DDN IntelliFlash vs Reduxio [EOL] comparison

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Everpure FlashArray

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Sowjanya MV

Technical Lead at Wipro Limited

Has improved performance for mission-critical workloads and enabled seamless non-disruptive upgrades

The availability is 99.99%, which is the main factor any customer would need because their data should be available whenever they want to access it. This is one main critical thing. It is very easy to upgrade since Pure Storage FlashArray handles it well. Everything is non-disruptive now; previously, there were forklift shifts, but now that is not the case. Pure Storage FlashArray says no to forklift upgrades. Usually hardware requires downtime, but Pure Storage FlashArray has improved their footprint so that they are not asking for downtime; everything is just a non-disruptive activity, which is why customers are more inclined towards Pure Storage FlashArray. Customers want more of the models in their environment due to the performance they are giving, and everything is in one Pure1 Array console where we can view all the models on one page or just an orchestration tool. You don't miss anything; you have replication, notifications about replication, and details about which host groups replication is happening in and if that replication is successful or failed. On a daily basis, our purpose is to create volumes for infrastructure; our daily activities include creating volumes and mapping them to the host, doing any migrations from a VM, clearing the data stores, and carving the volumes to those VMs. One key factor is the data compression with a ratio of 5:1, focusing on space efficiency, inline deduplication, and the compression Pure Storage FlashArray works on; that is a major factor we can suggest to any customer. Analytical capabilities are crucial. Daily, we check the throughput and consumption, and Pure Storage FlashArray provides predictions for one year regarding usage. This prediction helps plan updates well ahead. For support, we just raise a case, and they follow up and get it done. There is also AI readiness, but with the model R2, we don't have much of that AI readiness. For others, we do have AI readiness that predicts capacity based on daily or monthly trends, enabling us to analyze how much space we need or if we need to expand the disk shelf. From an operational point of view, a good feature is that if you accidentally delete a volume, it will be retained in the destroyed state for the next twenty-four hours, which is not the same with any other vendor. I have worked in this storage domain for the past fifteen years, and this option is remarkable, benefiting any L1 or L2 engineer. Additionally, from a compliance perspective, Pure Storage FlashArray has REST APIs enabled. I have not explored automation much, but from a security standpoint, it is strong with encryption data. If you want to automate, you can easily integrate with all clouds and explore Pure Cloud for scheduling workloads, including volume creation. Customers find benefit in Pure Storage FlashArray's single management pane of glass due to the dual controller and active-active setup. If one of the controllers goes down, all workloads automatically shift to the other controller, ensuring their data is safe and accessible at all times. This is a highlighted feature that any customer desires because their data should always be accessible. For SAN workloads, we use Pure Storage FlashArray because for SAN FC fiber channel, we don't use it; we use NetApp for NAS activities. We have clearly split this, so SAN is for mission-critical applications, while network-attached storage handles file systems. This architecture helps us maximize the benefit from Pure Storage FlashArray due to the significant workloads from this giant retail client. From a footprint and energy consumption perspective, you can see energy consumption from the Pure1 storage portal on a daily basis, and it is very compact. The three models we use consume only three units, which is quite low. From a footprint and data center perspective, it doesn't occupy much space. As everything moves to cloud, there are requirements to avoid excess spending on data centers, and Pure Storage FlashArray is efficient in energy consumption and is environmentally friendly.

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Anil Rahulwar

L3 Storage Engineer at Capgemini

Good customer service and support and suitable for large environments

It is very easy to install. Users don't need to remember anything while deploying IntelliFlash because everything will be taken care of by tech support. They can easily modify the installation or change the password with the help of the tech support. It is very easy to integrate IntelliFlash with other solutions. We have plugins that can be integrated with other solutions. It will require maintenance. It is the same as any other storage solution: updates and upgrades, firmware upgrades, and drive upgrades.

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ITAdmini18be

IT Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees

Point-in-time restore capabilities are built into the storage appliance

Our first impression when we were introduced to the product was very good. I still think it's very good. They are truly different. The whole product is based on point-in-time restore capabilities built into their storage appliance, and no one else I know does that. I'd rate it a 10 out of 10 because it does everything that we have asked it to do.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Pure Storage is an amazing solution."

"If you're interested in using this solution, I recommend that you do the same — see if you like it."

"I appreciate the ease of provisioning storage on Pure Storage FlashArray."

"The performance is very good."

"This solution is very scalable."

