Seven customers honored at Pure//Accelerate
2024 for innovative use of the Pure Storage platform among 12,500+
global customers
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VEGAS, June 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure
Storage //Accelerate -- Today at
Pure//Accelerate® 2024, Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the
IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage
technology and services, announced the winners of its fourth annual
Pure Storage Breakthrough Awards. The Awards recognize Pure Storage
customers displaying extraordinary innovation, creativity,
sustainability, business breakthroughs and overarching success
using the Pure Storage platform.
Customers including NTT DATA, THG, SoftBank Corp., Rivian,
Fiserv, MediaZen, and the Indiana Office of Technology (IOT) were
selected among more than 12,500 of Pure Storage's global customers
as leaders across five categories: G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time),
Cloud Champion, Data Warrior, Visionary, and Pure Good
Sustainability.
2024 Award Recipients:
- Greatest of All Time (G.O.A.T.) - North America - NTT
DATA: G.O.A.T.s use the Pure Storage platform in
innovative ways to help customers thrive. As a global innovator of
business and technology services, NTT DATA works with more than 75%
of the Fortune Global 100 and is committed to helping clients
innovate, optimize, and transform for long-term success. The Pure
Storage platform enables NTT DATA to bolster its Cloud and AI
infrastructure for customers, handling up to 400 TB of data and 3
billion records daily, all while cutting energy costs by 50%.
- Greatest of All Time (G.O.A.T.) - EMEA -
THG: Global digital innovator THG (formerly
the Hut Group) revolutionizes how brands and consumers connect. The
Pure Storage platform, including Evergreen//One™ Storage
as-a-Service solution supports all of THG's data needs, including
400 global websites, AI training models, and thousands of
e-commerce databases, while reducing its power consumption by 80%
and bolstering AI-powered, award-winning customer
service.
- Greatest of All Time (G.O.A.T.) - APJ -
SoftBank Corp.: SoftBank serves more than 40
million mobile subscribers in Japan. With its "Beyond Carrier" growth
strategy, SoftBank has significantly expanded its business and
services beyond telecom. Pure Storage plays an important role in
SoftBank's multi-domain ICT platform, ensuring data integrity and
availability. SoftBank is now focusing on new innovations,
including a project aimed at developing homegrown LLMs with 390
billion parameters in 2024.
- Cloud Champion
- Rivian Automotive: Rivian is
disrupting the electric vehicle industry with its lineup of
electric SUVs, trucks, and commercial vehicles. Leveraging a
comprehensive Kubernetes strategy with Portworx by Pure Storage as
its data services platform, Rivian accelerates development,
improves critical system performance, and drives innovation. Using
the Portworx platform, Rivian has reduced downtime for provisioning
vehicle keys, while improving control engineers' visibility into
the status of shop machinery.
- Data Warrior - MediaZen: A leader
in voice recognition solutions for diverse markets, MediaZen built
a high-powered and scalable R&D platform on Pure Storage to
supercharge AI research. In the past, it could take up to a year to
complete AI modeling tasks. With the new research environment
powered by Pure Storage, it takes just two weeks - a 96%
improvement.
- Pure Good (Sustainability) -
Fiserv: Fiserv powers a vast range of financial
transactions, reliably handling up to 25,000 financial transactions
per second for its six million global merchant locations and nearly
10,000 financial institution clients. Investing in enhanced data
center storage technology, Fiserv has yielded a 75% reduction in
overall block storage rack space and 73% lower power and
cooling costs using the Pure Storage platform.
- Visionary - Indiana Office of
Technology: The Indiana Office of Technology empowers 92
state agencies, with 35,000 employees to deliver innovative,
better-quality services for its 6.7 million citizens. With Pure
Storage's single, consolidated data storage platform supporting 90%
of the state's IT infrastructure, the team spends up to 70% less
time on maintenance, allowing more time to focus on supporting new
technology projects.
Hear From Our Winners:
"Today's award further demonstrates our commitment to helping
our global customers accelerate and modernize their cloud
transformation journeys to meet the demands of today's data-driven
environments. We are excited to continue building upon our
decade-long partnership with Pure Storage to fuel customer
innovation." – Scott McIsaac,
Senior Vice President, Managed Cloud, NTT DATA
"Everything that's mission critical runs on Pure Storage, and
it's so simple and easy to work with that we don't even need a
dedicated storage engineer. At THG, we're not afraid to take risks.
Having a solid technology infrastructure in place gives us the
freedom to try new things, adopt early initiatives, and shift
gears." – Schalk Van Der
Merwe, CTO, THG
"We want to create a truly native Japanese LLM for our
customers. With Pure Storage ensuring data integrity and high
service availability in cloud storage domains, we are excited about
what we can achieve in the future to create the next technology
leap." – Ashiq Khan, Head of the
Unified Cloud and Platform Division, SoftBank Corp.
"Portworx plays a key role in supporting the containerization
efforts that are driving an increase in production across the
board. It helps us achieve significant operational efficiency as we
scale our business and serve more customers." – Josh Crater, Staff Software Engineer,
Rivian Automotive
"The Pure Storage platform gives us the agility to take our AI
models to the next level, handling ever-increasing workload demands
and exceeding our performance expectations. A flexible subscription
model will also enable us to tailor to our specific business needs
in the most cost-effective way." – JongSung Yoon, Deputy Director of NAMZ AI
R&D Group, MediaZen
"In our business, performance, reliability and security have
long been considered table stakes, and now, so is sustainability.
The unparallelled performance and reliability of Pure's platform
was convincing, and how it supported our sustainability initiatives
really won over our team. Our purchasing decisions are driven by
the potential impacts across the board." – Steve Allgeier, Vice President of the
Distributed Infrastructure Group, Fiserv
"Our citizens expect a certain level of digital savvy, and the
performance and reliability that goes along with it. Pure gives us
a future-proof platform that can evolve and scale alongside us."
– John Thatcher, Deputy/Assistant
IT Director – Platform Services, Indiana Office of
Technology
Learn more:
- Pure Storage Customer Breakthrough Awards
About Pure Storage
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data storage platform to store, manage, and protect the world's
data at any scale. With Pure Storage, organizations have ultimate
simplicity and flexibility, saving time, money, and energy. From AI
to archive, Pure Storage delivers a cloud experience with one
unified Storage as-a-Service platform across on premises, cloud,
and hosted environments. Our platform is built on our Evergreen
architecture that evolves with your business – always getting newer
and better with zero planned downtime, guaranteed. Our customers
are actively increasing their capacity and processing power while
significantly reducing their carbon and energy footprint. It's easy
to fall in love with Pure Storage, as evidenced by the highest Net
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