ピュア・ストレージ
ピュア・ストレージ (Pure Storage) は、2009年設立の米国カリフォルニア州マウンテンビューに本社を持つエンタープライズストレージの製造販売企業。オールフラッシュ・ストレージにおいて最も成長している企業である。
In October 2009 Pure Storage raised a $5 million Series A round led by Sutter Hill Ventures. In August 2010 Pure Storage raised a $20 million, led by Greylock Partners with participation by existing investor Sutter Hill Ventures. In August 2011. Pure Storage announced an unspecified investment from the venture-capital arm of Samsung Electronics, the largest flash-memory maker. Samsung and Redpoint Ventures contributed to a $30 million Series C funding round. 
In August 2012, Pure Storage raised $40 million in Series D funding round led by Mike Volpi's Index Ventures, along with existing investors Greylock, Redpoint and Sutter Hill, for a total of $95 million capital raised.
In addition to venture funding, private investors included Diane Greene, a founder and former CEO of VMware and Frank Slootman, former CEO of Data Domain.
An investment of undisclosed amount from In-Q-Tel (associated with the US Central Intelligence Agency) was announced in May 2013.
Another investment (round "E") of $150 million was announced in August 2013, including T. Rowe Price and Tiger Global Management.
Pure Storage released a flash memory product called FlashArray on August 23, 2011.
Deployed in a data center, FlashArray is marketed to accelerate applications like server virtualization, desktop virtualization, database systems and cloud computing that required very high rates of random I/O operations per second.
InfiniBand technology is used for connecting between controllers, and Fibre Channel for connection to server computers.
The second generation FlashArray, released on May 16, 2012, included new software and an enhanced data integrity fabric.
It was promoted with higher resiliency, encryption with zero key management, a new web user interface, command line interface, and support for VMware's vStorage interface.
In August 2012, Pure Storage released new software features including iSCSI connectivity using 10-gigabit Ethernet, snapshots, and integration with VMware vCenter.
Pure Storage uses multi-level cell flash memory which has higher capacity for the same price of single-level cell memory.
Using software such as data compression known as data deduplication, Pure Storage markets the FlashArray to compete with traditional rotating disk arrays.
The company estimated FlashArray requires about 20% of the power and space required for traditional arrays.
Pure Storage flash memory is packaged in shelves of solid state memory devices (SSDs), from two known suppliers, sTec, Inc. and Samsung.
In July 2012, Pure Storage announced a partner program for resellers.
Competitors include Nimbus Data, SolidFire, Whiptail, Texas Memory Systems, Violin Memory and Kaminario.
CEO Scott Dietzen was president and CTO Zimbra (acquired by VMware in January 2010), and former CTO of BEA Systems.
Co-founder and chief technical officer John Colgrove was an early engineer at Veritas Software which merged with Symantec in 2005.
Co-founder and chief architect John Hayes joined from Yahoo! via the acquisition of Bix.
Vice president of marketing Matt Kixmoeller and vice president of sales Matt Burr previously worked at Symantec.
Vice president of engineering Bob Wood joined in 2011 from Omneon (acquired by Harmonic, Inc.), and previously worked at NetApp.
In October 2013, EMC Corporation filed lawsuits against several former sales employees who left to join Pure Storage.
Tim Riitters, a former Google exec, joined as chief financial officer (CFO) in August 2014.
Pure Storage was named as silver winner in the "Wall Street Journal" 2012 Technology Innovation Awards.
Pure Storage and Samsung won one of two awards for enterprise business applications at an August 2012 flash memory trade show.
Pure Storage was selected for the "Red Herring" Top 100 Americas Award in 2012.
Pure Storage was named one of 10 "hot emerging companies" by "CRN Magazine" in May 2012.
Pure Storage was among the top 25 best places to work in Silicon Valley, of companies with 51-101 employees by the San Francisco Business Times.
Pure Storage announced it was a silver winner of the Enterprise Product of the Year in Best in Biz Awards 2011.