File Hits Its Midlife Crisis. Time for an Orange Sports Car.

Think fast! What were you doing in the early 1980s? Watching MTV? Buying neon leg warmers at Kmart? Rocking a Commodore 64? Or maybe you weren’t even born yet?

Here’s something you might not know. The two most popular file protocols—NFS and SMB—were also invented in the early ‘80s. Amazingly, they’re still going strong, even if the architectures that run them are showing their age. 

If you think it might be time for a platform refresh to bring those protocols into the 21st century, you won't want to miss this webinar. This session follows up on our previous Coffee Break, Stop Working for Your (Unified) Storage: Let It Work for You.

This month, join Andrew Miller and Justin Emerson, Principal Field Solutions Architect, Pure Storage as they discuss:

• A Quick History of File: From on-prem to the cloud, and back.
• Scale Up and Scale Out: Why there’s no “one size fits all.”
• Core Architecture: How file runs on FlashArray™ and FlashBlade®.
• Evergreen® Impact on File: Because file migrations are even more “fun” than block migrations.
• New Capabilities: the latest developments from Pure Storage in the file space.

About the Pure Storage Coffee Break Series: Each month, we invite experts in technology and business to chat about the themes driving today’s IT agenda. 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 Storage technology, our goal is to educate and entertain rather than sell.