We performed a comparison between Pure Storage FlashBlade and Quantum ActiveScale based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about MinIO, Dell Technologies, Red Hat and others in File and Object Storage."It is very easy to use, and it is very fast."
"The tool's most valuable features are data warehousing, speedy recovery, and analytics. Its latest release is cost-effective."
"It has also helped to simplify storage for us in the way that it's easy to manage. Their automatic monitoring really helps when things break or are about to break. They see a problem coming and alert us even before our own system does."
"The main feature I have found to be product replication."
"What I like best about Pure Storage FlashBlade is its object storage functionality, plus it has fast underlying hardware. Pure Storage FlashBlade is also very stable. I find its stability one of its valuable features."
"I would rate this solution an eight plus. It has has good flexibility and stability, it's easy to manage and the response time is good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"The initial setup is pretty quick."
"The technology is stable which is good."
"Workflow is easy to manage and maintain."
"Pure Storage FlashBlade should improve on more cloud integration."
"I would like to have Snapshots and Snapmail in the next release. People who came from a NetApp background, especially expect these features."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"I would like to see better integration."
"Compared to, for example, Hitachi NAS, the solution is not mature at all. It's just in its infancy as far as technology goes."
"It would be beneficial if the layer could support the S3 protocol and be container ready in the next release."
"The speed could be improved."
"I would like to see more VM-Aware features in the next release of this solution."
"We would like to see a self-sufficient installation."
"Lacks some ability to integrate with different systems."
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Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews while Quantum ActiveScale is ranked 19th in File and Object Storage. Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8, while Quantum ActiveScale is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quantum ActiveScale writes "Good performance and reliable but the setup is complex". Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Pure Storage FlashArray and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas Quantum ActiveScale is most compared with Dell ECS, Dell PowerScale (Isilon), MinIO, Qumulo and NetApp StorageGRID.
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