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It does not require much management once you set up correctly, so it saves time, allowing an admin to focus on other work.
I would rate the technical support from HPE Synergy, and for all other solutions, as very good and appreciable with a score of nine out of ten on a scale from one to ten.
Their technical support has been perfect lately, so I would give it a 10.
The support is done through email and is not that great, making it a very problematic area I've been dealing with for over four years.
I would rate them an eight out of ten.
There are between 5 and 10,000 people using it in our organization.
Pure Storage FlashBlade is scalable.
In case there is any issue with any blade, the data is moved to another.
Currently, it supports only two drives in the blade server, which can be limiting.
Technical support definitely needs significant improvement.
Its configuration should be easier.
One way Pure Storage FlashBlade can be improved is by having more compatibility between the FlashArray and FlashBlade.
Pricing in the blade server market is very competitive, with HPE offering a competitive price.
The pricing of Pure Storage FlashBlade is expensive compared to other products I used from other companies in the past, but one benefit is that they have built-in ransomware protection.
Regarding pricing, it is okay; we needed exactly this in size, and the price was a lot lower than competitors, making it good for us.
It offers significant compute power in approximately ten rack units, making it practical for workload optimization.
The best features of Pure Storage FlashBlade include better throughput and better performance.
Pure Storage FlashBlade's scalability is one of the most valuable features, and importantly, it always works, allowing for seamless upgrades.
We can plug in many blades, and we can have data up to one terabyte.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| HPE Synergy | 14.6% |
| Dell PowerEdge MX- Series | 13.0% |
| HPE BladeSystem | 10.5% |
| Other | 61.9% |
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Pure Storage FlashBlade | 5.3% |
| MinIO | 16.3% |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage | 15.3% |
| Other | 63.099999999999994% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 31 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 15 |
| Large Enterprise | 56 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 11 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 11 |
| Large Enterprise | 21 |
HPE Synergy, the first platform built from the ground up for Composable Infrastructure, offers an experience that empowers IT to create and deliver new value instantly and continuously. It is a single infrastructure that reduces operational complexity for traditional workloads and increases operational velocity for the new breed of applications and services. Through a single interface, HPE Synergy composes physical and virtual compute, storage, and fabric pools into any configuration for any application. As an extensible platform, it easily enables a broad range of applications and operational models such as virtualization, hybrid cloud, and DevOps. With HPE Synergy, IT can become not just the internal service provider but the business partner to rapidly launch new applications that become the business.
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.
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