How Pure Storage Is Setting Innovation and Sustainability Standards 

The most significant impact of Pure Storage in the realm of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) is enabling organizations to dramatically reduce data center resource consumption in pursuit of their environmental sustainability goals. We empower innovators to get the most from their data with a single, consolidated, consistent, and highly orchestrated data storage platform that delivers 10 times the reliability while requiring as little as one-fifth the power, space, cooling, and labor of competitive solutions. 

As we continue on our ESG journey, we are making enormous strides to set the innovation and sustainability standards for the data storage industry while also helping customers protect their data and business operations from risk. Our ESG Report 2024 highlights these initiatives, as well as our year-over-year progress on the ESG issues of greatest impact to our business and stakeholders.

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What You’ll Find in This Year’s Report

Our ESG Report 2024 offers a comprehensive update on our progress and commitments across our technology, as well as environmental, social, and governance priority issues. Our ESG strategy helps us to build and deliver an industry-leading, sustainable portfolio of products and services, to attract, retain, and engage top talent, and to strengthen customer, investor, and community trust. As the world and our business continue to evolve, we continue to mature our commitments, initiatives, and disclosures to drive positive impact by:

• Delivering sustainable technology and operations that reduce energy demand and carbon emissions in support of the transition to a net-zero future for our customers, employees, and supply chain.
  
• Advancing equitable outcomes for our people and communities by enabling them to expand their skills, achieve professional growth, and support their communities.
  
• Building and maintaining trust with our employees, customers, partners, investors, and communities through data security and privacy, sound governance, and leading with ethics and transparency.

I want to share my appreciation for our more than 5,600 global employees, spanning over 30 countries. Our progress on ESG is only possible because of their dedication to making a difference both within our company and in the world at large. Our commitment to sustainability is built on shared values of persistence, creativity, ownership, and a customer-first mentality. I am incredibly proud of the culture we continue to cultivate and our dedication to fostering a supportive, inclusive environment where every individual can contribute and thrive. 

Redefining the Storage Experience

Pure Storage has always been committed to building efficiencies into its storage platform and unique business models. We have continued on our storage efficiency trajectory, launching several new products and completing energy label certification on every product throughout FY23 and FY24. 

Our unified data storage platform is engineered to store more data in less space for greater energy efficiency while delivering performance, reliability, and simplicity across all operating environments. Compared to other all-flash and mechanical disk-based options, our platform offers significant savings on energy, space, e-waste, and administrative costs.

With the Pure Storage platform, customers can reduce electricity generation-related emissions by up to 85%. This dramatic decrease not only means less energy consumption; it also means lower water and natural resource impacts, with our arrays requiring 80%-85% less water to operate and far less data center space to install than competing products.

Guaranteed Performance, Cost-optimized, Enhanced Efficiency

The Pure Storage platform also leverages our unique Evergreen® architecture, enabling it to be extremely energy efficient, simple to manage, reliable, and performant. This means that our products do not become obsolete. Instead, they’re constantly upgrading and improving without disruption, allowing our customers to continuously benefit from the latest hardware and software technology while eliminating unnecessary product replacements and associated e-waste.

And Pure1®, our AI-powered storage management environment, is continuously optimized to help customers monitor and maximize their energy efficiency. With a Sustainability Assessment that provides transparency in how Pure Storage all-flash appliances are operating, it provides customers with full transparency and near real-time analysis into their storage energy consumption and savings.

Our Commitment to Sustainable Data Storage

Pure Storage has an undeniably momentous opportunity to lead the industry in meaningfully reducing global data center power requirements and is committed to becoming net zero by 2040, covering our Scope 1 and market-based Scope 2 emissions.

In FY24, we launched a pilot of an environmentally focused impact accounting model to quantify the costs of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, material use, water, waste, and land use throughout our value chain, assigning monetary values for a clear perspective on our environmental footprint and an annual comprehensive corporate performance assessment. As we move forward, we will expand our effort in impact accounting to accurately account for the environmental costs in manufacturing and using Pure Storage products. Notably, Pure Storage is the only US-based technology company piloting this method, which will help our customers make informed environmental decisions about their data storage.

Looking Forward

Our environmental performance today is one of many reasons why Pure Storage is the optimal storage solution to meet evolving business challenges. We believe our robust ESG strategy will help us on our ongoing journey to achieving our industry-leading goals. This is why it’s integrated into our core business strategy and culture, and every Pure Storage employee has a role to play. I’m excited to see Pure Storage at the forefront of sustainability and eager to further our progress and success, alongside our employees, customers, partners, and stakeholders.