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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.
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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- 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
Pure Storage: Feel the Speed
- The impact on ROI has been positive since it allowed us to reduce time to make commercial decisions that had an effect on increasing sales.
- The impact was positive since having certainty of the maintenance costs and from the fourth year it becomes fixed and at the same time keep the equipment updated. that's of great value
May 20, 2020
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- Higher performance out of our servers because of the all-flash array.
- Was able to quickly add more storage without any configuration changes.
May 20, 2020
Pure Storage is the best!
- It has mostly positive impact on our business objectives
- We greatly improved our ROI
- Due to accelerate our Web hosting we received lot's of positive feedbacks
May 20, 2020
The little array that could
- Very little management after initial setup.
- It is quite expensive, so we haven't noticed an ROI on hardware costs, but many less man hours are required to manage the FlashArrays.
- The performance provided using a FlashArray over legacy SAN, is probably the biggest ROI we see.
- The minimal amount of space required of a Flash Array saves on data enter rack space.
May 19, 2020
Pure Storage is good!
- Great ROI on our FlashArrays.
May 19, 2020
One of the only vendors whose claims of hidden magical knowledge have stood the test of time!
- It has simplified imaging.
- It has improved VM reliability and performance.
- I am a sourcing partner, so ROI I am not aware of.
- Most of our source data is using Pure Storage
- The array is fairly new so we haven't seen a quantitative ROI yet.
- Currently exceeding business expectations on performance and reliability.
- The Pure arrays allowed us to consolidate from over 30-40 mixed vendor arrays to under 10 flash arrays, saving costs on support contracts.
- The Pure Arrays allowed us to offer modern, high tier storage offerings to new and existing customers, making us look more attractive to new customers and also increase contract spend on existing customers.
- The Pure Arrays allowed us to simplify our infrastructure offerings and allowed more employees to be able to effectively maintain the hardware.
December 06, 2019
Once you go Orange, you never go back!
Score 10 out of 10
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- We have replace a complicated replication process, understood by only one person, with an easier process of replicated snapshots for remote replication.
- We have consolidated several monolithic storage systems into FlashArray, reducing capital costs.
- We have improved our data protection with snapshots and Active Cluster.
November 14, 2019
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Score 10 out of 10
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- I don't worry about the system as much as I worry about our other storage solutions. It allows me to focus more on the other systems and spend less time worrying about the other.
November 12, 2019
Believe what they say...You won't be sorry.
- Quick turnaround times on VM deployment.
- 0 downtime for updates.
October 31, 2019
Pure storage, set up in a Flash.
- Due to the lack of necessity of a storage admin, that has been a huge impact on things.
- Not needing to be so involved with upgrades and how seamless everything is makes things so much easier
- There have been zero issues so luckily, knock on wood, we have yet to have any issues whatsoever from the product!
October 29, 2019
Pure Storage Array is a game changer for us
- It has allowed us to better manage our resources, and we've been able to dedicate fewer man hours to the projects where PS FA is our main storage device.
October 04, 2019
Very happy!
Score 10 out of 10
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- Custom tools to speed up certain SAP environment transactions has saved a man month of activities
- The on-demand performance to meet our highest transactional loads
- The reduction of man hours for day-to-day management and monitoring
September 30, 2019
Pure delivers ease of use
- Density is amazing. The array is half the size of our old array
- It no longer takes a team of people to manage and maintain
September 30, 2019
Pure FlashArray: minimal latency production workload
- High ROI
- Suited for colocation datacenters
September 27, 2019
Why we switched to Pure
- Return on investment has been great, lowering management costs and providing greater storage efficiencies.
- System reliability is awesome. We have several FlashArrays and very few hardware failures; something like 4 drives in 4 years, and no controller issues.
- No negative impacts with these systems for us at all.
September 27, 2019
Flash our Data
- FlashArray is helping a lot with the recurrent cost of operation. It's a very compact unit, using less space & power consumption than equivalents solutions.
September 26, 2019
Pure saved my life!
- We used to run an HP LeftHand P4000 SAN which had more problems more often than not. We have not had a single issue with our Pure SANs in the 5 years we have had them. So from the business objective of uptime and uninterrupted working, Pure wins hands down.
- We do a lot of intensive SQL work and Pure has enabled us to be more productive in terms of database restores and testing environments as restoring LUNs from snapshots and having them take up no more disk space is invaluable for us.
September 26, 2019
Great perormance and ease of use!
- Thanks to the deduplication that is built into the product we are seeing great reduction in total space required by consolidating similar data types on the same array.
- Our users are very pleased with the performance.
- The replication allowed us to move our workload from to another data center with minimal downtime.
September 26, 2019
Pure Storage is Purely magic
- Employee satisfaction improves.
- No disruptive upgrades - huge savings in management cost.
- Since we installed Pure, the number of storage related problems has dropped significantly.
September 25, 2019
Pure Is A Good Solution
- Unknown. I don't have access to the budget.
September 25, 2019
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- Having Pure Storage's evergreen maintenance has enabled us to keep the array up to current spec by just renewing annual maintenance.