Hello everyone and welcome to Ad Barrens. I'm Andy Surwer and welcome to our guest Charlie Giancarlo, CEO of Pure Storage. Charlie, great to see you.

Good to see you Andy, always good. So Pure does exactly what, Charlie. Let's start off with that.

What we provide is high speed, high performance

data storage systems. And we do that both for large enterprise, medium enterprise, and also for

cloud providers. So, you know, it's kind of interesting. People say, well, I'm just storing my

data in the cloud, and sometimes they forget that. Eventually, that has to go onto something

physical that actually stores go onto something physical that

actually stores the data and that's what we provide.

Right.

It's a publicly traded company.

We'll get into that a little bit.

But there's a difference between the kind of storage your company provides, Flash versus

traditional and we need to get into that.

Please do.

Well, storage or data has been stored on the same media

for the last 70 years, and those are called disks, magnetic hard disks, and people used

to have that in their laptops, and they used to be even in iPods. I remember there was an iPod

with a hard disk in it. And some of your viewers may have used an external hard drive at one point in time.

Well, it turns out that still the majority of the world's data is still stored on magnetic

hard drives that were stored, that were designed 70 years ago.

Now, if you're holding your, your, your smartphone today, you may have a lot of storage

in that, you know, a quarter of a

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