Inge De Maere joined Pure Storage as SAP Solution Architect in November 2017. Inge has worked in Enterprise Storage at HPE for the past 18 years prior to joining Pure Storage, most recently in the R&D Storage Engineering team in Germany, responsible for developing SAP HANA TDI storage solutions and supporting strategic accounts, but has also spent time in storage management and data protection verticals. She has in-depth experience of SAP database technologies and spends most of her time at SAP headquarters in Walldorf to help build a joint Pure Storage SAP solution and develop further innovative solutions.