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Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/3J/9l/6DTEESOELA5I.JPEGPure StoragePure-ly fast storage!2019-10-01T18:06:19.664ZWe are using Pure Storage in our organisation to provide datastores in our production VMware vSphere environment and have found it to be a great replacement for the EMC XtremIO that we previously had. The data reduction is brilliant. The ease of use, clear dashboards, online analytics, and smartphone app are all great additions.,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.,It would have been good to see vvol support for ESX 6.0.,9,We have moved from a couple of older XtremIOs and a Unity array to 2 Pure arrays. This has saved us a great deal in power, as well as rack space, etc.
In addition to our savings our end users have been impressed with performance.,The pre-sales service was great and we have a great relationship with the vendor. The instructions for the array can fit on a business card, and this is one of the great tools that the pre-sales guys use to genuinely show how easy the flash storage array is to setup and use.,Our biggest benefit, coming from a mix of flash and hybrid arrays has been that of performance. However, we have also been able to impress our sustainability groups with the amount of power we have saved and cost savings we have made.
Cost saving is particularly important to us as we are a charity organisation and every penny we can save means another penny going towards life-saving cancer research.,The most useful features of the array, if you can call it that, is the additional Pure1 website. This along with the app allows me to check on my arrays' performance, capacity, etc. from wherever I am. It's also a single pane of glass for support, alerts, etc., so makes everything very easy to find.,The biggest impact we had was from a patching point of view. The array has enabled us to reduce our patching window by 2 hours every month. This means that multiple engineers are able to work on more important things and have to spend less time waiting for patches to be installed.,Symantec Endpoint Protection, Microsoft TeamsMuhammad MullaOnce you go orange, nothing else is ever good enough!2019-09-24T19:41:32.238ZPure Storage FlashArray is now our primary platform for block data. All of our production databases and VMware environment live on Pure. This brings us great performance, along with improvements in manageability. We are now positioned for the future and the ability to take advantage of NVMe-oF when it becomes mainstream. No more limiting our options because of the technology already in house. The Evergreen process gets us away from fork-lift storage upgrades, and the support is top notch and fast.,Support - I've never had a call passed off to a different party that I then have to wait to get back to me. The person responding to my support ticket has been able to help me every time.
Non-disruptive upgrades. We were able to transition from a SAS based //m series array to a NVMe based //x series array with zero down time. This gave us greater performance and capacity with minimal disruption.
Simplicity - Pure Storage aims to automate the complicated steps of storage management with superior software. You know they are still happening under the surface, but the administrator does not have to deal with keeping the process just right with a given vendor's command set.
Licensing - All-in base licensing instead of expensive add-on licenses for additional features. There are very few exceptions to this rule.,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.,10,We have consolidated several monolithic storage systems into FlashArray, reducing capital costs.
We have improved our data protection with snapshots and Active Cluster
We have replace a complicated replication process, understood by only one person, with an easier process of replicated snapshots for remote replication.,Like many large enterprises, we used to not consider products if they weren't from a major industry player. Remember the saying, "Nobody ever was fired for buying IBM?" Not so true any more, is it? There are so many startups, getting gobbled up, an abandoned, by the big established vendors, that we've always been hesitant about trying something like Pure Storage. There were two things that turned the tide for our management: their consistent leadership on the Gartner magic quadrants, and their profitability. Those two factors make it easier for management to concede they are worth the investment.,Oh wow, where to start on this one? Unicorns, rainbows and lollipops! Just everything is faster, better and taking less space with Pure. The support is superb. The performance is great. Our physical storage foot-print is smaller. Our administrators are happier. Support for ESXi is better. I can't say enough about how happy we are to have made the switch to Pure Storage.,#1 Support! It is fast, and knowledgeable. No more waiting for hours for a call back or running endless logs as other vendors try to skimp on their support obligations.#2 Resilience - even under and average 80% load it never skips a beat.#3 Licensing - no more expensive add-ons to get the advanced features you want.#4 Accessibility - everyone I've spoken with at Pure Storage has made sure I knew how to contact them if there were issues. This includes upper management.,That is the beauty of the whole situation. We can do all kinds of things to enhance the end user experience and all they know is things run faster and smoother than before. Disk expansions are quick and painless. De-duplication and compression have no performance penalties. Active Cluster transparently increases data protection levels.,HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, HPE Nimble Storage and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series,VMware ESXi, Microsoft Office 2016, SolarWinds IP Address Manager, Hitachi Command Suite, HPE BladeSystem, HPE StoreOnce, EMC VNX, Zerto, CommVaultDon HowardPure Storage FlashArray helps keep the DBA's away2019-09-24T17:13:08.204ZWe use Pure Storage FlashArray as our Tier 1 storage platform across our entire organization. We have been using it since 2015 and it has worked out great so far. We don't have to deal with disk slowness complaints from our DBA's anymore.,Technical support from Pure has been great. They are very proactive and responsive when necessary.
Pure Storage FlashArray is very easy to install, configure and administer.
We have been very satisfied with the performance of FlashArray - under 1 millisecond latency.,Pure Storage FlashArray is not cheap, but you definitely get what you pay for.
We have seen a few too many necessary firmware updates to fix software bugs in 2019.
There is a bit of "sticker shock" to see how much usable disk you end up with from the raw TB total.,10,Pure Storage FlashArray has had a great impact on our databases and applications. SQL jobs that used to take hours now take minutes - which has allowed our company to move new product offerings forward faster.
The ease of use of Pure Storage FlashArray has allowed our Storage Admins to focus on other duties and not have to "babysit" the SAN.,The price-point of Pure Storage FlashArray is pretty steep. That alone is tough to overcome when trying to justify the purchase. We were able to do a POC of Pure StorageFlashArray and bake it off against a competitor and it proved to be much faster and easier to use than the product that we baked it off against. I would recommend doing a POC in your environment and put some of your large databases on Pure to test it out.,The benefits of using it as our Tier 1 storage have been ease of use, speed, uptime, and confidence in the product and company.,Pure's data reduction is very good - so we are able to attain 3 to 4 times data reduction on a lot of workloads. We also see less than 1 ms latency across all of our arrays as well, so the performance is top-notch.,We used to get calls and trouble-tickets from our DBA's all the time about slow disk performance on our critical SQL databases. Once we moved the databases over to Pure Storage FlashArray, we don't have any more calls about slow performance. Now all we have to deal with is everyone wants their workload on Pure!,NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays and Nimble,VMware ESXi, Zerto, RubrikMark McCullyTake 5 minutes to research Pure Storage FlashArray...you won't be disappointed2019-09-20T03:40:25.356ZWe are leveraging the FlashArray for our virtual environment, SQL data and WFS. We are also using the FlashArray as warm storage in our Splunk environment. This is accessed by the entire company and has primarily resolved latency issues.,I'll put NDUs at the top of the Pros list. The ability to upgrade software or hardware with no disruption and completed by support for an entirely hands-off experience is simply beautiful. Just to clarify, I'm referring to in-place upgrades and not migrations that you'll receive from other vendors.
