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Michael Cornwell is currently Vice President and Founding Engineer at Pure Storage.Michael joined Pure Storage from Sun Microsystems where he served as Lead Technologist for Flash Memory. He was responsible for development of NAND flash memory technology for Server and Enterprise applications including the first NAND designed for enterprise applications in partnership with Samsung Semiconductor.

Michael led creation of the world’s fastest storage system, the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array, utilizing an all flash design and core building block in a TPC-C record-breaking transactional database machine developed by Sun/Oracle. Previously, Michael was the Manager of Storage Engineering for the iPod division of Apple, Inc. In this role, Michael was instrumental in the adoption of NAND flash in Apple products including iPod and iPhone. Prior to joining Apple, Inc., Michael worked at Quantum Corporation as a Storage Architect focused on storage telemetry, virtual tape and disk-based backup technologies.

Michael holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has 48 U.S. patents awarded in flash and other storage technologies.