MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
May 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- 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 Center
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." -- Joe
Pinto, Chief Customer Experience Officer, Pure Storage
This year's award recipients include:
- G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time) - ServiceNow:
G.O.A.T.s use Pure's portfolio of offerings in innovative ways to
help customers thrive. With a rapidly expanding customer base, the
Cloud Infrastructure team at ServiceNow modernized the company's
storage environment using Pure's FlashBlade® and
FlashArray™ systems and, in the process, became the
first major cloud provider to move to an all-flash data
center.
- Cloud Champion - Roblox: Cloud champions support
their organization's cloud strategy with Pure's Pure
as-a-Service™, Pure Cloud Block Store™, and
Portworx® offerings. More than 8 million passionate game
developers have invested countless hours into building unique
digital worlds on Roblox and every day, tens of millions of people
descend on the platform to play, socialize, and connect. With
Portworx delivering scalability and agility, Roblox demonstrated
the ability to handle any influx of traffic - including
record-breaking growth in the last year.
- Change Maker - SDC: Change makers are leaders
displaying excellence in driving digital transformation. SDC's
innovative, state-of-the-art drone solution, designed to evaluate
danger, and detect and assess natural disaster damage, has the
potential to transform many industries: agriculture,
infrastructure, public safety, and more. Working with Pure, and
with the leadership of CTO Wolfgang
Kalny, SDC supports the big data and analytics that give
customers a whole new perspective on their challenges.
- Data Warrior - NTU: Data Warriors demonstrate
creativity in using data and technology to open new opportunities,
drive breakthroughs, and support innovation. NTU Singapore, one of
the world's top universities, augmented its High Performance
Computing Centre (HPCC) with Pure Storage FlashBlade to supercharge
research workloads. For example, NTU scientists can now map the
genomes of more than 1,000 plant species simultaneously in less
than three years instead of two decades!
- Visionary - Options Technology: Visionaries
represent industry-leading organizations driving breakthroughs and
innovations propelled by Pure. By using FlashArray and FlashBlade
through Pure as-a-Service, Options Technology, a global provider of
fintech managed services, hedge fund technology and IT
infrastructure, can scale up or down with customers in real time,
transcending the cycle of capacity planning, capital expenditures,
and time-consuming deployments while providing the highest level of
performance to its clients.
- Pure Good - NCMEC: Pure Good recognizes companies
using Pure in ways that demonstrate positive social, environmental,
or economic impact. NCMEC is a non-profit supporting and educating
families, training law enforcement, and keeping kids safe. In 2020
alone, the non-profit fielded 21.7 million reports of potential
exploitation online, storing 65.4 million images, videos, and audio
files on Pure in order to investigate tips and help keep kids safe
in an efficient and secure fashion.
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 organization 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 modernize 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 analyzing 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
Learn more:
- Breakthrough Awards Blog Post
- Pure Customer Stories
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives
technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data
experience that empowers organizations to run their operations as a
true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across
multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing enterprise IT companies
in history, 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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