Pure Storage’s portfolio enables EV Group to reduce storage management and maintenance time by 90% and reduce energy consumption by 85%
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Pure Storage®, (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced that EV Group (EVG), a leading provider of production systems and process solutions for wafer processing in the semiconductor industry, microsystems technology and nanotechnology, has selected the Pure Storage portfolio – including Pure Storage FlashArray™, Evergreen//Forever™ and Pure1® – to bring new solutions to market faster and compete on a global scale.
Customer Challenge
Since its inception in 1980, EVG has been dedicated to the development of state-of-the-art, high-quality manufacturing systems for high-volume production. The company has shaped the industry by working with nearly every major semiconductor and microelectromechanical system (MEMS) manufacturer.
With increasing demand for semiconductor technologies, EVG recognized the need to bring new, differentiated solutions to market faster. The aim is to achieve continuous growth and a leading position in the industry.
To support its storage infrastructure efforts, the company turned to Pure Storage. Pure enables EVG to provide greater capacity to handle growing data volumes, easily scale storage on demand, increase overall data performance and security, and reduce maintenance. A reduction in power consumption also offers protection against rising energy costs.
Customer Impact
Implementing Pure Storage solutions has enabled EVG to continue to drive global growth and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace with a flexible, scalable storage infrastructure. The benefits that Pure Storage offers to EVG include:
- Increased Energy Efficiency and Sustainability: Pure Storage FlashArray uses only 15 percent of the energy compared to traditional storage, which is critical in an era of skyrocketing electricity costs. In addition to minimizing downtime, Pure Storage Evergreen//Forever subscription also minimizes e-waste, promoting sustainability in EVG’s IT environments.
- Intuitive storage management: Pure1, Pure Storage’s AI-driven management platform, is a powerful and simple tool that helps EVG manage its storage infrastructure. It reduces administrative time and allows EVG to focus on innovative, competitive new projects. Pure Storage supports 900 virtual machines (VMs) with higher performance. The time required for operation, maintenance and upgrades has been reduced by an incredible 90 percent.
- Integrated data protection: Due to the nature of EVG’s business, customers often pass on sensitive data when installing new machines. EVG implemented Pure Storage SafeMode Snapshots to ensure that this data is protected from theft or deletion and is always available.
Executive Insight
“Pure Storage provides EVG with a strong base to develop and implement new and innovative technologies such as containers and AI that support our competitive differentiation in the market. Containers make it more efficient to develop the software essential to our semiconductor production machines, while AI drives the development of intelligent solutions from deployment to security. Overall, Pure Storage makes our entire storage infrastructure easy to manage while enabling unrivaled security, energy efficiency and scalability. This ultimately frees up resources so we can focus on our core business goals and growth.” – Josef Buttinger, Corporate IT & Security Manager, EV Group.
“EVG is a leader in the semiconductor market and required an energy-efficient and future-oriented storage solution to drive innovation. Our solution supports this need and enables the company to realize future ambitions in terms of new technologies to improve processes and safety and bring new products to market faster. Sustainability has also played a major role in our mutual success. We have helped EVG reduce its energy consumption significantly.” – Begona Jara, Regional Vice President Germany & Austria at Pure Storage.
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Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) uncomplicates data storage, forever. Pure delivers a cloud experience that empowers every organization to get the most from their data while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. Pure’s commitment to providing true storage as-a-service gives customers the agility to meet changing data needs at speed and scale, whether they are deploying traditional workloads, modern applications, containers, or more. Pure believes it can make a significant impact in reducing data center emissions worldwide through its environmental sustainability efforts, including designing products and solutions that enable customers to reduce their carbon and energy footprint. And with the highest Net Promoter Score in the industry, Pure’s ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.
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