nyse pstg industry data storage founded 2009 headquarters mountain view california key people ceo scott dietzen co founder john colgrove co founder john hayes cfo tim riitters website www.purestorage.com pure storage is a mountain view california based enterprise data flash storage company founded in 2009 . 1 contents 1 history 2 flasharray 3 awards 4 references 5 external links history edit in october 2009 the company was founded as os76 by john colgrove and john hayes . mike speiser of sutter hill ventures was an early board member . 2 it raised a 5 million series a round led by sutter hill . in august 2010 it raised another 20 million led by greylock partners with participation by sutter hill . scott dietzen former president and cto of zimbra acquired by vmware in january 2010 and former cto of bea systems became chief executive in october 2010 . 3 in august 2011 the company announced an investment from the venture capital arm of samsung electronics which along with redpoint ventures contributed to a 30 million series c funding round . 4 vice president of engineering bob wood joined at that time from omneon acquired by harmonic inc. . 5 in august 2012 pure storage raised 40 million in series d funding round led by index ventures partner mike volpi along with existing investors . 6 an investment of undisclosed amount from in q tel associated with the us central intelligence agency was announced in may 2013 . 7 another investment round e of 150 million was announced in august 2013 including t. rowe price and tiger global management . 8 in october 2013 emc corporation filed lawsuits against several former sales employees who left to join pure storage . 9 10 a 225 million series f funding round closed in april 2014 . 11 tim riitters a former google exec joined as chief financial officer cfo in august 2014 . on october 6 2015 pure storage priced their initial public offering at 17 per share raising about 400 million . 12 it started trading on the new york stock exchange with the symbol pstg . 13 flasharray edit pure storage released a flash memory product called flasharray on august 23 2011 . 1 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 . 14 infiniband technology connected controllers and fibre channel connected to server computers . 15 the second generation flasharray released on may 16 2012 included new software and an enhanced data integrity fabric . 16 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 . 17 in august 2012 the firm released new software features including iscsi connectivity using 10 gigabit ethernet snapshots and integration with vmware vcenter . 18 pure storage used multi level cell flash memory which has higher capacity for the same price than single level cell memory at the cost of increased wear on and reduced life expectancy of the cells . using software such as data compression known as data deduplication the firm markets the flasharray to compete with traditional rotating disk arrays . 19 the company estimated flasharray required about 20 % of the power and space required for traditional arrays . 20 the firm s flash memory is packaged in shelves of solid state memory devices ssds from two known suppliers stec inc. and samsung . 21 awards edit in 2015 pure storage was awarded the best place to work by the san francisco business times in the large companies category . 22 pure storage was named as silver winner in the wall street journal 2012 technology innovation awards . 23 pure storage and samsung won one of two awards for enterprise business applications at an august 2012 flash memory trade show . 24 pure storage was selected for the red herring top 100 americas award in 2012 . 25 pure storage was named one of 10 hot emerging companies by crn magazine in may 2012 . 26 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 . 27 pure storage announced it was a silver winner of the enterprise product of the year in best in biz awards 2011 . 28 references edit a b pure storage breaks cost barrier to mainstream flash adoption with first all flash enterprise storage array . press release . pure storage . august 23 2011 . retrieved august 12 2013 . form d notice of exempt offering of securities . us securities and exchange commission . november 2 2009 . retrieved september 26 2016 . om malik october 4 2010 . zimbra executive heads to hot storage startup . giga om . retrieved september 26 2016 . don clark august 23 2011 . start up places pure bet on flash memory . wall street journal digits blog . retrieved august 12 2013 . bob wood to head engineering for pure storage . press release summary . silicon valley san jose business journal . august 25 2011 . retrieved august 12 2013 . pure storage receives 40m cash infusion to accelerate explosive growth initiate european expansion . press release . pure storage . august 15 2012 . retrieved august 12 2013 . pure storage picks up new funds from iqt . silicon tap . may 29 2013 . retrieved august 12 2013 . peter cohan august 29 2013 . pure storage targets emc streaks to ipo with 150 million capital infusion . forbes . retrieved august 29 2013 . complaint emc corporation v. chadwick johson pdf . massachusetts us district court . october 18 2013 . retrieved november 5 2013 . emc corporation sues its former employees on infidelity basis . storage servers blog . october 25 2013 . retrieved november 5 2013 . pure storage raises 225m valued at over 3b by leading public market investors . press release . april 23 2014 . retrieved september 26 2016 . corrie driebusch and telis demos october 7 2015 . pure storage ends below ipo price in market debut . wall street journal . retrieved september 26 2016 . prospectus . october 6 2015 . retrieved september 26 2016 . pure storage to present leveraging flash memory in enterprise storage tutorial at spring 2011 storage networking world . press release . pure storage . april 4 2011 . retrieved august 12 2013 . chris mellor august 23 2011 . new samsung funded flash disruptor uncloaks storage applecarts tumble like leaves in a gale . the register . retrieved august 12 2013 . deni connor may 16 2012 . pure storage rolls out next gen storage array . information week . retrieved august 12 2013 . pure storage unveils next generation flasharray with high availability flashcare technology and data integrity fabric . press release . pure storage . may 16 2012 . retrieved august 12 2013 . pure storage advances flasharray with ethernet connectivity protection and vmware integration features enabling more customers to join the affordable flash revolution . press release . pure storage . august 23 2012 . retrieved august 12 2013 . joseph f. kovar may 17 2012 . pure storage releases all flash array priced more like disk array . crn magazine . retrieved august 12 2013 . joseph f. kovar august 23 2011 . pure storage exits stealth mode with flash only array 55 million in funding . crn magazine . retrieved august 12 2013 . stec collaborates with pure storage to advance development of the industry s first all flash enterprise array . press release . pure storage . october 3 2011 . retrieved august 12 2013 . julia cooper april 16 2015 . best places to work q & a pure storage hires pure talent stores up happy clients . san francisco business times . retrieved october 7 2015 . michael totty october 16 2012 . silver pure storage alternative to disk storage . wall street journal online . retrieved august 12 2013 . congratulations to the 2012 fms best of show awards winners . flash memory summit . august 23 2012 . archived from the original on september 15 2012 . retrieved august 12 2013 . americas 2012 top 100 . red herring magazine . may 22 2012 . retrieved august 12 2013 . jack mccarthy may 22 2012 . 10 hot emerging vendors for may 2012 . crn magazine . retrieved august 12 2013 . best places to work finalists revealed . bay area biztalk blog . sf business times . march 13 2012 . retrieved august 12 2013 . pure storage honored for enterprise product of the year in best in biz awards 2011 . press release . pure storage . november 9 2011 . retrieved august 12 2013 . external links edit official website v t e solid state drives key terminology encryption ecc flash file system flash memory slc mlc flash memory controller garbage collection iops mb s memory wear open channel ssd over provisioning read disturb secure erase solid state storage trim command wear leveling write amplification flash manufacturers im flash technologies micron samsung sk hynix joint venture between sandisk and toshiba controllers independent greenliant systems indilinx now part of toshiba 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