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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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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 25, 2019
FlashArray for the Performance Oriented.
- We've seen a great ROI on our FlashArrays, along side an easy-to-swallow upgrade path that has helped us grow without overspending.
January 24, 2019
Pure Gold
- Able to capitalise the cost longer as avoiding forklift upgrades.
- Able to run guest VM databases, which were struggling under tiered storage, so now on path to 100% virtualised infrastructure.
- iSCSI has meant storage can be shared easily across network.
January 23, 2019
Don't drink the kool aid
- As a mentioned before they'll give you a great price to get in the door and then when you have to expand you'll be surprised by how much it costs.
January 22, 2019
Pure Storage The Best Of The Best
- Because of the speed and less issues, our customers have been happy with not having slowness or timing out because of low latency.
January 10, 2019
Another happy customer with Pure Storage
- We now spend very little time troubleshooting storage issues so we have more time for other initiatives.
- When the arrays need an upgrade, support contacts us and works with us after hours which ensures productivity during the business day.
January 10, 2019
Flash Array delivers storage space and new opportunities!
- Less than a year after commissioning our Pure Storage FlashArray solution, we were able to deliver 5 new applications and implement/redeploy more than 10 services, services orchestration, DevOps tools, and so on.
- We were able to adopt a fully digital business process, eliminating printer, paper consumption by more than 80%.
January 08, 2019
Very happy with our FlashArray
- The performance had really helped our day to day business processes. Run time of daily processing jobs has reduced significantly.
- The dedupe and compression have really helped with the amount of storage buys we have had to do over the last 4 years. We have a lot of headroom for growth with the amount of raw storage we have purchased.
- The Pure Storage FlashArray has not had a single second of downtime in the 4 years we have had it. This kind of reliability is almost unheard of.
January 08, 2019
Pure is a no-brainer choice for storage.
- We are a government organization so no return on investment. It has helped with our budget leaving money for other projects.
January 08, 2019
Pure Storage is a solid performer!
- Pure Storage FlashArray has allowed us to shatter our transaction records for some of our busiest events with ease.
January 08, 2019
Love Pure Storage!!
- The ROI is phenomenal when factoring in the Gold support, even stretching your total cost of ownership out to 7 years or so. The new hardware every 3 years is great.
January 07, 2019
I Love My Pure!!!!!
- The biggest positive impact Pure has had on our organization was providing disaster recovery after Hurricane Irma. Thanks to Pure our users never experienced any downtime after Irma even though we had an entire campus go down.
December 27, 2018
Excellent storage solution
- Excellent data compression so a lot of similar data can be deduplicated
- Multiple data base copies for different environments
December 14, 2018
Pure from the beginning and for the foreseeable future.
- Reduced processing times on complex calculations that run on SQL providing more instantaneous access to sales data.
- In-house applications that are customer facing respond significantly faster.
December 12, 2018
Very happy customer - would recommend Pure Storage if needed for high performance applications
- Negative Impact is the price of the array
- Positive impact is that you get a controller refresh every 3 years
December 12, 2018
Pure Storage FlashArray - You Can't Go Wrong!
- Due to the snapshot capability of the arrays, we are now exceeding our turn-around time for refreshing application environments.
- Due to the speed of the array, we are now exceeding our reporting deadlines.
December 11, 2018
Quick and easy!
- Took down time of hypervisors to seconds.
December 11, 2018
Nothing is more expensive than regret, and you will NOT regret this!
- ROI? There is nothing more expensive than regret. We tried the Unity route and after the lawyers got involved, EMC bought it back from us.
- The most positive impact has been my morale. I no longer have nightmares of calling support and waiting for them to blow our SLA on a return call.
December 11, 2018
Great product, great team - you won't be disappointed.
- Amazing. Users don't notice, but the response time really makes them happy.
- Creating VMs is lighting fast now.
- Support has been loads better than anything we've experienced.
December 11, 2018
Great Product and Company!
- Extremely easy to learn and maintain
December 07, 2018
It's really as good as they say!
- We now spend less time managing storage.
- Upgrades are hassle-free. Pure support handles the upgrades and lets us know when they are complete.
- We now have better reporting and metrics for our storage infrastructure.
December 07, 2018
Pure is fantastic enterprise storage.
- Our business can very easily estimate how much money we lose for every minute of downtime. Pure helps us eliminate storage as a cause of this.
- Fast throughput gives us the ability to move workloads around quickly to adapt to business needs.
December 05, 2018
Pure Storage FlashArray quick review
- We have about 5 to 1 data reduction rate since Pure Storage always has Dedup and compression enabled. This means that we can put more data on the storage.
November 30, 2018
Pure Storage Array Review
- A single Pure Array was able to replace multiple other storage arrays, allowing for consolidation.
November 28, 2018
Better, Fast and Simple
- One positive impact we had was that it saves time for some end users to complete their task faster, making them more productive in the same amount of time.
- Another positive impact we had - we were able to migrate an application from physical to a virtual server, that we could not run on a VM before Pure, because of the latency and speed. This freed up IT resources for managing a stand-alone physical server.
- We have reduced time to production as our testing goes quicker on Pure.
- Our RTO and RPO times have been reduced by the ability to mount snaps much quicker in the event of a disaster.
- There has been no negative effect on our ROI.