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"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"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."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"IBM FlashSystem is the best solution for storage virtualization."
"Stability-wise, this solution is fine."
"The installation is nice and easy."
"The most valuable features of IBM FlashSystem are performance and security."
"The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features."
"IBM FlashSystem is flexible, quick, and has a solid design."
"The most valuable feature is reliability."
"The price-performance ratio is most valuable."
"It's actually shaking hands with the workflow solutions much better than any other storage."
"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."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"The solution should improve its pricing and the mechanism in the reduction pool."
"The solution's infrastructure technology level could be PCI Express 5 instead of PCI Express 4 for the next version."
"The only issue my team faced was transferring the data from the old system to IBM FlashSystem, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies."
"I think the only thing the developers can look at, is that it is limited to 25 gigabytes currently. In the next release they might want to increase that."
"The basic setup can be challenging when it comes to certain IP addresses and the configuration of the IP. You have to go in to different menus to makes changes and ensure it is stable."
"In the next release having the next level of high-speed performance would be great."
"I know they have a flashcopy manager, but it is extra software, an additional license, and some customers don't like to add addition costs to their infrastructure. If IBM could create, or include snapshot management within the GUI, that would really be helpful."
"It has to be flexible according to the customer's requirements. It has to be aligned with the customer business and the business environment."
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IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is ranked 35th in All-Flash Storage. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System writes "Has a fantastic feature-set and works well with workflow solutions". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is most compared with .
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