"We have seen savings in our storage, and the speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes, reducing backup and restore times from 93 days to minutes and simplifying storage for us."

"Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."

"It does everything they say it will do: It's very cost-effective compared to other big players, integrates very well with VMware, is tiny so we're saving power and space in the data center, and it's really easy for us to manage."

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"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks Cheaper than pure solid state without needing to actively manage where the data is located."

"With so much technological advancement and more coming, the world is their oyster."

"It has cut batch job runtime in half, so we're seeing performance improvement throughout the organization."

"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."

"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"

"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."

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"Reduxio has definitely created a different category with their technology."

"The whole product is based on point-in-time restore capabilities built into their storage appliance, and no one else I know does that."

"The BackDating feature which allows us to go back to any point in the past at one second granularity, is an amazing feature and allows us to recover from any mishap to our data – whether it's a malware attack, an application error or a human error. We have never seen this capability in any other storage product."

"We have already replaced our storage and backup with Reduxio’s converged primary and secondary platform."

"The pre-processing dedupe engine they have instead of post-processing."

"I like the Reduxio TimeOS, specifically. That feature's pretty good. I haven't seen it in any other product. They're the only ones who have it."

"We are very excited about it; we support them wholeheartedly, we haven't had any problems or issues, and the support has been fantastic."

"Automated tiering and inline data deduplication."

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Cons

"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."

"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."

"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."

"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions."

"The solution is not cheap. It's much more expensive than DataCore."

"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."

"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."

"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."

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"In future releases, I look forward to more AI features."

"I would say it's somewhat scalable, maybe not so much as some of the competition, but we don't really care."

"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."

"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."

"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."

"The solution as it is right now is not very stable. The stability seems to have eroded."

"The monitoring matrix and its dashboard need work."

"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."

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"The latest release limits web access to the admin console via Chrome only, and that's a bit of a hassle. Would definitely prefer something less restrictive there."

"The ability to look at data at a file level would be useful, as well as the ability recover at that level. Right now, you can only recover whole volumes."

"It would be helpful to have a mobile app to monitor the storage array remotely."

"the only thing I would say negative about Reduxio is the cabling was a little bit confusing at first, but now that we understand it, it's easy. It was just so different from what we've seen before. That was the only hard part to get used to. The storage array is fully redundant, so there are some cross-connect cables that you have to run, from the A side to the B side, and the B side back to the A side, and we've just never seen anything like that before. But now that I understand the design, it makes complete sense. But initially it was confusing."

"We had a brief hiccup, a brief outage, during one upgrade process, but it wasn't too extreme."

"The only thing that I would point out would be the basic administration management of the machine. Everything has rights, meaning that there's either all control or no delegated control. So to sum that up, it would be a feature request for delegated management in the administrative console."

"I would love an iPhone app to monitor my system from outside the firewall."

"We had a single failure of the device but believe that it was tied to the server losing contact with our NTP server due to DNS issues. As Reduxio is very time-dependent, losing sync made the entire array unstable."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"When you are paying more than you were paying for the storage space, you'd like the cost to be less. If they could get into the spinning disk kind of cost, that would be it."

"I would rate the pricing of Pure Storage FlashArray a five out of ten. It is expensive but not too much."

"It is a cheaper solution."

"The price of the Pure Storage Flash Array is too high and there needs to be more contact clarity. We went with the Evergreen plan and I don't have clarity on what am I supposed to pay each year or every three years. There was not much contract clarity."

"It is not the cheapest one out there. We're paying yearly, but I'm not 100% sure."

"It is light years beyond anything else with the same price point."

"All storage is expensive so any price improvement would help."

"I don't know the exact cost but it's around $1,000."

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"I recommend the full bundle software in order to have all the functionality. It is more expensive to purchase it one by one."

"I think we pay around 100 grand per year for three arrays or four arrays."

"Reduxio’s licensing model is quite attractive. All licenses are included in the product pricing."

"ROI is how much (time, money, resources) you will save in case of a ransomware attack because you had this box."

"Setup and licensing are included in the solution cost."

"You want the best, you've got to pay for the best, that's all. In terms of licensing, just work with your VAR. The features, overall, were just too good to pass up, even though it comes at a premium."

"For less money than my previous solution, I receive way more performance and backup features that far surpass anything on the market."

"The pricing and licensing were favorable."

"The compression and dedupe are very effective on Reduxio, so it may be worth asking about licensing partial capacity on a unit, if the full capacity seems overkill for your environment."

