My Pure Storage Experience

When you need speed, it's FAST, especially for MS SQL databases. If you are having bottlenecks, you can spend your time finding it in the code because it's not Pure Storage. Love the data reduction and duplication. We can store so much more on this unit than the base physical size. Love the data snapshots. When you need to complete copy your entire environment for testing etc. Nothing is easier, a few clicks and you are done. Extremely helpful for testing and training.

Simple to renew and to upgrade. Zero down time, no speed issues during changes / upgrades. Evergreen service makes budgeting and cost controls reliable and predictable.

Just works and Pure did all the work.

Excellent training and really you don't need that much. We received training at the Pure offices and also on site when the product was installed.
Simple things like how to login to the GUI interface, how to setup users, how to create volume and mount it. How to make a snapshot, how to copy it and mount it.

Really is pretty self explanatory on how to do things with the GUI interface.

We were expecting complicated base on other vendor products, we got super simple.

Great videos and documentation. There is a common theme with PureStorage, "Keep it elegantly simple". They have great support network and great support user groups. Documentation has been very helpful with providing auditors with methods and procedures on security and other ways the product works. Great documentation on setting PureStorage to be the most effective with VM's, SQL Server, and other products.

It took like 15 minutes for the product to be configured. So simple. Once we started using the GUI interface we quickly with just a few clicks were able to setup our networking, volumes, etc. Snapshots and scheduling are so easy. We were able to concentrate on our needs and not worry about how we need to "configure" the device for performance. It takes the worry out of "am I doing this right"

Never had an issue. Support is proactive in many cases. Complete follow through from beginning to end.

Turnkey product. Setup was done in minutes, easy GUI interface. You don't have to get caught up in dealing with the usual storage concerns like load balancing, volume issues etc.

We have been able to expand our storage without any interruptions. We have been able to setup replication between 2 Pure devices with no issues.

We have never had an outage with Purestorage. Yes we have had 2 drives go out but replacements were installed so fast there wasn't any issues. We have had a NVRAM module replaced but were noticed from Pure they were sending a replacement because they were predicting a failure so pure was proactive preventing any issues. Knowing Pure is monitoring our device 24x7 gives us peace of mind.

Performance is blazing fast. When we have performance issues, we now don't waste time "thinking" it's storage but instead spend the correct time tracing the issue back to a coding issue. What we were not expecting was how fast we could snap our entire environment and mount it for other testing and use. This process has completely changed how we can develop, trouble shoot and deliver faster and more reliable products.

Everything is easy

Can't say enough good things about the Vendor. They were patient, answered our questions. Allowed up to visit their support facilities. Allowed us to talk to other customers and get their honest reviews of PureStorage. We spent a significate amount of time due diligence in review PureStorage before our purchase. Many things Pure told us we took with a grain of salt but they have turned out to be much more that we expected.

We continue to be treated like we are their only client. Concerned about any issues we may have. Always wanting to make our experience the best. During the upgrade process, they wanted to make sure they were meeting our needs and not just doing a "renewal". I've always had a good experience with them.