Mountain View, Calif. – May 14, 2021 — Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, today announced at its annual Pure//Accelerate™ Digital event, the winners of its inaugural Pure Storage Breakthrough Awards. The Awards recognize Pure customers displaying extraordinary innovation, creativity, business breakthroughs, and overarching success using the Pure’s portfolio of offerings.
Customers including ServiceNow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), The National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), Smart Digital Sales & Holding GmbH (SDC), Options Technology, and Roblox were selected among more than 8,000 of Pure’s global customers as leaders across six categories: Pure Good, Visionary, Cloud Champion, Change-Maker of the Year, Data Warrior of the Year, and The G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time).
“The innovations our customers drive using Pure’s solutions never cease to amaze us. They understand the importance of embracing a modern data experience to help support their business objectives. We’re extremely proud and congratulate this year’s winners on their successes.”
This year’s award recipients include:
Hear from the Breakthrough Awards winners in their own words:
“Roblox connects millions of people around the world through shared experiences. By investing in our platform, we’re creating better player experiences for our users and our developers who create these immersive, imaginative worlds. Container-based services and Portworx keep us in perfect alignment with these goals.” - Rob Cameron, Senior Technical Director, Roblox
“All the work we do as an organisation has a single unifying purpose — to make work, work better for people. On the cloud infrastructure team, it’s our job to make it as easy as possible for our customers to modernise their business processes, and Pure helps us achieve that.” - Keith Martin, Senior Director, Cloud Capacity Engineering, ServiceNow
“Our goal is to offer solutions that add value for our customers and are as highly automated as possible. Pure enables us to spend less time managing infrastructure, and we can now spend more time working with our customers, whether we’re developing algorithms for analysing vegetation or training AI for new customers.” - Wolfgang Kalny, CTO, SDC
“With Pure we were able to check all of the boxes - increase our storage capacity while also encrypting our data at rest and adding disaster recovery capabilities – all to make sure that our analysts had the tools they needed to help keep kids safe.” - Russ Johnson, Executive Director, Technology Division, NCMEC
“Under the NTU 2025 strategic plan, technology is a key enabler of innovation and growth. This award reaffirms our efforts to continuously reimagine an advanced digital research infrastructure that empowers our NTU research community to accelerate their discoveries and turn big data into scientific breakthroughs, while upholding our commitment to energy efficiency and sustainability.” - Alvin Ong, Chief Information Officer, NTU Singapore
“We started urging our clients down the path of business continuity planning, offering virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions to help people connect to critical systems from home. With Pure as-a-Service, we’ve been able to rise to the challenges and provide an outstanding, positive experience for our clients.” - Mike Russo, Vice President, Product Management, Options Technology
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Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organisations to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across multiple clouds. Pure helps customers put data to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.
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