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Pure Storage vs VMware

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Pure Storage
Based on 271 reviews.
VMware
Based on 2212 reviews.
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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.
VMware, Inc. is a US software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services, VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while its enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, are bare-metal hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system. In 1998, VMware was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion. Greene and Rosenblum, who are married, first met while at the University of California, Berkeley.
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
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Top Industries
Educational Organization
27%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Educational Organization
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
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