Pure Storage FlashArray is used for storage devices and provides major infrastructure support for our customers. Our customer is Woolworths, a giant retailer in Australia. We support and manage their data, including how they process their bills, which are all stored in Pure Storage FlashArray. Mission-critical applications are hosted on Pure Storage FlashArray. Our models are R20, and we support FA, which is fully FlashArray, as Pure Storage FlashArray has only FlashArray. The models are FA-X20 R3, R4, and X50, which I have been working with for the last two years. Previously, when I joined, there was an Evergreen shift where the controller module changed as part of the subscription. Every three years, they change the controller model if it is EOL. There were plans to bring in FlashBlade, but due to cost and other perspectives, considering that FlashArray is performing better and the X model is doing well, we decided to continue with X models only.

We are currently using the Evergreen architecture only for upgrades and scaling up.

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I work as an MSP and integrate Everpure FlashArray while also using it internally in my company. I then moved to a partner role at an Everpure partner and now work as a solution architect for this partner while managing my own devices and clients' devices.

My usual use cases for Everpure FlashArray include VMware ESXi or Hyper-V clusters running on Everpure FlashArray as storage with synchronization of snapshots between two FlashArrays. I have one FlashArray here and one as a DR site, and I use snapshot replication between them.

Everpure FlashArray has helped decrease my storage footprint because of deduplication and compression. I managed to decommission at least four storage systems at one customer and replace them with only one. The 5:1 or 4:1 ratios were very good for the customer.

Everpure FlashArray has helped decrease the total cost of ownership for my clients by at least half.

I cannot imagine my workflow without Everpure FlashArray because I do not have any other type of storage in use. All my clients currently run on Everpure FlashArray. In total, I have around six to eight FlashArrays and two FlashBlades. I am an Everpure FlashArray customer across all the customers I serve.

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We used Pure Storage FlashArray for the first two or almost three years strictly for VMware block storage. We bought another FlashArray, a C-series, for our file share, and we migrated everything from Isilon to C-series. We have two FlashArrays, X-series and C-series. C-series is mainly for file share and we use shares basically, while X-series is strictly for block storage for our VMware.

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I am Shankar Prabhu, currently working at Geodis India Private Limited, where I manage Everpure FlashArray. The main use case for Everpure FlashArray in our environment involves configuring LUNs and host and host groups for multiple servers and virtual machines. Everpure FlashArray makes it very easy to configure hosts and LUNs.

Typical tasks include new provisioning work where we configure hosts and zoning from Cisco or Brocade switches. After creating the host, we either create new LUNs or share existing LUNs by mapping them to hosts or host groups. For single hosts, we configure the host and volume group from our end. For host groups, we configure everything in the Pure environment by allocating binary LUNs and creating setup LUN combinations, then mapping the combination LUNs directly to the host group. In the host group, we add the two hosts and map only the binary LUN to the specific host.

Everpure FlashArray is the main storage running in our environment. We use approximately eight storage platforms in each data center, with four available. We use the models X50, X70, and X550 as well. These models have a significant impact on our environment, and we dedicate some arrays for specific servers. Creating hosts or LUN groups on Everpure FlashArray is very easy compared to other storage scenarios.

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My use cases for Pure Storage FlashArray revolve around its high performance storage capabilities. For any application that needs high performance storage, it has been coming from a block background, but you can also do file off it now.

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My use case for Pure Storage FlashArray is as our primary storage device where we deploy our enterprise applications. We have backup solutions such as Commvault and Rubrik, but Pure Storage FlashArray serves as our primary storage solution where our applications get their storage.

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My expertise involves design, taking requirements, and planning workloads on Everpure FlashArray as well as other fleet options we have, including PowerMax, PowerStore, and Infinidat, based on the requirements and SLA we're seeking, particularly response SLA and write and read response times. Based on that assessment, I decide which fleet the workload should be assigned to. On Everpure FlashArray, I also design, plan workloads, plan disaster recovery, business continuity, offsite replication to the DR site, and snapshot management. We perform end-to-end work rather than having L1 and L2 teams where someone handles L1, L2, and someone else handles design. I work on hard drive replacement and design, so I manage end-to-end operations on Everpure FlashArray.

We use Everpure FlashArray for business cases where any application needs critical responses, such as response-sensitive or latency-sensitive applications, which we keep in Everpure FlashArray. Additionally, the other criteria we look for is capacity, because Everpure FlashArray has better inline deduplication and compression, along with better response times. If any requirement matches this criteria, we keep those workloads in Everpure FlashArray.

