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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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September 24, 2019
Once you go orange, nothing else is ever good enough!
- We have consolidated several monolithic storage systems into FlashArray, reducing capital costs.
- We have improved our data protection with snapshots and Active Cluster
- We have replace a complicated replication process, understood by only one person, with an easier process of replicated snapshots for remote replication.
September 24, 2019
My new storage solution provides PURE satisfaction!
- We're standing this up against our cloud-based storage/infrastructure and using it for better performance.
September 24, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray - Easy to set up, use, and maintain.
- The in-line deduplication and compression help bring this array to a competitive price per effective terabyte.
- The evergreen upgrades allow for data in place migrations without having to have storage virtualization or hypervisors do the migrations
- The controllers are expensive, so it may be difficult to justify a new pure vs. adding expansion shelves. Again, adding shelves might not be the right move based on workload.
September 24, 2019
Pure Magic
- The ROI on Pure Storage FlashArray can be measured in two ways. As far as the financial return based on a comparison to other possible storage array purchases, Pure provides high value and very quick returns on the financial investment. But also, in terms of the return of quality, Pure was extremely easy to implement and the value of the performance gains that we saw in our applications was noticeable and significant.
September 24, 2019
Business continuity, reduction of energy consumption and consolidation of the IT structure
- Compression of data processing times of 80%.
- Reduction in physical space occupied went from 20 racks to 2 units.
- Automatic update of the solution, with monitored performance.
September 21, 2019
Fast, reliable and simple. All our wishes are granted!
- Negative: Growth steps.
- Positive: Data reduction allow us to welcome quite all new projects (even urgent surprise ones).
- Postive: Evergreen gold support contract, with controller renew.
September 20, 2019
Great Enterprise Storage Solution
- Eliminated storage related downtime, scheduled and unscheduled.
- Reporting runs much faster.
- Evergreen eliminated all upgrade related activities. No storage migrations after Pure was introduced.
- Increased costs for maintenance.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- Positive: The initial purchase left some wondering will it be worth it, but years down the road it was clearly the correct decision.
September 20, 2019
Pure Storage has simplified my life
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- Uptime, we have had no issues
- Upgrades are simple and seamless
- New controller upgrades every 3 years means we are no longer retiring storage at 5 years, we get a new array every 3 years.
September 20, 2019
Best Storage Performance
- Positive impact in a great performance
- Positive impact in simple administration
- Good integration with Cisco servers
September 20, 2019
PUREWORLD
September 20, 2019
Pure Storage is the best storage in the industry
- It provides us dedupe and compression at a low cost
- Because of all-flash we are saving on power
- All SSD so it uses less data center space and cooling
September 20, 2019
Everything we expected and more
- We saved money upfront to the tune of $300K.
- Their excellent support (as compared to Dell EMC’s pitiful support) saves man hours.
- We will be able to extend our product life beyond the normal five-year mandatory refresh.
September 20, 2019
FlashArray changed our performance goals
- Not sure of this information yet.
September 18, 2019
How Pure Storage made my job easier
- Huge positive ROI on all business objectives. It gave us more performance and space that was promised.
- No more balancing out which apps get more performance or expensive disk than others.
- So easy to manage, it almost doesn't need to be.
September 18, 2019
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- Faster performance aided the user experience
- Data reduction enables continued updating of software without adding storage
- Updating Pure Storage without business operation interference during business hours is beneficial
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.
- Out business projects have accelerated like never before. We have great confidence that the storage system is modular (thereby not making us spend huge amounts of money for each expansion) and that our investment is protected well in the long run due to the very long support life of the products while keeping the maintenance cost filed/flat.
- Our virtualization environment is now running so much smoother and we reduced almost 20% of compute capacity/resource utilization right after we moved datastores to Pure FlashArray.
- We moved from 2 hybrid storage systems of half a rack each to 3U with half capacity filled, reduced latency 10-15 times (depending on which application and which storage system the application moved from), reduced purchase costs and maintenance costs by at least 25% compared to alternatives evaluated.
- As a negative impact, the IT infrastructure team is now dealing with more business projects and is much busier delivering those projects instead of troubleshooting performance issues or attending constant meetings explaining why we can't take on a project or calculating how much investment is needed for infrastructure for a new project.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- Being public sector we really have no way to measure ROI. Our cost benefit analysis showed that the Evergreen Maintenance program blew any other solution away by keeping our arrays current with the latest technology and by keeping costs predictable.
- It has removed storage as a pain point for our data center.
September 16, 2019
Excellent solution across many different workloads and verticals
- Ease of implementation and straightforward interfaces make it an appliance-like product; no need for specialized engineers.
September 16, 2019
Experience Pure with a pure sense of humor
- Positive with its unexpected performance factor and simple management concept.
- Negative : Can integrate more features.
September 13, 2019
Why to choose Pure Storage
- It had a positive impact as it solved our latency issue.
September 13, 2019
Storage that I never have to think about.
- Not had a single outage caused by the Pure Storage arrays going down. Great controller redundancy even means that the Purity software updates have no impact on live and the support staff always do thorough checks before and after the upgrades.
September 13, 2019
Pure performance. Pure reliability. Pure.
- Everything has been positive. When we first got Pure Storage and started testing various workloads on it, the questions from the DBA's and the various application owners were "when can we move production over?" Processes that use to take 2 weeks (e.g. SAP system copies) were reduced by half, saving developer time and provided improved performance in every workload we've moved over to Pure. Some improvements have been significant, others minor, but adding it all up, we're sure that it's made a noticeable impact on the business.
- With the 100% uptime we've had (from a storage perspective) Pure has provided a significant ROI. One of our previous arrays had a critical fix early in its life and we had to shut down our VMware environment at one of our sites for the vendor to patch the system; we had to shut down hundreds of VM's supporting dozens of business applications affecting various portions of our global environment. Not so with Pure Storage FlashArray.
September 11, 2019
Fast, easy, and reliable
- I am unable to speak on ROI specifics. Pure Storage came in with a more competitive price and has also outperformed that vendor.
September 10, 2019
Where 911 calls when they need help.
- The amount of data that can be stored, compressed, and de-duplicated means your investment stretches very far.
- The non-intrusive upgrades mean little to no downtime for software upgrades, keeping out business running 24/7.