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Good morning, good morning and welcome to Pure//Accelerate 2026 in Las Vegas. I am so excited to welcome you today. If this is your first Pure//Accelerate experience, well, thank you for investing your time with us. And to our returning customers and partners, analysts, and members of
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the press, welcome back. And a special welcome to everyone viewing online. That's right, we are live streaming Pure//Accelerate for the first time. Now, you may notice something a little different this year. We are Everpure, and there-- Yes, I'll clap for that.
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And there's a great reason for that. You know, over the past year, I did a lot of travel, speaking with customers and partners around the globe, and what we heard is that we are much more than a Pure Storage company. We are your partner in helping you manage your data, and we are all living through this incredible market shift.
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You know, data is growing unbelievably fast, and it's more vital to your success than ever before. You're under pressure to lead with AI/ML, but scaling it to drive outcomes is extremely challenging. You're managing transformation and virtualization, and the ransomware just
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keep on coming. So it's really hard to do what you need to for the business, and the goalposts keep moving on you in the middle of the game. So that's why here at Everpure, we innovate to make storage and data management easy, so you can focus on business outcomes.
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We are never satisfied. We are always working to make your data more secure, easier to manage, and more intelligent, and that's why I'm excited to announce this week's theme, The New Data Dynamic. You know, Pure//Accelerate is our favorite time of year because it's connecting this community of advocates and leaders and change agents, and it's allowing us all
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insights, learn, and sharpen our skills together. We're not just deploying a new vision, we're building it together. I'm so excited everyone is in here. And so what do we have in store for you this week? Well, can you believe it?
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We have over eighty breakout sessions, six community meetups. Over three hundred of you are taking certs exams. Let's give a cl-- shout out for that. And we want you all to head over to the hub to check out the demos and the Flash talks. And we have amazing Everpure leaders and special guest speakers right
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here on the main stage. Let me give a call-out to our sponsors. They are key to the Everpure ecosystem and to your business. Thank you to all of our sponsors for your support. And please yes.
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Let's clap for that as well. I encourage everyone to visit them in the hub while you're here.