they have fans through the gates at Oracle Park, they aim to create standout experiences that keep them engaged and coming back.
Business Continuity Solutions from Kyndryl and Portworx by Pure Storage
This blog post is co-authored by Cyrus Niltchian, Director, Offering Management at Kyndryl, and Scott Dedman, AVP, Global Strategy & Solutions at Pure Storage. Imagine you are online trying to place an order that you need delivered quickly…and there is a drop in connectivity. You scramble to reconnect and have your fingers crossed that your items are still in your cart. The screen refreshes and…it is all there. Your user experience is saved, and your order is placed.
How AI Powers Chess Engines and Creates Grandmasters
When it comes to chess, data is the ultimate tool. Chess data has fueled AI and machine learning to create some of the toughest chess opponents possible. Today is American Chess Day, so there is no better time to learn about the chess engines out there that have revolutionized the game and created chess grandmasters. Chess Engines Learning the Math behind Chess Many players learn the game by playing against chess engines.
How Leaders Can Build Trust and Transparency with Chatbots and AI
For conversational AI interfaces to take root and create real return on investment (ROI) for organizations, chatbots need more human-like traits—and that means training models with a greater volume of validated data. Here’s a look at this trend and what organizations need to succeed. HR and Customer Comms: A Use Case Ripe for AI ROI Research has found that people respond well to chatbots and conversational AI that incorporate traits typical of human interactions.
IT’s 4 Biggest Risks and How to Build Resilience against Them
IT departments face risks and challenges on a daily basis—not all of which are necessarily within their ultimate control. That’s why “resiliency,” the capacity to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties, is key. Things will go wrong. The important thing is how you deal with them and how fast you get up. Let’s explore the four most common IT risks and how your organization can build resilience against each of them. 1.
10 Ways to Improve Data Management with Automation
“That’s why they call it work, Son.” That’s what my dad would say if I complained about some task he had set me to do. It was not my favorite thing to hear, but I understood his point: You just have to do some things in order to get the job done, even if they’re repetitive, boring tasks. Now, as an adult working in the IT industry, I’ve found a better way: automation. IT and data storage have many tasks that are repetitive and unavoidable.
How Pure Storage Is Improving the World through People, Technology, and Business
Pure Storage’s largest contribution and impact in the world of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) is helping our customers achieve their environmental sustainability goals. Pure Storage empowers innovators to protect, manage, and benefit from their data with the most efficient data storage technology in the market. And, as we progress on our own ESG journey, Pure Storage is proud to share our 2023 ESG Report.
Pure’s Superpowers: Sustainable Technology and a Responsive Supply Chain
I love when Pure Storage partners help customers go green. Over the past several years, there has been an increased focus put on the nonfinancial environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors that businesses consider when identifying material risks and growth opportunities. It’s not just limited to when companies are upgrading or changing technology. to evaluate where to place bets for good portfolio performance.
Get Promoted by Running Greener Data Storage
Promotions don’t happen overnight. They can take months or longer, even if you’re a high performer who consistently surpasses management expectations. Most career experts will tell you that moving up the corporate ladder today requires presenting a persuasive case for how you’re directly helping your company achieve its goals.
What’s in a Net Promoter Score? A Lot, Particularly If It's Exceptional over Time
For nine consecutive years, Pure Storage has maintained an NPS of 80+ while growing our customer base from hundreds to thousands. Year after year, our world-class NPS shows that we listen to our customers and act on their feedback and in their best interests. Pure Storage just landed an audited Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 81 for 2024. Yawn, right? We get it—it’s easy to receive this news as another company patting itself on the back for its NPS.
Do You Need IT Specialists or Multi-Role Generalists?
Transformation is the word in IT right now, but not only for the reasons you might assume. Yes, companies are accelerating their digital transformation efforts due to the pandemic with automation, machine learning, APIs, and modern data analytics. But there’s another kind of transformation underway that’s just as significant, but not as discussed: role transformation in the IT organization. How Are IT Roles Transforming?
5 Workloads IT Pros Are Moving to the Cloud (And Why)
A cloud-centric or cloud-first mindset was the predominant approach to application modernization for years—but that mindset has begun to shift. Not all workloads belong in the cloud, but some benefit from the flexibility and scalability that the cloud offers. So which are they, and what makes them a good fit for the cloud?
5 Ways AIOps Helps DBAs Beat Burnout
It’s National Stress Awareness Month, and we’ve got hardworking data and IT teams on the brain. Pure Storage® was founded on the belief that storage can be designed from the ground up to be a pleasure to operate. But many teams still struggle with old systems and constant frustration. That causes the stress to pile up. Here’s how service providers, including Pure, are working to give these teams a break.
Transform Faster by Bridging the DBA-DevOps Disconnect
As companies lay the groundwork for 2021, data is taking center stage. This means DevOps engineers and database administrators (DBAs) will need to be more collaborative than ever before. Data is the key to nearly every transformation initiative. It’s led many businesses to prioritize modernizing their database technology stacks to hit these digital objectives. But it’s also requiring IT teams to be more strategic and collaborative. In particular, DBAs and DevOps engineers need to get synced.
Is Your Enterprise Ready for a Container Strategy?
Containers are inextricably linked to all things cloud—and enterprises are taking note. Container strategies are proliferating in classic IT scenarios, but it’s not plug-and-play. It’s incredibly complex to do at scale, and many organizations have some catching up to do. Containers and microservice-based architectures are key threads in the fabric of next-gen tools and technologies that promise to modernize the enterprise org.
When App Development Stalls, Is Storage to Blame?
What happens when you adopt modern technologies and leave legacy storage to do the heavy lifting? According to a recent survey of 200 IT professionals, 72% of respondents realize storage can affect the performance of their apps, and yet, 65% admit their storage is too old to handle some of these new workloads. Does that sound familiar to you? Storage technology is no longer just the storage admin’s problem. As an app owner, your storage solution can be a bottleneck, or it can be an accelerant.
Get Inspired to Rethink Your Website’s Design and UX
For the Brand and Digital Marketing team that I lead, everything we do is an opportunity for us to demonstrate customer obsession—our messaging, imagery, marketing, and digital platforms where our customers engage with us. Which is precisely why we had to do what every busy marketing team dreads: Admit it was time for our site to be better.
Pure Accelerate Digital 2020 Is Coming!
Join us at Pure//Accelerate™ Digital 2020. Discover how Pure Storage® delivers always modern agile and intuitive infrastructure in an as-a-service model. We call it the Modern Data Experience. Pure Basecamp The Modern Data Experience is about helping you use more of your data while reducing the complexity and expense behind managing it. Pure//Accelerate Digital Basecamp is designed to unveil the latest innovations and technologies to move your business forward with success and velocity.
A New Era of Storage with NVMe & NVMe-oF
Pure’s introduction of the new FlashArray//X family of products represents a new era of storage, where NVMe and NVMe-oF become mainstream solutions for a broad base of data center customers who require scalable, efficient, resilient, and simple to deploy and manage data center storage. NVMe is a PCIe communications protocol designed with flash and modern architectures in mind. PCIe offers higher throughput than SAS and SATA, and the NVMe protocol is also lighter weight than SCSI or SATA.
Kroger plan good use of property
As a Toledo City Councilman I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, the state of Ohio, and the charter of the city of Toledo. As a Realtor I am bound to a strict code of ethics in all dealings in real estate. I have in my years on council as both a district and at-large councilman taken no decision lightly and have always done my homework before a vote.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Rob
Contact Rob, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack