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"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"The uptime is the most valuable feature."
"It is very stable. We expect superior performance and reliability from this particular storage system."
"The optimization of the cache memory of each engine and the use of persistent memory."
"We were able to move away from a middleware solution for high availability, going right to snapshots and data replication on arrays."
"The stability is great. It is five nines."
"The solution has good operability and easy scalability."
"Uptime by far is the most important thing, and also the replication ability (SRDF). Most of the customers who need this type of availability also want the protection of multiple data centers, and it is able to easily switchover workloads to their other data centers."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"The most valuable features are that it is easy to implement and configure, easy to use, and really reliable."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"The REST API needs improvement. We are a very big automation company, and this would be big for us."
"They can make the GUI better, especially for the ones that come out of the box. We did encounter a bit of difficulty in setting up the storage. We had to deploy Solutions Enabler on a Linux machine to be able to fully interact with the storage. They need to upgrade the web interface for the management of the storage that comes out of the box. The management interface for NFS is also a bit old and not very intuitive."
"I'd like to see the dedup and compression improve. Two to one is not very good. We should be getting something like three, four, or five to one."
"I believe it would be of great benefit to work on the customization of the pricing structure for different enterprises and their specific needs."
"The main feature that I personally want to see is the possibility to upgrade to the next generation without changing all the components and just change the engine, relying on the compatibility matrices between two different generations. Meaning that we could just keep the enclosure and upgrade the engine, integrating the enclosure to the existing pool, then adding automation tools for orchestration."
"There is room for improvement in terms of integration with various service providers for public clouds."
"Since the merging of EMC and Dell into Dell Technologies, there has been a hurdle that they've had to overcome, and they're not over it yet. It takes two to three times longer for things to get fixed than it did when they were separate companies. That is something that has to be fixed."
"Some of the management features could be simplified and that's probably the main thing they need to address."
"The security and reporting could be improved."
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Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Fungible Storage Cluster is ranked 33rd in All-Flash Storage. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Fungible Storage Cluster is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fungible Storage Cluster writes "Easy to implement and configure but the security and reporting could be improved". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Dell XtremIO, whereas Fungible Storage Cluster is most compared with .
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