Everpure FlashBlade vs Scality RING comparison

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) and Scality are both solutions in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category. Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.8, while Scality is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3. Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) holds a 3.0% mindshare in SDS, compared to Scality’s 3.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Scality users who would recommend it.

Everpure FlashBlade

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100% willing to recommend

Everpure FlashBlade

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2026

Scality RING and Everpure Storage FlashBlade are major competitors in the storage solutions market. While Scality RING is favored for its cost-effectiveness and scalability, Everpure Storage FlashBlade leads in performance and ease of use, providing a reliable solution with fast data processing capabilities.

Features: Scality RING provides erasure coding and metadata separation, enhancing cost-effectiveness and scalability. Its S3 support ensures broad compatibility with standard applications, and its architecture allows handling large data volumes. Everpure Storage FlashBlade stands out with high throughput, inline deduplication, and seamless integration with NFS and SMB, offering superior performance and data management capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Scality RING users suggest enhancements in UI, metadata management, and administration complexity. FlashBlade requires better cloud integration, improved documentation, and additional features for container readiness, alongside improved deduplication and backup functionalities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Scality RING, primarily deployed on-premises, is known for its easy deployment and strong customer service but necessitates technical expertise. Everpure Storage FlashBlade benefits from straightforward deployment fitting into existing infrastructures and delivers commendable customer service, albeit with room for faster technical support response.

Pricing and ROI: Scality RING offers cost-effective solutions with a favorable price per GB and a scalable pay-as-you-grow model, though specialized hardware can increase costs. Everpure Storage FlashBlade uses a premium pricing model, including licensing and support, justified by its high performance and simplicity, making it suitable for efficiency-prioritized environments.

To learn more, read our detailed Everpure FlashBlade vs. Scality RING Report (Updated: August 2026).

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Everpure FlashBlade vs. Scality RING

August 2026

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.2

Everpure FlashBlade reduces TCO by 85%, increases VM density, enhances efficiency, and mitigates ransomware impact, providing significant ROI.

Sentiment score

7.3

Scality RING's flexible model reduces storage costs, though additional security can increase expenses; operational efficiencies vary by user.

It does not require much management once you set up correctly, so it saves time, allowing an admin to focus on other work.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

I have seen a return on investment for my customers through money saved on electrical and heating, as well as lower footprint in the data center.

reviewer2858721

Senior Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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I think RING's ability to maintain predictable costs while providing scalable storage solutions impacts our budget by allowing us to pay only for capacity.

Sebastien Foucou

Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

For instance, while the cost per gig on a block storage platform may be $2, it's $1.50 for NAS, and only $0.50 for object storage, leading to a remarkable 75% reduction in costs by utilizing the Scality platform.

reviewer2713596

Storage Engineering Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Scality RING has reduced our operating costs.

Thierry Diot

Engineer at MinArm

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.7

Everpure FlashBlade support is praised for efficiency and expertise, though some note language barriers and scaling delays.

Sentiment score

6.8

Scality RING's support is generally effective with knowledgeable staff, though response times and consistency can vary.

I would rate them an eight out of ten.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The support is done through email and is not that great, making it a very problematic area I've been dealing with for over four years.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Their technical support has been perfect lately, so I would give it a 10.

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

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I've always received responses within the required timeframe, the answers were technically relevant, and there was follow-up—people called us back to check if everything was okay and if the ticket could be closed.

Sebastien Foucou

Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Individuals such as Peter Mikolastik really make a difference by saying, 'Come on, what is the problem? I will help you,' rather than just brushing things off.

reviewer2716008

data center manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Technically, when we have major issues in P1, they are very responsive and we can't say that we don't get a response.

reviewer2702499

Operational Infrastructure Pilot at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.9

Everpure FlashBlade's scalability is praised for easy expansion, dynamic scaling, and high satisfaction across various industries.

