MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — March 1, 2016 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the market’s leading independent solid-state array vendor, today announced a global partnership with the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team. The Team chose Pure Storage based on simplicity, performance and reliability. With Pure Storage, the team is accelerating analysis of data-centric transactions that impact car performance and lap time, and is raising the bar for mission-critical business applications that underpin the entire organization.