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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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Frequently Asked Questions

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 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Pure has greatly narrowed the performance gap between file storage and fiber channel block storage with FlashBlade. Exotic file systems and costly FC fabrics are no longer needed to run performant storage.
  • Training is not required for a storage admin who has never touched a Pure array. Everything is where you would expect to find it.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It's allowed us to better manage our usage overall for the Engineering Department.
  • We can see through the Dashboard health, capacity, quotas and that allow us to further tweak as needed in the background without a maint window and without end-user interruption.
  • We've been able to manage our growth nicely and not just throw HW to a solution. It's allowed us to better manage our computing environment and stretch our investment dollars.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Well, cost wise, the array is priced favorably against the competition.
  • On the downside we have burned a lot of man hours on integration.
  • You have to buy external software to do things that are built in to other arrays.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We were able to consolidate 5 different storage platforms of lesser performance onto a single Flashblade and achieve much, much lower latency and higher throughput.
  • We've been able to reduce the amount of training and configuration required to just Pure Flashblade, instead of 5 different vendors and products.
  • In addition to our core use cases, Flashblade has capabilities that we are pursuing for some new projects, i.e. analytics data store and the object store features.
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