San Francisco Giants Opts for Pure Storage

Pure Storage, Inc. announced that the recent three-time World Series Champion San Francisco Giants will partner with Pure to house their critical application data on the Pure Storage platform.

With Pure Storage, the Giants anticipate simplicity, consistent performance with all-flash and efficiency derived from deduplication and datacenter density.

Intent on replacing their legacy disk platform with a solution that was simple and scalable, the Giants turned to the Pure Storage FlashArray//m20.

While baseball operations worked tirelessly this off-season to field the most competitive squad possible, the franchise’s IT team focused on enhancing the performance of its storage infrastructure.

“Pure Storage will enable us to move away from the complexity associated with traditional storage platforms by reducing dependency on disk-based storage technologies,” said Bill Schlough, CIO, San Francisco Giants. “Pure’s functional simplicity and ease-of-use will allow our IT staff to focus on driving improved business value for the organization, and will eliminate storage from the list of concerns for our extremely busy team.“

As advanced statistics and analytics become increasingly more important in professional sports, the ability to access and discern tangible value from massive amounts of organizational data has become paramount. This coming season, the Giants will depend on Pure Storage to access critical data more quickly, thereby enabling better personnel decisions on the diamond, and better business decisions behind the scenes.

Increased storage density with Pure will allow the Giants to consolidate a rack of disk to just three rack units. Additionally, the data efficiency derived from Pure’s blend of data reduction technologies will accelerate time-sensitive analyses. The elimination of storage system cost and complexity will enable the organization to be agile when implementing storage-dependent initiatives.

Pure Storage is dedicated to helping customers expand the realm of possibility and delivers a multitude of transformative benefits to the Giants organization, including reduced data processing times for key SQL workloads and reduced time to clone SQL workloads for business intelligence use cases. All-flash design enables consistent, increased performance for database and analytics workloads across the organizations.

“Champions choose products that allow them to maintain an expected baseline of excellence. To work alongside a franchise that has been synonymous with the highest levels of achievement since the turn of the decade is a tremendous validation of our technology,” said Jonathan Martin, CMO, Pure Storage. “IT decision makers and fans alike will appreciate that the Giants have chosen a best-in-class all-flash array to help move the organization into the future – a future we are confident will translate to continued success both on and off the field.“