By MICHAEL CIRCLE
The Data Group News Service
Pure Storage recognized seven customers for their innovative use of the company's data storage technology at its annual Pure//Accelerate conference on Friday.
The fourth annual Pure Storage Breakthrough Awards highlighted customers across five categories: Greatest of All Time (G.O.A.T.), Cloud Champion, Data Warrior, Visionary, and Pure Good Sustainability.
NTT DATA, THG, and SoftBank Corp. were named G.O.A.T. winners for North America, EMEA, and APJ regions, respectively. NTT DATA leverages Pure Storage to enhance its Cloud and AI infrastructure, processing up to 400 TB of data daily while reducing energy costs by 50%.
Rivian Automotive received the Cloud Champion award for using Pure Storage's Portworx platform to accelerate development and improve system performance in its electric vehicle production.
MediaZen, a voice recognition solutions provider, was recognized as Data Warrior for using Pure Storage to reduce AI modeling tasks from one year to two weeks.
Fiserv earned the Pure Good Sustainability award for achieving a 75% reduction in block storage rack space and 73% lower power and cooling costs with Pure Storage's platform.
The Indiana Office of Technology was named Visionary for consolidating 90% of the state's IT infrastructure on Pure Storage, allowing staff to spend 70% less time on maintenance.
"Everything that's mission critical runs on Pure Storage, and it's so simple and easy to work with that we don't even need a dedicated storage engineer," said Schalk Van Der Merwe, CTO of THG.
The awards were presented among Pure Storage's more than 12,500 global customers.
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