FlashArray does data reduction extremely well. We receive approximately 4 to 1 on our virtual environment and just over 3 to 1 on our database environments.,The FlashArray can be expensive if you're a small shop or have a ton of multimedia. It's excellent for virtualization extremely fast.,10,Positive: The initial purchase left some wondering will it be worth it, but years down the road it was clearly the correct decision.,Solid relationships with the sales staff at Pure Storage combined with a perfect fit for our environment. One piece of advice would be to speak with rep and see if this really is a good fit with how you are storing data today.,For admins that wear multiple hats and don't have the time to deep dive into new products, Pure1 is an amazing tool to manage all arrays. The data reduction and speed are simply amazing. Using the FlashArray for our VMware datastores is where we've seen the greatest improvements.,Pure1 is my go to feature. I've recently started using the Analytics->Planning function that allows you to simulate hardware or workloads. This is excellent if you're planning an upgrade and want to see what fits best.,Several departments saw pretty good growth a few years back and put a much heavier load on our data storage. The ability to almost negate that growth with speed and reliability made a huge impact for those groups and the company.,Pure Storage FlashBlade, Pure1,YesBrad JohnsonDon't be fooled by their marketing. They aren't BS-ing you, for a change. Try it out and check the TCO for the next decade.2019-09-18T01:55:00.244ZWe use Pure Storage Flash Array X and M for our primary and data recovery sites. Pure Storage is our primary storage mechanism for an enterprise workload that has a healthy mix of applications, databases, VMs and file systems. Deploying Pure Storage not only addressed our performance, cost, manageability, flexibility and investment protection (hardware support lifecycle) problems but also has introduced new avenues for us in supporting our business units to make decisions easily about dynamic business plans that explore IT systems' ability to support those plans with not much overhead - both people and money-wise.,For a change, it's the first storage system I've used in about 20 years that works as it is written on the brochure. In fact, it over delivers. We have had several bad experiences in many ways with storage systems and when you speak about Pure Storage from their datasheets or any other material, it feels like they are going overboard with what they say. But then, only when you deploy it completely would you realize that in fact, at least some of what they mention is underrated and the system is not marketing BS.
The support is awesome. In addition, we could never imagine upgrading a production storage system during business hours without missing a beat and without dropping any sweat. In fact, you don't need to do anything but log a call with support 2 days in advance and allow them to provide remote assistance. They just do it for you and no downtime or loss in performance. We tried it twice and it still feels unreal.
In addition, when we didn't get their promised data reduction at our DR site initially, by the time we discussed internally and called them to check what to do, they told us that they had already assessed the situation, made a report for it and submitted it internally for upgrading our disk capacity free of cost. No words. Just great. By the way, funnily enough, after they added capacity, we started getting far more data reduction than they promised. Not sure why it acted up initially.
Performance. Be it - IOPS, latency, redundancy when disks/controller/network cables fail (yes, we yanked everything to make it fail, and it was fun) it doesn't fail. Even the unreal looking data reduction, they nailed it.
They said it takes maybe 30 minutes to learn their system and no training is needed. We laughed at them. Not once, but many times. I don't think it took us any more than 30 minutes. This is about the easiest system we manage in our datacenter. Almost zero learning curve.,There aren't many gaps and they've been closing those few very quickly. An NFS/SMB server without having to worry about MS licenses would be great.
More VM based usage analytics. We understand the technology limitations in getting the details when using VMFS volumes instead of NFS volumes but it can be slightly better.,10,Out business projects have accelerated like never before. We have great confidence that the storage system is modular (thereby not making us spend huge amounts of money for each expansion) and that our investment is protected well in the long run due to the very long support life of the products while keeping the maintenance cost filed/flat.
Our virtualization environment is now running so much smoother and we reduced almost 20% of compute capacity/resource utilization right after we moved datastores to Pure FlashArray.
We moved from 2 hybrid storage systems of half a rack each to 3U with half capacity filled, reduced latency 10-15 times (depending on which application and which storage system the application moved from), reduced purchase costs and maintenance costs by at least 25% compared to alternatives evaluated.
As a negative impact, the IT infrastructure team is now dealing with more business projects and is much busier delivering those projects instead of troubleshooting performance issues or attending constant meetings explaining why we can't take on a project or calculating how much investment is needed for infrastructure for a new project.,Before trying the product the claims looked like unreal. We sure took them with a pinch of salt. Once we decided technically that this is the product, it was the profitability of the company that kept us thinking. At the time many storage, converged/hyper-converged technology companies were going bankrupt, sold off or had huge losses. Thankfully for us, their yearly and quarterly results and their business assessment by industry leading names like Gartner and IDC helped us give more confidence into our decision. Now, over an year down, we couldn't be happier with the stability of both the product and the company financials.,Simplicity - a lot of people speak about it and go to great lengths to show how simple their solutions are to use. But one must dig a bit into PureStorage FlashArray to really see what it means. Hardware, Administration, support, upgrades, maintenance renewals/costing, replication - for such a critical, complex and comprehensive solution, the simplicity it comes with is amazing. This is the easiest solution in our datacenter to administer. This is also the best performing system in terms of Cost/performance/importance combination.,I can say performance and ROI but I'd like to touch base on some things that are not so often spoken of - the honesty with which they did business from day 1 when we contacted them for the first time and even to date. They even did the first level assessment and some math for us and suggested we don't need to buy more storage and just need to use it a particular way. And, their pre-sales material while feels like a hype at first, actually doesn't speak as much for the product's real deliverables.
We were a very skeptical customer. A traditional company and a not for profit. We were bitten twice on storage purchases before and didn't even have a budget allocated for switch-over. If that can give you an sense of how skeptical we could've been.,Login times are faster - once the DCs and file servers moved to Pure Storage, the login times for end-users on their PCs and laptops just dropped to less than half time. We were on a scaled-out hybrid storage solution earlier - didn't move from any archaic storage system.
Our document management system (where all electronic record management is done and holds almost every file related to business is stored and worked upon) started saving several seconds per click for every user. In addition, the emails started moving a bit faster. The administrators report a much faster response to every admin console. All this with at least 20% less compute capacity usage.,HPE Nimble Storage and Nutanix,Cisco UCS C-Series, VMware ESXi, NetApp FAS seriesKrishna Prasad Reddy KunkalaStorage that I never have to think about.2019-09-13T17:24:50.935ZOur Pure Storage FlashArrays are our businesses primary data storage. Primarily used to host our virtual infrastructure, they provide high bandwidth, low latency storage with in-line dedupe and compression that hugely reduces our raw storage consumption whilst never being the bottleneck in any of hosted systems. Not a single storage failure to date.,Hugely reliable and with amazing support staff. This is probably the most critical factor for us and makes our PURE arrays my favourite bits of kit in our environment. Many occasions where PURE storage support staff have identified and resolved issues with our virtual platform better than the support staff of the virtual platform (and so far never something that was caused by the PURE storage arrays). Really quick and easy to raise cases through the management web interface and always good quick responses.
Very high speed (average read and write latencies of between 0.2 and 0.4ms). Never had storage speed being a bottleneck.
