Pure Storage vs Western Digital

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Pure Storage
Based on 237 reviews.
Western Digital
Based on 5 reviews.
Overview
Pure Storage is a Mountain View, California-based enterprise storage company founded in 2009. In October 2009 Pure Storage raised a $5 million Series A round led by Sutter Hill Ventures. In August 2010 Pure Storage raised a $20 million, led by Greylock Partners with participation by existing investor Sutter Hill Ventures. In August 2011. Pure Storage announced an unspecified investment from the venture-capital arm of Samsung Electronics, the largest flash-memory maker. Samsung and Redpoint Ventures contributed to a $30 million Series C funding round.
Western Digital Corporation is one of the largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers in the world. Western Digital Corporation has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company. Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970 by Alvin B. Phillips, a Motorola employee, as General Digital, initially a manufacturer of MOS test equipment. It rapidly became a speciality semiconductor maker, with start-up capital provided by several individual investors and industrial giant Emerson Electric Company. Around July 1971, it adopted its current name and soon introduced its first product, the WD1402A UART.
Sample Customers
Pure Storage FlashArray
Nielsen, Lamar Advertising, LinkedIn, Betfair, UT-Dallas
Pure Storage FlashBlade
ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL
Pure FlashArray X NVMe
Fremont Bank, Judson ISD, The Nielsen Company
Evergreen//One
1. Aetna 2. Adobe 3. ADP 4. Aflac 5. Allstate 6. Amazon 7. American Express 8. American Greetings 9. Ameriprise Financial 10. ATT 11. Autodesk 12. Bank of America 13. Barclay's 14. Baxter International 15. Berkshire Hathaway 16. BlackRock 17. Boeing 18. Bristol-Myers Squibb 19. Capital One 20. Caterpillar 21. Citigroup 22. Coca-Cola 23. Comcast2 4. ConocoPhillips 25. Constellation Brands 26. CVS Health 27. Dell 28. Disney 29. Dominion Energy 30. Eli Lilly and Company 31. Equinix 32. ExxonMobil
SanDisk InfiniFlash System
Nexenta
Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC 500 series
1. Amazon Web Services2. Google Cloud Platform3. Microsoft Azure4. Alibaba Cloud5. Tencent Cloud6. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure7. IBM Cloud8. DigitalOcean9. Linode10. Vultr11. Hetzner12. OVHcloud13. Scaleway14. Packet15. Cloudflare*16. Akamai17. Fastly18. Limelight19. Imperva20. Cisco21. Juniper Networks22. Palo Alto Networks23. Fortinet24. Check Point25. Trend Micro26. Kaspersky27. McAfee28. Sophos30. Avast31. AVG
HGST Device Manager
Oracle
HGST Flash Software Suite
Flipkart, Gridstore
HGST ActiveScale
EPFL, Illumination Mac Guff
OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform
1. Acronis 2. Atos 3. Barracuda Networks 4. Cisco 5. Dell EMC 6. DigiCert 7. Equinix 8. Google 9. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 10. Hitachi Vantara 11. IBM 12. Intel 13. Inspur 14. Juniper Networks 15. Konica Minolta 16. Lenovo 17. NetApp 18. Nutanix 19. Oracle 20. Palo Alto Networks 21. Pure Storage 22. Rackspace 23. Red Hat 24. SAP 25. Seagate 26. Siemens 27. SUSE 28. VMware 29. Western Digital
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Top Industries
Educational Organization
28%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
20%
Computer Software Company
10%
University
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
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