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Pure Storage FlashArray//C

6Judge labels
1First choices
0Negative labels
6 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
4 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Pure Storage FlashArray//C was named 4 times in Enterprise storage, where Dell PowerStore led with 16%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In enterprise storage · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Pure Storage FlashArray//C for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Enterprise storage systemsCloud and infrastructure2%10 of 1670%4under 10 labels · led by Dell PowerStore at 16%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Pure Storage FlashArray//C yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Pure Storage FlashArray//C across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K210001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna01001
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase3 labels1
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“I recommend Pure Storage FlashArray as the top choice” Kimi K2 · Enterprise storage · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“All-flash, capacity-optimized for cost/GB, non-disruptive upgrades. GigaOm praises for midsize primary storage.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Enterprise storage · budget prompt · alternative
“### 3. Pure Storage FlashArray//C - Best for: Maximum simplicity and predictable pricing” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Enterprise storage · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“if low day-to-day administration and a simpler upgrade path are top priorities” GPT-6 Luna · Enterprise storage · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Pure Storage FlashArray//C, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Pure Storage FlashArray//C was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Dell PowerStore5 of 61Not among the top eight
HPE Alletra2 of 60Not among the top eight
NetApp AFF2 of 60Not among the top eight
Synology RackStation2 of 60Not among the top eight
HPE MSA Gen61 of 61Not among the top eight
NetApp AFF C-Series1 of 61Not among the top eight
NetApp AFF Series with Cloud ONTAP1 of 61Not among the top eight
NetApp ASA (All-Flash SAN) or AFF C-Series1 of 61Not among the top eight
Azure Stack HCI1 of 60Not among the top eight
Dell PowerStore 1200T1 of 60Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Pure Storage FlashArray//C. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 6 of the 6 answers that named Pure Storage FlashArray//C and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

purestorage.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Pure Storage FlashArray//C takes 2% of first choices and Dell PowerStore takes 16%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “enterprise storage array”
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not in the top ten
Position for “enterprise storage systems”
–
not in the top ten
Organic visits to its site
about 4,251 a month
Searches its site ranks for
1,184 · 85 in the top three
Sites linking to it
9,903
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
12 ads · 11 video, 1 text · 0 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2025, as Pure Storage, verified.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
2%
rank 10 of 167 in enterprise storage
Segment leader
16%
Dell PowerStore
First choices
1 across its categories
Named in
6 answers
Its own site cited
in 6 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on purestorage.com
7,845
subdomains included
Content
5,311
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
543 · 578
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-11 to 2026-10LatestCategories named
News or press1,48972026-10-01Object storage
Webinar or virtual event1,231572026-10-30
Glossary or explainer84202026-02-23Object storage, SIEM
Case study833undated
Podcast or video44132026-09-29
Blog292undatedObject storage
Conference or event9332026-09-08
Comparison7802026-02-20
Template or tool12undated

Most recent

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page purestorage.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name object storage (21); 0 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

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The company

Pure Storage FlashArray//C is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Enterprise scale-up and performance with FlashArray
Customers named
NASA
Not stated on the pages read
Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

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  • where Pure Storage FlashArray//C is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Pure Storage FlashArray//C, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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