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I purely love Pure Storage
March 08, 2019

I purely love Pure Storage

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Pure Storage FlashArray

The one time we've had a device failure support knew before we did, and had a replacement drive on site even before we could get anyone to the colo
Currently we use a pair of FlashArray m50s, one in our production data center and one in our DR site and replicate between the two with VMWare SRM. One of the major drivers to Pure Storage was data center space, when we migrated from an EMC VNX 5500 to a single m50 in each data center we went from around 60U of storage down to 5U.
  • High performance, we have had our arrays in place for going on two years and have yet to have a storage based performance issue.
  • Space utilization, we see an average of 3:1 reduction of all data stored on the array.
  • Excellent support, I know you hear this about a lot of companies but Pure Storage has one of the best support structures I've ever worked with.
  • I wish they had an integrated NAS solution
  • Reduced overall data center spend by allowing us to remove an entire rack
  • We have yet to see any performance issue in our virtual environment that was caused by storage
  • API integration with our backup solution decreases overall backup time
When we looked at retiring the our old VNX arrays we evaluated a lot of different solutions, but the FlashArray beat them across the board. They had the lowest price, the smallest physical footprint to data storage, and fastest time to deliver of all the products we looked at.
  • API integration with Rubrik allows for shorter backup windows and less vCenter clutter
  • SRM SRA for DR Tier 1 applications
The biggest thing for us isn't even the super high performance ( but this is awesome ) it comes down to the space reduction. We went from more than one full rack of storage to 5U. Since we rent space in a colo this was a huge savings for us, and has nearly paid for itself already.