Sentiment score

7.1

Scality RING offers strong scalability and flexibility, managing large infrastructures with smooth upgrades but occasionally slow rebalancing.

Pure Storage FlashBlade is scalable.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

There are between 5 and 10,000 people using it in our organization.

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

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Upwards, I think, almost unlimited by what we can imagine.

reviewer2711367

System Engineer - Head of Engineering at a retailer with 11-50 employees

I've never had issues with scalability.

Sebastien Foucou

Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We are relatively well informed about their new features, what will be implemented in future versions, and the scalability of the solution.

reviewer2702499

Operational Infrastructure Pilot at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.0

Users praise Everpure FlashBlade for exceptional stability and performance, with minimal downtime and no outages reported.

Sentiment score

7.4

Scality RING ensures stable, continuous data access with quick recovery and reliable performance, even with aging hardware.

In case there is any issue with any blade, the data is moved to another.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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It is a platform that is very stable at the customer level and does not generate incidents or blockages that you might encounter with standard storage solutions, where you can lose data.

reviewer2702499

Operational Infrastructure Pilot at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I find that Scality RING is very stable because it allows for many maintenance operations without service loss.

Sebastien Foucou

Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

There are factors that can cause Scality RING to become occasionally unavailable, but due to the system's resilience, it is capable of recovering or degrading gracefully.

reviewer2707281

Senior ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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Room For Improvement

Users seek improved deduplication, cloud integration, better support, simplified UI, and competitive pricing for Everpure FlashBlade.

Users seek improved stability, simplified management, complete S3 compliance, security enhancements, and better scalability for Scality RING.

Technical support definitely needs significant improvement.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

I would like to see tighter integration with backup vendor software, specifically around the retention lock, compliance lock, compliance mode, safe mode for immutability and indelibility, as well as how it handles the tiering.

reviewer2858721

Senior Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

For organizations with demanding data-intensive workloads, however, the value proposition is very compelling.

Juliana Camargo

Vendor business manager at TD SYNNEX BRASIL

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Encryption and data security need improvement. We don't have a solution for customers who need confidentiality.

reviewer2702499

Operational Infrastructure Pilot at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

They should prioritize quality over timeliness to minimize customer disruptions and not force customers into a cycle of fixes that interfere with daily work.

reviewer2713596

Storage Engineering Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

What we are currently missing and will be demanding in the new tender is an additional external backup of all data, ideally on a simple system, to safeguard against any severe local incidents so that we still have the data protected elsewhere.

reviewer2716008

data center manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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Setup Cost

Pure Storage FlashBlade justifies its high price with exceptional performance, reliability, inclusive licensing, and long-term value through simplified management.

Scality RING requires high initial and ongoing investment, challenging unless enterprises handle 10 PB, with unexpected costs possible.

The pricing of Pure Storage FlashBlade is expensive compared to other products I used from other companies in the past, but one benefit is that they have built-in ransomware protection.

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

Regarding pricing, it is okay; we needed exactly this in size, and the price was a lot lower than competitors, making it good for us.

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

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Fortunately, in terms of the license, we are able to expand the disks without having to adjust the license.

reviewer2711367

System Engineer - Head of Engineering at a retailer with 11-50 employees

In the end, it always depends on how much you pay for it.

reviewer2707281

Senior ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Regarding setup costs and licensing, our initial experience is somewhat dated now as we made a comprehensive purchase, including hardware, software, and system setup, which Scality handled at the time.

reviewer2716008

data center manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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Valuable Features

Everpure FlashBlade delivers high-performance storage with scalability, low latency, and ease of use, ideal for AI and analytics.

Scality RING enhances performance and scalability with metadata separation, supporting multiple interfaces, praised for durability, security, and cost-effectiveness.