For another scenario, we are doing a migration from IBM arrays through SVC to PowerMax systems. We choose Everpure FlashArray because we can match the minimum unit size of IBM arrays to Everpure FlashArray. If you take other competitive arrays, PowerMax is good with response times, but the drawback is the smallest unit you can create is in cylinders. We have to calculate the size in cylinders, which does not align with the source IBM array's capacity. Everpure FlashArray allows you to create units with bytes as well, making it another use case we are using Everpure FlashArray for during migration from IBM arrays.

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The main use case for Everpure FlashArray is that it supports the storage environment for a project. As a storage admin, I am responsible for managing the storage systems for daily jobs, such as allocation, de-allocation, commissioning of hosts, decommissioning, port mapping, and all those operations as well as the replications, snapshots, and high availability of the host connections.

I use Everpure FlashArray daily to allocate any storage that is required to the host, which could be sizes of 100 GB, 200 GB, or even in TBs, such as 4 TB, 2 TB, or 1 TB. I am responsible for the expansion as well, in whatever requirement from the OS team or the host side. For daily commissioning, if any host is newly added to my environment, I am responsible for commissioning it on the storage system by zoning on the fabric level and connecting that host to the storage system to provide the disks to the host. In addition, I also handle decommissioning. If any host is no longer in use in the environment, I reclaim those host volumes, preparing them for the array and decommissioning, which means removing them. We also use Everpure FlashArray for storage-based migrations using FlashCopy and remote copy operations, such as ActiveDR and ActiveCluster for taking backups and building new storage for testing.

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Everpure FlashArray supports our VMware-based virtualization infrastructure. We use Pure all-flash arrays across sites for high availability and efficiency, with the main workload involving application-hosted VMs and databases in a hospitality environment. The main use case for using these flash arrays is utilizing VMware to have a VSAN-like data store.

We have different kinds of databases such as SQL and OCI tenants. Regarding the SQL part, they have a huge amount of tables, but the specific applications are not fully documented.

The main reason we are using all these Pure arrays is for utilizing them as a VSAN in VMware. Additionally, we aim for high availability, efficiency, and consistent performance on both sides, ensuring quick failover whenever there is downtime at the primary site.

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I have worked with Pure Storage for about three or four years now.

I have been in two companies where we were a partner with Pure, so my point of view of working with Pure was of course to sell them, but also to help customers with management of the arrays.

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My usual use cases for Everpure FlashArray involve being on the vendor side, where we sell the product to customers, but we also have managed services with various customers. It ranges from installing and performing code upgrades, so firmware upgrades for the boxes, doing hardware upgrades for the boxes, and performing your normal break-fix, replacing drives, controllers, power supplies, and those types of things.

Additionally, we perform baseline troubleshooting, level one and level two troubleshooting, as we are an ASP partner. If we cannot resolve it with level one and level two, we then contact Everpure and they get their level three, level four engineers on the line to assist with getting whatever the problems might be resolved.

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Pure Storage FlashArray is used specifically for all types of storage, which is used for the active-active sites. It is used for backup and block storage. We manage this in Azure as block storage, and in AWS, it is similar to S3 storage. The solution is used for products, non-production, and backup, making it versatile.

I am working with Pure Storage FlashArray product. I am working with four different versions, specifically X70, XL170, C60, and C90.

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My main use case for Everpure FlashArray is that we use it for all of our block storage, mainly LUNs for ESXi and other Linux hosts that need block storage.

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My use case involves transitioning from a different company and different storage. When I came to this company, we have some SAN storage, and comparing with the other storage, Everpure FlashArray only has a higher count, and it is very easy to learn as well. The storage is very user-friendly.

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I work for a Pure partner, so we are actually doing deployment of the arrays at the customer sites. That's one part. The second part is that we help customers to maintain the infrastructure. Not all of them, but many of them.

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We're using Pure Storage FlashArray for VMware; we have all of our VMs on it, and we use it strictly for VMs, management, and also replication, doing the active DR replication.

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All use cases for Everpure FlashArray are anything that requires a SAN should use it because it is the easiest thing on the market. Whether it is the higher-end Everpure FlashArray itself or FlashBlade, they are the best storage on the market, period. Not only from a performance standpoint, but also from a maintenance and ease of use perspective, it checks all the boxes across everything.

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I support Pure Storage FlashArray, so I use it for storage and do some automation; however, the main use is storage.

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Pure Storage FlashArray is used for storage purposes.

