Everpure FlashArray Reviews

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.

My favorite feature about Pure Storage FlashArray is definitely the simplicity. In one word, it's simple to install, simple to upgrade, simple to maintain, and simple to manage. All the phases of that word are covered by Pure Storage FlashArray.

The storage footprint has been decreased with Pure Storage FlashArray, and that's also another great feature. They probably have the best reduction algorithms implemented on the market. On the install base we have, we can see an average of around 3-to-1 data reduction. That's well above other vendors we work with.

I think Pure Storage FlashArray can improve the file services that are enabled from factory, as they definitely have room for improvement.

I'm missing a few functions in terms of how they can be improved, but the most important for me would be to enable file services on the stretch cluster. Having two arrays in the stretch cluster would also provide file services.

Their interface, the dashboard, or as they call it, a single management pane of glass, is very intuitive. Sometimes I could imagine there could be more choices visible to the administrator.

Scalability is usually not as scalable as other vendors because they are pretty limited, especially with the low-end models, where you usually cannot scale above the single box. That's something they can work on.

I have been using Pure Storage FlashArray for approximately the last two years in my entire career.

Fortunately, I have not seen any instability, lagging, crashing, or downtime with Pure Storage FlashArray.

Scalability is usually not as scalable as other vendors because Pure Storage FlashArray is pretty limited, especially with the low-end models, where you usually cannot scale above the single box. That's something they can work on.

I have contacted the technical support or customer support of Pure Storage FlashArray many times.

The quality of the support and the speed of the support is exceptional. They never let me down. They usually work pretty fast.

For support, I would give them something between 8 and 9 on a scale from 1 to 10. I would say nine for the support.

I have used alternatives to Pure Storage FlashArray, such as solutions from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which is our second vendor we work with.

The initial deployment for Pure Storage FlashArray was super easy for me. I remember it took approximately one hour to fully deploy it.

You definitely need someone to help you with the case to get it to the rack, so that's definitely not one person's work. All the rest is very easily done by one person.

Similar solutions include those from Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

I don't think as a company we have any customer that uses Evergreen architecture and understands how important it is, so we don't use it. I will not comment on that.

I think the pricing for Pure Storage FlashArray is the major issue because all the great things come with the price, and a lot of customers simply are not willing to accept it. That's why we also have some cheaper alternatives for them.

Everything needs maintenance, so Pure Storage FlashArray is not an exception. You need to patch it, but usually, it's very straightforward and easy to do.

Pure Storage FlashArray has helped me to decrease or reduce downtime. On other platforms we work with, there's sometimes trouble with the performance management during the upgrades of the array or some failures. In the case of Pure Storage FlashArray, they stick to what they say in the marketing, that they always keep the performance of the array no matter what kind of situation you are with the array. That's a very nice thing.

I would rate this review a 9 out of 10.

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.

Pure Storage FlashArray has helped us decrease the storage footprint in a significant way; the dedupe and compression that they have is really good, and we're getting about four to ten in the deduplication and compression.

Pure Storage FlashArray is very easy to use and easy to set up; it's not super complex, it's pretty simple. The interface of Pure Storage FlashArray is really good, helping out with creating volumes or LUNs. It's just very intuitive, making it easy to use. I'm not stumbling around trying to find everything. 

The best way to improve Pure Storage FlashArray is the active DR because that can get very confusing, especially when you're trying to test a failover and replicate back; better instructions on how to do that would help because we actually lost an entire volume when we were testing out some stuff as the fingerprint got reinitialized, and when you replicated back, it didn't know about that volume, causing a failure in that process. Better documentation on their failover would make a big difference.

I've been using it for three years.

I have not seen any instability with Pure Storage FlashArray.

The scalability of Pure Storage FlashArray is very good; it scales very well.

The quality and speed of support are very good; they will answer the phone and help you through the issue you're running into. I would give them a nine out of ten.

Positive

I've used alternatives such as NetApp FlashArray, and for the VMware side, we were using HPE 3PAR before we migrated off of the 3PAR onto Pure Storage FlashArray.

Pure Storage is really good on the LUN presentation; however, I haven't worked with Pure Storage for the NFS and CIFS side because that's what we were using NetApp for, and I think NetApp shines in the NFS and CIFS side. Regarding speed, the speed of the array is really good.

