"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"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."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"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."
"The technical support is very good."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Technical support is good."
"I would say in terms of architecture and in terms of functionality, the product is quite good."
"It's got full API functionality and the performance is pretty steady."
"The system efficiency is excellent overall."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"The dashboard is such that you don't need to be a storage expert to administer it."
"SolidFire provides seamless performance across your storage system when you need to scale up. Other storage systems do not do that."
"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."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"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."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"The solution is not cheap."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"The price should be lower."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"The inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"You don't have business continuity with SolidFire. I think it could be a nice feature to have in the future."
"SolidFire should start from two nodes instead of the four nodes. That's the only thing. In a lot of solutions, we have to use four nodes, that's the better thing. But as a starting point, two is better. That's why their starting point is expensive."
"The user interface needs to be improved. Much of the client feedback involves comments such as "Oh, it's hard to navigate through.""
"The upgrade process could be better."
"The technical support is really bad and has to be improved."
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Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 33 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 6 reviews. Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. 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 SolidFire writes "Simple to deploy and has good stability ". Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), Dell EMC PowerStore, Dell EMC Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage and IBM FlashSystem, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), VMware vSAN, Dell EMC Unity XT, HPE 3PAR StoreServ and NetApp NVMe AFF A800. See our Pure Storage FlashArray vs. SolidFire report.
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