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I am from Europe and work with European standards and European colleagues from Everpure FlashArray. We use Everpure FlashArray as Storage as a Service, and this is our main vendor for storage.

I would say it is very important because it is the only storage we have, except for object storage. For flash storage, this is the only solution we have and it works very well.

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Our customers also appreciate Everpure FlashArray. As I remember from my memory, our customers did not complain about Everpure FlashArray. The function is good, but the pricing and some of our customers prefer to upgrade the firmware or software by themselves. With Everpure FlashArray, you have to use an authorized engineer. I think this is a common concern from our customers, as they might prefer to do it by themselves.

Everpure FlashArray has helped decrease my customer's storage footprint. Our customers always use Everpure FlashArray as a performance or hot data storage solution. The compression ratio is very good, and the throughput is excellent.

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My main use case for Everpure FlashArray is that we were using Pure Storage to be the underlying storage for our vSphere environment, basically to store our virtual machines and backups.

A quick specific example of how I use it in my daily workflow is that we use it as an underlying storage for our vSphere infrastructure where we have some mission-critical virtual machines running using VMware vSphere environment, and all those VMs are currently stored on Everpure FlashArray because of their high speed and throughput and high IOps. We decided to use flash storage because Pure is a market leader at the moment in that technology, which is why we decided to use it.

Their support from Pure Storage is really good. Whenever I needed something, I reached out to them, and they were always available to help us. This is one of the most important reasons we decided to go with them because their support was really good, although it was very expensive as well, since they have different tiers of support available, and the tier we selected was expensive. We decided to go with that because the support was really good and because of the nature of our environment.

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We use Everpure FlashArray for performing allocations and deallocations using the Pure Portal. We also create new LUNs and zoning through this interface.

When a user from Linux or Windows requests a new LUN, we create the zoning using a switch DCNM portal. After that, we use the LUN and create it using a WWPN within the Pure1 portal. We then create the LUN and provide the LUN ID to the user, which allows them to store their data into that LUN. The same process occurs in reverse for deallocation. First, we unmap the LUN from the host, then we delete the LUN, and finally we perform the unzoning.

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We use Everpure FlashArray to allocate space and create disaster recovery setups within our applications. The main goal is to provide storage to our clients, which is the primary purpose for using Pure Storage.

We recently had a request from clients who wanted to migrate their data from one of their storage arrays to Everpure FlashArray. I took up that project and created the zoning between their servers and Pure Storage. After that, I allocated the space to their servers to migrate their data from their ESXi hosts. This was a big challenge because the data is very important for them. We needed to complete the zoning part on time and allocate the space accordingly, and I kept everything in place on time. After that, they migrated their data, and currently, they are using Pure Storage.

As a storage array, Everpure FlashArray is mainly used to allocate storage. Beyond that, I perform upgrades on this Pure array with the help of the vendor. We can also do self-upgrades.

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The main use case for this solution is block storage. I deal with the transportation logistics industry.

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My main use case for Everpure FlashArray was file share storage and VM spin up storage. It was used for file sharing and VM spin up, specifically for scenarios involving hosting shared drives for critical applications. I used Everpure FlashArray for both file sharing and VM spin up; we had it for the VMs that house the 911 escalation calls and then for the software and files that were needed between all the departments.

That was primarily what we used it for as our main use case with Everpure FlashArray.

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I managed Pure Storage in my previous organization for various clients. We had clients from multiple domains, such as the financial domain, the automotive sector, and the banking industry. These customers had three different types of applications using Pure Storage. One of them was the Oracle Database with high throughput and low latency requirements.

The second one had time-sensitive functions, where a two-millisecond delay was acceptable but a five-millisecond delay was not. It required indexing and low latency.

The third type of use was hosting a virtual infrastructure, such as VMware VMs. These are the three areas where people used Pure Storage, specifically FlashArray storage, in their environment.

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Everpure FlashArray is used for storage, and it is very easy to maintain and very reliable. Everpure FlashArray does require maintenance on my end, as all servers and their storage arrays do.

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Initially, there were a few use cases we started with when looking at alternative storage platforms. Once upon a time, we were ran a different platform that was physically huge, power hungry, low on capacity and mediocre on performance. Use was complex and did not scale very well. It was also very cost prohibitive to maintain. We quickly outgrew it, especially when we started to adopt VMware vSphere virtualization.  We knew we had to replace this beast with something that made more sense for us.  We needed to reduce the footprint down to something a lot more reasonable.  We wanted to contain costs, especially when it comes to hardware investments and maintenance renewals. We also needed more intelligence, visibility and flexibility in our data storage platform.