Great dedupe and compression. We can massively over-allocate storage, confident that the PURE storage arrays will crunch it down as much as possible. On average between 4 and 10 times reduction (although of course, it does depend on the data).
Great extra features at no extra cost, such as Veeam plugins and the amazing Active Cluster synchronous replication.
The EverGreen option (only if you get 3 years support in one go) has already replaced our FA-420 controllers with the newer FA-m20 controllers at no extra cost. Really good to know that controller upgrades are included in the support costs so we won't fall behind and have to start from scratch again with newer hardware.,I suppose the only real downside we have seen has been that these are definitely a premium cost item. However, so far they have been worth every penny in reliability, performance and features so until someone finds me something as good for less money then I will keep these, thank you very much.
Okay, just scraping the barrel for negatives, but these are an expensive way to store media content as it doesn't compress or dedupe well.,10,Not had a single outage caused by the Pure Storage arrays going down. Great controller redundancy even means that the Purity software updates have no impact on live and the support staff always do thorough checks before and after the upgrades.,As early UK adopters of PURE in the UK, our chief technical architect saw the potential benefits of these and we haven't looked back since. I suppose the only factor was that they were definitely not the cheapest option but no regrets so far. I can't stress enough how reliable these are and what a great service we have received from Pure Storage support over the years. A great example of their excellent customer service was that, after filling in a regular survey for PURE support (all 10s, of course), it asked a rather open-ended question at the end: "Is there anything else you would like?" I couldn't think of anything extra I needed from their support so I just wrote "some chocolate?". A week or two later I received a parcel in the post: a box of chocolates shaped like game controllers (so totally on-message for us). Best surprise support response ever.,The best thing about these is that most of the time I don't even have to acknowledge that they exist: they are just rock-solid for performance and reliability.,Well, the main ones are performance and reliability. However, the other greats are the excellent support staff and I am also very much liking Active Cluster synchronous replication between arrays at two different sites, all at no extra cost.,I guess the biggest impact that it as on our end users is that they have never experienced any impact from our Pure Storage FlashArray: the data is always available and always high-speed, so no issues with slow SQL queries or system outages due to storage array issues.,,VMware ESXi, Veeam Backup & ReplicationNeil BellTired of managing multiple storage arrays? Review the Pure Storage FlashArray!2019-09-06T16:36:24.880ZThe State of Colorado is using the Pure Storage FlashArray as the enterprise storage platform to solve the Storage-As-A-Service problem by consolidating multiple storage arrays into a smaller and faster footprint and bring in new capabilities such as Disaster Recovery by providing the data replication for critical and essential services between multiple sites.,When we needed to increase our capacity, the Pure FlashArray provided us with the zero downtime scalability for critical and essential systems during critical production workloads.
Our customer had an aggressive DR site replication requirement which needed to be implemented and tested in one month. With the Pure Storage FlashArray we were able to architect the data repositories, confirm site links, set up and replicate Protection Groups, test the replication process and timing, and successfully deliver a DR solution in the required 1-month window.
We were having some serious issues with one of the arrays at the beginning, and I wanted to ship the equipment back because I was done with the product and felt like I was about to be let go. The Pure team set up a three-way discussion/troubleshooting session with VMWare and Cisco, and reviewed our existing certified configurations from a prior vendor, and provided a proposal on remediation. Since agreeing and implementing the final proposed configurations, we haven't had an issue since. Pure driving the conversation and giving us a recommendations really showed they cared and wanted their services to shine.
Our reps have been fantastic! Whenever this is an error/alarm, they're on the situation within minutes. Sometimes they respond before we can show they've acknowledged the issue and that they're ready to review the system when we provide access.
The Pure Storage FlashArray has given us a much better dedupe and compression ratio/storage utilization than our other storage arrays, allowing us to consolidate from 3 very large arrays to one small footprint.,We have a very strict password policy, and upon integrating the array to our authentication source, some characters were not supported and I couldn't log in to the array. This was more of an annoyance, and I'd expect the FlashArray to support a larger range of special characters.
Pure could have been a little more proactive on some of the errors we were seeing and getting back to us that there was a patch that would correct some issues. This really would have helped us in the beginning as we were moving our entire workload to the array.,10,The positive impact the Pure Storage FlashArray has had on one of our business objectives is providing that easy DR capability and providing us with metrics to offer a reasonable SLA to the customers.
Another positive impact the Pure Storage FlashArray has had on a business objective is the ability to shrink our footprint from 3 arrays to one, in addition to simplifying administration to a single pane of glass.
One more positive impact the Pure Storage FlashArray has had on a business objective is the ability to soon integrate with other cloud providers if we needed to supplement our offsite backup requirements.,The price almost kept us from buying the FlashArray. When we did the math, and worked with a Pure rep and comparison how we could consolidate our footprint and how all the features came with the array, we realized we would save time and money long-term. Simply put, Pure delivered a solid solution.,The State of Colorado now only manages one type of storage, and we no longer have any performance issues within our private cloud. System response times have improved, which in-turn has increased the speed if customer applications, allowing them to work more efficiently. The array meets all of our compliance requirements and seamlessly allows us to manage our storage-as-a-service more effectively.,The FlashArray's most useful and appealing feature to us is its ability to dedupe and compress data so much. It's performing better than our backup solution, forcing us to consider how we can be more efficient in other areas of the infrastructure.,When we moved all of our workloads to the Pure Storage FlashArray, customers would now get consistent results on their DEV/Test/Prod systems. The expensive high-speed storage tiering methodology works but provided an inconsistent result in customer testing. Now all the results should be the same on the storage side. The Pure Storage FlashArray dramatically improved the customer's application response time.,EMC VPLEX, XtremIO Flash Storage and EMC VNX,EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS, VMware ESXi, CommVaultKen GarciaMy Pure Storage FlashArray five year (so far) journey2019-09-06T16:09:57.424ZWe implemented Pure Storage FlashArrays for our tier 1 storage to meet the high IOPS, low latency demands of our applications. All tier 1 storage resides (currently) on one of three arrays. We have a very bursty workload and Pure Storage is able to handle the workload better than any other storage that we have used.,Handles bursty (IOPS and bandwidth) workloads very well.
Has great VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) support/implementation.
Upgrades are quick and painless.
Pure 1 site for aggregated telemetry data is very useful.,Pure Storage is expensive, but worth the premium.
I would like an easier way to identify a particularly hot (IO) VM on vVols during specific, narrow, user-selected time windows.
