"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"This solution is very scalable."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The technical support is very good."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"It is very easy to use, and it is very fast."
"It's very easy-to-use."
"The most valuable features are the Metro clustering, and disaster recovery."
"It performs well and it is also very fast."
"The product is scalable and easy to expand."
"The onboarding and integrated monitoring tools are pretty good."
"The main feature I have found to be product replication."
"It uses the same platform for connectivity so integration is seamless."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"I would like to see the licensing fees improved as well as the price per terabytes."
"Compared to, for example, Hitachi NAS, the solution is not mature at all. It's just in its infancy as far as technology goes."
"There could be improvements in public cloud integration."
"It would be nice if you could store file-based in the same box with the same technology."
"I want efficiency. FlashBlade doesn't have efficiency now."
"It's on the expensive side, as expected for a niche product."
"The solution is expensive."
"The feature that we're waiting on is better integration with the cell services."
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Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 33 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 9 reviews. Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Provides protection against ransomware threats with immutable snapshots, and it is well known for its scalability, ease of use, and non-disruptive upgrades". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "Performs well with very little maintenance and an easy initial setup". Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), Dell EMC PowerStore, Dell EMC Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage and VAST Data, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Qumulo, HPE Primera, Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO and Dell EMC PowerStore. See our Pure Storage FlashArray vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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