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Pure Storage FlashBlade

Pure Storage FlashBlade

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What is Pure Storage FlashBlade?

Pure Storage offers FlashBlade, a scale-out file and object storage – architected to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) while accelerating tomorrow's discoveries and insights.

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Pure Storage FlashBlade is a versatile storage solution that has been widely adopted across various industries and departments. Users have …
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7 out of 10
March 26, 2021
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashBlade is being used primarily for our research department for certain data sets. It will also be used for digital …
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What is Pure Storage FlashBlade?

Pure Storage offers FlashBlade, a scale-out file and object storage – architected to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) while accelerating tomorrow's discoveries and insights.

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Product Details

What is Pure Storage FlashBlade?

Pure FlashBlade is an all-flash storage solution for consolidating fast file and object data, designed to deliver cloud-like simplicity and agility with consistent high performance and control.

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Pure Storage offers FlashBlade, a scale-out file and object storage – architected to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) while accelerating tomorrow's discoveries and insights.

Reviewers rate FlashBlade Benefits highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Pure Storage FlashBlade are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Pure Storage FlashBlade is a versatile storage solution that has been widely adopted across various industries and departments. Users have found it particularly beneficial for storing large data sets with low latency requirements in fields such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. Additionally, it serves as backend storage for virtual machines, primarily through NFS exports, allowing for fast data transfer and secure storage capabilities.

Many organizations have leveraged FlashBlade for database backup, taking advantage of its high performance and scalability. It also proves to be an ideal backup repository for critical applications and deployments, enhancing overall system stability. Moreover, FlashBlade is utilized as a backup target for high-priority data, addressing the challenge of efficient data restoration.

In terms of analytics workloads, proof-of-concept projects are being conducted to explore the potential of FlashBlade. The software shows promise in offering robust solutions for high-performance VM storage and serving as the main storage solution in large Kubernetes deployments. It enables the running of critical workloads with high IOPS throughput and low latency while easily scaling to meet business demands.

FlashBlade offers a user-friendly interface with seamless integration with existing Amazon Web Services solutions, paving the way for easy file management and sharing within the organization. Its utilization extends to being used in conjunction with Commvault for backups, primarily connected via NFS to Windows physical machines. Moreover, it supports the entire company's backup infrastructure by acting as a repository for all production backups.

Users highly value the reliability and uptime provided by Pure Storage FlashBlade. They appreciate its easy-to-use interface, which accommodates external users seamlessly. From archiving purposes to storing large log data for security reporting and analytics, FlashBlade consistently delivers reliable and fast access to applications. It has also proven effective in research departments for storing specific datasets and in clinical departments for digital imaging storage.

Overall, Pure Storage FlashBlade presents itself as a powerful solution across multiple use cases. With its secure and high-performance features, it effectively addresses the storage needs of organizations while ensuring data security, scalability, and ease of use.

Many users have praised NVMe Flash Storage for its fast and high-performance storage capabilities, with no storage latency troubleshooting. Some reviewers were particularly impressed with the massive throughput and the ability to handle larger volumes without sacrificing low latency and high throughput. The interface of NVMe Flash Storage has been described as simple and easy to navigate by several users. They appreciated the seamless integration with important tools like AWS and support for Kubernetes, making it easy to manage and administer the system. Several reviewers have commended the reliability of NVMe Flash Storage, noting good data security measures in place. They also mentioned the ability to easily scale out. Users highlighted that this solution reduces data center footprint compared to previous storage solutions, emphasizing its energy efficiency. Overall, reviewers have consistently highlighted the fast and high-performance storage capabilities of NVMe Flash Storage, along with its simple interface and ease of navigation. The reliability, scalability, and energy efficiency of the product were also commended.

Additionally, users appreciated features such as quick upgrades with no downtime, NFS target functionality for fast connectivity, efficient installation process, good support from the team, efficient data recovery with minimal latency, S3 object support with NAS/file options, and the overall scalability and simplicity of managing the system.

Limited Demo Window: Some users have expressed frustration with the limited window provided to use the demo environment/product, which has hindered their ability to fully understand its capabilities and make an informed purchasing decision.