I would like to see an indicator on the support site for a Pure Support recommended code version of the Purity OS to more easily identify what version we should be running.,10,We have an average data reduction of 5.4 to 1 and a total reduction of 11 to 1 across three arrays.,Five years ago, when I purchased my first array, buying a Pure Storage FlashArray was viewed as a risky purchase by many of my peers in the industry. Pure was still a bit new, and I frequently heard the old saying of "no one has ever been fired for buying <insert any big incumbent here> storage". Taking that leap with Pure has paid off in spades.,I have been personally involved in three fully non-disruptive controller upgrades and all have gone flawlessly. No downtime, no rezoning, it is dead simple. We have even moved from 8 Gbps FC transceivers to 16 and then to 32 over the years. It is as simple as unplugging the old transceiver and plugging in the new.,Every bit of maintenance on Pure has been non-disruptive. The only time we have ever needed to take an array offline was to move it from one cage in our datacenter to another. Pure Storage FlashArray has enabled my team to be truly responsive to the needs of our business units.,Our users are most impacted by the uptime that Pure Storage FlashArray has provided to us. They have been rock solid and very performant. Our end-users benefit from the raw speed offered by this all-flash array. With 32 Gbps fiber channel connectivity on our SAN, storage is never the bottleneck in our environment.,XtremIO Flash Storage,VMware ESXi, Cohesity, EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS, Cisco UCS B-SeriesChad SkinnerPure Storage delivers on their promise2019-09-06T14:44:15.097ZThe Pure storage is used as our Enterprise block storage capability supporting over 8,000 VMs running enterprise & research workloads. The solution addresses the issue of provisioning & supporting thousands of disparate workloads with various performance characteristic (medium/high IOPs and low latency requirements) cost-effectively with minimal administrative overhead. The Data Reduction in production is over 5x which allows great performance with a compelling value proposition.,Data reduction, we are seeing 5.x in Production and 6.x in non-prod environments.
Ease of management, deployment (API), seamless capacity expansions and even array upgrades with zero downtime.
Support, Pure One Dashboard is dynamically updated with all the relevant performance, capacity, and health on all devices (e.g. IOS). Pure is proactive in addressing issues the moment they are detected and are extremely responsive to any questions or queries.,Still niche products - would like an expanded portfolio to cover all storage use cases.
Slightly higher cost than their competitors.,9,With a 5.x Data reduction in production, the solution has allowed the business to receive the benefit of peak performance at critical business events (admissions, results etc) without over-investing in Hardware that sits underutilized.
The ease of provisioning via the Pure API's has removed the need for a dedicated Storage admin, the Platform team can now run via code and don't have to wait for manual zoning or carving out of storage, when new workloads need to be provisioned or scaled up it is done immediately inline with the business need.
The Evergreen nature of the product removes the capital lumpy spend profile. This fact, augmented with the HW upgrade with no downtime, the business keeps running and scaling without IT being a roadblock, we are an enabler.,We were an early adopter, the claims around data reduction were unproven, and the evergreen and hit-less array upgrades were unheard of in the storage vendor community. Their high price point was a risk as if the claims did not become a reality the value proposition was invalid. Other Vendors had a more rounded portfolio of products, we were concerned Pure was a one-trick pony, but they have continued to innovate and deliver on all their promises.
From the initial purchase, we have looked at their other products, our advice would be to ensure you are very clear on your workloads, capacity and performance characteristics. Their products perform exceptionally well, at a price point, we could not justify the investment for Flash Blade, not a reflection on the product, more the usage scenario and ROI from our side.,Easy to manage and deploy, 1 day to install, migration was seamless. All capacity expansions and array upgrades have been hit less. The products performance has exceeded expectations and has never failed under business-critical periods.We have not had a single outage in the three years we have been running the product.The ease of integration of the Flash Array with their technology Alliance Partners (We integrate their product with AWS, Cisco, Citrix, Commvault, VMware, Splunk, Redhat, Microsoft, Oracle, Mongo DB, Brocade, Veem). Having this partner ecosystem allows for true workload mobility and supports our DevOps Infrastructure as Code operational mindset.,Data reduction, de-duplication. Originally we were in the 4.x range, but with ongoing firmware & software improvements from Pure, we are at 5.x with no change to the way we deploy workloads. All this new efficiency and performance is driven by Pure and released to customers without some new licensing constraint or performance tiered licensing.,Previously, our end users had a prohibitive price point per Gb for high Performance that led them to try and make do with cheaper alternatives, running workloads that maxed out the arrays, and caused congestion impacting other lines of business. The ongoing delays in capacity expansion, the requirement of full environment downtime to address Bugs and software upgrades impacted the availability and created the perception with our business that Storage was a never-ending money pit that didn't deliver.
Now we have no noise from our stakeholders and research partners other than requesting new services and PoC's/Prototypes to leverage the capability of the Flash array to solve emerging digital business problems.,NetApp All Flash FAS, HPE Nimble Storage and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series,AWS IoT, VMware ESXi, AnsibleMark LocastroPure Storage: fast, simple , reliable and no more additional licenses!2019-08-31T17:27:07.482ZPrimary storage for corporate storage needs like virtual machines, collaboration, and ERP. It replaced two HP EVA 6400s with that were not able to keep up with I/O needs, while frequent failing components and the EOL made it a risk to keep them as primary storage. We use the built-in snapshot feature to snapshot 90% of all volumes every 30 minutes and keep them 6 days on the array. This will help us recover in case of ransomware. We have a second PURE X20 in our remote site 300 KM from here and use async replication to sync critical data off-site.,Easy to manage. When compared to HP EVA the GUI and the available options are logical and easy to understand. Our administrator needed very little to none training to use it.
Low Latency and high throughput. Normal business operation is around 20K IOPS and < 1 MS.
Support. Knowledge engineers that will ' stay with you' till the issue is resolved and provide assistance even when the root cause is a, for example, a faulty transceiver in an FC Switch or an MPIO issue on AIX.
Pure1 portal provides enough information for basic capacity planning and the new VM Topology is helpfull to quickly get information about which VM Vdisk is having latency issues.
Excellent integration with VEEAM. For example, using the VEEAM console we can restore a file from any of about 130 snapshots that we take on the SAN.,The portal provides some basic information on the deduplication and compression ratios but is not very helpful when troubleshooting a sudden increase in utilization.,10,Reduced nightly ERP Batchjobs from 11 hours to 7 hours. Payroll jobs saw a 50% reduction in runtimes. This permitted more flexibility for our business processes.
To update our test ERP environment we used to do offline DB backups taking over 14 hours to complete and could only be scheduled during certain weekend. Then, the process to restore this data would take another day. Now we refresh the test environment in less than 1 hr. The snapshot of 25 volumes takes only a second. The users love to be able to get their test environment updated with just a short notice. We also can use any of the existing snapshots to go back in time, if they want that.
