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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

    NetApp AFF A-Series

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ANetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays are the company's flagship flash storage solutions.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Everpure FlashBladeNetApp AFF A-Series
    Considered Both Products
    Everpure
    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 …
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    Chose Everpure FlashBlade
    The NetApp All Flash FAS provided similar performance but had a larger footprint.
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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.
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    Features
    Everpure FlashBladeNetApp AFF A-Series
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Everpure FlashBlade and NetApp AFF A-Series
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    Ratings
    NetApp AFF A-Series
    8.3
    8 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Flash Array Performance00 Ratings9.18 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration00 Ratings9.17 Ratings
    Data Compression00 Ratings6.37 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades00 Ratings8.17 Ratings
    Simplicity00 Ratings8.98 Ratings
    Power Savings00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Everpure FlashBladeNetApp AFF A-Series
    Small Businesses
    Azure Blob Storage
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Blob Storage
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Dell Compellent (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Cloud Storage
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Everpure FlashArray
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Everpure FlashBladeNetApp AFF A-Series
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (29 ratings)
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
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    9.0
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    Support Rating
    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    Everpure FlashBladeNetApp AFF A-Series
    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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    NetApp
    Easy interface and the accessibility of the features are effective and this solution functionalities on data migration and processing of different from other packages is amazing. NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays is the most secure platform for easy management of all the business and project data and the capacity planning tools and even the configuration options are the best and easy to use.
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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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    NetApp
    • Protective multiple project and business data is excellent.
    • Solutions for data storage and data migration.
    • Providing useful and quality data reports is effective.
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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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    NetApp
    • Cost is still prohibitive for performance.
    • Performance tuning at the Fabric Interconnect level.
    • Automation and scripting improvements in the PowerShell module.
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    Usability
    Everpure
    Good API, multi-protocol support is great.
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    NetApp
    Our organizations primary storage platform is NetApp AFF-A900 nodes. All our storage requirements, be it storage visible to our compute either using FC or NFS is through these nodes. The shares or CIFS too are setup on these nodes. We also use the fabric pool to write the data to NetApps Storage Grid
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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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    NetApp
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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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    NetApp
    I have been an IBM and EMC storage customer. I used EMC CX and VMX series SANs. I have used IBM Shark SANs before that. Much has changed over the years. It is my experience that Netapp has shown a great deal more innovation with large leaps in technology, ease of use and an aggressive progress while the two other vendors that I have experience with are more tied to their legacy technologies.
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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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    NetApp
    • ROI has been tremendous as it has come in handy in all the scenarios we were looking at
    • Users and admins both happy with the overall performance and management is happy that they got a good deal from reseller.
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