Storage | Thoughts and Ramblings by Mike

Purely Nutanix: The FlashArray Integration Expands Customer Choice
Dec 15, 2025 · 10 min read · Nutanix AOS Pure Storage FlashArray HCI Storage ·
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When Nutanix and Pure Storage announced their partnership at .NEXT 2025 in May, it turned heads across the industry. Two companies that had previously competed were now working together to deliver something customers have been asking for: the operational simplicity of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure combined with the raw …

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Saved by Pure Storage: Ransomware Recovery Success
Feb 24, 2021 · 3 min read · Pure Storage Ransomware Snapshots Security ·
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This past weekend, I got to experience with another customer an unexpected intrusion, one of the worst I’ve honestly experienced in my years. Once I was onsite and got to see the level of sophistication on this attack, I realized that we had our work cutout for us. Backup solution, gone… User Files, hijacked… VMFS …

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EMC Unity Install: Quick Setup Guide
Aug 22, 2016 · 2 min read · EMC Unity Storage Installation Tech Tips ·
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I was fortunate to do my first EMC Unity install today (Unity 300 specifically), and Unity follows the path of the VNXe installation sequence, pretty easy. This blog post is about as short as the Unity install is 🙂 Initializing the Unity array uses the ‘ _same’_Connection Utility that the VNXe uses, though the Unity …

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