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Pure Storage

Pure Storage, Inc. is an American publicly traded technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States. It develops all-flash data storage hardware and software products. Pure Storage was founded in 2009 and developed its products in stealth mode until 2011. Afterwards, the company grew in revenues by about 50% per quarter and raised more than $470 million in venture capital funding, before going public in 2015. Initially, Pure Storage developed the software for storage controllers and used generic flash storage hardware. Pure Storage finished developing its own proprietary flash storage hardware in 2015.

Pure Storage, Inc.
FormerlyOS76, Inc.
Company typePublic
IndustryData storage
Founded2009; 15 years ago (2009)
Founders
  • John Colgrove
  • John Hayes
HeadquartersSanta Clara, California, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Charles Giancarlo (CEO)
ProductsData Storage Hardware and Software
RevenueIncrease US$2.830 billion (2024)
Decrease US$53.551 million (2024)
Decrease US$61.311 million (2024)
Total assetsIncrease US$3.655 billion (2024)
Total equityIncrease US$1.270 billion (2024)
Number of employees
c. 5,600 (2024)
Websitepurestorage.com
Footnotes / references
Financials as of February 5, 2024[1]

Corporate history

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Pure Storage was founded in 2009 under the code name Os76 Inc.[2] by John Colgrove and John Hayes.[3] Initially, the company was setup within the offices of Sutter Hill Ventures, a venture capital firm,[2] and funded with $5 million in early investments.[4] Pure Storage raised another $20 million in venture capital in a series B funding round.[4]

The company came out of stealth mode as Pure Storage in August 2011.[5] Simultaneously, Pure Storage announced it had raised $30 million in a third round of venture capital funding.[6] Another $40 million was raised in August 2012, in order to fund Pure Storage's expansion into European markets.[7] In May 2013, the venture capital arm of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), In-Q-Tel, made an investment in Pure Storage for an un-disclosed amount.[8] That August, Pure Storage raised another $150 million in funding.[9] By this time, the company had raised a total of $245 million in venture capital investments.[9] The following year, in 2014, Pure Storage raised $225 million in a series F funding round, valuating the company at $3 billion.[10]

Annual revenues for Pure Storage grew by almost 50% per quarter, from 2012 to 2014.[11] It had $6 million in revenues in fiscal 2013, $43 million in fiscal 2014, and $174 million in fiscal 2015.[12] Pure Storage sold 100 devices its first year of commercial production in 2012[7] and 1,000 devices in 2014.[13] By late 2014, Pure Storage had 750 employees.[14] Although it was growing, the company was not profitable. It lost $180 million in 2014.[15]

In 2013, EMC sued Pure Storage and 44 of its employees who were former EMC employees, alleging theft of EMC's intellectual property.[16][17] EMC also claimed that Pure Storage infringed some of their patents. Pure Storage counter-sued, alleging that EMC illegally obtained a Pure Storage appliance for reverse engineering purposes.[18] In 2016, a jury initially awarded $14 million to EMC.[19] A judge reversed the award and ordered a new trial to determine whether the EMC patent at issue was valid.[20][21] Pure Storage and EMC subsequently settled the case for $30 million.[22][23]

Pure Storage filed a notification of its intent to go public with the Securities Exchange Commission in August 2015.[24] That October, 25 million shares were sold for a total of $425 million.[25] The company hosted its first annual user conference in 2016.[26] The following year, the Board of Directors appointed Charles Giancarlo as CEO, replacing Scott Dietzen.[27] In 2017 (2018 fiscal year), Pure Storage was profitable for the first time[28] and surpassed $1 billion in annual revenue.[29] In Nov 2024, Pure Storage was one of the investors in the AI oriented cloud provider CoreWeave's secondary share sale. [30][31]

Acquisitions

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In August 2018, Pure Storage made its first acquisition with the purchase of a data deduplication software company called StorReduce,[32] for $25 million.[33] In April the following year, they announced a definitive agreement for an undisclosed amount to acquire Compuverde, a software-based file storage company.[34]

In September 2020, Pure Storage acquired Portworx, a provider of cloud-native storage and data-management platform based on Kubernetes, for $370 million.[35]

Products

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Pure Storage develops all-flash storage arrays as an alternative to traditional hard disk drives and hybrid disk/flash systems, providing efficiencies in flash operations and environmental heating and power usage.[36][11] The company started out as a hardware/software vendor, but over time added more subscription-based services.[37][38] Pure Storage develops its own software and flash storage hardware[6][39] and uses its own operating system called Purity.[40] Its various families of hardware/software products are optimized for different applications, such as artificial intelligence, cloud-native applications, backup storage, and databases.[36]

Pure Storage released its first hardware/software products, the FlashArray family, in 2011.[5] This was followed by the Evergreen family of subscription services in 2015[41] and the FlashBlade product family in 2016.[42] The operating system was expanded with a set of features called Fusion in 2021, which optimizes storage automatically across storage arrays.[43][44]