The ease of use of PURE has taken away the ability for only a senior storage admin to manage the system. This had great impact on our team as we can now be more responsive.,We compared HPE 3Par, Dell Compellent and Pure to replace our 2 HPE EVA 6400s. Besides big differences in cost and features, Pure convinced us with the 'right size guarantee' (in writing), evergreen, at no additional cost for replication and the option of a POC.,Reduced nightly ERP Batchjobs from 11 hours to 7 hours. Payroll jobs saw a 50% reduction in runtimes. This permitted more flexibility for our business processes. To update our test ERP environment we used to do offline DB backups taking over 14 hours to complete and could only be scheduled during certain weekend. Then, the process to restore this data would take another day. Now, we refresh the test environment in less than 1 hr. The snapshot of 25 volumes takes only a second. The users love to be able to get their test environment updated with just a short notice. We also can use any of the existing snapshots to go back in time, if they want that.,I like the storage snapshots and built-in replication a lot. The snapshots have saved us a few times where we needed to recover important files that were created during a long work session. We take snapshots every 30 minutes, so we could easily recover the lost work. The built-in replication works as expected and at no additional cost.,The reduced time to run large reports and queries have greatly impacted the scope of things that can be analyzed.,HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage and Dell EMC SC Series (Compellent),Veeam Availability Suite, vSphere, Lansweeper, McAfee Complete Data ProtectionEric van IngenPureStorage - Why look at anything else?2019-07-29T19:23:23.392ZThe FlashArray is being utilized by our entire organization. We currently have 2 arrays. The first was specifically bought to correct storage performance issues that we were encountering in our VDI environment with a prior storage vendor. We were so impressed with that array that the following year we secured a second array to migrate our entire server workload to.,Deduplication and compression
PERFORMANCE!
Support,I honestly can't think of anything.,10,Reduced man hours required for storage management,Competitors were quick to bad mouth PureStorage and spread mis-information regarding their technology. After doing our own review of the products and technology used, we were able to call out the competitor. This only strengthened our desire to go with the PureStorage solution. Just be sure to validate all claims through independent research and sources.,Simplicity of management has greatly reduced the time spent managing our storage. Extremely reliable, we have not had any storage-related outages since implementation 2 years ago. Speed is never a question as all latency remains well under 1ms.,All-inclusive licensing. You don't get hit on individual feature licenses. Any time a new feature is released, it is backported to all supported arrays and there is never any additional charge. Compression and deduplication rates are excellent, which in turn lowers the TCO of the units. Asynchronous replication works great to replicate data to our DR site.,Boot storms in our VDI environment would cause major performance issues for our end users on our previous array from a large PureStorage competitor (the solution was certified by the competitor to support our workload). After replacing the competitors array with the Pure, there have been no storage related performance issues in our environments.,EMC VNX,VMware ESXi, VMware Horizon (formerly VMware View), F5 BIG-IPBen MooreVery happy!2019-10-04T15:21:31.561ZWe are currently using the FlashArray as backing storage for our virtual server environment, virtual desktop environment, and our high transaction databases. We currently have devices deployed at our major sites and are in the process of deploying to all of our second tier locations. We were struggling with our previous storage providers to deliver the performance, scalability, and cost targets. Pure Storage was able to deliver on all of our key metric areas and continue to work diligently in maintaining the value in our relationship.,VMWare Integration
Pro-active support and an active on-going investment in our relationship to maintain outstanding results
Flawless service delivery
Straightforward and powerful device management
turn-key centralized reporting,I honestly can't think of an area that I am unhappy with,10,Custom tools to speed up certain SAP environment transactions has saved a man month of activities
The on-demand performance to meet our highest transactional loads
The reduction of man hours for day-to-day management and monitoring,The price was the largest initial concern when selecting Pure Storage as a vendor for our environments. After talking with our team with the company and looking at the ROI numbers over 5 years it was a no-brainer to give them a shot in our environment.
The main thing I would encourage a prospective customer to evaluate is the true cost of your existing vendor. How many times have you had to do a rip and replace to gain no real capacity or performance advantage.,We have greatly reduced our management and maintenance overhead for our workloads that are running on the Pure arrays. Our engineers are not having to respond to performance degradation tickets after hours or on weekends. Budget cycles are much more predictable and allow us to focus on improvements, knowing that with the Evergreen support we do not have to re-purchase the same array over and over again.,The Evergreen support. Paying a bit extra year over year to ensure that our arrays stay current and then only having to pay for the expansion of the devices when we need more. But, that is only because everything else works flawlessly.,The performance and latency of the array is absolutely excellent. We had a particular software build that was taking 1.5 hours on an array of a different vendor and was able to drop that to 20 minutes, simply by migrating it to the FlashArray.,EMC VPLEX and Dell EMC SC Series (Compellent)Drew TaylorPure Storage is very innovative and simple to manage2019-09-30T20:32:32.046ZWe have 2 Pure arrays and use them to serve around 90% of data to our hosts. We use other NVME cards for other applications like IBM Informix and Oracle ODA. We moved everything off of Compellent to Pure Storage. I think our Pure Storage arrays are both very solid and so far I am pleased with the performance and manageability of these arrays.,IT servers up data with < 1ms
It is very easy to configure new storage
Make zoning data and expanding storage sizes very well,The data can always be faster. We purchased NVME storage as the data was slower than what we were using before.,10,I am a sourcing partner, so ROI I am not aware of.,I was at a sales meeting and the sales and feedback were very nice. The upgrades being free of charge was a high selling point.,It is very easy to use and training juniors with Pure Storage is simple.,De-dupe and compression are very impressive.,End-users have not had much impact but they do see performance improvements with their day to day activities.,,IBM Informix, Oracle Access ManagementCollege325 HessWhy we switched to Pure2018-12-08T15:54:20.740ZWe are a managed service provider, we use FlashArrays for shared storage for our private cloud customers and as dedicated storage for several of our larger customers. We have been steadily replacing all older spinning disk storage systems with FlashArrays. This has allowed us to greatly increase storage efficiencies and provide outstanding storage performance to all our customers. FlashArrays have solved varying issues for different customers, from database performance to storage efficiency of VDI applications.,Ease of management - both the local administration and PureOne dashboard allow us to monitor systems as well as provide life-cycle management.
Storage efficiency - the de-dupe and compression ratios are fantastic. We can provide our customers better cost to usage ratios.
Service and support - online upgrades for both software and hardware means no downtime for the customers.
Evergreen controllers - upgrades to the latest hardware as part of the service contract means we don't have any more data lifts when upgrading to the new system.
Ease of configuration and integration with our hypervisor providers - just another way not to spend all our time managing storage.,Cost is still a little high, increasing storage is pricey but things are getting better. Aside from cost though, the new features released and the fact there are no extra costs for any of these features can make up for the overall price.,10,Return on investment has been great, lowering management costs and providing greater storage efficiencies.
System reliability is awesome. We have several FlashArrays and very few hardware failures; something like 4 drives in 4 years, and no controller issues.
