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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    IBM Cloud Object Storage

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Object Storage is an IBM Cloud product in the endpoint backup and IaaS categories. It is commonly used for data archiving and backup, for web and mobile applications, and as scalable, persistent storage for analytics.

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    Everpure FlashArrayIBM Cloud Object Storage
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    One-Rate Plan
    As low as USD $12/TB a month
    per month
    Standard Plan
    Free up to 5GB—no minimum fee, pay only for what you use
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Everpure FlashArrayIBM Cloud Object Storage
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—The One-Rate and Standard service plans for Cloud Object Storage include resiliency options, flexible data classes and built-in security. Pricing is based on the choice of location, storage class and resiliency choice.
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    Community Pulse
    Everpure FlashArrayIBM Cloud Object Storage
    Considered Both Products
    Everpure
    No answer on this topic
    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Better price consistency, performance and flexibility.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    62 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    61 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    62 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    47 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    51 Answers
    Features
    Everpure FlashArrayIBM Cloud Object Storage
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Everpure FlashArray and IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Feature
    Everpure FlashArray
    8.2
    155 Ratings
    8% below category average
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
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    Ratings
    Flash Array Performance8.0155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration10.0145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Compression6.0154 Ratings00 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades8.0149 Ratings00 Ratings
    Simplicity10.0155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Power Savings7.0132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Everpure FlashArray and IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Feature
    Everpure FlashArray
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    8.5
    156 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings6.8144 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings8.9144 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings9.0141 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.4145 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings9.4150 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Everpure FlashArrayIBM Cloud Object Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (208 ratings)
    8.9
    (159 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (25 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (75 ratings)
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    5.8
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Everpure FlashArrayIBM Cloud Object Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    IBM
    In my experience, IBM Cloud Object Storage is well suited for projects like the one I am working on. This includes the use of natural language classification and the uploading of data to train a machine learning model for tag suggestions based on a body of text. Using IBM Cloud Object Storage has helped with this greatly. IBM Cloud Object Storage has also been great for Big Data Analytics thanks to its scalablilty and ease of use for large datasets. Alongside IBM Watson and our team's internal big data tools we've managed to process and analyze data more efficiently, leading to key insights that have driven business value for our clients.
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    Pros
    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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    IBM
    • IBM Cloud Object Storage is an excellent choice for disaster recovery and backup solutions. Its high durability and geographic redundancy ensure that our backup data is safe and can be quickly restored in case of a disaster. This capability is crucial for maintaining our business continuity and minimizing downtime. We have deployed our loads in an IKS cluster distributed in 3 different AZs with stateful data allocated in COS.
    • We have a video streaming application and need to store and deliver a vast library of video content to millions of users worldwide, so we store our data in COS, which is cheap and reliable.
    • We have a bunch of data that must be analyzed and stored in datasets for fraud detection, risk management, and customer insights. In these cases, this data is moved from Onprem to IBM Cloud so we can use cheap storage like COS.
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    Cons
    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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    IBM
    • Searching and retrieving—full-text search or metadata search—is one of the significant areas of improvement. It isn't easy to search for data with this.
    • Integration with other IBM cloud services is trickier. For example, integrating this with API Connect to access the data from API will be difficult for users.
    • Support - I think you should have more support community.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    IBM
    because it is a robust, safe and flexible product
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    Usability
    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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    IBM
    For my use cases, it has been a very smooth experience. Even my new colleagues have been able to get on top of things very quickly. This shows how easy it is to work with
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    IBM
    We rarely face downtime or access issues with IBM Cloud Object Storage. It’s mostly available when we need it, even during peak hours or heavy data loads.
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    Performance
    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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    IBM
    I would give it a 9 because it works smooth with our AI and analytics tools, no major slowdown. Pages and dashboards load fine most of the time, and reports finish in decent time even when data is heavy.
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    Support Rating
    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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    IBM
    I have been working in IT sector for more than 15 years. I have worked with various vendors. IBM's sales team, support team have been really helpful. After we start to use their product, their UX design team also contacted us to get feedback from us. They are really interested about our experience.
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    In-Person Training
    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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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    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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    IBM
    I just researching and applying the tools on their platforms to ensure a good learning path, based on my needs. Reading the documentation related with resources, tools. Is too big, but I am trying to know more about it every day. It is a good way to know more about their resources. A new way to attract new customers. At the end of the day, we are all involved in improvement and automation of our tasks and resources for customers and end-users.
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    IBM
    Yes Our organization used IBM professional services to implement IBM object storage because of its data consistency and multiple way to upload and download data and its encryption security features. Also that its brand matter for the any organization to secure the layer and storage. It sis also verify that application and system are compatibale for this product
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    IBM
    Amazon S3 is a great service to safely back up your data where redundancy is guaranteed, and the cost is fair. In the past I have used Amazon S3 for data that we backup and hope we never need to access, but in the case of a catastrophic or even small slip of the finger with the delete command, we know our data and our client's data is safely backed up by Amazon S3. Amazon S3 service is a good option, but based on the features it provides compared with IBM Cloud Object Storage, it is less suitable. IBM Cloud Object Storage is also integrated with more services, like IBM Cloud SQL and IBM Aspera, which AWS does not provide to transfer files at maximum speed in the world.
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    Scalability
    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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    IBM
    Scaling up the number of users can lead to significant increases in licensing costs, which, while not a technical limitation, can be a practical constraint for some organizations
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    Return on Investment
    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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    IBM
    • This allows us to recommend a platform to our clients that will quickly help them create new, efficient business processes with very little development.
    • This saves clients hours and days of manual analysis of images, allowing the system to do the work when attaching Object Storage to models.
    • There is a learning curve in utilizing the storage and the modeling, but once up and running, it works well during deployment.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Cloud Object Storage Screenshots

    Screenshot of Cloud Object Storage set upScreenshot of storage bucket creationScreenshot of the Access Management interfaceScreenshot of the interface to create, add and management of Storage BucketsScreenshot of data uploadingScreenshot of usage details