IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe vs Reduxio [EOL] comparison

IBM and Reduxio are both solutions in the All-Flash Storage category. Additionally, 95% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Reduxio users who would recommend it.

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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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Yacine Bouakttaya

Chief Technology Officer North Africa at Huawei

High-speed data processing has improved billing cycles but performance headroom still needs growth

In terms of improvement regarding IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe, I can compare with other competitors, especially regarding solution architecture. Data resiliency can be a concern because IBM can reach up to only four controllers, while others like Dell EMC can support up to eight controllers with better resiliency without service staff. Additionally, the SBC one benchmark is a storage performance console that stresses different storage solutions like Dell EMC and NetApp. It generates metrics of IOPS and latency, showing that the competition can have two million IOPS, significantly outperforming IBM's capabilities. As for the capability of scaling, we can see the limitations in reaching such high-performance levels.

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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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Pros

"It gives us capacity planning."

"I recommend this solution for production because it has good performance and capacity management."

"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."

"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."

"The experience has been very good so far for the company."

"The dashboard is nice. It is easy to manage compared to other storage solutions such as Dell EMC."

"Once we solved the data reduction and what Pure does we were hooked."

"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."

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"IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is easy to use and comes with good performance."

"There are many valuable features of IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMele I have found to meet my needs. Specifically, the maintenance cycle is a standout feature of this solution. The main component of the IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is the maintenance of the batteries, which have a predetermined and reliable four-year life cycle. This is in stark contrast to other solutions that may use spinning disks, which can fail unexpectedly, causing unwanted downtime and maintenance. Having a predictable maintenance cycle is a significant advantage and has made this solution a preferred choice for me."

"It is a very stable product. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten because we did not face any issues in the last three years."

"The technical support is good."

"The features I find most valuable include its use for storage and performance."

"The most valuable feature of IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is the snapshot. We use it daily for all of the storage units."

"The FlashCore modules support more value to the architecture due to their unique characteristics."

"Good performance with a user-friendly UI."

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"One of the beautiful parts about it is the whole user interface. It's almost too simple. As an IT professional, you think, "Where are the works, how am I assured that this is actually protecting my data?" The ease of use in terms of deployment, and also the metrics that it feeds back to you are also among the many attractive features of the whole platform."

"It has improved our backup and recovery window, because you can have two Reduxio machines linked up, so every block that changes on the primary storage array gets replicated to the secondary storage array. If one side or the other goes bad, you just recover from the other side."

"It has a very intuitive interface, it integrates more smoothly with our steps. With a different product from a different manufacturer, there are a lot more steps required to set up a volume, to make it available in VMware and to utilize it there."

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

"Reduxio provides a means of backing up the data that you store in it down to one second granularity."

"Enables multiple hosts access to the virtual machines by providing for moving VMs due to maintenance or host failure."

"If you’re looking for a low latency, high capacity, dead simple, storage appliance, Reduxio HX550 should be your only choice."

"It needs integration with cloud vendors for remote storage, and to be able to restore a single machine from a specific volume."

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Cons

"The integration capabilities could be improved."

"When creating a support case, visibility should be extended to others involved in assisting."

"The solution needs an integrated NAS platform, file platform."

"The pricing needs to be improved as they offer very high budgeting prices. Searching is a big challenge in Pure Storage FlashArrays, especially when trying to restore a VM."

"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."

"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."

"I would like to see more cloud integration."

"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."

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"The storage system itself should have built-in capabilities for different ransomware attacks."

"The tool's architecture is complex. It also needs to add data utilization reports."

"Other vendors have included a block and file system. IBM doesn't include a file system. And yet, it's very necessary for all organizations' networks to have file systems. We have other systems for the file system, however, ideally, we would like to have one system with these features."

"I'd like to be able to connect to tape drives behind the storage device to back up the tape if need be. We have all of our storage running in all-flash, and we make a copy on tape. Currently, when we want to hook up tape drives, we have to add some extra equipment, which is a little bit complex. We want IBM to add a feature where we could install a tape into the storage so that we can connect it through a single pane of glass. We'd like to have a feature in the IBM flash storage system so that we can connect backup tape drives through the IBM storage system and we can manage the backup tape from the storage system."

"I would like to see IBM products become more affordable because they can be quite expensive, which limits their accessibility to a broader customer base."

"Other vendors have included a block and file system. IBM doesn't include a file system."

"In the FlashSystem 5200, there were only four ports of 32 fiber channels for the architecture. This has been resolved in the new generation."

"Currently, when we want to hook up tape drives, we have to add some extra equipment, which is a little bit complex."

