FormationOne Dynamic Storage Platform vs ViPR [EOL] comparison

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Pure Storage FlashBlade

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Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

High performance and throughput enhance IT backup management

The multi-dimensional scale-out design feature of Pure Storage FlashBlade is not in use in our environment. Regarding data reduction technologies, we don't get much deduplication because the data is already deduplicated from our FlashArray before we get to backup, so there is no benefit of deduplication. Regarding the integration with cloud-native ecosystem tools, we are not on cloud; we are strictly an on-premises solution. Pure Storage FlashBlade is not used by any end-user; it's used only for IT backup, with only about four people in our group managing it. I cannot recommend Pure Storage FlashBlade to other users depending upon their financial situation because it's an expensive solution, and the cost is very high, including licensing and renewal every year. I rate Pure Storage FlashBlade an eight out of ten.

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Independent Analyst and Advisory Consultant at Server StorageIO - www.storageio.com

EMC ViPR virtual physical object and software defined storage (SDS)

PART I During the recent EMCworld event in Las Vegas among other things, EMC announced ViPR (read announcement here). Note that this ViPR is not the same EMC Viper project from a few years ago that was focused on data footprint reduction (DFR) including dedupe. ViPR has been in the works for a…

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Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	20

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ViPR [EOL]

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Overview

FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.

Pure Storage

FormationOne is a Dynamic Storage Platform that delivers hyper-scale storage capacity, with excellent cost savings, agility and elasticity. Automation, self-service and API level integration deliver multi-tenant private cloud capabilities for your data center, running on your choice of industry-standard hardware. FormationOne runs on x86 server nodes that virtualize all the elements of enterprise data storage with a loosely-coupled, fully-distributed architecture. FormationOne includes key differentiated capabilities including QoS performance control and Continuous Data Protection (CDP) integrated with Copy Data Management that maximize performance, improve controls, and lower your TCO. FormationOne provides remote replication and data mobility with SafeGuard for replicating between Formation Cloud Domains as well as replication into AWS S3 or Glacier for Cloud DR, Backup, Archive and tiering.

Formation Data Systems

EMC ViPR is software-defined storage to manage and automate all storage resources for traditional and next-generation cloud storage platforms. EMC ViPR Controller is storage automation software that centralizes and transforms storage into a simple, extensible, and open platform. It abstracts and pools resources to deliver automated, policy-driven storage services on demand through a self-service catalog Ð reducing time, cost, and risk.

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ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL

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