We were introduced to Pure Storage through one of our long-term partners in the Chicagoland area who brought them in for a meet and greet. Their presentation was compelling. It was exciting to see what they were doing with technology, especially with the concept of data deduplication, so we decided to give it a go. The results were simply unbelievable. We deployed Pure into multiple datacenters effectively consolidating down entire row's of storage to a single rack. It ran circles around our legacy platform and what it did for VMWare was really something to see.  Boot times were drastically reduce, latency went from 30-40ms down to sub millisecond...consistently. 

As we continued to use Pure and their products evolved to add in additional features/technologies, we were able to solve other issues we never knew we had.  Our BC/DR playbooks were effectively rewritten to take advantage of array to array replication for disaster recovery.  Snapshots cut our product upgrade times in half because we no longer needed to rely on taking full backups of our environment before deploying new code.  Snaps were immediate and rolling back was almost just as fast. It was a true game changer.  Pure had single handedly improved our business strategies and making us more agile in provisioning storage and overall, running our datacenters. 

Over the years, we have witnessed Pure continuing to deliver new feature sets and technical enhancements in it's Purity code base.  Did I mention that all of these features and enhancements are part of cost of support?  Yep...no nickle and diming people to death. 

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I am an implementation engineer for Pure Storage FlashArray. We sell it through partners to different companies in Kazakhstan.

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I primarily work with small and medium-sized businesses, and Pure Storage FlashArray has consistently been our primary storage array. Initially, we dedicated it to SQL Storage, but after witnessing its exceptional performance, we expanded its use to encompass everything else in our environment. Previously, we used VNX from EMC, which was incredibly slow. The significant improvement from tens or hundreds of milliseconds to microsecond response times motivated us to upgrade and make FlashArray the core of our infrastructure.

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I use FlashArray to manage storage and DR sites for my clients.

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Virtualization with ESXi, Hyper-V, XenServer, KVM is the primary use case. VDI, containerization, AI, HPC are some other use cases seen in my day-to-day consulting with customers.

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We mainly use FlashArray to provide flash storage for SQL and Oracle databases in production.

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We use Pure Storage FlashArray as well as FlashBlade. In Pure Storage FlashArray, we have the SAN and NAS storage models. 

We focus on performance when it comes to enterprises. We need both types of storage, one is for better performance and the other one is for larger space requirements. We use both types of storage at the same time.

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We use Pure Storage FlashArray as our client storage solution. We create dedicated hosts and allocate appropriate storage space to each host server to accommodate their needs.

Our clients were experiencing difficulties running jobs and encountering storage limitations. By implementing Pure Storage FlashArray, we can remotely access the host server and expand the storage capacity to meet our clients' needs.

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I had four or five Flash Arrays. I used it primarily for virtualization and video media, depending on the workload. 

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I'm a Pure Storage partner and I have implemented two use cases for my customers. In one case, my FlashArray works like storage, but my CPU is in my other servers. In my other case, it works only as a backup.

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In terms of Pure Storage FlashArray, I am using the iSCSI protocol. We are building virtual machines on it. It is like a data store on the ESXi hypervisor. VMware virtual machines are built on it.

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We use Pure Storage FlashArray as storage in our VMware environment.

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I use Pure Storage FlashArray for backend storage in our VMware environment. View full review »

We use FlashArray for enterprise block workloads, especially VMware databases. Everything is a virtual environment these days. We work with companies in partner countries in industries like telecom and banking. 

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Our VMware infrastructure uses a Pure Storage FlashArray as its primary SAN storage solution.

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We use Pure Storage FlashArray as the primary storage for our virtualized environment. 

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We use Pure Storage FlashArray for storage allocation, DR, replication, and performance. We are migrating both servers and storage to Pure Storage.

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I use Pure Storage for multiple clients. One is a client related to postal services. We are using a database to manage six petabytes. 

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I use Pure Storage FlashArray to provide LUNs or volumes for end users who want to work on a database for zoning, enabling them to operate effectively with end-user arrays.

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We use Pure Storage FlashArray as the primary storage of our organization. 

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In our environment, we use Pure Storage FlashArray for VMware storage. We have a few hosts that are used for creating virtual machines (VMs) and provide storage to them. We also use it for providing storage to databases.

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We use the solution for virtual machine storage. Any virtual machine that we run is stored in Pure Storage. Everything from databases to applications runs off it.

