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    Everpure FlashBlade

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AEverpure (formerly Pure Storage) offers FlashBlade, a scale-out file and object storage – architected to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) while accelerating tomorrow's discoveries and insights.N/A
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    Everpure FlashBlade
    Considered Both Products
    Everpure
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    Pure Storage FlashBlade provided a flexible and secure solution which these alternatives couldn't quite match. The simple file management system and rapid performance made this solution come out on top for us. The only real benefit over Pure Storage FlashBlade that these other …
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    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    Pure Storage FlashBlade is in our experience far faster, performance-wise, compared to its close competitors. However, if you factor in any packages you currently have with IBM or AWS for example, you can get more value for money for your data requirements. However, if …
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    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    Pure Storage FlashBlade is very fast. [It was] simplify with the easy install, easy upgrades, automatic performance.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    The NetApp All Flash FAS provided similar performance but had a larger footprint.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    Pure Storage FlashBlade has certainly very good high speeds when compared to its competition. Its performance is at par with the leading competitive storage solutions and in few cases even exceeds the expectations. Pure Storage FlashBlade's support of talented engineers is very …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    It delivers the following, see below, and this is why it was selected as the platform of choice.
    *Supports CIFS, NFS, and object
    *Speed and performance
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    We did not evaluate any other products, the FlashBlade has nothing similar in my opinion.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    Pure Storage FlashBlade provides higher performance than the competition.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    The NetApp a800 we tested was 14% faster than Pure FlashBlade with NFS workloads. However, NetApp lacked ease of administration and performing simple tasks such as creating multiple NFS volumes required scripting from the command line. Our flashblade contained 15 baldes and our …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    Flasharray C is the true second-tier storage we were looking for with all the features we need.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    Prior to FlashBlade, we used Avamar for our enterprise backup solution. While Avamar is a solid product, the FlashBlade provides better and more predictable stable performance. Since owning FlashBlade, we have never had any hardware issues or a drop in performance over time. It …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    I've used many different file storage systems in the past from various established firms. They all have their place, but in the end, I wanted a vendor and solution that was high performing, stable, cost-efficient, easy to use and manage with a Sales, Account, and Support team …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    We have Oracle ZFS Appliances and the cost of Flashblade was equivalent to one shelf of SSDs in cost. We shopped Isilon and Oracle Solutions, but FlashBlade had a definite cost/performance advantage.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    The main difference between them and these mentioned is pure performance. There is no comparing backup and restoration times with competitors. We are talking thrusters vs warp engines here. Data compress and dedupe was for a time when storage came at a premium. Data rehydration …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    We did not evaluate any other products.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    The NetApp All Flash FAS provided similar performance but had a larger footprint.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    I haven't used others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    FlashBlade is high capacity and much higher performance than other disk based NAZ servers.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    Of all the storage arrays I've used in the last 20+ years, Pure Flashblade and Flasharray are by far the simplest and easiest to configure. By miles and miles, to be frank. Additionally, performing an upgrade to software or firmware on non-Pure storage platforms in the past …
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    Pure is both more expensive and less configurable than the excellent HNAS. However, the HNAS is now dependent upon Hitachi storage. The Flashblade is a self-contained unit, which helps reduce cross-platform lock-in. It's not mandatory to have Pure block storage to use the …
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    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    Pure is easiest to install and administer making it a perfect fit for our EDA scratch environment. Pure lacks mixed mode support which forces Qualcomm to use NetApp or Isilon for any SMB environments.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    We did not evaluate other options before purchasing. My personal history is mostly around personal NAS and old platter drive arrays. This thing is light years beyond. Not fair to compare older arrays versus FlashBlade.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    Performace knocked it out of the park. Our only issue at the time was that ECS wasn't supported with Replication.
    Incentivized
    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    We considered all of the major manufacturers of storage when we were evaluating our choice of a product to replace our older storage. We considered HP, EMC, DELL, and Netapp-- all of which the team has used at various times. Interestingly enough, initially no one had experience …
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    User Ratings
    Everpure FlashBlade
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (10 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Everpure FlashBlade
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Everpure
    If data storage, access, and security [are] of the highest priority to your business then Pure Storage FlashBlade is an excellent tool that must be considered. Analytics or sharing that requires the fastest speeds available will benefit from the NVMe solid-state drives they use which are far superior to spinning rust. It is less ideal for those who do not require such time-critical work.
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    Pros
    Everpure
    • Speed. We are seeing large transactions take very little time.
    • Upgrades- In-place upgrades of both hardware and software are extremely easy.
    • Ease of use- I have several engineers working on this and from setup to day to day operations it is extremely easy to maintain.
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    Cons
    Everpure
    • When reporting out a user has exceeded there quote, it only references the UID. It would certainly be nice it calls out the UID name that is clearly present in the Dashboard.
    • The ability to determine a snapshot total size would be helpful.
    • Proactive reachout to discuss new versions and assist in planning the upgrade would be a key win.
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    Usability
    Everpure
    Good API, multi-protocol support is great.
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    Support Rating
    Everpure
    Without exception, the contacts with support have been quick and extremely knowledgeable. I do not fear getting an underqualified engineer to assess or work on my arrays. In addition to this support structure, the sales engineers are top notch as well.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Everpure
    The NetApp a800 we tested was 14% faster than Pure FlashBlade with NFS workloads. However, NetApp lacked ease of administration and performing simple tasks such as creating multiple NFS volumes required scripting from the command line. Our flashblade contained 15 baldes and our NetApp was a clustered pair with each half containing 24 nvme devices.
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    Return on Investment
    Everpure
    • We were able to consolidate 5 different storage platforms of lesser performance onto a single Flashblade and achieve much, much lower latency and higher throughput.
    • We've been able to reduce the amount of training and configuration required to just Pure Flashblade, instead of 5 different vendors and products.
    • In addition to our core use cases, Flashblade has capabilities that we are pursuing for some new projects, i.e. analytics data store and the object store features.
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