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Cloud Becomes Driving Force For Storage "Hardware" Vendor Pure Storage

Pure Storage is known as one of the top producers of all-flash storage hardware. But the real drive behind the company is software. Indeed, as Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo tells CRN, the company ships software "encased in iron" via its FlashArray and FlashBlade lines. And that software also runs natively in the cloud to provide customers choice in how they want to handle their block data requirements.

The company's software helped drive Pure Storage's recently released full fiscal year 2020 financials that had the firm reported revenue of $1.6 billion, up 21 percent over last year's revenue of $1.4 billion, and reported its second full year of non-GAAP profitability, although GAAP profitability remains elusive for now.

Giancarlo recently sat down with CRN to look at the importance of the company's investment in software engineering, how it differs from its competitors, and a little peek at what to expect in the near future on the software side.

For an understanding of what this all means for Pure Storage, turn the page.

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