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We primarily use the solution for storing data for applications. 

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The tool provides storage to new servers and maintains provision storage volumes like creating new servers for Windows and Linux, which are the system administrations of the storage system.

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This solution has been part of a POC. We've been evaluating the solution. 

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Pure Storage is located in manufacturing plants. Basically, we have VMware clusters and those clusters are supported by Pure Storage, and those clusters are intended to support those manufacturing plants.

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We use Pure Storage FlashArray because of the increased demand for high IOPs for some of our internal applications that were required to read and write in faster sway. 

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We use our Pure Storage FlashArray system for all storage allocations and management tasks, accessed through its standard graphical user interface.

My team is responsible for operating and maintaining our storage applications, including hardware replacement and vendor coordination with Pure Storage. The implementation of Pure Storage FlashArray has been successful due to its reliability and user-friendly interface, which has minimized disruptions and allowed for efficient workload management.

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We have a contract with Pure Storage, and we use it for VMware and database server storage provisioning.

We have multiple applications in the environment, and we are provisioning from Pure Storage.

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We have our own hosted environment that utilizes Pure. We also use it for customers. We use the solution both internally and externally. We use the tool for data storage and backups.

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The core use for us is to test development.

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We are using Pure Storage FlashArray for all of our SAN storage for our VMware environment

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Pure Storage FlashArray is used for hosting applications, such as Vmware, HyperV, and virtualized applications.

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We are using Pure Storage FlashArray for data protection. We keep our backup data on the solution.

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We use Pure Storage FlashArray for databases.

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Pure Storage Flash Array is used for data storage.

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We are in the health industry and use this product for block storage. We have VMware hosted on our Pure FlashArrays and we have a Citrix environment. We also have Oracle running as our SQL database. Our VMs run from Pure.

We have also done a couple of PoCs with the Blade solution for using the file share system.

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We have FlashArray and FlashBlade. We're using FlashArray primarily for VMFS storage tools for the VMware environment.

We have its latest version. It is on-premises, but we operate a private cloud.

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We use it just for test purposes in our organization.

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It's a very simple tool to use with extremely low latency and high performance.

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Our primary use case for this solution is focused on enterprise solutions, a support solution that needs either performance, reliability or cost. For example, most companies have databases, virtualized workloads, or VDI workloads. So with those kinds of environments like the Block Storage, it is perfect because it switches very well with the cost, performance, and reliability ratio. Additionally, it's easy to deploy to benefit the IT team in the management costs.

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We are using Pure Storage FlashArray for VMware data storage.

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We primarily use the solution for storage. 

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I help our customers build FlashArray. 

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Pure Storage FlashArray is applicable for virtual environments, e.g. CSS, VR, and YouTube platforms. It's an NVMe data storage platform.

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We use it for block storage workloads. We don't use a lot of the features on it.

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This product is for database usage and consolidating performance.

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At the moment, we're migrating our complete infrastructure onto Pure Storage. All of our storage is going onto it.

We are using its latest version.

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Pure Storage FlashArray is our main SAN solution. It's for SAN for service for data storage.

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We are a solution provider and the Pure Storage FlashArray is one of the products that we implement for our customers. I have installed three of them in the past month.

The primary use case for this product is high-performance storage.

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My primary use case of this solution is array management. 

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We use Pure Storage FlashArray for machine learning, storage, backups, and computing.

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We are using the latest version. 

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I'm a pre-sales architect. I architect, and I sell them as a partner with Pure Storage on the VAR side. Our customers use it for storage, mainly block-based storage and virtualization storage. Some solutions have both block and file storage, and some solutions only have file storage from Pure. 

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We primarily use the solution for storage. 

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I use the solution for the storage of our database and to run some algorithms to analyze data we retrieve from the internet.

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We use Pure Storage FlashArray in a couple of backup products. Our DDP offerings, data platform offerings, is where we use Veritas with Pure Storage FlashArray. Then, we use the Pure Azure Service model with the secure multi-tenancy features. Pure Storage FlashArray can be managed centrally.

In individual file cases where most customers were looking for performance-based, minimum latency applications, we have deployed Pure Storage FlashArray.

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We make use of the solution primarily for storage and DR replication.

We use the most recent stable version, as the latest one is still in a beta stage and too new to be employed.

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We put the solution onto the VMware environment and all the Microsoft SQL servers. We do the synchronization between two data centers, so that is has a very low latency. We just have a few milliseconds of latency which is a ready performance, and near perfect. 

