Company Presentation for EECS 441

1. Ruben Wu

2. Problem
● Businesses need data centers
● Can’t afford to make their own
● Data is the future

3. Product

4. Persona
● Ted, systems engineer at LinkedIn
● Needs to buy storage
● Wants the best deal

5. Financials

6. Business Model
● Enterprise facing
● Superior hardware
● Software subscriptions

7. History
● 2009 - Founded by John
Colgrove and John Hayes
● 2011 - FlashArray released
● 2014 - Company IPO’ed
● 2017 - FlashBlade released
● 2018 - First profitable
quarter
● Current - 2500 employees

8. What’s Hot

9. What’s Hot

10. Secret Sauce
● Cutting-Edge technology
● Hardware + Software
● Customer support

11. Secret Sauce

12. Competition
Pure Storage Nimble Storage EMC IBM
All Flash Arrays
Data Reduction
Cloud Platform
Free and non
disruptive upgrades

13. Prediction
● Pure storage will succeed
● Current market leader
● Startup-culture work environment

14. References
1. https://blog.purestorage.com/the-realities-of-market-share-and-the-customer-experience/
2. https://www.purepowershellguy.com/?p=20923
3. https://blog.purestorage.com/evergreen-storage-leadership-4-years-in/
4. https://blog.purestorage.com/introducing-the-new-forever-flash-the-best-business-model-in-stor
age-gets-even-better-part-2/
5. https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/pstg/financials
6. https://unihost.com/help/nvme-vs-ssd-vs-hdd-overview-and-comparison/
7. https://blog.purestorage.com/data-reduction-efficiency-all-storage-is-not-created-equal/