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What is Pure Storage FlashArray?
Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.
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- Flash Array Performance (154)10.0100%
- Simplicity (154)10.0100%
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades (148)10.0100%
- Data Compression (153)8.080%
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What is Pure Storage FlashArray?
Pure Storage FlashArray is available in tow models: FlashArray//C is an all-QLC flash array thatdelivers the NVMe performance, hyper-consolidation, and simplified management. FlashArray//X is all-flash, 100% software-driven, and 100% NVMe storage optimized for corporate and enterprise environments.
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Current available models include:
- FlashArray//XL - Can be used to run everything from massive databases to cloud-native applications with faster transactions and more responsive customer experiences with enterprise availability and disaster protection. FlashArray//XL is designed to give businesses the freedom to innovate without storage as a constraint.
- FlashArray//X - Unified block and file storage designed to be easy to use but also powerful. Used to accelerate everything from Tier 1 databases to large-scale virtualized and cloud-native apps, with a non-disruptive upgrade path.
- FlashArray//C - Designed to provide a home to business-critical workloads and data, with 99.9999% availability, non-disruptive upgrades, and consistent single-millisecond latency.
- FlashArray//E - Designed to deliver simplicity and efficiency of flash for all file and block data repositories, from content libraries to backup sets to active archives. Released in June of 2023, FlashArray//E are offered to expand customers’ options to tackle data growth down to 1PB without the need for frustrating offline archives or expanding expensive disk systems.
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Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.
Dell PowerMax NVMe, NetApp AFF A-Series, and HPE Nimble Storage are common alternatives for Pure Storage FlashArray.
Reviewers rate Flash Array Performance and Non-Intrusive Upgrades and Simplicity highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Pure Storage FlashArray are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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- Business Problems Solved
Pure Storage FlashArray has been widely used across various industries and organizations to address a multitude of storage needs. Users have experienced a significant increase in speed and improved data handling by replacing their existing storage with Pure Storage FlashArray. With its high-speed, reliable block storage capabilities, the array has been effective in supporting performance-sensitive workloads and unifying different storage technologies and manufacturers. Organizations have utilized Pure Storage FlashArray to house virtual infrastructure environments, resulting in great compression rates and easy setup of replications. It has also served as a primary SAN for virtualized environments, improving performance and supporting various departments. Furthermore, the array has proven effective in handling batch job performance, reducing job times from hours to minutes and increasing overall productivity. In addition, by running mission-critical applications on Pure Storage FlashArray, users have experienced noticeable performance increases. The array's ability to handle thousands of VMs while providing primary storage and data protection through replication has made it a valuable asset in large-scale environments. Pure Storage FlashArray has also been deployed across multiple data centers to address performance, capacity, and data security needs. Its simplicity of administration, patching, and upgrading processes has earned user satisfaction. Overall, Pure Storage FlashArray has addressed crucial storage challenges for organizations by providing high-speed storage, easy management, scalability, and improved performance for a wide range of workloads.
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May 20, 2020
The little array that could
I looked at several different vendors, then did a POC bake-off between the Pure Storage FlashArray and Nimble Storage AF series flash array. It was very close on performance, but Pure was easier to set up, manage, and maintenance was non-disruptive.
May 19, 2020
Pure Storage is good!
In our environment, Pure Storage FlashArrays show similar (slightly better) performance compared to XtremIO, but are, in my opinion, easier to manage.
May 19, 2020
One of the only vendors whose claims of hidden magical knowledge have stood the test of time!
We evaluated a build our own solution... I'm really happy we went with Pure Storage.
Fusion-IO is very expensive per TB and limited to host you can connect. Pure Storage might not be as fast but its ease of use, along with compression and dedupe make up for it.
Pure had a better cost offering and better sales process than the vendors above. They were also ranked higher on independent research such as Gartner which made the decision to go with Pure much easier.
Although more expensive, the FlashArray's performance, dedupe, simplicity of configuration, and support all blow the other arrays out of the water.
