When the time came for the city of Mesa, Ariz., to refresh its storage infrastructure in late 2023, IT leaders in the city already had their eyes on a Pure Storage flash array.“We viewed Pure as the premier storage platform,” says Stan Wilson, Mesa’s IT manager for server, storage and automation. “They have rock-solid arrays that don’t require a lot of care and feeding. When we got to a point that it was affordable for the city, we used our lifecycle funds to buy it. The path to Pure Storage was several years long, but that’s where we wanted to be from the beginning.”Mesa’s story…