No negative impacts with these systems for us at all.,Initially, we needed features that weren't available. discussions with Pure on those features went straight to the right people. Within six months, those features were available and we purchased the second and third units. Always discuss your use cases with them, they are open and flexible if it makes sense, they will help make it possible.,Storage admins now are systems admins with wider set of responsibilities. So much less time spent maintaining and monitoring systems and performance issues. Everyone involved is happier, customers and administrators.,The simplicity of Purity is amazing, getting a system up and running takes an hour not a day like the previous vendor. The Evergreen program allows us to stay ahead of the curve technology wise without the forklift upgrades of old. And Pure's service organization is responsive and alert with no major incidents in 5 years.,The FlashArray has solved several customer's database performance issues by speed alone. One customer, running large PostgreSQL databases, was able to take hour long queries and reports down to 5 to 10 minute runs. This alone made several of their customers happy. We have solved many customers reliability storage problems (high latency, long write times etc...) by moving them to the Pure FlashArray.,We have benefited greatly, we solve customer problems by moving their data onto FlashArrays. We spend less time maintaining storage systems and investigating performance issues. We don't need storage engineers spend time troubleshooting day to day issues, the admins can handle all the issues that now appear and most of those are file restores and minor system config issues. Engineers can now help customers with more innovative ways of handling their data and moving more customers to our private clouds.,Buy a FlashArray now and start retiring your old SAN and NAS systems.,10,NetApp All Flash FAS, NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays, NetApp FAS series, SolidFire and Violin Memory,Microsoft SQL Server, VMware vCenter Server,50,2,Databases - mainly SQL
VDI environments
General virtualization - both VMware and Hyper-V,We are examining disk to disk to cloud backups.
Clustering arrays for business continuity and performance balancing
Hybrid computing - moving between cloud providers and local virtualization,10,Yes,Product Features
Product Usability
Vendor Reputation
Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor,We wouldn't. We were very though and went thru 5 vendors before making a final selection.,Implemented in-house,No,Change management was minimal,Poorly configured virtual machines
Limited networking - environment required more addresses for implementation,10,no training,A little help from our Sales Engineer was all that we needed.,10,Read the documentation from the Pure Support site, excellent references.,No - we have not done any customization to the interface,No - we have not done any custom code,Yes,No,Network configuration
Volume allocation and configuration
Support requests.,None so far.,Yes,10,10,10,10,10,10,Yes,Greater ease of operation
Better monitoring and reporting
Increased storage efficiencies,new features
increased storage efficiencies
More integration with cloud,No,NoTrey PautschPure Storage is Purely magic2019-09-26T14:30:44.002ZWe resell the product - It's used in various use case where clients need to access data without any compromise to speed. It solves space disk problem by showing an amazing deduplication and compression ratio. Also, their business model to refresh controllers every 3 years changes the game since clients will be saving overtime by not doing a forklift upgrade every 3-5 years.,VDI environment.
AI environment.
Opex financial operations.,Price is high when comparing traditional vendors.,10,Employee satisfaction improves.
No disruptive upgrades - huge savings in management cost.,Doing a proof of concept is the first thing anyone should do. All my clients who have done one bought the product.,My customers tell me that the non-disruptive upgrade is the best benefit… it's done during work hours so they no longer need to plan for w-e upgrades with limited support. Saves them time and money.,Software-defined technology which gives IT personnel fewer complications when racking the units.,VDI environment went from a compression ratio of 8/1 with Dell SC products to 40/1 with Pure.,,VMware ESXi, Azure SQL Database, AWS BackupPatrice CharbonneauPure Is A Good Solution2019-09-25T18:47:18.453ZOur Pure Storage array is being used as storage for our financial cores and Cisco UCS hosts. Our old platter drive SANs were end of life and we needed modular, expandable storage that would grow with our organization for years to come.,Storage density. Having over 20TB of space in less than half a 3U shelf is great. When we're ready for our first expansion we won't even need a new shelf.
Compression. I was skeptical of how much performance would be available since the array compresses all data stored. It's been faster than I thought. Boot times of VMs are very SSD-like.
Replication. The compressed replication makes synching data between the arrays fast.,Setting up replication to other arrays. I pretty much blundered into the solution. Documentation was not clear, mostly because the documentation available from Pure wasn't updated for the new Pure user interface yet. Left me hanging.
Making changes to replication. The way I understand it, if I want to make any kinds of changes to the replication link (like renaming it) I have to destroy it and recreate it. I still haven't figured it out completely.
Veeam can't look inside replicated volumes. It would be nice if Veeam could see, open, browse, and restore VMs from inside the replicated volumes on the other side of Pure replication. This would solve some big problems for us.
Need documentation on how to configure/optimize VM OSes to take advantage of the Pure. We're coming from a 1Gb network infrastructure (including all the virtual NICs) moving to a 10Gb infrastructure. Intra-VM file transfers are slow.
Growing reliability concerns. We've had our Pure arrays for less than 6 months and have had a drive failure in each of our chassis so far. I do like that the Pure array emails statuses immediately. Support from Pure to fix or replace drives has been good.,9,Unknown. I don't have access to the budget.,Cost was keeping us from purchasing Pure products, especially the flash array. What enabled us to purchase Pure was that the Pure array was bundled with our financial core servers and we absolutely had to upgrade our financial core servers anyway. Another key factor was that the Pure array was certified by the manufacturer of our financial cores and core software.,We're receiving speed from Pure, SSD like performance for our VMs. I love the fast boot times we have for our VMs. Updates for Server 2016 are much faster on the Pure arrays than on our old SANs. We also needed an expandable platform that will grow with our storage needs and Pure is supplying this in spades.,Pure replication. We need to make efficient use of our WAN link to our DR and the compressed replication is very welcome. The speed and small size of each replication was surprising and welcome. Expandable storage. We absolutely needed to reduce the number of physical storage servers that are locked into a maximum size. Pure's expandability is exactly what we wanted.,Our end users don't really notice a difference because 90% don't interact directly with Pure. Everything they do is interacting with things running on the Pure over WAN links. Their experience is limited by the speed of the WAN links, which haven't changed. However, for us in IT we have much faster processing and data movement. We are not waiting as long for VM updates or backups. Our core business application runs on a server directly integrated with the Pure arrays and it does process much faster, especially the nightly batch jobs (but again, the end users don't really notice because they are limited by our WAN links).,Nimble,Windows Server, Veeam Backup & ReplicationTodd KuhnFlashArray Review2019-09-25T03:47:39.704ZPure Storage FlashArray is CBH Group's primary storage system and hosts all of CBH's system across the board. It enables us to provide excellent storage performance without having to worry about where data has to go for it to perform. Because of this, the day to day management of the storage infrastructure has almost disappeared completely. It also allowed us to consolidate the physical footprint for data center relocation.,Deduplication and compression - Allows us to have a minimal footprint and power consumption in our datacenters.
Support - Pure Storage support is better than any I have had to deal with and the included proactive management allows us to essentially set and forget.,None - Does everything we want it to do.,10,Having Pure Storage's evergreen maintenance has enabled us to keep the array up to current spec by just renewing annual maintenance.,The fact that they can do non-intrusive upgrades to new versions of all the hardware and software gave us the piece of mind after coming from another storage vendor that had multiple issues.,After coming from 3 years of poor support from a competitors product, the FlashArray has been simple and has performed extremely well from day one.,The user interface is probably the best part. Not having to fiddle around with anything to get things working was a plus. From plugging in we were up and running within the hour.,No longer having workloads slowing down at peak times during the day is a plus for end-users. Along with making development a lot quicker. Although this also has a negative impact on our developers as I think it makes them a little lazy with streamlining their code for performance as they have become aware that they can throw almost anything at the array and it simply performs.Garrick DunkleyOrange is the new Flash2019-09-24T18:26:20.583ZOur Pure Storage FlashArray is currently being used as our main storage backend for VMWare. The virtual machines hosted on these systems support the entire company.,Mobile app. Allows quick view of the health of all of your arrays from your mobile device. You can also open a ticket from the app.
