Pure Storage FlashArray

Pure Storage FlashArray

Pure Storage FlashArray

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Pure Storage FlashArray	Score 9.3 out of 10	N/A	Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.	N/A

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Pure Storage FlashArray

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Community Pulse
	Pure Storage FlashArray
Considered Both Products	Pure Storage FlashArray Bagit Airlangga Junior Manager Data Center Chose Pure Storage 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 Helpful? Victor Padro Service Engineer Chose Pure Storage 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 Helpful? JK Jeeva Kumar Information System Manager Chose Pure Storage 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 Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Pure Storage 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 Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Pure Storage 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 Helpful? Sateesh Singh Systems Integ Sr. Specialist Chose Pure Storage 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 Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Pure Storage 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. Helpful? Ben Bullock Sr. Systems Administrator Chose Pure Storage 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. Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Pure Storage FlashArray As a government organization, we cannot just choose a specific product for purchase, so Pure FlashArray was one of the participants that was able to meet the needs of the purchasing process. In proof of concept it proved simpler and more versatile than the HPE solution in the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Pure Storage 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 Helpful? Adam Morrison Director of IT Engineering Chose Pure Storage FlashArray The ease of use was the best part. Even the more modern versions of Dell EMC still had the "old school" way of dealing with things. I did not need a Pure engineering team to come out and install the array like I would have needed with EMC. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Comparable performance to nimble. The reason we selected Pure Storage for our ERP storage is that other companies in our field have had success with implementing it in AIX. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Pure Storage FlashArray At the time, Array had more feature-rich monitoring software that enabled you to see per-VM performance metrics of machines running on your array. Pure has since introduced similar reporting. Pure continues to innovate and provide the features that competitors are offering, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Pure Storage FlashArray We initially evaluated NetApp EF-series and EMC XtremeIO arrays against the Pure FlashArray. The NetApp array was low cost but lacked many of the features of the other two arrays. XtremeIO was more expensive than the Pure FlashArray solution, did not perform as well on data … Incentivized Helpful? MS Mark Sourial System Architect Chose Pure Storage FlashArray In a market with various storage vendors like NetApp, IBM, EMC, HDS, HP, Dell, Fujitsu, Pure Storage has key areas of advantage in the simplicity of configuration and use, online and non-disruptive way to scale array performance, reliability and performance, and a competitive … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Pure Storage is cheaper to run and maintain, much simpler to manage, and outperforms the competition. Incentivized Helpful? IS Ivan Sytchev Supervisor, Information Technology Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Pure Storage offers better support plans, simple UI and easy upgrade options. It can be more pricey but, you get what you pay for and Pure is very competitive when it comes to pricing for features/value. Win-Win-Win! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer 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. Incentivized Helpful? TR Todd Rasmussen CIO (Chief Information Officer) Chose Pure Storage 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 Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Pure Storage FlashArray EMC VPLEX is what we have compared to Active Cluster. Pure outperforms EMC in spied, dedupe and overall cost. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer Chose Pure Storage 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 Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Pure Storage FlashArray It's faster and more affordable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Pure Storage FlashArray - Dell Equallogic and Compellent - Dell EMC VMAX Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Mills Senior Technical Infrastructure Engineer Chose Pure Storage FlashArray We have talked to other vendors, but have not even gotten to the point where we think someone else has a viable solution to make us replace our Pure FlashArray. There might be faster storage, there might be cheaper storage, there might be easier storage, but there is nothing … Incentivized Helpful? Dave Hornby IT Manager Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Cheaper ROI and faster performance Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Data reduction Pro Storage flasharray Pro Easy to use
Top Cons	Minus Need to improve Minus Worth every penny Minus Detailed reporting

Features

Pure Storage FlashArray

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
	Pure Storage FlashArray 9.3 154 Ratings 2% above category average
Flash Array Performance	10.0154 Ratings
Flash Array Integration	9.0144 Ratings
Data Compression	8.0153 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades	10.0148 Ratings
Simplicity	10.0154 Ratings
Power Savings	9.0131 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Pure Storage FlashArray
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Dell SC Series / Compellent (discontinued) Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Dell VMAX Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Pure Storage FlashArray
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (207 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (25 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (16 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
	Pure Storage FlashArray
Likelihood to Recommend	Pure Storage 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. Incentivized TR Todd Rasmussen CIO (Chief Information Officer) Read full review
Pros	Pure Storage 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. Incentivized Muhammad Mulla Systems Administrator, Core Infrastructure & Microsoft Systems Read full review
Cons	Pure Storage 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. Incentivized Don Howard Storage Architect Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Pure Storage 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Pure Storage The install went smoothly, and the engineer explained every step along the way. The next couple of days he checked in to make sure that migration was running as planned. The user interface is designed with usability in mind. You don't need a dedicated "Storage Silo" to manage this product. For smaller IT departments that need to support many different workloads, this could not be a better feature KH Kevin Hannon IT Director Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Pure Storage 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. Incentivized TR Todd Rasmussen CIO (Chief Information Officer) Read full review
Performance	Pure Storage 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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Pure Storage 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
In-Person Training	Pure Storage 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. Incentivized TR Todd Rasmussen CIO (Chief Information Officer) Read full review
Online Training	Pure Storage 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. Incentivized TR Todd Rasmussen CIO (Chief Information Officer) Read full review
Implementation Rating	Pure Storage 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Pure Storage 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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	Pure Storage The product suite scales well and the FA in particular can service any need for all but the most demanding file protocol environments Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Pure Storage 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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