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Pure Storage and Cisco Deliver AI Factories for the Enterprise with NVIDIA
Unifying compute, storage and networking to take generative AI from pilot to production.
FlashStack for the Next Era of Enterprise Compute
FlashStack, a collaboration between Cisco, Pure Storage and Nutanix, redefines enterprise infrastructure by decoupling compute and storage, enabling scalable, flexible, and AI-ready platforms. Leveraging NVMe over TCP and Cisco Intersight, it offers operational simplicity and strategic control, empowering organizations to innovate without legacy constraints. Validate its potential with WWT's Advanced Technology Center.
Cisco AI PODs: A Groundbreaking Advancement in AI Infrastructure
Cisco AI PODs offer a plug-and-play AI infrastructure solution, integrating compute, storage, networking, and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform for seamless deployment. Optimized for various AI workloads, these pre-validated bundles accelerate AI adoption, ensuring scalability and efficiency. Centralized management and flexible integration make AI infrastructure straightforward and future-ready. Available now!
Vermeer
Welcome to the Vermeer community page on the WWT Digital Platform. This private community site is created to improve collaboration and discussion between our organizations to drive business outcomes. Within this community, you will find links to articles, events, videos, workshops, and a broad collection of digital labs to support experimentation, education, and exploration.
Pure Ansible Automation Lab
If you are familiar with Ansible and want to learn how to use Ansible with the Pure Storage FlashArray, continue on with this lab that demonstrates how to simplify automation of a Pure Storage FlashArray.
*** If you are a Storage admin, new to automation, and want to learn how to automate your Pure Storage environment using Ansible, check out this lab instead that teaches the basics of Ansible from a storage admin point of view.- "Ansible Automation Workshop - Pure Ansible Lab" (https://www.wwt.com/lab/ansible-automation-workshop-pure-ansible-lab)
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2026 ZKast - Moving AI from Lab to Factory Floor: A Conversation with Jim Kavanaugh
Cisco is making a massive pivot toward Silicon One and AI-ready Ethernet, and as their largest global partner, WWT, is at the center of this evolution.
Pure Storage ActiveDR Lab
In this lab you will walk through the simple configuration to setup and configure ActiveDR replication between PODs running on two FlashArrays. You will also see how Pure's ActiveDR replication can be used to aid in the recovery process should one of your data centers experience an outage or an array failure.
Pure Storage Unveils New Top Partner Tier & Services Push
New top-tier partner level and services focus aim to deepen expertise and accelerate partner-led growth
Pure Storage Partner Program Evolution Reinforces Commitment to 100% Partner Go-To-Market Strategy
Program updates deliver deeper enablement, new tiers, and a solutions-led approach to accelerate partner success
Pure Storage Demo: SQL DB Refresh from FlashArray to CBS
In this demo, we will show how easy and quick it is to refresh a DR instance of a SQL DB living in Azure on CBS from an on-premises Prod instance living in Equinix on a FlashArray.
Pure1 FlashArray Self-Service Upgrade
This video demonstrates a Self-Service Upgrade of a Pure FlashArray running in WWT's ATC through the Pure1 portal.
Partner POV | Cyber-ready AI: Why Enterprise AI Security Can't Stay in the Sandbox
AI is exposing architectural limitations in traditional storage. Learn more about security-first storage and how it can scale with enterprise needs and evolving threats.
What Are Pure Storage Portworx and Kubernetes?
Pure Storage's Portworx platform provides the availability, performance and security required for Kubernetes. Discover Portworx storage benefits with WWT.
Pure Storage's Portworx Enterprise Lab for Persistent Container Storage
Welcome to Pure Storage's Portworx Enterprise lab for persistent container storage. Portworx Enterprise is a complete storage and data management solution for your Kubernetes environments. Containers will benefit from container-granular storage, disaster recovery, data security, multi-cloud migrations and more.
FlashStack for the Next Era of Enterprise Compute
FlashStack, a collaboration between Cisco, Pure Storage and Nutanix, redefines enterprise infrastructure by decoupling compute and storage, enabling scalable, flexible, and AI-ready platforms. Leveraging NVMe over TCP and Cisco Intersight, it offers operational simplicity and strategic control, empowering organizations to innovate without legacy constraints. Validate its potential with WWT's Advanced Technology Center.
Partner POV | How Modern Storage Can Offset Power Utilization in the Data Center
With data center power utilization increasing every day, what is the most efficient, responsible way forward? Learn more about how Pure's FlashBlade//S is changing the game.
Pure Storage and Cisco Deliver AI Factories for the Enterprise with NVIDIA
Unifying compute, storage and networking to take generative AI from pilot to production.
Pure Storage FlashArray //X Lab
*** This is a read-only lab that gives you view permissions on a lab array. If you'd like to have full access to a FlashArray, check out one of our other Pure Storage labs (ActiveCluster, ActiveDR, FA Files, Remote Client/vVols) as those labs give you full access to make changes. ***
The FlashArray //X Series is the Pure Storage primary all flash, NVMe offering. This lab is intended to give users experience with the Purity operating system via both HTML 5 Web Interface and the Purity CLI on real hardware in the WWT ATC.
Ransomware, Recovery and Resilience: How Commvault and Pure Storage Simplify Cyber Recovery
The enterprise data landscape has changed dramatically. Ransomware is no longer a distant risk — it's the defining challenge distorting how organizations think about backup, recovery, and resilience. At the same time, data volumes are exploding, regulatory pressure is intensifying, and cyber insurance carriers are raising the bar on what a "viable recovery plan" looks like.
Pure Storage GenAI Pod with NVIDIA
This environment provides a highly performant environment to test the deployment and tuning of different NVIDIA NIMs and Blueprints.
Partner POV | Benefits of Building an On-Premises AI Platform
As AI reshapes industries, on-premises platforms offer enterprises control, data privacy, and performance. This article explores why sectors like healthcare and finance favor these systems, highlighting Pure Storage's role in overcoming challenges. Discover how on-premises AI ensures compliance, cost predictability, and IP protection, empowering organizations to innovate securely.
Pure Storage ActiveCluster Lab
The Pure Storage FlashArray natively supports synchronous replication that allows one to stretch a provisioned volume across two storage arrays. This feature is called ActiveCluster, and this lab will show users how to setup, configure and utilize ActiveCluster in a VMware environment to demonstrate how it protects you from different failure scenarios.
Pure Storage Enterprise AI in-a-Box with Intel Gaudi 3 and Iterate.ai
Iterate.ai's Generate platform pairs with Intel Xeon CPUs, Gaudi 3 accelerators, Pure Storage FlashBlade//S, and Milvus vector DB. Deployed via Kubernetes/Slurm, it scales quickly, needs minimal tuning, and runs Llama 3, Mistral, and Inflection to accelerate AI training, inference, and search for healthcare, life-science, and finance workloads.
Pure Accelerate 2025 Recap
WWT's Storage Experts recap the Pure Accelerate '25 conference as it relates to the new announcements, hardware platforms and Enterprise Data Cloud vision.
Pure Storage FlashArray //C Lab
Pure Storage FlashArray //C lets you consolidate workloads and simplify storage with consistent all-flash performance at a lower TCO over hybrid storage. This lab consists of Pure's capacity-optimized array offering - FlashArray //C60 running Purity 6.x with File Services enabled.