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"Scalability. Reduxio has only one product, they don’t have an option, for now, to expand the storage product."

"Integration is needed with other virtual vendors like VMware, Veeam, Hyper-V; that integration needs to be deeper, not just the way that they're using it now. I know that it's under development, but I think this is one of the disadvantages, for now, as a young company. They have to work with the other players on the market."

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

"It would be helpful to have the ability to recover virtual machines individually without having to restore the full LUN."

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

"I am waiting on a feature set in the new version which should allow me to replicate between Reduxio iSCSI SANs for disaster recovery and also to 3rd party iSCSI SANs which are cheaper for an archive or DR target."

"I would love to see deeper integration with VMware vSphere/vCenter. Right now, I can edit existing Reduxio datastore sizes in the vSphere web client. Provisioning new datastores that way would be nice."

"Would love to have role-based access and an active directory integration."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"My organization has a yearly license, but I believe that Pure Storage FlashArray has capacity-based licenses as well. I'm definitely happy with the pricing."

"The licensing is $100,000."

"The solution could be cheaper."

"There are no licensing fees aside from the support."

"The pricing of Pure Storage is all-inclusive. It is very fair, and very easy. In comparison, Dell EMC has licensing that needs to be added if you wan to work in a complex environment or in specific functionalities."

"It is cost-effective because after buying a subscription, they provide a service to upgrade hardware for free. They are providing so many features. When you consider the features provided, it is cost-effective."

"We have seen a reduction in the TCO, because Pure Storage is partnering with Belfrics. This partnership reduces our latency and space."

"There is an annual or perpetual license required for this solution."

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"Compared to its competitors, IBM's offering is the most cost-effective."

"The solution is priced well."

"The tool's pricing is competitive."

"The solution's price is competitive."

"The price of IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is less than Dell. For upgrades, the Dell solutions are more expensive."

"It's a lot less costly than cloud storage. People get surprised by the cost of cloud storage, which is extremely expensive and four or five times the cost of storage on-premises. People don't realize what they're spending on storage until they start getting bills from Amazon, Microsoft, and others. This is a good way to reduce your cloud storage expenses."

"Compared to other solutions, the cost of IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is reasonable, with a one-time payment of around $70,000. However, additional support is available for $25,000 for three years. The overall maintenance cost is steep."

"The product has an average cost."

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"They have very competitive pricing and were able to work within our budget constraints as a public school."

"They are very competitive in pricing, so I would definitely recommend Reduxio."

"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."

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

"I think that you are able to buy a minimum capacity, then grow your capacity within the box as you expand your data needs."

"Only one device is sold. Negotiate the initial storage, but you can start small and move up with ease. Negotiate."

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

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

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Construction Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Marketing Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Construction Company

26%

Financial Services Firm

24%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

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Small Business

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Small Business	69
Midsize Enterprise	37
Large Enterprise	157

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Small Business	8
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Large Enterprise	6

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Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	7
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Also Known As

Pure Storage FlashArray

IBM FlashSystem 9100, FlashSystem 9100

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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)

IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is recognized for its speed, reliability, and performance, offering a high-speed enterprise storage solution. It supports various high-demand applications and environments with superior data processing and ease of use.

IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is known for its exceptional high-performance storage facilitated by FlashCore modules and unique architecture. It efficiently handles high I/O operations and supports hybrid cloud environments, including integration with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud. While users appreciate features like HyperSwap and efficient data tiering, there are challenges with scalability, management complexity, and cost-effectiveness. Reports highlight limited security against ransomware, inadequate compression and deduplication, as well as insufficient technical support for battery repair and backup connectivity.

What Are the Key Features of IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe?

FlashCore Modules: Deliver high-speed storage performance.
HyperSwap: Enhances data availability and reliability.
Hybrid Cloud Support: Seamless integration with major cloud providers.
Data Tiering: Efficiently manages data with advanced tiering capabilities.
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies management and monitoring tasks.

What Benefits Should You Expect from IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe?

High I/O Performance: Efficiently supports intensive workloads.
Reliable High Availability: Maintains continuous operation with minimal downtime.
Strong Technical Support: Provides comprehensive assistance to users.
User-Friendly Operation: Facilitates ease of use and management for IT teams.

IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is implemented across industries like finance and manufacturing for enterprise storage, supporting applications such as VMware clusters, core ERP databases like SAP HANA, and banking operations. It serves as primary storage for databases, web applications, and virtual infrastructures, supporting on-premise, public, or hybrid cloud environments.

IBM

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

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