All flash storage for all-round workload
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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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January 04, 2024
All flash storage for all-round workload
- Improve speed of business process
- Reduce time to market
- Improve Internal efficiency
August 30, 2021
Pure Flash always gets you there in time
- Seamless integration really takes the big screen.
- Speed on the vCenter cluster storage backend really was something everybody should have.
- The simplicity on getting deployed on a single work day is awesome.
June 21, 2021
Orange is Pure and Pure is Pure :-)
- Positive impact is the cost savings on the SQL licensing due to the performance gain
- Negative impact is the array itself is very expensive
June 15, 2021
Pure offers the best-in-class all-flash storage array with ease of uses and hands off management that you need
- We basically handed off support to Pure themselves so that already frees up a lot of our engineers' time.
- The contract was based on the previous storage solution, so Pure had to throw in some extra storage for free which obviously adds value to the solution.
- We never have storage performance issues.
- The array was set it and forget it, admin time can be spent on other areas of the business.
June 08, 2021
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- Pure Storage FlashArray has a very positive impact on IOPS of very critical workloads.
- Data reduction feature helped us to offload more data.
- Integration of Pure Storage with SRM helped us reduce RPO and RTO.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- Initial procurement costs were high, but it was expected since we were replacing all of our storage arrays at all the datacenters. Pure was very aggressive in pricing to make sure we were able to replace our environment with enough space to grow
Score 10 out of 10
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- Positive - Long-running jobs take less time with AFA
- Positive - no longer have to spend time looking at disk performance when events happen, it's rarely a storage issue these days.
- About 30% reduction in database backup times.
- Sustained latency below 1 ms with 1.5 GB / s load
- Good performance with data from diverse sources
April 01, 2021
Pure Storage FlashArray Review
- Scalability.
- Reliable.
March 30, 2021
Orange is the new Flash
- Our marketing and system reporting has greatly improved since we have installed our database VMs onto the Pure array.
March 26, 2021
Pure Storage FlashArray Review
- It has helped us to cut down on our processing time for all transactions, allowing our users to get to the next customer quicker.
March 26, 2021
Pure Storage is simple to use, implement and manage.
- The most positive impact has been the predictability of support costs beyond the 3-year mark. One year of EMC support after year 5 on our previous array was more expensive than THREE YEARS on our Pure Storage M20 (now and M50) array, AND it included the new controllers at the beginning of year 4.
- Reduction in power consumption for heating/cooling of the data center as well as general power just to run the array has also been a massive improvement since moving to all-flash with Pure.
March 25, 2021
5 years with Pure Storage FlashArray
- The level of data reduction that we saw with our VDI workloads exceeded expectations and brought down the per/GB cost of the disk even lower than anticipated, resulting in greater cost savings over our previous storage solution.
- Better visibility to our workload in terms of performance, growth, etc.
- Evergreen controller upgrade was performed with zero downtime and extended the useful life of our system.
March 25, 2021
Pure Storage Flash in a Flash
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- N/A - do not have visibility to commercials
- N/A - do not have visibility to commercials
March 24, 2021
Pure Storage Flash Array for the Win
- We can run more VMS and containers with better performance than on our previous SANs.
- We can utilize more databases, especially replicated, as the dedup and compression are amazing.
- We spend less time managing the SAN than ever before.
March 24, 2021
Ultra Fast Array with Simple UI
- 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.
March 23, 2021
Pure Storage is a leader in the all flash array market.
- We have been able to expand our storage at a great cost savings and still benefit from SSD speeds
March 23, 2021
My Pure Storage Experience
- [Pure Storage has turned] days and hours into seconds and minutes. We are dramatically more productive from development to servicing our clients.
- Consistent costs.
- No down time for upgrades and maintenance.
March 23, 2021
PURE PODs - not just for eating
- We are looking to move the rest of our data load onto Pure in the coming months, allowing us to save on large maintenance contracts from our previous storage vendor.
- Lessens storage administration overhead through its simplicity.
- Users in our Tier1 application notice the performance increase instantly. Happy customers are priceless.
March 23, 2021
Pure Storage as one of the best Storage Arrays
- The offer is completed always.
March 23, 2021
Pure Storage FlashArray.. Its time to get on board
- It was massively cheaper than the old guard, EMC, HP, IBM. And has performed as well if not better than their much more expensive products.
March 23, 2021
Pure is simple and effective
- Moving from a NetApp NFS (HDD) back end VM storage repositories, we were able to dramatically reduce our hardware footprint while replacing with faster and better storage.
- Flash storage has increased the stability of our entire environment as a whole and the FlashArray has dramatically reduced the amount of time and effort required to maintain the storage environment in particular.
- Based on our calculations ROI is going to be better than with Dell EMC, HPE 3Par assuming we keep it for more than 4 years.