"I think the pricing is good value, because you're not just buying a storage array, you're buying a backup solution and a DR solution and a "time machine" solution, all bundled in one storage array. When we had NetApp storage we had to then go out and buy a copy of Veeam which is a backup solution. With the Reduxio, you still need to do backups but you don't need that software product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

16%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

20%

Construction Company

19%

Outsourcing Company

14%

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Small Business

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Small Business	73
Midsize Enterprise	38
Large Enterprise	161

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Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

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Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	4

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The only thing I think could be improved is price. The price is the main concern for our customers.

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Also Known As

Pure Storage FlashArray

Tegile, IntelliFlash N-Series, IntelliFlash T-Series, IntelliFlash HD-Series

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Overview

The FlashArray family delivers consistent, high-performance data services across block, file, and object workloads. As part of the Everpure Platform, it provides the foundation for a unified data plane, enabling applications to reliably access, protect, and manage data across environments with simplicity and predictability. With built-in capabilities such as inline data reduction, snapshots, replication, and ransomware resilience, FlashArray ensures efficient operations, protected data, and consistent application uptime.

As the foundation of the (unified) data plane, FlashArray enables policy-driven automation, monitoring, and centralized management while integrating across cloud and on-premises environments. Built on an Evergreen architecture, it supports non-disruptive upgrades and continuous performance improvements over time while simplifying operations at scale.

What Key Features Does FlashArray Offer?

Simplicity and Speed: Easy management and rapid performance enhancements.
Data Reduction: Effective deduplication and compression.
Flash Architecture: Seamless upgrades and outstanding resilience.
VMware Integration: Excellent compatibility with virtualization platforms.
Predictive Analytics: Strong insights for proactive management.

What Benefits Should Users Consider?

Reliability: Proactive support with minimal downtime.
Efficiency: Reduced storage footprint and enhanced data management.
Performance: Faster processing speeds and low latency.
User Experience: Simplified management with Evergreen model.

In industries like finance, banking, and healthcare, FlashArray supports high-performance storage needs focusing on virtualization and database environments. Employed for VMware workloads, disaster recovery, and storage provisioning, it ensures application performance in private or hybrid cloud setups while enhancing management of virtualized environments.

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage)

DDN IntelliFlash offers impressive protocol support, deduplication, compression, and produces sub-millisecond latencies. Its ease of management and flexible performance features address storage and power savings needs, enhancing virtual environments and SQL databases.

Known for straightforward setup and management simplicity, DDN IntelliFlash delivers high performance with multipathing for redundancy. The Easy Tier feature boosts performance effortlessly, and users benefit from significant storage and power efficiencies. While reading latencies remain below one millisecond, enhancements are needed in call-home alerts and the codebase. Frequent hardware failures and support issues are challenges. Despite these areas of improvement, DDN IntelliFlash suits virtualization, achieving scalability with thousands of disks, vital for ERP and Citrix operations.

What are the key features of DDN IntelliFlash?

Protocol Support: Extensive protocol compatibility ensures streamlined data processes.
Deduplication and Compression: Significant data reduction and optimized storage usage.
Multipathing for Redundancy: Provides increased reliability and availability.
Easy Tier: Automates performance enhancements without complex management.
Built-in AI Features: AI integration supports smarter data management.

What benefits and ROI can users achieve?

Enhanced Performance: Delivers low-latency operation improving application response times.
Scalability: Supports growth in demanding environments like ERP systems.
Storage Optimization: Achieves considerable storage and power cost reductions.
Efficient Management: Simplifies IT operations with easy setup and management.
Flexibility: Adapts to different workload demands, supporting a range of applications.

DDN IntelliFlash implementations in sectors such as airlines showcase its capabilities in handling significant storage loads, such as large-scale ERP and Citrix operations. Organizations leverage its scalability for extensive disk management, indicative of a flexible approach to meet virtual system demands efficiently.

DataDirect Networks

Reduxio's HX550 flash hybrid storage arrays, based on Reduxio's TimeOS storage operating system allow you to recover application data to any second in the past, eliminates most of the complexity associated with managing storage, and provides exceptional performance and efficiency, far exceeding anything available today.

Reduxio

Sample Customers

Nielsen, Lamar Advertising, LinkedIn, Betfair, UT-Dallas

Bank of Stockton, Barnsley College, Boyes Turner, Brigham Young University

Array Networks, Barnstable Police Department, Catbird, Dingley Press, El Dorado County Office of Education, One Workplace

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