Pure Storage is an American publicly traded technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.
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17 Facts About Pure Storage
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Pure Storage was founded in 2009 and developed its products in stealth mode until 2011.
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Pure Storage finished developing its own proprietary flash storage hardware in 2015.
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Pure Storage was founded in 2009 under the code name Os76 Inc by John Colgrove and John Hayes.
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Pure Storage raised another $20 million in venture capital in a series B funding round.
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Simultaneously, Pure Storage announced it had raised $30 million in a third round of venture capital funding.
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The following year, in 2014, Pure Storage raised $225 million in a series F funding round, valuating the company at $3 billion.
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Pure Storage sold 100 devices its first year of commercial production in 2012 and 1,000 devices in 2014.
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Pure Storage counter-sued, alleging that EMC illegally obtained a Pure Storage appliance for reverse engineering purposes.
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Pure Storage filed a notification of its intent to go public with the Securities Exchange Commission in August 2015.
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In 2017, Pure Storage was profitable for the first time and surpassed $1 billion in annual revenue.
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In September 2020, Pure Storage acquired Portworx, a provider of cloud-native storage and data-management platform based on Kubernetes, for $370 million.
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Pure Storage develops flash-based storage for data centers using consumer-grade solid state drives.
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Pure Storage develops proprietary de-duplication and compression software to improve the amount of data that can be stored on each drive.
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In 2014, Pure Storage added two third-generation products to the 400 series.
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In 2015, Pure Storage introduced a flash memory appliance built on Pure Storage's own proprietary hardware.
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In 2017, Pure Storage added artificial intelligence software that configures the storage-array.
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