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We use the FlashArray X20, M20, M10. We have regulations against cloud, so we're mostly on-Prem. However, we do use Office 365 for email and we have Azure for development on another team but I don't manage that team.

Our primary use case of this solution is to house data stores on virtual machines.

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In our company, we implemented a Pure Storage FlashArray for our VM virtualized environment. 

We do have vCenter integrated with Pure Storage. We use that application to deploy virtual volumes on our Pure Storage solution. We are still in the beginning stages, so we only have four virtual systems running on it. However, in the coming months, we will be migrating the bulk of all of our VMs over to vCenter and Pure Storage.

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I work for a company that offers outsourcing services for IT solutions. I work in system support and we are resellers of Pure Storage FlashArray. 

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Our customers primarily use Pure Storage for virtualization, whether it is VMware or Hyper-V. They choose Pure Storage for its high-performance, low-latency, and reliable all-flash arrays, which are essential for efficiently running virtualized workloads, including critical applications, databases, and virtual machines.

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We primarily use the solution for general block storage. Usually, the storage product owners are the users.

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We are using Pure Storage FlashArray for data backups.

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We use FlashArray for proofs of concept and to bring the clients our infrastructure to test them. We have six clients using the solution. Most of them are using the ActiveCluster configuration.

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We are using Pure Storage FlashArray for all of our data. We use the deduplication feature and it is working well.

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FlashArray is our main repository for all our VMware.

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We use this solution to assist with our on-premise database workloads; In conjunction with our Oracle database and SQL server database.

Within our organization, there are roughly four people using this solution.

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We use this solution for block storage.

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We use flash storage for VDI architecture and database architecture.

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We are basically using it for the department of space and online education purposes. We are using its latest version.

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Our primary use case is to keep the disc for all the critical systems in the company.

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We use the solution for VM storage in a private cloud model. The main motivations we had to run VMware on Pure were the simplicity and cost.

We're using the M70 R2.

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Our primary use case has been our production Oracle campus management database environment. We use Oracle PeopleSoft as our campus management solution and underneath that we have about six terabytes of Oracle Database. Our most demanding use-case for Pure Storage has been hosting these high performance, transactional databases, while also hosting all of our other critical application storage needs (MSSql data-warehouse, BI/Analytics, VMWare).

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Our primary use case for Pure Storage is for disaster recovery.

We use AWS for our cloud provider.

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We use the on-premise deployment model of this solution for the bank. We use AWS as our cloud provider. 

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We use the private deployment model of this solution and VMware for our storage provider. Our primary use case of this solution revolves around our clients. We have different tiers of storage. We use the Pure Storage FlashArray for our tier-one storage, our higher-level storage to support not only multi-tenant clients but also our private cloud clients, and to provide them with an all-flash storage solution.

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We use the private deployment model of this solution. In terms of our cloud provider, we use Azure, we are signing on with AWS, and we'll be using vCloud in the next quarter.

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We primarily use the solution for internal storage for all virtual environments. We also use it for the SQL database, Oracle and private cloud. The storage is used to manage the internal private environment.

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We primarily use this solution for our SQL server in an on-premises deployment.

Having a dedicated array for our SQL server is very nice.

We are running VMware on Pure, and the main driver for that is because it is all-flash. Also, we wanted a dedicated solution for our SQL environment. Running on Pure has given us the ability to scale out our SQL environments. We tripled our environment in the past three years since implementing this solution, and we have not had any issues with the storage keeping up with the workloads.

We are making use of some of the VMware integrations that have been developed by Pure, but we are really waiting for the copy data management part.

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Our primary use case of this solution is to manage our virtual environment and storage so our entire VMware environment runs on Pure. 

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We use the solution on-premises and each array has a different use case. We have VDI, SQL, and General and the program provide better integration between the management and visibility of the solution. Our organization takes advantage of the VMware integration developed by Parrot and this gives us a lower level administrative access to more admins that don't have a background in storage.

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We use the solution for the vendor support. It's a banking software system. It's an IBM system and it requires some Pure Storage for the backend and SSDs for performance. The vendor supports Pure Storage. 

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Our primary use case for this solution is for tier 1 critical applications on-premises. 

Our organization takes advantage of the VMware integration developed by Pure by integrating with vRealize.

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We primarily use the solution for desktop virtualization.

I have IOPS and IOPS input/output. The reason that we have virtualization required for the media is because of high IOPS and we're able to maintain it with PR. The encryption is pretty high. We like the encryption right on the storage.

