Pure Storage’s Modern Data Experience Crucial in Public Sector’s Quest for Fast, Scalable Operations

Digitalising The British Army

When The British Army embarked on its digital transformation journey, THEIA, it needed a storage partner that could help it adopt more efficient and effective digital processes, improve security and aid collaboration.

"Conflict in the digital age requires a digital army that can relentlessly out-compete its adversaries, seamlessly integrate with partners and enable people, equipment and resources to operate with maximum efficiency. As the nature of warfare has changed, we had to revolutionise our infrastructure so that we could store, process and analyse data quickly, often in limited physical spaces. This meant a large-scale data center was not practical and so we're pleased that Pure Storage was able to deliver the storage capabilities we needed to be effective," said Colonel Mark Cornell, Assistant Head, Army Digital Services, The British Army.

"The UK National Data Strategy sets out priority areas of action including transforming the government's use of data. However, there are numerous systemic barriers to achieving this such as the legacy infrastructure and data architectures that exist across the public sector," comments Shaun Collings, Director, UK Public Sector, Pure Storage. "IT teams work hard to balance the burden of tight budgets and the need to urgently modernise older systems in order to drive efficiency and improve public services. In light of this, Pure's simple, resilient and flexible on-demand infrastructure is helping government organisations accelerate their modernisation journey: using data to achieve digital transformation that delivers improved citizen services, better decision making and greater efficiency".

"As it becomes increasingly important for local and central government departments to run procurement exercises in line with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices, Pure also brings significant environmental benefits. Not only does our technology take up 96% less space than legacy spinning disk it also excels on power consumption. This adds another, important dimension to Pure's support of public sector organisations as they look to achieve new green technology goals," concludes Collings.