We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and Pure Storage FlashArray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage Arrays solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is straightforward."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"Support has been helpful."
"The scalability is good."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"Technical support is good."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"I wouldn't say I like anything about this solution. We are looking for a replacement with Dell EMC and Pure Storage. Tegile's performance, support, and features are horrible. It's going down. Multiple companies have bought it. It looked okay at one point in time, like four years ago. Even though it wasn't one of the best, it still looked okay. Since the management has changed several times, it looks like it's going down the drain. Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months. It would be better if they improved the codebase. We have issues very often with their code, and I think that is the main pain point. The hardware is also horrible because we have either a controller failure or a SATADOM failure very often. Now and then, we also have a disc failure. They have to get their act together. They have to make sure their hardware is robust, they have to make sure their code is good, and then we can think about new features and functionality. First, make the unit run properly, and then we can think about additions. Obviously, their support has to be knowledgeable. Because when I told them, "we have latency issues, come troubleshoot it for us," nobody came. But if we tell them that "we need to do a firmware upgrade," then they are like, "okay. Let's do a firmware upgrade." They will come to do the firmware upgrade, and then they will go. But with the firmware upgrades, you might never know when it works properly and when it doesn't work properly. If there is a disc that needs to be replaced, and we ask them to replace it, they'll say, "okay, just share the remote station with us, and we'll run some commands, and we'll validate which disc is faulty. If it's really faulty, we will send the disc. We do that, and then they find the faulty disc and send a replacement. They will do these minor things. But that's not what we are looking for. We are looking for more features and more functionality. Like if there is latency, try to help us out and help the customer find where the latency is. It doesn't necessarily have to be only with SAN storage. It might be a configuration issue, or it might be something else. So, you should help the customer find where the issue is. Unfortunately, that is not what we are getting from them. So they have to improve that a lot."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"The price should be lower."
"The file functionality could be better."
"Automation could be simplified."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 28th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 2 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 45 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 4.0, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "A unified flash storage solution with poor performance, support, and features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Provides protection against ransomware threats with immutable snapshots, and it is well known for its scalability, ease of use, and non-disruptive upgrades". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with Tintri VMstore, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), HPE Nimble Storage and Dell Unity XT, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), IBM FlashSystem, VMware vSAN and HPE Nimble Storage. See our DDN IntelliFlash vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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