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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) from AWS is designed for application workloads that benefit from fine tuning for performance, cost and capacity. Typical use cases include Big Data analytics engines (like the Hadoop/HDFS ecosystem and Amazon EMR clusters), relational and NoSQL databases (like Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL or Cassandra and MongoDB), stream and log processing applications (like Kafka and Splunk), and data warehousing applications (like Vertica and Teradata).N/A

    Everpure FlashArray

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AEverpure (formerly Pure Storage) offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Everpure FlashArray
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Everpure FlashArray
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Everpure FlashArray
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
    Basically, we choose EBS because we are using AWS, we have already evaluated 3 cloud providers AWS, GCP, and azure. And we decided to use AWS because of some elements. Mostly because AWS has a native Linux operating system (amazon Linux).
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    Everpure
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Everpure FlashArray
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Everpure FlashArray
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
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    Ratings
    Everpure FlashArray
    8.2
    155 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Flash Array Performance00 Ratings8.0155 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration00 Ratings10.0145 Ratings
    Data Compression00 Ratings6.0154 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades00 Ratings8.0149 Ratings
    Simplicity00 Ratings10.0155 Ratings
    Power Savings00 Ratings7.0132 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Everpure FlashArray
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (20 ratings)
    9.0
    (208 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (75 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Everpure FlashArray
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    It provides the optimized storage performance and cost for your workload and these options really work with SSD-backed storage and it improves the database performance. Keeping backups of your EC2 resources, including EBS volumes is a little bit tricky and its takes some more time and increase through put is also a tiring job to do.
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    Everpure
    When you need speed, it's FAST, especially for MS SQL databases. If you are having bottlenecks, you can spend your time finding it in the code because it's not Pure Storage. Love the data reduction and duplication. We can store so much more on this unit than the base physical size. Love the data snapshots. When you need to complete copy your entire environment for testing etc. Nothing is easier, a few clicks and you are done. Extremely helpful for testing and training.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Raw storage capacity attached to your instance operative system
    • Frequent data rewriting (mission critical for reporting)
    • Low latency connectivity (14 reporting subsidiaries in different time zones)
    • Videly spreaded for implementation
    • Fast accessible drive
    • Block storage are core for Java, Net mobile applications
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    Everpure
    • The Pure Array does data reduction particularly well. We've seen a 7x reduction on some of our volumes.
    • It is easy to get used to the system after coming from other storage arrays.
    • It has some welcome additions such as a smartphone app that makes it easier to view your cases, etc.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Creating too much EBS can be disaster if you are not properly organized by tags
    • In terms of pricing it's a bit on higher side.
    • In terms of performance, there is room for improvement as sometimes reading or saving the data can be painful.
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    Everpure
    • Reporting is too general. Being a tech nerd, I want to be able to see the nitty-gritty details. I also need to be able to define canned sets of reports for problem application systems.
    • Pricing is a bit higher then some of their direct competitors .
    • Seriously, I have nothing else.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Everpure
    It has so far been a very fast and stable product. We have had wonderful support when we have needed it and the account manager and engineer attached to our organization have been very responsive with any questions and concerns we have had.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon EBS is a great tool and fairly easy to use as long as you are familiar with the Amazon Web Service ecosystem. It allows a great way for you to move storage around easily and allows you to quickly provision storage as needed based on the business requirement. For us, it's easy to move between our EC2 images that had been linked with EBS storage between these Amazon accounts.
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    Everpure
    From the day our first array was put in (2017) we have had very little issues using it the way we wanted to and none of the setup or processes we incorporate this into have ever been complex. All of the interfaces in the GUI are very intuitive and do not require any CLI experience to do what we need it to do.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Everpure
    We have never had an outage with Purestorage. Yes we have had 2 drives go out but replacements were installed so fast there wasn't any issues. We have had a NVRAM module replaced but were noticed from Pure they were sending a replacement because they were predicting a failure so pure was proactive preventing any issues. Knowing Pure is monitoring our device 24x7 gives us peace of mind.
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Everpure
    The corporation has a very diverse data load and when we migrate from a hybrid storage to pure all-flash, significant gains have already been observed. Latency always remains below 1 ms regardless of the load and volumetry used. Application performance also depends heavily on whether or not the code is more permormatic and network access infrastructure. The product has been meeting expectations
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    The support for Amazon Elastic Block Store is great as long as you can articulate your needs. Like most tools, there may be some back and forth before you find a support person that is knowledgable in the tool and can provide you with necessary insights.
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    Everpure
    Pure Support is timely and communicative. They are always ready to assist and very skilled at what they do, no matter the time of day. Even at 12:10 a.m. on New Years Day when your array has a hiccup that causes some errors in your environment, they will be on the phone with you in an instant. If they are unable to determine the cause right away, because things appear to be normal, they will take your environment's configuration, lab it up in their support environment and then research until they figure out what caused the problem. Even if it takes 3 months. True story.
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    In-Person Training
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Everpure
    Excellent training and really you don't need that much. We received training at the Pure offices and also on site when the product was installed. Simple things like how to login to the GUI interface, how to setup users, how to create volume and mount it. How to make a snapshot, how to copy it and mount it. Really is pretty self explanatory on how to do things with the GUI interface. We were expecting complicated base on other vendor products, we got super simple.
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    Online Training
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Everpure
    Great videos and documentation. There is a common theme with PureStorage, "Keep it elegantly simple". They have great support network and great support user groups. Documentation has been very helpful with providing auditors with methods and procedures on security and other ways the product works. Great documentation on setting PureStorage to be the most effective with VM's, SQL Server, and other products.
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    Implementation Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Everpure
    The install was very quick. The engineer that Pure sent said that if we started by 10 am we would be done by lunchtime, and he was not kidding.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    So far I have only used Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Azure but comparatively [I] prefer AWS elastic Block store as its having more advantages than Azure and I found it quite satisfactory and it helped a lot for information storage. We are not looking for any other hosting provider at this time.
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    Everpure
    Pure Storage FlashArray came up as being the most cost-effective of the lot plus the extras added like call-home support were very welcome. The competitors' options were a lot more expensive and the call-home support added a lot more to the already high costs.
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Everpure
    The product suite scales well and the FA in particular can service any need for all but the most demanding file protocol environments
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • When your application needs high IOPS storage, this is a great solution that will keep your business functioning.
    • Without Amazon Elastic Block Store you could try spreading your data across several standard drives, but that introduces complexity and still has IOPS limits.
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    Everpure
    • Thanks to the deduplication that is built into the product we are seeing great reduction in total space required by consolidating similar data types on the same array.
    • Our users are very pleased with the performance.
    • The replication allowed us to move our workload from to another data center with minimal downtime.
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