Bob Wood VP Engineering, Pure Storage

Pure
Storage, Inc. announced it has
appointed industry veteran Bob Wood as vice president of engineering.

In this role, Wood will help formulate technology strategy,
drive all product development and grow and manage the engineering team. Earlier
this week Pure Storage emerged from stealth, introducing an
all-flash enterprise array. The Pure Storage FlashArray was built to break the
cost barrier to mainstream adoption of flash within the enterprise data center.

"Pure Storage is delighted to have a leader of Bob’s
track record and talent join us," said Scott Dietzen, CEO of Pure Storage.
"Bob has unique breadth and depth in storage systems and knows how to
drive innovative products in development. His addition to the team adds even
more strength to our exceptional technical leadership bench."

Wood joins Pure Storage from Harmonic, where he served as
senior vice president of engineering and was instrumental in driving key
product development efforts. Previously, Wood served for four years as vice
president of file system engineering at NetApp, where he was responsible for
NetApp’s WAFL file system and their next generation clustered file system. Wood
joined NetApp in 2005 after the company acquired Decru, where he was part of
the original executive team and was responsible for all product development
during a period when the company tripled its global engineering organization.

He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from University
of Colorado, Boulder.

"Pure Storage has done a tremendous job building a
world class product and engineering organization, and I’m excited to join this
distinguished leadership team," said Wood. "The company has a very
promising future, and I look forward to continuing the focus on innovation and
leveraging my experience in enterprise storage to help make Pure Storage’s
technology a success."