DDN offers the IntelliFlash flash array storage option based on technology developed by Tegile. The solution was owned and supported by Western Digital since August 2017, and later acquired by DDN (DataDirect Networks) in 2019.
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Pure Storage FlashArray
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.
[They] seemed to have all the right things in place for our environment. A bit costly up front, but good return on less stress, better performance and good support whenever we do have issues.
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Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure blows these other arrays out of the water, there is no comparison at all. Pure is clearly the leader in this market. The other 2 arrays do not perform up to the same standards as the Pure.
It beats them hands down on everything. It is faster with better compressions and dedup. Management is at the next level - not legacy at all. Upgrades are easier. Getting a unit online and working was faster, as was expanding storage. vCenter plug-in's are easier to use …
Pure had a better cost offering and better sales process than the vendors above. They were also ranked higher on independent research such as Gartner which made the decision to go with Pure much easier.
We have twice the deduplication on our Pure Flash as we do our Tegile. Even the flash on the Tegile can get to 5 or 6 ms, while the Pure rarely gets close to 1 ms and never crosses it. Our Tegile has both flash shelves and hybrid, so that is impacting the latency as the hybrid …
We haven't tested other pure NVMe devices, but the aging hardware we replace (Tegile, NetApp) all exhibited much higher failure rates and much more difficult support interactions. A certain company actually sent us a 'parts box' with almost enough equipment to completely build …