References

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  1. ^ "Pure Storage, Inc. Fiscal 2024 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". Pure Storage. 1 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b Malik, Om (October 4, 2010). "Zimbra Executive Heads To Hot Storage Startup". Gigaom. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  3. ^ Dietzen, -Scott (June 17, 2014). "Predicting what's in store: A flash flood of data". CNBC. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  4. ^ a b Hesseldahl, Arik (August 12, 2015). "Pure Storage Files to Go Public Later This Year". Recode. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  5. ^ a b Mearian, Lucas (August 23, 2011). "Start-up Pure Storage emerges with all-SSD array". Computerworld. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  6. ^ a b Higginbotham, Stacey (August 23, 2011). "Pure Storage brings hard disk pricing to Flash storage". Gigaom. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  7. ^ a b Darrow, Barb (August 15, 2012). "Pure Storage scoops up $40M in validation of all-flash push". Gigaom. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  8. ^ McLaughlin, Kevin (May 29, 2013). "Hot Startup Pure Storage Just Became The CIA's First Flash Storage Investment". Business Insider. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  9. ^ a b Farrell, Michael B. (October 23, 2013). "EMC sues ex-employees who joined rival". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  10. ^ "What Is DirectFlash and How Does It Work?". Pure Storage, Inc. February 27, 2024. Retrieved February 27, 2024.
  11. ^ a b Morgan, Timothy (September 2, 2014). "Pure Storage, EMC, And IBM Lead The All-Flash Array Pack". EnterpriseTech. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  12. ^ Solomon, Glenn (October 18, 2015). "The Pure Storage IPO In Context". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  13. ^ "Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Program". Pure Storage, Inc. February 27, 2024. Retrieved February 27, 2024.
  14. ^ Kim, Eugene (November 23, 2014). "How A Five-Year-Old Startup Is Winning Deals Over A Huge $60 Billion Company". Business Insider. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  15. ^ Kim, Eugene (October 7, 2015). "A big tech IPO flopped and now the company is worth less than when it was private". Business Insider. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  16. ^ Bort, Julie (November 6, 2013). "Startup Pure Storage Hired 44 Employees From EMC — And EMC Is Suing". Business Insider. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  17. ^ Donnelly, Caroline (November 6, 2013). "EMC claims Pure Storage stole trade secrets and staff in lawsuit". IT PRO. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  18. ^ Lawson, Stephen (November 27, 2013). "Flash startup Pure Storage fights EMC in trade-secrets battle". PCWorld. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  19. ^ Darrow, Barb (March 16, 2016). "EMC, Pure Storage Both Claim Victory in Patent Decision". Fortune. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  20. ^ Bray, Hiawatha (September 2, 2016). "Pure Storage spanks EMC in court". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  21. ^ Clark, Don (September 2, 2016). "Pure Storage Wins New Trial in EMC Patent Case". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  22. ^ Ray, Tiernan (October 19, 2016). "Pure Storage Rising: Settlement with EMC a Positive, Says Wells". Barron's. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  23. ^ Clark, Don (October 19, 2016). "Pure Storage, Dell Settle Litigation Launched by EMC". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  24. ^ Vanian, Jonathan (August 12, 2015). "Fast-rising startup Pure Storage files for an IPO". Fortune. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  25. ^ Driebusch, Corrie; Demos, Telis (October 7, 2015). "Pure Storage Ends Below IPO Price in Market Debut". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  26. ^ Breeze, Hannah (March 21, 2016). "No risk of Pure Storage being acquired". CRN. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  27. ^ Condon, Stephanie (August 18, 2014). "Pure Storage names new CEO". ZDNet. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  28. ^ Kovar, Joseph F. (February 1, 2018). "Pure Storage Reports 48 Percent Revenue Growth As Full Year Sales Pass $1 Billion". CRN. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  29. ^ Condon, Stephanie (April 5, 2017). "Pure Storage surpasses $1B in annual sales". ZDNet. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  30. ^ Novet, Jordan (2024-11-13). "AI startup CoreWeave closes $650 million secondary share sale, with Cisco joining as investor". CNBC. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
  31. ^ "Pure Storage Partners with CoreWeave to Enhance AI Cloud Infrastructure". HPCwire. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
  32. ^ Gagliordi, Natalie (August 1, 2018). "Pure Storage buys StorReduce in first ever acquisition". ZDNet. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  33. ^ "Pure Storage Quarterly Report". August 24, 2018. Retrieved December 4, 2018.
  34. ^ Dignan, Larry (March 27, 2018). "Pure Storage buys Compuverde to expand hybrid cloud storage". ZDNet. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  35. ^ "Pure Storage acquires data service platform Portworx for $370M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  36. ^ a b Lewis, Sarah (March 27, 2024). "What is Pure Storage?". Storage. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
  37. ^ Burt, Jeffrey (September 29, 2021). "Pure Storage Breaks into Storage-as-Code, Data Services". The Next Platform. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
  38. ^ "Pure1, Evergreen expand self-service and data protection". TechTarget. March 6, 2024. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
  39. ^ Konrad, Alex (May 1, 2015). "$3 Billion Startup Pure Storage Moves Into Hardware, Announces 'Evergreen' Sale Model". Forbes. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  40. ^ Mellor, Chris (April 26, 2023). "Pure Storage updates FlashArray Purity OS – Blocks and Files". Blocks and Files. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
  41. ^ Mellor, Chris (June 8, 2022). "Pure Storage reworks Evergreen subscription service – Blocks and Files". Blocks and Files. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
  42. ^ Burgener, Eric (December 2017), IDC MarketScape: Worldwide All-Flash Array 2017 Vendor Assessment, IDC
  43. ^ "Pure Storage adds automated storage API, databases on demand". Storage. September 28, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
  44. ^ "Pure deepens Fusion as reorientation to storage for AI continues". ComputerWeekly.com. June 19, 2024. Retrieved July 2, 2024.
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