The cyber resiliency features of immutability and indelibility resonate with my customers as well. Given today's cyber threat landscape, the immutability and indelibility features of Everpure FlashBlade are no longer a nice-to-have; they are hard requirements coming from the top leadership, C-suite, down to a lot of the customers that I talk to.

reviewer2858721

Senior Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The best features Everpure FlashBlade offers, which stand out to both me and our customers, are its exceptional performance for AI and analytics workloads, its ability to scale seamlessly, its unified file and object storage architecture, and simplicity of management.

Juliana Camargo

Vendor business manager at TD SYNNEX BRASIL

We can plug in many blades, and we can have data up to one terabyte.

Redy ERIYAWAN

IT Field Support Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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When a server is lost, the data is still accessible.

reviewer2702499

Operational Infrastructure Pilot at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

It is even better stored when there is only one copy on a system and there is a second copy on an immutability system, which is almost equivalent to backing it up on tape and taking it offline, making it completely inaccessible.

reviewer2711367

System Engineer - Head of Engineering at a retailer with 11-50 employees

Scality RING has influenced our approach to scaling in different dimensions by providing a cost-effective solution for the tremendous amount of data we generate every day for each customer.

reviewer2713596

Storage Engineering Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

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Categories and Ranking

Everpure FlashBlade

Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

7th

Ranking in File and Object Storage

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

All-Flash Storage (8th)

Scality RING

Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)

8th

Ranking in File and Object Storage

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category, the mindshare of Everpure FlashBlade is 3.0%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Scality RING is 3.6%, down from 4.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Defined Storage (SDS) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Everpure FlashBlade	3.0%
Scality RING	3.6%
Other	93.4%

Software Defined Storage (SDS)

Featured Reviews

MikaelHellström

IT Manager at Regin Dalarna

Has handled backup storage needs reliably and supports seamless upgrades

In environments requiring high throughput and low latency, Pure Storage FlashBlade provides high throughput and normal latency, but we do not have any application that requires low latency right now, so the latency of three to five milliseconds is considered kind of high. Pure Storage FlashBlade's ability to integrate with enterprise applications is not important for us, as we only want to present an S3 bucket for our backup, which we have done, and it works very fast. We use the Purity software's data reduction techniques; we have a backup software that compresses everything before sending it to the S3 bucket, achieving a data reduction of 1.1 to one. I would recommend Pure Storage FlashBlade to other companies because it's a very fast and scalable solution for anyone who needs it. On a scale of 1-10, I rate this solution an 8.

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Nourreddine AISSAOUI

Dev Ops Engineer at Transactis France

Object storage has transformed backup capacity management and supports modern AI-ready workloads

The separation of metadata from object data significantly influences storage performance, as metadata uses NVMe flash storage, serving as an accelerator for accessing data. While data resides on traditional spinning hard disk drives, using NVMe storage for metadata allows for fast access to data, especially for large volumes and a large number of objects. The performance regarding metadata is particularly vital when managing a high number of objects; thus, dedicating servers and fast storage to metadata improves handling those large object counts, which we optimized during our operations, resulting in satisfactory outcomes. The improvement with Scality RING is the ability to manage huge volumes and the easy scalability when dealing with capacity growth and management. We can buy servers, install them, and hot upgrade the capacity without requiring downtime. Everything is available through an API, allowing end users to manage their storage conveniently without needing requests or tickets; they can allocate, delete, and move storage as required, making operations easier for the end user.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

10%

Construction Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	24

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	12

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage FlashBlade?

I am a reseller, so I do not use Everpure FlashBlade personally, which means I do not have direct experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing.

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What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?

I would not rate Everpure FlashBlade as a perfect score primarily due to the price point in the Brazilian market. Everpure FlashBlade is a premium solution and the investment can be a challenge for...

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What is your primary use case for Pure Storage FlashBlade?

Our main use case for Everpure FlashBlade is that we haven't closed a deal in Brazil yet. However, we are working on several opportunities and promoting the solution with our partners and customers...

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What needs improvement with Scality RING8?

