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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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- 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.
Current available models include:
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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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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September 24, 2019
Business continuity, reduction of energy consumption and consolidation of the IT structure
Pure Storage FlashArray accelerates your mission-critical apps, eliminates data silos, and eliminates the complexity of legacy infrastructures. Get a data-centric architecture that delivers enterprise-grade reliability and automation without compromising on innovation. Optimize cloud environments with industry-leading automation, efficiency and savings through Evergreen support. There are also other relevant savings, not only of time and work but of physical space for the hardware, as well as the cutting of electricity costs.
September 21, 2019
Fast, reliable and simple. All our wishes are granted!
Kaminario was not able to achieve synchronized replication, Pure Storage FlashArray did with their active cluster. On speed tests, Pure was with contest again HPE 3PAR FullFlash. And lastly, Evergreen support contract sealed the final decision.
September 20, 2019
Great Enterprise Storage Solution
Pure has better granularity and the data reduction rates are much better on Pure than on this product. XtremeIO had faster sequential read/write operations.
September 20, 2019
Pure Storage has simplified my life
Score 10 out of 10
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Pure Storage is just simple and it just works.
September 20, 2019
Best Storage Performance
It is repetitive, better performance, better cost, better deduplication, simplicity in administration, etc.
September 20, 2019
PUREWORLD
EMC XtremIO, but PURE storage is still the best array tested so far insterm of its architecture.
September 20, 2019
Pure Storage is the best storage in the industry
Simple to use. Salespeople are great. Less pressure from the Pure Sales team and they are easy to work with.
September 20, 2019
Everything we expected and more
Pure Support is nine million times better than EMC ever was! And that is probably an understatement.
September 20, 2019
FlashArray changed our performance goals
Our previous solution was also flash but had nowhere near the amount of speed and usability that FlashArray has.
September 18, 2019
How Pure Storage made my job easier
There is no comparison to Pure Storage vs. EMC. EMC requires forklift upgrades and their maintenance fees are very expensive. With Pure's flash guarantee, you always keep the storage you paid for and if you keep under maintenance with Pure, you will receive new storage processors every 3 years (when you buy 3 years of maintenance up front)
September 18, 2019
Don'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.
We considered Nutanix HyperConverged systems, EMC XtremIO, NetApp SolidFire; evaluated HP Nimble All Flash & Hybrid, NetApp AFF series and VMware vSAN. The former 3 were ruled out for being too expensive and in some cases offering too little for too much money. The later did give a tough fight on paper but once you see the system, the choice was clear. HP Nimble too made a lot of sense and was also a little cheaper to buy but not TCO wise.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Our only comparison is to fixed disk storage. The Pure were our first foray into a SAN solution. We looked at EMC, and other hyper converged storage solutions but no one compared, especially in providing a long term solution.
September 13, 2019
Why to choose Pure Storage
We use multiple vendors and used Pure Storage FlashArray to support a very high IOPS application.
September 13, 2019
Storage that I never have to think about.
Not had any need to look into alternatives as we are very happy with our storage arrays and, thanks to EverGreen controller refreshes we hopefully won't need to look elsewhere any time soon. The only other storage we use is cheaper bulk spinning disk storage for non-critical media content and backups. Not surprisingly, the cheaper storage can't really hold a candle to the Pure Storage arrays.
September 13, 2019
Pure performance. Pure reliability. Pure.
We've used EMC (VNX 7200 and 5400), IBM (XIV, v7000, v5000, and DS8100) and NetApp (IBM nSeries 6240 and 3220). None of the others have the reliability and performance of the Pure system. Beyond that, Pure's support has been second to none.
September 10, 2019
Where 911 calls when they need help.
We reviewed and demoed 2 other leading competitors before making our decision to buy a Pure Storage array.
September 09, 2019
Pure Storage - the best storage ever
The simplicity of management was the primary factor in the decisions.
September 09, 2019
Pure... What else!
All those guys are losers. Definitely, there are no alternatives. This is like EV cars. You can buy whatever, but Tesla is still the reference. Spending money elsewhere is okay because rates are 0%, but this remains crazy. Why pay more for less? All the features are not as good as Pure and don't have the single pane of glass.
September 09, 2019
I like Pure Storage way too much
FlashArray just works. They set it up with us and it works. The interface is simple. Things are easy to do. We use it as a backend for VMware and sometimes as a backend for Linux-HA-based NFS/SMB serving. It's just there and easy. IBM's V7000 was cool but required figuring out and not everything always made sense. Netapp 7-mode and Cluster-mode both have a lot to go to get simplicity, though they really support CIFS well. If you are looking for a CIFS NAS, look at NetApp or Pure Storage FlashBlade, or frontend a FlashArray with a Linux server or two if you have the know-how.
September 09, 2019
Low latency, High Availability and High Speed Storage Solution
We used to have Violin which definitely is very fast, but it is just not very pleasant to use. The performance was a little better with Violin, but the support and features didn't stack up. We also use Netapp FAS for file shares and non-critical workloads, here Netapp has more features, also very good availability, but it loses in speed and wasn't usable for our latency-sensitive application.
September 09, 2019
Pure Storage as your enterprise storage solution
Not really comparable but the footprint is much lower and storage density is much higher per rack unit.
September 07, 2019
More Power with Pure Storage
Simple, quick, and reliable.
September 07, 2019
Pure Storage provides an all-around positive experience!
We did a bake off between the (then) EMC array and Pure Storage. Pure's active/passive infrastructure meant that recovery time from a major hardware failure such as a controller failure was measured in seconds. The EMC array took much longer to recover, and we didn't see the same kind of performance while in an error state.
Having the VPLEX be the storage interface between all our arrays was nice because some systems required different performance and capacities and it was the single pane of glass. Since the Pure Storage FlashArray offered us the same single pane of glass, the performance improved and it did such a great job at deduping and compressing our data, we no longer needed to set up a multi-tiered storage solution.
September 06, 2019
My Pure Storage FlashArray five year (so far) journey
We originally purchased one Pure Storage FlashArray and one XtremIO X-Brick. When we needed an additional array, we added a second Pure Storage FlashArray. When the XtremIO X-Brick came up for its first warranty renewal after the block of support originally purchased with the storage we opted to retire the X-Brick and purchase a third FlashArray. The simplicity of management was the primary factor in these decisions.