Unbelievable IOPS with the flash storage.
Extremely easy to install and configure. I installed it into the rack before the Pure engineer got onsite.,It could be less expensive. Pure storage is not cheap. But, outside of price I cannot thing of a thing it is lacking.,10,Our marketing and system reporting has greatly improved since we have installed our database VMs onto the Pure array.,The cost was a concern for sure. However, the ability to do rolling controller upgrades and expand the storage as much as we needed allowed us to feel comfortable with that commitment.,Speed, speed, speed! Backups, migrations, and database queries all run so much faster. With the excellent deduplication features, we can spin up copies of databases or VMs without worrying about the initial storage hit.,Ease of use has been most useful. The GUI is extremely well designed. The CLI is there when needed, but everything we've needed to do can be done through the GUI. If you really want to, there is an API as well.,We have a few personal VMs that run on the Pure Storage FlashArray and those users have seen a large performance increase.,Dell EMC Unity and Kaminario K2,VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA SeriesAdam MorrisonPure Magic2019-09-24T17:26:30.347ZPure Storage FlashArray provides superior performance at an attractive price point to support our organization's applications. Almost all workloads that we have moved to Pure Storage FlashAray have seen a noticeable improvement in processing times, not just noticed by IT metrics but also by end-users.,Performance - Workloads moved to the Pure Storage from other mfg arrays saw significant performance improvements.
Value - For the cost versus performance/capacity gain, Pure Storage FlashArray was an investment that provided great returns.
Support - A high level of customer support across the board (sales, pre-sales, post-sales, technical). Our reps are always in contact with us to see if we need anything.,Have not uncovered any yet.,10,The ROI on Pure Storage FlashArray can be measured in two ways. As far as the financial return based on a comparison to other possible storage array purchases, Pure provides high value and very quick returns on the financial investment. But also, in terms of the return of quality, Pure was extremely easy to implement and the value of the performance gains that we saw in our applications was noticeable and significant.,Although Pure was relatively young as a company, they seemed to be hitting the marks with great reviews and industry notice (i.e. Gartner, etc.). We decided to make an initial investment to try it, then once we saw how well it was working for us, we quickly migrated many more applications. It worked so well that we went back and purchased a second array.,The main benefits of Pure Storage FlashArray are performance, value, and simplicity, as well as the customer focus and their desire to continually evolve the technology with new capabilities.,The performance of the array in terms of speed is quite amazing and something that we didn't really expect until we saw it first hand with our workloads. The other is capacity - it never seems to fill up no matter how much we add. Also, simplicity of implementation and management frees up IT resources.,We moved over 50 SQL servers to Pure Storage FlashArray and had application owners coming to us thinking that something was broken since their jobs and processes were running significantly faster than when they were on another manufacturer's array. They could not believe the difference. From an IT perspective, we are not accustomed to having users come to us noticing that something dramatically changed for the better. Even our app owns and users know the term "Pure Storage" now. Others have come to us asking to have their systems moved to the Pure as well.,Ken CrowleyUltra Fast Array with Simple UI2019-09-24T17:21:00.667ZWe are using Pure Storage FlashArray for the entire organization to replicate to identical array in our co-lo site. This array is blazing fast and it solved I/O and latency issues we had with our databases. Our VMs are lightning quick on the array making any storage migrations a breeze. Management of the array is also very simple and easy to use. Overall this is a great product!,Customer service is fantastic. We have not had any issues with the array, but even doing a code upgrade is simple as support is very friendly and quick to respond.
The array is FAST! Being an all-flash array that is expected, but bundle that with their architecture and this thing is lightning quick in all storage operations.
We have not yet had the opportunity to take advantage of the Evergreen Model, but are looking forward to a hardware upgrade. This model is great and allows for quick and easy uplift to the newest hardware without replacing the array.,The array is so simple and easy to use that, we rarely need to manage it or do anything really. It really feels like a set and forget kind of system because it just works.,10,Implementation of this array has greatly increased our database performance, along with all VM performance overall. This increased I/O performance has been a great improvement for our line of business applications.,We really liked what Pure Storage brought to the table right from the start, but like all great things, this array is not cheap. We did a feature comparison with other storage vendors and ultimately decided that the features of Pure greatly outweigh the cost premium.
I would encourage prospective customers to give this array a try. You'll fall in love with how great Pure really is. The sales team is VERY pleasant to work with and will try to accommodate any customer concerns.,The array is super simple to use. We rarely need to login to manage the array. The speed is also absolutely incredible! This is a very fast array and we don't even have the NVMe model yet. And, we will not be required to do an array upgrade ever again with the Evergreen model, which is nice.,The most useful thing for us is how simple it is to navigate the UI and make configurations. This allows for any user to be able to get up to speed and start working with the array with very minimal effort. They really don't lie when they say that it is built from the ground up with customer experience in mind. Everything simply makes sense and does not force you to constantly reference manuals and guides.,With our entire infrastructure is running on the Pure array, and our VMs are running smoothly. Our line of business applications have seen response time improvement due to massive I/O boost from the array. Our DBAs have noticed that database backups are almost 20x faster now. We are now able to perform storage operations such as migrations, backups and searches so much faster.,Dell EMC Data Domain, EMC VNX, HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, EMC RecoverPoint and Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage,VMware ESXi, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft SQL ServerIvan SytchevPure Storage Flash Array2019-09-18T02:27:40.826ZWe use the Pure Storage SAN as our primary storage for our entire infrastructure across the whole organisation.,Easy to configure
Very fast
Easy to intergrate
Great Technical support,Clearer pricing,10,Positive improvement in speed and deployment of VMs
Good ROI if priced over 5 years +,Didn't believe the original claims on dedupe and compression. All proved to be better than expected during proof of concept.,Storage is easier to increase; it's easier to deploy new servers, backups run quicker and VMs deploy quicker.,Dedupe, compression, speed and evergreen refresh,Positive impact makes deploying things for users quicker and jobs run quicker.,Western Digital IntelliFlash (Tegile) and HPE EVA P6000 (Discontinued),VMware ESXi, XenApp,50,3,Speed up our backups
Deploy storage easier
Speed up VM deployment,Expand capacity,10,Yes,Price
Product Features
Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor,No changes,Implemented in-house
Third-party professional services,No,Change management was minimal,NONE,10,No,No,Everytime an upgrade is available they respond instantly and upgrade out of hours. Even though they are non disrupted upgrades.,Deploying storage
Increasing volumes
snapshots,NONE,Yes, but I don't use it,10Dave HornbyFast, reliable and simple. All our wishes are granted!2019-09-21T16:51:27.242ZWe deployed two active-active arrays (m50r2) for our group datacenter and all our data workloads are hosted on Pure arrays. We use the Active Cluster feature to build our business continuity plan. Then, this year we have bought an x10 one for a production site (warehouse). Pure Storage FlashArray has solved our storage issues around latency, growth, and protection.,Data reduction is the best we have ever seen. It is always improved at each release.
