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    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
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    Everpure FlashArray
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    Everpure FlashArray
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Everpure FlashArray
    Considered Both Products
    Everpure
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    As previous customers of several Dell storage platforms (emc isilon being the most recent), we no prefer Pure Storage products over them because of the continued support and ongoing hardware upgrades that are part of the Evergreen plan. We no longer feel like we either need to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    I think it is easy to choose between all of competitor. At that time, only Pure Storage FlashArray gave us warranty for right-sized, where they guarantee that if the capacity is less than we agreed then they provide additional storage at no cost.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    Really the deduplication and compression ratio has been all over these guys. The speed on the flash storage seems more customized if I may say and our deployments were smooth. Nothing against these guys since we work with all at the same level, but there are very notable perks …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    It was a very tight call before finalizing the solution. Since Pure Storage FlashArray was able to offer the best deal and the kind of relationship the pure engineer maintained with us during the entire POC journey made them unique compared with the other vendors and I strongly …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    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.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    The Pure Storage FlashArray blows any other array I've used out of the water. We had an investment in EqualLogic and purchased an all-flash array. A couple of years later and with many performance issues, we purchased our first Pure Storage array and the difference was …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    We had an outage on EMC Unity because of one of its bugs and also its simplicity and performance is not as good as Pure Storage.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    We tested against HPE Hybrid SANs, which were very nice as well. In the end, Pure Storage FlashArray was a better fit since we were going to be replicating to a DR location.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    [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.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    Pure Storage stands head and shoulders above their competition. Not only is performance and usable capacity better and faster respectively, but the predictable support costs also make this a "no-brainer." Having used other storage arrays, from setup to support, Pure is by far …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    HP, NetApp, and EMC
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    Pure storage was cheaper and faster.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    Pure Storage had a much simpler interface and the dedupe and compression was better than all the other products we considered. Other vendors we looked at were Dell, Nimble, Tegile, and a few others I can't remember the names of.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    We reviewed Dell EMC and said no because of spin drives, hard upgrades. NetApp was not easy enough to use.
    Pure Storage was easy of use, had reliability, evergreen, and we got much more in productivity than we could even imagine at the time.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    Pure Storage is completely different solution and meet our expectation in any fields.
    Simple and reliable storage with good support.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    NetApp has a lot of issues. Its software is clunky and complicated. It wastes much capacity in the storage operating system. It doesn't do deduplication and compression that well and takes a CPU hit when it does. And all-flash storage was never really an option. At just about …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    I believe that Pure has set itself way ahead of its competition in the storage market, you could probably find something faster but it will lack in ease of use. You could pay less for something but it will lack a key feature that Pure offers. It is hard to find something like …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    NetApp, which is/was the market leader. This is a good system in their own right, but there are two areas where Pure Storage FlashArray beats them all hands-down! First is management. The software interface for management and provisioning is cleaner and doesn't make one jump …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    We liked the licensing more with the Pure Array and its performance at the time was better than others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    We did not have any to compare, as we were just looking at traditional SANs at the time.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    It is light years ahead of our previous solutions, including xyzApp, xyzGen, FusionXY and Superxyz.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    Blows them out of the water.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    Fusion-IO is very expensive per TB and limited to host you can connect. Pure Storage might not be as fast but its ease of use, along with compression and dedupe make up for it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    It was easier to use but has fewer features. When the selection process was started, the NetApp was was still very difficult to use. The console for Pure won over the team. From a speed perspective, all of the FlashArrays are fast enough for our infrastructure and applications.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashArray
    FlashArray provides higher throughput and less latency compared to others.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    Everpure FlashArray
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Everpure FlashArray
    Feature
    Everpure FlashArray
    8.2
    155 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Flash Array Performance8.0155 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration10.0145 Ratings
    Data Compression6.0154 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades8.0149 Ratings
    Simplicity10.0155 Ratings
    Power Savings7.0132 Ratings
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    Everpure FlashArray
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Dell Compellent (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Dell VMAX
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Everpure FlashArray
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (208 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (75 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Everpure FlashArray
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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