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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)
    9.9
    99%
  • 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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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
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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 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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TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The proactive support from Pure1 ensures that we are always running a healthy array. This is an excellent feature that is missing on most or all of other vendors offerings.
Their proactive support will call or email you when an issue is detected, schedule a software upgrade during your outage window, and give advice on the software version to upgrade to.
July 24, 2019

My Pure M20 Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support has been excellent with the majority of calls being logged proactively as a result of monitoring. For customer logged issues, the response has been good with the account team providing any additional support or escalation as needed.
Bas Penris | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've never ever met a support department that's so easy to communicate with. One downside is that, like dozens of other big vendors, it's impossible for communication to keep being CCed to colleagues, which is highly annoying. I don't know if they've noticed but the year is 2019 and losing the CCed addressees is not of this time. That's the only reason they're not getting 10/10 points.
February 15, 2019

Pure Flash Goodness

Chris Schott | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Only rarely have they had issues, or things gone sideways, or there being an engineer on the call who missed a key feature or step. We then work with support to address that issue, and it doesn't happen again.
Edmund Joseph Tynan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's a quantum leap in storage technology. I will be absolutely honest in that I was highly skeptical that the Pure Storage FlashArray would be able to offer the advertised IOPS and data deduplication, but Pure backs it up with a guarantee - if you don't hit the promised duplication storage ratio, they will provide increased storage *for free*. We had nothing to lose by going with Pure, and if any of it was true, we'd stand to gain a lot. Well, it was true, and we did!
January 25, 2019

Storage that just goes.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure support has generally been proactive with upgrades and responsive to tickets. We haven't really had much trouble so our sample size is small. We did have some local rep turnover though.
Aaron Bryant | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage is nothing short of fantastic, even in the event their storage is not an issue if you have an issue with VMware they will be there to support you and assist VMware in any way possible. Their support is second to none in my experience and incredibly valuable when required.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I give their support a solid 10. They have been one of the most responsive, supportive and understanding support systems I've had the pleasure of working with. Their engineers are first-class and provide deep levels of insight into capacity and growth planning, working with us to predict usage, overlay multiple metrics and determine a final answer to which FlashArray fits our needs. There is no guess-work, just solid fact-based answers.
January 24, 2019

Pure Gold

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Online firmware upgrades are just a matter of emailing support with the date and time you wish ... yes, you can do it at 2pm on your busiest day, believe me, and support will remotely download the firmware in preparation for the upgrade. Then when the day comes, sit back and relax, everything is taken care of.
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