Breakthrough Awards

Celebrating Pure Storage® customers who are breaking through barriers to innovate and bring new value to their customers.

Celebrating Our Customers

Pure Storage customers are extraordinary. Every day, they tackle new problems and innovate to bring value to their organisations and customers. Each year, we celebrate these customers who inspire us to greatness by presenting them with the Breakthrough Awards.

Pure Storage Breakthrough Awards celebrate customers in five unique categories:
Pure Good - Sustainability, Cloud Champion, Data Warrior, Visionary and Greatest of All Time (The G.O.A.T.)

Greatest Of All Time (G.O.A.T.) North America: SiriusXM

SiriusXM earns this year’s Pure Storage Greatest of All Time Breakthrough Award following its transition to a simple, seamless, fast, and future-ready modern data platform.

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Greatest Of All Time (G.O.A.T.) - EMEA: Barclays

Barclays, winner of a regional Pure Storage Greatest of All Time Breakthrough Award, delivers services that customers need, when they need them, with 99.9999% storage uptime.

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Greatest Of All Time (G.O.A.T.) - APJ: KDDI

KDDI, recipient of a regional Pure Storage Greatest of All Time Breakthrough Award, boosts performance by 3X and virtually eliminates maintenance issues.

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Cloud Champion: Ford

Ford, our Cloud Champion winner, continues to build for progress with a cloud-native strategy that accelerates innovation for the nation’s oldest automobile company.

Data Warrior: Mississippi Department of Revenue

The Mississippi Department of Revenue, winner of the Pure Storage Data Warrior of the Year Award, manages and protects 12TB of data to keep the state’s revenue stream flowing.

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Pure Good: Folding@home

Folding@home, recipient of the Pure Good award, mobilizes an army of citizen scientists and the power of personal compute in the battle against coronavirus and other diseases.