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Lenovo Based on 20 reviews.	Pure Storage Based on 138 reviews.
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Overview
Information Not Available	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.
Sample Customers
	Pure Storage FlashArray: Nielsen, Lamar Advertising, LinkedIn, Betfair, UT-Dallas Pure Storage FlashBlade: ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL
Popular Solutions
Lenovo Rack Servers 2 reviews Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series 2 reviews Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series 2 reviews	Pure Storage FlashArray 106 reviews Pure Storage FlashBlade 14 reviews Pure FlashArray//X NVMe 8 reviews
Top Industries
Software R&D Company 19% Media Company 15% Retailer 10% Comms Service Provider 8%	Software R&D Company 23% Financial Services Firm 11% Manufacturing Company 9% Comms Service Provider 8%

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Most Helpful Reviews

Pramit Ghimire
Support Engineer-Enterprise System at a tech services company
What is most valuable?
We have separate compute module know as FSM for management.
How has it helped my
…
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Sameh Moamen
Infrastructure Manager at a construction company
What is our primary use case?
We use this solution to house our VMware Virtual Machines. We have three data centers,…
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Raoul Niesten
IT/OT Project Manager and IT/OT Architect at a energy/utilities company
How has it helped my organization?
We started adding servers to our central offices, and we considered HP devices, but…
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Ola Zaher
Infrastructure Section Head at citystars Properties
What is our primary use case?
We use the Lenovo Flex System to make virtual machines on VMware for all our frontend…
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Fatih Altunbas
Senior Solution Architect at nds Netzwerksysteme GmbH
What is our primary use case?
The primary use case of the solution is to renew the IT infrastructure for our…
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Anonymous User
Solutions Architect at a software R&D company
What is our primary use case?
For our customers, they're mainly using it for a backup repository and for NFS data…
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Anonymous User
Sr Manager at a manufacturing company
What is our primary use case?
We use this solution for general, primary storage in an on-premises deployment.
How
…
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Anonymous User
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy
What is our primary use case?
We use this solution on private cloud for all our Oracle workloads and databases, and…
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Customer Service

Pramit Ghimire
Support Engineer-Enterprise System at a tech services company
OK.
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Alejandro Rivas Detomasi
System X & P / Blade / Storage / SAN Hardware and Software Support at GEOCOM Uruguay S.A.
Customer Service: Exelent Technical Support: Technical support is excellent.
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Peter Muchiri
System Engineer at TBM
Technical support has been great. We're very satisfied with them.
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Hassan Raza
Manager Technology Services - Data Center at PTCL.Official
I would rate the technical support a 9/10.
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Sameh Moamen
Infrastructure Manager at a construction company
Technical support for this solution is good but they are not interactive.
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Raoul Niesten
IT/OT Project Manager and IT/OT Architect at a energy/utilities company
We have another party that handles our tech support issues.
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Anonymous User
Sr. Systems Engineer at a retailer
Technical support was reasonable, but leaves room for improvement. Firmware changes were barely supported, and...
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Anonymous User
CIO at a tech services company
Customer Service: 9/10 Technical Support: 9/10
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Anonymous User
Senior Cloud Consultant in CSIRO at a tech services company
Technical support was very good. IBM support is very helpful.
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Anonymous User
Sr. System Administrator at a Consumer Goods
Technical support is 10/10.
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Anonymous User
Design and Develpement Engineer at a comms service provider
The technical support is very good.
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Anonymous User
System Engineer at a tech services company
Customer Service: Generally OK. The warranty centre is readily accessible, and parts are shipped immediately when...
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Ola Zaher
Infrastructure Section Head at citystars Properties
The technical support is good and they respond very quickly. Sometimes we have needed to follow up but they are good...
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Melissa Burg
Director of MIS at Watson Clinic
Tech support is helpful when needed.
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Andrea Spaziani
Chief Information, Facility, Purchasing and Services Manager at Roma Metropolitane S.r.l.
Customer Service: I would rate the customer service as very high. Technical Support: They are all skilled. They...
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James-Kelly
Senior Systems Administrator for Research at Chapman University
We've been incredibly happy with their tech support. There was even an instance where we were having an unrelated...
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Sun Kim Dosik
SDDC Senior Director at SK Telecom
The technical support is okay, but could be improved.
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Kyle Guichard
Senior Director of Systems Engineering at Bill.com
The technical support has been fantastic.
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Jon Waite
CTO at CCL
Excellent.
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Virgilio Albert
Owner at a tech services company
Compared with other products, Pure's technical support is as good as anyone's, probably better. They have tools where...
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Mudasser Zaheer
Senior Global Manager at DXC Technology
We have worked with the engineering team and professional services team. We have had no issues. They are excellent.
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Ray Smith
Head DBA and Technical Management at a financial services firm
The technical support is very good. The teams are awesome. The guys in South Africa, and they're very, very good.
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Chaan Beard
Senior Data Center Solutions Architect at ChaanBeard.com
I've used their technical support and would say that it's excellent. I would give them a ten out of ten.
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Kelvin Foo
APAC System manager at a pharma/biotech company
Technical support is good. I get pre-preemptive notices from Pure Storage support. They will notify me to check...
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Cecilia Lenasdotter
Network Engineer at Altura Credit Union
The technical support is very good.
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Anonymous User
VP of Engineering at a pharma/biotech company
We've only had to use their technical support during run of the mill maintenance events like upgrading the firmware...
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Manager340157
Infrastructure Manager at a comms service provider
I would rate the technical support as a five (out of ten). They need to improve. When we open a case, it is auto...
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Anonymous User
IT Officer at a university
The technical support is very fast.
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Anonymous User
IT Manager at a manufacturing company
I have had no issues with technical support.
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Anonymous User
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy
What I like about Pure Storage technical support is that when you enter a request, you immediately get a response....
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Anonymous User
Technical Director at Envestnet Yodlee
Their technical support is awesome. I would give it five stars.
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Anonymous User
DBA at a financial services firm
When we've had issues, technical support has been really good about resolving them quickly. I was on the call with...
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Anonymous User
Director at a healthcare company
Pure did help us by coming onsite and deploying it.
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Anonymous User
CTO at a healthcare company
The support has been good.
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Felipe Labarca
CTO at Ticel
I would rate the technical support as a ten out of ten.
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Anonymous User
Sr Manager at a manufacturing company
I have never contacted technical support for this solution.
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Anonymous User
Systems Analyst at a government
We've used them a few times, mainly with upgrades. They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good.
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Anonymous User
Consultant at a tech services company
Technical support for this solution is very good.
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Anonymous User
Infrastructure Architect at a health, wellness and fitness company
Their technical support is good.
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Anonymous User
ICT Operations Manager at a comms service provider
Technical support is good. They are proactive about the upgrades and reactive when we have any issues.
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David Fong
Sr System Engineer at Stanford University
I haven't had to use their technical support much. The few times I had to call them, they were very responsive. I was...
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Anonymous User
Cloud Administrator at a tech services company
I don't interface with technical support too much. Overall whenever I've had to interface with technical support it's...
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Anonymous User
System Engineer at a tech services company
I haven't needed to use support. My employees say their support very good.
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