Pure Storage Names Cathleen Southwick as Chief Information Officer
December 04, 2018 at 09:00 am EST
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Pure Storage announced the appointment of Cathleen "Cathy" Southwick as Chief Information Officer. In her new role, Southwick will lead global IT and be responsible for advancing the company's operations through delivery of next-generation technology capabilities and systems that align with Pure's strategy. Southwick joins after 21 years of service at AT&T, where she was VP of Technology Engineering and provided strategic IT leadership, led global network transformations and developed and executed a successful Cloud IaaS strategy.
Pure Storage, Inc. is a data storage and management company. The Company is focused on delivering a disruptive data storage platform, which supports a range of structured and unstructured data, at scale and across any data workload in hybrid and public cloud environments, and includes mission-critical production, test and development, analytics, disaster recovery, backup and restore, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Its integrated hardware systems include FlashArray and FlashBlade. Its cloud-native storage includes Portworx by Pure Storage and Portworx Data Services. It delivers modern cloud-oriented services, management and automation to customers across their on-premises, private and public cloud environments. Its cloud operating model is delivered through its Pure Fusion, Evergreen architecture and Pure1 cloud management plane. The Company sells its products and subscription services using a direct sales force and its channel partners.