On Tuesday, listed cloud infrastructure company Pure Storage, which works with government agencies in intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, state, locate and education marks, announced a record quarter for U.S. public sector contracts, driven by a government-led acceleration in infrastructure modernization.
Pure Storage currently numbers more than 175 of the United States’ 440 federal agencies as clients, spanning all three branches of the U.S. Federal Government and three branches of the U.S. Department of Defense. At the state, local, and education (SLED) level, Pure has customer representation in 48 of the 50 U.S. states. This week’s announcement of a new round of government contracts were part of an all-time high for its public sector business in the third fiscal quarter of 2021.
First, a large agency within the U.S. Treasury Department chose Pure to replace their legacy storage arrays with scalable all-flash solutions for data management. Pure is working with an unnamed strategic partner to provide the agency with non-disruptive upgrades via its Evergreen program.
Additionally, a core agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security signed with Pure to provide advanced analytics and AI operations. This technology is central to the agency’s mission of enhancing national security through innovation, intelligence, collaboration, and trust.
Finally, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts adopted Pure-as-a-Service to containerize and modernize key applications. According to Pure Storage, these advancements enabled the Commonwealth to modernize its infrastructure and application to support continuity of services to its agencies and the public.
“2022 will be the year of infrastructure investment and cloud transformation for the government, and Pure is the best positioned storage vendor to enable the public sector…” said Pure Sector VP Mike Wiseman, who leads up U.S. public sector sales. “We’re proud to support federal and SLED customers as their trusted partner, facilitating their most strategic, future-proof path to IT modernization.”
According to the company, trends and developments in cloud transformation, ransomware, cybersecurity, DevOps, and artificial intelligence (AI) are all driving modernization demand within the public sector, across Federal, SLED, and Healthcare. Agencies are looking to implement hybrid cloud strategies that best serve their goals, moving some workloads to the cloud while repatriating others to on-premises, with containerization becoming increasingly essential. Accelerating this further, the American Rescue Plan, CARES Act, and other government relief programs are enabling these organizations to invest more in building secure, resilient data centers that these new technologies require.
