Pure Storage Powers Ahead in Q1 2026: Double-Digit Growth and AI Leadership
Pure Storage, the leader in storage solutions for the modern data center, has reported a strong first quarter (Q1) fiscal year 2026, delivering double-digit growth amidst a dynamic macro environment. According to Charlie Giancarlo, Chief Executive Officer, Pure's performance was solid, with the company introducing its Fusion 2.0 software last quarter, which has received an outstanding reception from customers.
As of now, almost 100 customers are using or testing Fusion to manage their data infrastructure, implementing their data management policies in software and applying governance across their global data estate. The company's Fusion V2 software eliminates data silos, transforming fragmented storage into a unified enterprise data cloud, ensuring consistent policy enforcement at scale and reducing human error.
At its annual Accelerate conference, Pure will unveil how its latest innovations enable customers to create their own enterprise data cloud, allowing them to focus more on business outcomes rather than infrastructure. This past quarter, the company launched its newest FlashBlade, FlashBlade XL, which will be the industry's highest-performing storage platform for AI and high-performance computing when it is delivered later this quarter.
FlashBlade XL delivers ultrafast data access with unmatched read and write bandwidth using a new disaggregated architecture, scaling effortlessly to support massive GPU clusters. It provides ease of installation, operation, management, and upgradability that Pure is known for. Q1 was a strong quarter in Pure's breadth of AI wins across customers and segments and across scale and use cases.
According to Rob Lee, Chief Technology Officer, Pure delivers industry-leading high-performance storage for public and private GPU farms, supporting small, medium, and large machine learning and training workloads. As enterprises adopt inference engines and retrievable augmented generation (RAG), they need storage infrastructure that scales non-disruptively and adapts to evolving AI demands.
Pure's unified platform handles the full range of AI workloads with simplicity and efficiency, unlike other vendors requiring different products for different use cases. Another topic on customers' minds is server virtualization. Two weeks ago, Pure announced a major agreement with Nutanix, further solidifying its position in the market.
