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Pure Storage FlashBlade Nears $1B in Sales and is Used by More Than 25% of the Fortune 100MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world announced growth milestones to mark the five year anniversary of introducing FlashBlade®. Unveiled in March 2016, FlashBlade has delivered consistent year-over-year growth every quarter since. Within two years of general availability (GA), FlashBlade reached a $250M run rate and more than tripled its customer count. FlashBlade continues to expand and diversify its customer base at a breakneck speed, adding several hundred new FlashBlade customers in FY21 and reaching nearly $1B in sales four years after GA. Today, more than 25% of the Fortune 100 use FlashBlade to derive value from their unstructured data. The growth of FlashBlade has been powered by continuous innovation to not only solve for customer's current needs, but enable them to take advantage of the next wave of modern data and applications to fuel their business. The innovation FlashBlade has delivered includes:
FlashBlade customers are among the industry's happiest, contributing to Pure's NPS score in the top 1% of B2B companies. Based on customer reviews, FlashBlade has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage for 2021 and TrustRadius has recognized FlashBlade as the 2020 Top Rated Award winner in the Object Storage category. "FlashBlade performance has been fantastic, with no downtime. With Vertica on Pure Storage, we have a 360-degree view of customers and fast, sophisticated analytics to provide all sorts of insights to the business, fueling customer success. Our users don't know about the new technology underneath, they just know that Vertica answers their questions much faster. One customer knowledge base report used to take seven days to run – now it's complete in two seconds." -- Chris "CB" Bohn, Principal Data Engineer, Micro Focus "FlashBlade's ability to scale up performance while lowering I/O latency has exceeded our expectations. With FlashBlade, we are confident that we'll be able to meet the increasing demand for supercomputing resources and strengthen NTU's position as a world-class research-intensive university, while walking the talk when it comes to protecting the environment." -- Alvin Ong, Chief Information Officer, NTU Singapore Learn more at PureStorage.com/FlashBlade. 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. Analyst Recognition: Pure Storage has been named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Arrays. Connect with Pure Pure Storage, the Pure P Logo, Portworx, and the marks on the Pure Trademark List at www.purestorage.com/legal/productenduserinfo.html are trademarks of Pure Storage, Inc. Other names are trademarks of their respective owners.
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