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Pure Storage FlashArray

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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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Pure Storage FlashArray has been widely used across various industries and organizations to address a multitude of storage needs. Users …
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Popular Features

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  • Flash Array Performance (154)
    10.0
    100%
  • Simplicity (154)
    10.0
    100%
  • Non-Intrusive Upgrades (148)
    9.9
    99%
  • Data Compression (153)
    8.0
    80%

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Product Demos

Pure Storage Demo in 8 Minutes

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Demo of Pure Storage UCS Director Adapter for Creating LUNs on Pure Storage FlashArray

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Features

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.

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Product Details

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:

  • 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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FlashArray Architecture Overview
FlashArray//X: The Next Gen All-Flash Array
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Pure Storage FlashArray Integrations

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Frequently Asked Questions

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 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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
250
All of our virtual machines are on this array so each user uses it whether they know it or not. When systems work the way they are intended then users tend to ask fewer questions. We have had no major issues so users are able to do what they need to do.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
25
Direct users of the flash array are IT storage, virtualization, and monitoring teams to different extents. The arrays support around 3000 Citrix Apps and Desktop users as well as significant revenue-generating systems.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
500
We run all of our applications and databases on Pure storage. With 4 arrays in production, we are able to provide extremely fast response times to every need. For day to day management, we only have a single user (me) that manages the arrays.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
50
Mainly retail clients and VMware virtual machines to deliver cloud services.
We use the array to present storage for vSphere environment and to be able to take snapshots for backups every 2 hours.
The latency is great because we run around 7000 backups jobs per day.
Christopher Mills | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
5
The whole organization uses the Pure Storage FlashArray as it is our primary storage array for all business functions. All of our virtual environment runs on the Pure Storage FlashArray. These business functions include application analysts, DBAs, networking, client engineering, and infrastructure team members. These people support the whole IT organization, and the whole system. The four people who have direct usage of the Pure Storage FlashArray are administrators on the Infrastructure Services team.
Wes Dunaway | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
2
We have a small infrastructure team that manages the FlashArray. Its ease of use, stability, and intuitive GUI makes management a snap with very little training required to get other team members up and running. With a small company, this simplicity allows for us to cross train outside of normal infrastructure job rolls and be confident that the GUI will not overwhelm the non traditional user.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
150
Professional HR service. Talent Management, Profit Improvement, Permanent and Flexible Staffing and Technology Solutions designed to improve the productivity and performance of human capital. We run Education and Financial services as well.
IT department provided application support, Web hosting, DR and backup, web development and desktop support.

September 27, 2019

Why we switched to Pure

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
50
All of our internal business functions and all are client's environments (minus one) run on the Pure FlashArrays. We have replaced all but one array (it uses a specialized function only that manufacturer provides) for us and our clients. We will use nothing else in the future.
Bas Penris | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
125000
About 125,000 users use services that come from VMs that run on our two Pure arrays.
- Kids (40K)
- Parents (80K)
- Staff (5K)
They represent every imaginable function within society.
About 3 techs handle storage (de)provisioning and device management.
Nicolas Pla | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
500
Almost all our Infraestructure, Developments and Product people on the company use Pure Storage Flash Array. we use it to deploy development, test and for production environment all around the world in all our offices.
Also if we go more in depth, our website runs over Pure Storage FlashArray, so we can say that it is used by a lot of people
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