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We use this solution for general, primary storage in an on-premises deployment.

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Our primary use case of this solution is for Citrix. 

We use the on-premise deployment model. 

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We are a system integrator and this is one of the solutions that we provide for our clients.

For our most recent customer, this solution is being used to host VMware workloads in an on-premises deployment.

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We use the private on-premise deployment model. Our primary use case of this solution is for virtual machines. We just use it as storage for our vCenter environment.

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We use the on-premises deployment model of this solution. Our primary use case is for virtualization. 

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We use the hybrid cloud deployment model of this solution and use both AWS and Microsoft Azure as our cloud providers. Our primary use case for this solution is for mixed workloads. 

We are running VMware on Pure. Pure gave us the storage because we're a partner so we're running on it.

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Our primary use for this solution is storage. We have a private cloud deployment.

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We use it as our primary application driver for all of storage reasons in our data center for both our corporate and production environments.

We just did all-flash, and all-flash is better than anything disk related.

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Anytime that you need fast storage. 

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It is storage for our database system.

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We use it for our financial core storage.

It has been a good product. It has a lot of good features on it.

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It's the back-end storage for all our virtual environments.

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We use it as reliable storage.

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It is for storage.

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As a customer, we use them as our Tier 1 storage arrays. It has been amazing. It's extremely fast, reliable, and resilient.

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It is our core storage.

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The primary use case is for any server and database that has high I/O demands on disk.

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We use virtual servers on there.

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We attach it to a Cisco UCS for VMware.

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We have all-flash for our SQL environment.

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Our primary use case is SAP. 

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The primary use case is big data. 

SAP is very important for our business. We are running our management system on SAP, so it's very critical. We are running SAP S/4HANA and other ERP modules. We run our config on-premise.

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The primary use case is to run SAP applications on top of the flash solutions.

SAP is very important to our business. It's a key function. We are running ERP and CRM systems. Our systems run on-premise.

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The primary use case is SAP. It work very well.

SAP is very important to our business. We are running all ERP solutions. Our configurations are run on-premise. 

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All of our production, development, and workloads run on it.

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The primary use case is for on-premise storage.

I have personally used this solution for 15 years, and now, four years with my current company.

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It's a high performance storage array. We want some deals regarding replication and stretch cluster. 

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We use it for performance, the capacity of deduplication, and compression of the data.

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We are using Pure Storage as an all-flash product. It is a niche product, and only used for high performance data.

With Dell EMC, they have all-flash arrays, but they also have other types of storage. Our client use the solution for DevOps and their high speed databases. 

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The primary use case is storage for payment platforms.

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We have workloads that demand high IOPS, so a lot of speed, fast access, time, and overall high performance.

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There are two real use cases. 

1. General purpose infrastructure for VMs. 
2. Business technical applications, such as Oracle DB or MS SQL DB. 

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We have a lot of MEDITECH electronic health records systems running on it, as well as some other ancillary applications, but it's core hospital EHR, predominantly.

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We use the space and optimize the makeup of the storage products.

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The primary use case is for the data and storage that we utilize in our managed services. 

We also use it in the company. We localized it.

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We are a reseller of Pure Storage FlashArray. Our customers use it for virtualization, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

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The primary use case is block storage for retro machines running on VMware ESXi and Red Hat with Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVMs).

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We use it for VMware virtualization.

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VMware is currently our main use case because it dedupes really well.

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We're a service provider, so it's the primary storage for hosting our customers.

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We run our production Oracle workload on it.

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The primary use case is virtual machines.

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Our primary use case of this solution is for Microsoft SQL. 

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Our primary use of Pure Storage was for a data virtualization project using Belfrics. We needed the latency that would be required for the project.

The analytics that we gather is used for just one environment (which is big in the banking industry). Production wise, it's running Oracle. Performance wise, it's basically running enterprise applications.

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We use Pure Storage on our databases. We have massive SQL databases, four-node clusters and we present a LUN directly to them. Then we have Fusion-io cards as a backup. We also use Pure in our data centers to replicate our databases for our DR center so that we can be secure. 

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The primary use of Pure Storage was for a data virtualization project using Belfrics. We needed the latency that would be required for the product.

We are moving into a DevOps environment and CI/CD. Their departmentalization was an enabler because database is a service in the pipeline where the underlying risk factor has to be correct, especially the storage. This primarily applies to the driver and the infrastructure as a base, but the end game is to have a DevOps pipeline.

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We use it for nearline storage.