Learning Curve: Several reviewers have mentioned that there is a learning curve associated with the product, which can minimize the potential cost savings compared to competitors like AWS. This learning curve may require additional time and resources for training and onboarding.

High Cost: The cost of the product as a whole has been a concern for many users. They feel that it is expensive compared to other options in the market, making it less accessible for smaller businesses or those on a tight budget.

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashBlade provided a flexible and secure solution which these alternatives couldn't quite match. The simple file management system and rapid performance made this solution come out on top for us. The only real benefit over Pure Storage FlashBlade that these other solutions offer is a better pricing plan and overall lower operational costs.
Alexander Cooper | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashBlade is in our experience far faster, performance-wise, compared to its close competitors. However, if you factor in any packages you currently have with IBM or AWS for example, you can get more value for money for your data requirements. However, if performance is a must, the increased cost is not an issue.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashBlade has certainly very good high speeds when compared to its competition. Its performance is at par with the leading competitive storage solutions and in few cases even exceeds the expectations. Pure Storage FlashBlade's support of talented engineers is very helpful for any organization in the needed times.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It delivers the following, see below, and this is why it was selected as the platform of choice.
*Supports CIFS, NFS, and object
*Speed and performance
*Highly available system
*Ease of use and management
*Upgrades are online and non-disruptive
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The NetApp a800 we tested was 14% faster than Pure FlashBlade with NFS workloads. However, NetApp lacked ease of administration and performing simple tasks such as creating multiple NFS volumes required scripting from the command line. Our flashblade contained 15 baldes and our NetApp was a clustered pair with each half containing 24 nvme devices.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prior to FlashBlade, we used Avamar for our enterprise backup solution. While Avamar is a solid product, the FlashBlade provides better and more predictable stable performance. Since owning FlashBlade, we have never had any hardware issues or a drop in performance over time. It is always on, always up and always running at lightning speeds.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've used many different file storage systems in the past from various established firms. They all have their place, but in the end, I wanted a vendor and solution that was high performing, stable, cost-efficient, easy to use and manage with a Sales, Account, and Support team that was always there and onboard.
Nathan Chitwood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The main difference between them and these mentioned is pure performance. There is no comparing backup and restoration times with competitors. We are talking thrusters vs warp engines here. Data compress and dedupe was for a time when storage came at a premium. Data rehydration is simply not mentioned by competitors. They just talk about dedupe rates, and how they can keep your data safe. But, what good is safe data when you can access quickly if it compromised. Pure Storage Flashblade fixes that.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Of all the storage arrays I've used in the last 20+ years, Pure Flashblade and Flasharray are by far the simplest and easiest to configure. By miles and miles, to be frank. Additionally, performing an upgrade to software or firmware on non-Pure storage platforms in the past has been a complete crapshoot and frankly has caused significant downtime due to failed controller failovers, etc, during upgrade. My 5+ years with Pure has been completely contrary to my previous experiences, and I would recommend them on this basis alone.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Hitachi Network Attached Storage Platform (HNAS)
Pure is both more expensive and less configurable than the excellent HNAS. However, the HNAS is now dependent upon Hitachi storage. The Flashblade is a self-contained unit, which helps reduce cross-platform lock-in. It's not mandatory to have Pure block storage to use the Flashblade.
Todd Crouse | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure is easiest to install and administer making it a perfect fit for our EDA scratch environment. Pure lacks mixed mode support which forces Qualcomm to use NetApp or Isilon for any SMB environments.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We did not evaluate other options before purchasing. My personal history is mostly around personal NAS and old platter drive arrays. This thing is light years beyond. Not fair to compare older arrays versus FlashBlade.
December 22, 2018

Exceptional Product

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We considered all of the major manufacturers of storage when we were evaluating our choice of a product to replace our older storage. We considered HP, EMC, DELL, and Netapp-- all of which the team has used at various times. Interestingly enough, initially no one had experience with Pure Storage, so we had to trust the company and other reviews, and we were not disappointed.
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