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Pure Storage FlashArray

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)
    10.0
    100%
  • 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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Avg 9.1
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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.

Pure Storage FlashArray Videos

FlashArray Architecture Overview
FlashArray//X: The Next Gen All-Flash Array
FlashArray Architecture Deep Dive Highlights

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 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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Reviews and Ratings

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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
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Verified User
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Yes
We replaced our Dell EMC, we were ahead of schedule when it comes to the usage on the EMC. We had to make a decision on what to do and this by far made the most sense and it has paid off significantly. I would absolutely do it again.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Yes
For quite sometime we were thinking of what would we do with our slowly aging Dell Equallogic arrays. Even though Dell was saying that we can reply on Equallogic for years to come, we were convinced that Dell (similar to HP) do not have clearly defined storage strategy, instead they just buy potentially successful competitors with the idea to either migrate to their products or to kill their products. This is frustrating, as no matter what they say about their bright future at the time when you shop for storage, in 2-3 years it turns out that whatever they sold you, have no future at all.

This is different with Pure Storage. We feel that it is a long-term relationship, and that we will not be left on a side of the road.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Yes
Our first (of two) Pure arrays replaced an aging VNX/Clariion array with spinning disks. The array had reach end-of-support and could not be put in a front-line usage scenario as it also had disks starting to fail randomly. Sizing the new array was the most challenging aspect, and that's only because we had to estimate the actual raw storage that would be required due to inline deduplication and compression. IOPs are no longer a concern; VMware environment supported by this array doesn't come close to taxing this piece of hardware, which greatly simplifies our expansion plans.
September 27, 2019

Why we switched to Pure

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Yes
We replace Netapps FAS storage systems. They did not provide the density or features we needed for the future. They are using outdated technology in their flash systems and their service group of late has been lacking.
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