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It is the SAN backbone for our company. We have multiple SANs, all Pure at this point. It runs everything from tasks to business intelligence to enterprise applications.

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We've been using this solution for four years. We are on-prem with Pure and we are not using any of Pure's off-prem product. We do have experience with a variety of storage in AWS. For us, it's still two very different things, we like Pure Storage because our key business systems are still on-prem. It's been extremely reliable and gets the job done. 

Our primary use case is for Oracle databases, data warehouses, and mission critical apps. 

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All of our production and development workloads run on Pure Storage.

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We use it for storage of critical data, and for storage of replicated backups.

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Our primary use case is a big bucket of storage for VMware. We run our virtual machines mostly to make sure that we have our SQL databases sitting on Pure Storage, because it's the fastest storage which we have available.

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We use this solution for storage of critical data and for storage of replicated backups. We use Zerto replication software. We write all of those backups to Pure Storage and then we use those in our disaster recovery scenarios.

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We have bare-metal boxes now so we are thinking of going Cloud. We have to have a hybrid solution because we're closer to the financial industry and we have regulations that require us to have on-premise systems. In that case, we would go with Pure Storage.

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We use this solution for our database, log store, and for the file system.

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Our primary use case of this solution is to keep our production and DR data in this storage.

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Our primary use case of this solution is for storage. We use it to ensure better application performance and to improve the user experience of the application. The cross-storage appliance improves the overall application experience. We have been using this solution as an on-premise solution. It has been useful for our critical applications.

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Our primary use case of this solution is for Rack Database Storage and Virtualized Server Storage.

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We use this solution for everything. We have a mixed storage use. 

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Our primary use case of this solution is for the fast storage and database. 

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Our primary use case of this solution is for the production storage, development, and DR storage. 

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We're providing some ESXi solutions to our customers with high performance.

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We use it for VDI.

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Since we're a database shop, we primarily do databases on Pure. Everything else follows from that.

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Pure has become the main storage solution for our customers. It is mainly used for our customers' Oracle databases.

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The Pure Storage array houses our entire production environment. Production consists of VMware 5.5 on three HPE DL360 G7 hosts.

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Our customers are using Pure Storage to replacing old storage infrastructure.

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We do a lot of Oracle implementations and getting Oracle workloads to run faster and better. For a lot of our customers, they are looking at Pure Storage for its underlying storage. It makes everything a lot easier for them in terms of increasing performance, lowering operational costs, and making their day-to-day lives easier.

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Most of our customers who use Pure Storage have one of two scenarios: 

1. They have production data with high performance requirements running out of Pure Storage, and they want an efficient way to make a copy of that data onto some other storage for backup and DR purposes. For this scenario, we have integration with Pure Storage that allows us to very efficiently leverage their APIs to capture that data without the need to do things like repeated full copies of that data, leverages their snapshot APIs and differential APIs which tell us what's different from one snap to another to another.
2. The customer has their data, maybe it is on Pure Storage or it's on some other array, then they want to use Actifio to get a copy onto a Pure Storage array. 

For example, an Oracle user might need to make a copy of a large Oracle Database. They would want us to spin that database up in one or more lower, testing, or QA environments. These environments sometimes have high performance requirements, which could be met by placing a copy on Pure Storage on them.

Another example is a customer who has Oracle Exadata. Obviously, Oracle engineered systems have very high performance, and they don't want to have all of their test and dev copies in that Exadata platform, because of the cost of the platform. Therefore, Pure Storage, combined with Actifio, captures the data efficiently from the Exadata environment, then stores it on the Pure Storage disk. We then present that data to their test servers, which can be the Exadata Compute Servers or it can be any non-Exadata Linux-based Oracle servers. Then, they can have great performance because of the high speed delivery of data from Pure Storage using Actifio.

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We sell a SaaS offering of the storage to our customers. We use the storage as our main storage and also as our backup storage.

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We use it for virtualization.

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We use Pure Storage for most of our databases, as well as for other application binaries.

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We use Pure Storage FlashArray as the storage for our virtual servers and our reporting databases.

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Our VDI with VMware Horizon include 100 VM for office and graphics desktop with nVidia GRID, the low latency and the high deduplication permit to reduce storage footprint, power consumption and to increase the consolidation on few VMware Host.

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SAN solution for Tier 1 storage for VMware, Exchange, SQL, and physical servers; trying to fit as much production load as possible on them.

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Production storage for a lot of virtual machines. As a service provider, it is very important to have something with this much performance.

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