Pure Storage Drives Out Direct Carbon Usage in Storage Systems

Pure Storage, Inc. issued its inaugural Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report, which provides visibility into its current metrics and sets commitments for making meaningful progress toward a better future for the global community.

“Pure makes a significant and immediate impact today by reducing data center carbon emissions worldwide through our environmental sustainability efforts. Pure’s products positively impact our customers’ environmental footprint by requiring substantially less power, space, and cooling and by producing less waste than disk-based or competitive all-flash systems,” said Charles Giancarlo chairman and CEO.

Building a sustainable technology infrastructure is necessary to mitigate global warming and the worst impacts of climate change. Pure designs and builds products and delivering services that allow customers to decrease their own environmental footprints. As part of this report, Pure conducted a product life cycle assessment (LCA) of its portfolio, specifically the FlashArray products, which found that its customers achieve up to 80% reduction in direct carbon usage by data systems compared to competitive products.

Expanding on the energy and emissions savings that the vendor brings its customers, it’s Evergreen architecture and Pure as-a-Service subscription deliver further environmental benefits by minimizing e-waste, extending the service lifetimes of equipment, and reducing underutilization of storage. As a result of these programs, 97% of firm’s arrays purchased 6 years ago are still in service.

Beyond helping customers become more sustainable, the company commits to several goals to reduce the company’s own carbon footprint, making progress against Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions focused both on company operations and the use phase of Pure products:

• 50% intensity reduction in market-based Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per employee from FY20 to FY30
• Achieve net zero market-based Scope 1 and 2 emissions by FY40
• 66% intensity reduction in use of sold products from Scope 3 emissions per effective petabyte shipped from FY20 to FY30