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Our mission: Bringing practical business and technical intelligence to today's structured cabling professionals

For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance is published by Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

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Pure Storage is Pure Gold for Customers and Investors

Pure Storage stock price

Enterprise data storage solutions provider Pure Storage Inc. (NYSE: PSTG) stock has traded in a weekly rectangle trading range for over a year as shares attempt another breakout at the upper range. Shares are up 35% year-to-date (YTD), with most gains coming in the prior six weeks. Its systems have a direct-to-flash architecture storing data directly on the fastest flash memory available on NVMe flash drives. Its pay-for-consumption model helps onboard new customers with low, upfront costs, while its subscription services provide predictable high-margin cash flow.

Pure Storage benefits from the secular tailwinds, including artificial intelligence (AI) and demand for robust mission-critical storage systems using flash-optimized technology. It provides systems for well-known companies and data centers like Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META), Equinix Inc (NASDAQ: EQNX) and Salesforce Inc. (NASDAQ: CRM).

FlashBlade//E Rollout in April 2023

Pure Storage is seeing "off the chart" demand for its new FlashBlade//E product, which only uses 10% of the energy and space of traditional hard disk drives for the same price. It's a scale-out unstructured data repository constructed to handle exponential data growth. With speeds up to 100 GB/s, it's ideal for high throughput applications like big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine language (ML), and media processing.

They are highly scalable, with up to 100 PBs of capacity and 100 TBs of throughput, and a lifecycle of up to 2.5 million hours. Pure Storage competes with NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) and buys its flash memory and DRAM from Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU).

Beat and Raise Earnings

Pure Storage released its fiscal Q1 2024 earnings results on May 31, 2023, for the quarter ending April 2023. The company reported EPS of $0.08, beating consensus estimates by $0.04. Revenues fell (5%) YoY to $589.3 million, beating the $55.9.8 million consensus analyst estimates.

Revenue growth was 5%, excluding the $60 million impact in fiscal Q1 2023 contemplated in the year's second half. Subscription services revenues grew 28% YoY. Subscription annual recurring revenue (ARR) grew 29% to $1.2 billion. Remaining performance obligations (RPOs) rose 26% YoY. GAAP gross margins were 70.1%, while non-GAAP was 72.2%. Operating cash flow is $173.2 million, and free cash float is $121.8 million. The company ended the quarter with $1.2 billion in cash and marketable securities.

A CEO Who Doesn’t Beat Around the Bush

CEO Charlie Giancarlo boldly said, "We are the clear leader in data storage, now delivering a portfolio that can address the vast majority of storage needs for all enterprises. Pure's product portfolio's superior economics, performance, and operational and environmental efficiencies over the hard disk and SSD-based, all-flash competitive offerings are now undeniable." He also boldly predicted that no hard disk drives (HDD) would be sold within five years.

Raising Guidance

Pure Storage raised guidance for fiscal Q2 2023 revenues of $680 million versus $656.16 million consensus analyst estimates. It sees mid to high single-digit fiscal full-year 2024 revenue growth.

Pure Storage analyst ratings and price targets are at MarketBeat.

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Weekly Symmetrical Triangle Breakdown Commences

The weekly candlestick chart on PSTG has been in a rectangle range since March 2022. It initially appeared to form a symmetrical triangle until the breakdown reversed and squeezed back to the upper flat-top trendline at $36.82.

The surge on the $27.55 market structure low (MSL) triggers a breakout and four consecutive green candles spiking up to $38.26 highs as it attempts a possible pennant or bull flag at the top of the range. The weekly RSI made a full oscillation from the 35-band up through the 70-band and back down just under there.

Pullback support levels are $32.18, $30.18, $27.55 weekly MSL trigger and $25.59.

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