Pure Storage FlashBlade vs Quantum ActiveScale (formerly from Western Digital)

• 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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• Flexible data management options
• Powerful data housing system storing trillions of bits of data seamlessly
• Conveniently built in the cloud
• Safe option for storing sensitive data

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• 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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• Lack of customization, though not much is needed with the out of the box solution
• Better options for B2C customers
• More flexible pricing plans

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• 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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• Amplidata has enabled us to replace our on-premise data storage for many of our larger clients, thus reducing the cost to deploy and house this ourselves
• Clients feel confident in storing their sensitive data with us knowing that they have full management and visibility at their fingertips
• The ability to quickly scale allows us to meet the needs of clients of all sizes

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