Storage on Thoughts and Ramblings by Mike

Purely Nutanix: The FlashArray Integration Expands Customer Choice

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:20:25 -0500

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 performance of Pure Storage FlashArray.

Some might question the motives behind this partnership. Is it a defensive play? A response to market pressures? I see it differently. This integration continues both companies' commitment to putting customers first. Nutanix has always been about giving customers choice and simplifying infrastructure. Pure has built its reputation on performance and customer experience. Bringing those philosophies together isn't a contradiction; it's a natural evolution.

Saved by Pure Storage: Ransomware Recovery Success

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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 datastores, encrypted…
Pure Storage Primary Array snapshots, deleted + eradicated…

The first 2 in that list are ones that yeah, we see quite often during these scenarios. But those last 2, ESPECIALLY the last one really made me realize how intrusive this was. This mean that somebody physically got access to the array to issue the commands to delete the snapshots.

EMC Unity Install: Quick Setup Guide

Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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 Connection Utility does not support the VNXe, and vice versa for the latest VNXe Connection Utility. So you can’t have both installed on the same machine.