I have had nothing but pleasant experiences with the techs at Pure Storage, and they've been plenty helpful and supportive (both the techs and our dedicated engineers). Our experience with the FlashArray has been nothing but pleasant.
I have had nothing but pleasant experiences with the techs at Pure Storage, and they've been plenty helpful and supportive (both the techs and our dedicated engineers). Our experience with the FlashArray has been nothing but pleasant.
December 06, 2019
Once you go Orange, you never go back!
Score 10 out of 10
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NetApp, which is/was the market leader. This is a good system in their own right, but there are two areas where Pure Storage FlashArray beats them all hands-down! First is management. The software interface for management and provisioning is cleaner and doesn't make one jump through complicated processes to get from point A to point B. Second is support. It is just outstanding in every way.
November 14, 2019
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Score 10 out of 10
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We liked the licensing more with the Pure Array and its performance at the time was better than others.
November 12, 2019
Believe what they say...You won't be sorry.
We did not have any to compare, as we were just looking at traditional SANs at the time.
October 29, 2019
Pure Storage Array is a game changer for us
It is light years ahead of our previous solutions, including xyzApp, xyzGen, FusionXY and Superxyz.
October 04, 2019
Very happy!
Score 10 out of 10
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Blows them out of the water.
September 30, 2019
Pure delivers ease of use
It was easier to use but has fewer features. When the selection process was started, the NetApp was was still very difficult to use. The console for Pure won over the team. From a speed perspective, all of the FlashArrays are fast enough for our infrastructure and applications.
September 30, 2019
Pure FlashArray: minimal latency production workload
FlashArray provides higher throughput and less latency compared to others.
September 27, 2019
Why we switched to Pure
At first, they most of our selection criteria but were missing some key components. We could use them for specialized deployments but not shared systems. They worked with us and added the components we required and we now are moving all storage needs to Pure Storage systems. Their service team is way ahead of the others we evaluated and have done nothing but improve since we moved to Pure.
September 27, 2019
Flash our Data
HPe 3PAR is a product that tries to emulate the R/W delays times but based on standard technology. The difference for a solution natively built in all-flash technology is way better.
September 26, 2019
Pure saved my life!
We considered offerings from HP but our history with them left sour grapes so we didn't investigate their offering too deeply.
September 26, 2019
Great perormance and ease of use!
The performance of the Pure arrays is better but there is a difference in products so it is not really a fair comparison since the other arrays have some flash and some slower drives. However, we have had nothing but good experiences when dealing with support on upgrades and drive replacements.
September 26, 2019
Pure Storage is Purely magic
Flashstack and Flashblade
We wanted simplicity, without a loss in availability and functionality, and that's what we have.
September 25, 2019
Pure Is A Good Solution
- Nimble
We liked the full flash array solution that Pure offered, its performance was ideal for our use cases. However, the biggest factor (90%) of the decision to purchase Pure was that the Pure arrays came bundled with our core application server upgrade. Without this consideration we probably would have gone with Nimble, a "good enough", solution.
September 24, 2019
Once you go orange, nothing else is ever good enough!
- HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, HPE Nimble Storage and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series
These are all good systems in their own right, but there are two areas where Pure Storage FlashArray beats them all hands-down! First is management. The software interface for management and provisioning is cleaner and doesn't make one jump through complicated processes to get from point A to point B. Second is support. It is just outstanding in every way.
September 24, 2019
My new storage solution provides PURE satisfaction!
The performance of our in house storage solution on a Pure Storage FlashArray is so much better!
September 24, 2019
Our experience with Pure Storage FlashArray
September 24, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray - Easy to set up, use, and maintain.
Pure Storage FlashArray was selected for its ease of use. Aside from the GUI not being the most intuitive when you first get introduced to it, it holds up to that reputation. I do, however, enjoy other vendors approach to no expansion shelves. In the end, that ends up giving you more compute power to push those SSD's to their potential and not overgrowing the system.
September 24, 2019
Pure Magic
When comparing Pure Storage options to other major vendor's products (in as much of an apples to apples manner as possible), the Pure solution provides much greater value and return to our business.