Scality RING has room for improvement, particularly in having a supervisor external to Scality RING, which is key for management. I believe they need to enhance the stability and ease of management...

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What is your primary use case for Scality RING8?

Scality RING is used exclusively for S3 object storage. Scality RING is an alternative to Amazon S3, allowing customers to have their own on-premises S3 infrastructure when needed. The features are...

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What advice do you have for others considering Scality RING8?

I assess the simplicity of managing large volumes of data with Scality RING's interface as feasible, but it requires a minimum of skills. With the right staff, managing it is easy, as all the enabl...

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Also Known As

Pure Storage FlashBlade

Scality RING, RING8

Overview

FlashBlade is a software designed for unifying file and object storage to support modern workloads such as analytics, artificial intelligence, and rapid data recovery. The software provides scalable, high-performance storage that enables simultaneous access for large numbers of users and workloads. Its features include support for various data protocols, data reduction techniques, and simple management tools to streamline operations. FlashBlade addresses business problems related to managing large volumes of unstructured data and facilitates faster data processing, enabling organizations to derive insights and value from their information assets. The software assists enterprises in consolidating their data storage infrastructure and improving efficiency in handling complex data tasks.

What are the most important features of FlashBlade?

Ease of Use: Simplifies data management with intuitive controls.
High Performance: Delivers exceptional speed for data-intensive tasks.
Scalability: Expands effortlessly to meet growing data demands.
Seamless Integration: Works well with existing systems for efficient operation.
Predictive Analytics: Provides insights to optimize performance proactively.
Inline Deduplication: Reduces storage footprint without compromising speed.
Disaster Recovery: Ensures data availability during disruptions.

What are the potential benefits or ROI in choosing FlashBlade?

Cost-effectiveness: Provides exceptional performance at a competitive price point.
Minimal Maintenance: Reduces operational overhead with simple management.
Clear Dashboards: Enhances decision-making with accessible performance metrics.
Reliable Performance: Offers consistent output, critical for data-intensive industries.

In data center consolidation, media management, and PACS archiving, FlashBlade meets specific industry needs. Companies in banking and healthcare leverage cost-effective performance and scalability for efficient data access, supporting AI training, big data analytics, and enterprise workloads with high IOPS requirements. Media and entertainment entities use it for video editing and storage management, benefiting from seamless NAS, file, and object storage.

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage)

Scality RING is the scalable and resilient object storage solution designed for modern workloads, providing seamless data protection against evolving cyber threats.

Scality RING leverages S3 object storage to meet unpredictable demands with a patented MultiScale Architecture that offers limitless scalability across capacity, performance, and more. It delivers end-to-end cyber resilience with CORE5 for ransomware protection, while its cloud-style economics and intuitive management empower enterprises to accelerate AI initiatives and optimize cloud deployments. Its flexibility is ideal for service providers managing extensive data needs.

What are the key features of Scality RING?

S3 and CDMI Support: Ensures compatibility for application needs.
Erasure Coding: Provides cost-efficient, durable storage.
Unified Tiered Infrastructure: Aids billing per IOPS.
Lifecycle Management: Optimizes storage utilization.
Unlimited Scalability: Ideal for large enterprise demands.
Data/Metadata Ring Deployment: Ensures robust performance and tailored SLAs.

What benefits or ROI should users expect?

Economic Value: Offers cost-effective storage solutions.
Effective Support: Enhances collaboration through responsive assistance.
Improved Flexibility: Adaptable deployment models for complex needs.

Scality RING is extensively implemented in backup solutions across industries, supporting platforms like Veeam and CommVault. It aids in storage expansion and management of large data volumes alongside multi-site architectures. While not leading in AI spaces due to performance constraints, there's potential with faster disk support. It's also used in archives, binary lakes, multimedia services, and AI data lakes.

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Sample Customers

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Comcast, TimeWarner Cable, EuroSport, Orange, Deluxe, DailtMotion, SFR, RTL, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Telstra

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