Los Angeles – June 8, 2022 — Today at Pure//Accelerate® techfest22, Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, announced the winners of its second annual Pure Storage Breakthrough Awards. The Awards recognize Pure customers displaying extraordinary innovation, creativity, business breakthroughs and overarching success using Pure’s portfolio of offerings.
Customers including Barclays, Folding@home, Ford Motor Company, KDDI, Mississippi Department of Revenue (DOR), and SiriusXM were selected among more than 10,000 of Pure’s global customers as leaders across four core categories: G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time), Cloud Champion, Data Warrior, and Pure Good.
“Our customers continue to impress us year after year with their commitment to technological innovation. Even with the unpredictable challenges that have surfaced over the last two years, customers continued to demonstrate resilience and creativity, with a heavy focus on global sustainability initiatives. We congratulate the winners of our second annual Breakthrough Awards Program at this year’s Pure//Accelerate techfest22 for their strategic implementation of Pure’s growing portfolio, and for their incredible dedication to success.”
This year’s award recipients include:
Hear from the Breakthrough Awards winners:
“Our goal was to switch to Pure without anyone noticing. We achieved this in spades, gaining unprecedented performance, resiliency, and visibility. Frankly, managing storage has never been easier, and the business is better for it.” – Jeff Bethke, VP of IT Infrastructure Services, SiriusXM
“To support our current volume of data, we would have needed substantially more gear from our previous storage vendor, which was simply a non-starter. Barclays has an ambition to become a net-zero bank by 2050. We need to partner with like-minded organisations that are not only disruptors in their markets but take their environmental responsibilities seriously. Pure is very much aligned with Barclays on this front.” – Eugene Tang, Global Block Storage Product Manager, Barclays
“In order to support our customers’ digital transformation projects, it is important to increase the value of their experience. We chose Pure Storage because I/O performance is a part that customers directly experience. Also, as a telecom and cloud provider, our customers depend on us to provide them with a highly reliable platform and services, especially as both public and private cloud demand continues to grow. While we spent most of our time fixing issues with our previous storage infrastructure, with Pure Storage, our team can now focus on more strategic work for our customers.” – Yusuke Okano, Expert, KDDI
“We invested in Portworx Enterprise as a key pillar of our containerization strategy because it delivers fast and reliable container storage that eliminates barriers to innovation.” – Satish Puranam, Technical Leader - Cloud, Ford
“An application, without its data, is not much of an application. FlashBlade is the big hammer in our toolbox, enabling us to quickly access data and achieve a level of built-in protection that we could never achieve with other solutions.” – Mike Deehan, Enterprise Architect, Mississippi Department of Revenue
“By separating our capacity from compute, we’re able to get more out of our compute resources, which gives us the ability to ask questions at an unprecedented scale. It’s as if FlashBlade was purpose- built for the Folding@home mission.” – Dr. Greg Bowman, Director, Folding@home
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