Item: Pure Storage FlashArray
Rating: 10
Author: Thomas Marteau

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pure Storage FlashArray is our SAN storage array worldwide for all the sites inside the company. It solves many issues and the main one is the OpEx link to storage management. This is so easy that we prefer to have it everywhere rather than any other boxes for our sites, even the smallest.

Pros and Cons

Monitoring with Pure1
Upgrades are belonging to the past
Performance is insane
Very easy setup

Very difficult to find bad points since this product is so good... Nope, I have no Cons, can't find any! Sorry!

Return on Investment

I can't tell it is too little impact.
Users want performance, no matter what the cost is.
OpEx is so low that CapEx is not an issue.

Alternatives Considered

NetApp All Flash FAS, Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series

All those guys are losers. Definitely, there are no alternatives. This is like EV cars. You can buy whatever, but Tesla is still the reference. Spending money elsewhere is okay because rates are 0%, but this remains crazy. Why pay more for less? All the features are not as good as Pure and don't have the single pane of glass.

Likelihood to Recommend

All scenarios can be addressed now with the active cluster architecture with synchronous replication. We are using PureStorage FlashArray to handle our IO aggressive workloads that go and look for many metadata info all day long. Pure has been able to deliver increasing performance just by OS upgrades managed centrally by Pure support.

Pure... What else!

Overall Satisfaction with Pure Storage FlashArray

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Return on Investment

Alternatives Considered

Likelihood to Recommend

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