Managing PureStorage FlashArray is very simple and secured, it unloaded the storage from over 80% of charge.
Support is the most efficient and reliable we have. They are amazingly proactive and reactive in case of failure.
Design and features are great.,Growth steps. Increasing arrays is quite expensive because steps between tiers are high.,10,Negative: Growth steps.
Positive: Data reduction allow us to welcome quite all new projects (even urgent surprise ones).
Postive: Evergreen gold support contract, with controller renew.,The biggest challenge for the decision was the price, higher than other competitors at first glance. But the disruptive support contract, Evergreen Gold, which involves a 3-year hardware renew as long as you pay it, is making the difference after the first IT refresh. So, in theory, our arrays are endless!,Pure Storage FlashArray freed almost 80% of storage admin time with its simplicity of use. All the main systems benefit from its speed and reliability. Data reduction allow us to easily and cost effectively duplicate environments for tests and devs.,Data reduction for costs gainsActive cluster for replication with active-active volumes (R/W)Pure1 with its powerful features like VM Topology or capacity planningSupport for their reliability and efficiency.,Users stopped complaining about storage and could fully concentrate their effort on the real problem: code.
For example, our BI systems gained around 40% of compiling time during the night. They used to wait until 10 AM for the results, now they are ready at 6 AM.,HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage and Kaminario K2,VMware ESXi, VMware Horizon (formerly VMware View), Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Cohesity, Oracle VM Server, Zabbix,Yes,The fist support ticket was created from IT Support itself!
The found a bug in our SAN configuration. It created unbalanced IO and errors. They requested a dump of our FC switches configuration and find out the solution. It was present for 4 years and has never been found by the precedent storage supplier (HPE) despite a specific audit on SAN, 3 months ago.
Support rocks!Cédric MARIOT"Flashy" Next Level Deduplication and Performance with the FlashArray2019-09-20T22:25:24.190ZThe FlashArray is being used across our entire environment/organization. Internally, and customer clouds as well. Atmosera is a cloud service provider of both Private and public cloud offerings. We utilize the FlashArrays for our private cloud offerings, selling datastore volumes as managed storage. The FlashArray allows us to be scalable in our internal infrastructure, while also offering the huge benefits of Flash storage. The FlashArray fleet we have also given us a single vendor infrastructure, which eases management.,The Pure Array is scalable (easy to add more storage, easy to split up/provision existing storage).
The Pure Array handles deduplication and compression better than any storage array I've worked with.
Pure Support is very knowledgeable and responsive to issues and questions.
The Pure Web GUI is very intuitive and easy to use.
VM Analytics is a great and easy to enable feature.,While the GUI is easy to use, some management features are only available in the CLI.,10,The Pure arrays allowed us to consolidate from over 30-40 mixed vendor arrays to under 10 flash arrays, saving costs on support contracts.
The Pure Arrays allowed us to offer modern, high tier storage offerings to new and existing customers, making us look more attractive to new customers and also increase contract spend on existing customers.
The Pure Arrays allowed us to simplify our infrastructure offerings and allowed more employees to be able to effectively maintain the hardware.,I did not make the purchasing decision. I did not work in this department when the first fleet of arrays were implemented, and the purchasing decisions are made at higher management level departments. However, if anything would prevent a potential customer, it would likely be the initial cost of the array. However, the next level compression/dedupe, fantastic support, and stable array speaks for itself and is enough to convince anyone looking to add a flash array to their environment.,Simplicity: Once set up, the FlashArray's web GUI is extremely simple to manage and configure. Adding storage to hosts is easy to do.
Speed: The FlashArray's I/O speeds are very quick, which is expected from modern flash arrays.
Utilization: The deduplication ratio allows us to replace nearly 10 SAS arrays with just one FlashArray.,The compression and dedupe ratio is by far, in my opinion, the best feature available. As stated before, we were able to consolidate nearly our entire storage environment (a mixture of Synology and Netapps) with just a handful of FlashArrays. Our average dedupe ratio across our fleet is about 4.2 to 1.,The FlashArray has allowed us to offer fast, stable, and consistent datastore volumes to our customer's cloud environments. We have not had any issues or problems arising from our FlashArrays since they've been deployed in our environment.
The FlashArray made a difference when we were having utilization issues for one of our client environments using traditional SAS arrays. After moving them to a FlashArray, all high utilization issues disappeared.,NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays, NetApp FAS series and Synology DiskStation,CommVault, Windows ServerMax TevsPure Storage has simplified my life2019-09-20T03:37:43.155ZWe use Pure Storage for critical workloads such as VDI and SQL. We are not using Pure Storage to its fullest at my current organization. At a previous organization we used snapshots, replication cross datacenter and to cloud.,Replication
Vcenter and vrops integration
Snapshot restore,Monitoring and alerting,10,Uptime, we have had no issues
Upgrades are simple and seamless
New controller upgrades every 3 years means we are no longer retiring storage at 5 years, we get a new array every 3 years.,After working with EMC for years, it was the simplicity that captivated me and a great sales and presales team. The evergreen program sold my leadership and we have never looked back.,Simplicity, no longer need a dedicated storage resource. Far out performs anything else we have had. No longer have random slowdowns and read/write latency.,Pure 1, central location to see all my arrays, love the app and can open a ticket with a click. Upgrades performed by a Pure Storage engineer, never have any concerns and no longer pulling weekend long maintenance.,Users do not see it but VDI performs much better, despite our compute issues,HPE Nimble Storage and SolidFire,vRealize OperationsMiriam Tedley-MartinEverything we expected and more2019-09-20T01:23:59.047ZOur Pure Storage deployment is in use across the entirety of our company as well as at our disaster recovery location. It is a mirrored solution where both sites are identical configurations. It is our primary storage. So it solves the problem of where we keep and maintain all of our company data.,Proactive support.
Making a case for their own excellence and supporting it with actual performance.
Pure Storage FlashArrays are very scalable and expandable.,We have no complaints.
The arrays have been reliable and as advertised.,10,We saved money upfront to the tune of $300K.
Their excellent support (as compared to Dell EMC’s pitiful support) saves man hours.
We will be able to extend our product life beyond the normal five-year mandatory refresh.,We almost went with an oversized, unnecessary array from EMC because their salespeople lied to us about the future of Pure Storage. After we purchased it, the reseller came back to us and told us that we made the right decision. We have seen that first hand from experience.,We were able to install our array ourselves. It was up and running in an hour. The interface is super simple to use. The performance is much faster than we’ve ever seen before with better deduplication. And it will last us far longer than any previous array.,Speed and dedupe are better than anything in the past.,End-users have noticed a tremendous uptick in speed and response time. It has been noticeable from the top of the organization all the way down.,EMC VNX,Dell EMC Networker, EMC RecoverPoint, Cisco 2000 Series Connected Grid Routers (CGR 2000)Russell Koo
Unspecified
Pure Storage FlashArray
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