The deployment was quite simple and not difficult to set up. The only issues we encountered involved our security team and allowing traffic to go out to the Internet. We had to navigate various challenges to make everything work. We had it up and running within a day for the first time.

Since we were the government, we weren't allowed to let Pure control our systems, so we did all the upgrades ourselves; their upgrades are very frequent, making it a little difficult to keep up with them. We would stay on one version and not do any incremental upgrades; for example, we would upgrade from 6.15 to 6.17, sticking with the stable version instead of upgrading to a non-stable version. We would stay on the long-term release, and whenever that changed, we would move up to the new long-term release.

It required a whole team, about three of us, working on it and getting it built.

The pricing for Pure Storage FlashArray is in line with all the other vendors; they haven't priced themselves out of the market yet, and the Evergreen side of what they offer is actually really interesting because you can replace your head units or existing storage, and it just migrates, so it's actually really nice.

The dashboard is really good; as long as you're allowed to use it. We're not allowed to use it because we are a government organization, so not all of our Pure Storage showed up there because we don't allow internet access to that equipment. Overall, it gives you a way to see what you have that is presented out to Pure Storage, allowing you to have a central view of all your systems in one pane instead of having to go to all different clusters. 

I would rate Pure Storage FlashArray a nine out of ten.

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

The solution has helped decrease our total cost of ownership thanks to the compression, so we don't need to buy as much storage as we use, which helps keep our costs down.

In Pure Storage FlashArray, the dedupe and compression are excellent, and performance is good too. 

We use the Evergreen architecture for our upgrades and scaling. The portal, which we use for upgrades, is exceptional, and it influences our ability to maintain uptime because we can do most tasks from there. The single management pane of glass works effectively, and the portal is excellent.

The solution has decreased our storage footprint, so instead of using an array with a higher capacity, due to the dedupe and compression, we can use a much smaller array to accommodate our data. It has decreased our storage by four times.

The solution has helped reduce downtime, and downtime is similar to most storage solutions, which have good resilience.

More cloud connectivity would enhance the solution. Something that could be slightly enhanced is additional AI capabilities. These areas have room for improvement.

I have been using Pure Storage FlashArray since 2008, so I have 17 years of experience.

For stability, I rate it a ten out of ten. We don't have many problems.

For scalability, I rate it a six out of ten. We reach a limit. We never reached this limit, however, the architecture allows you to go until a certain size, and after that, you have to buy another array.

The environment is used across multiple locations, spread around the globe. The number of users that use the solution is close to 1000.

I would rate the technical support for Pure Storage FlashArray as an eight out of ten.

Positive

When comparing Pure Storage FlashArray with other products or vendors such as Dell and IBM, I prefer it because the support and management are better and easier. The performance and cost compared to other disk and flash storages is probably better in cost, while the performance is the same today. The main advantage is in management and support.

It's easy to deploy. We have it across multiple locations.

The solution requires maintenance, and it is easy.

I would recommend this product to other users. It is a good product. 

I would rate Pure Storage FlashArray overall as an eight out of ten. It is excellent. 

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.

The best features include its user-friendliness and the eradication period functionality. Before I worked on NetApp storage, I did not hear about those features. When I used Everpure FlashArray, this is the best option to restore our data to the maximum within the day or at maximum the eradication period, which I can see in the Pure One portal showing eight days. If I delete data today, within the next eight days, I can restore the data if I want. Otherwise, I can delete it immediately. The enabling option for security is very good, and the authentication as well. If I want to do any modification, I need to check with Pure support, and then only they will enable the remote assist and those features. Overall, it is very useful for us in Everpure FlashArray, comparing with the other storage.

The areas that have room for improvement include the scheduling process for upgrades. Whenever we plan the upgrade, we reach out to support to schedule at the mentioned date and time. Sometimes they mention they do not have any availability on that date and time. They could improve this by arranging for some engineer at that time, which would be very beneficial for us.

I have been using Everpure FlashArray for around two years.

The reduction in downtime depends upon the issue. A couple of months ago, we had a different version, and during that time, we planned to upgrade and found out the version is no longer used. During that time, we faced some controller issues, and within the day, they replaced the controller, and we performed the upgrade as well. The downtime reduction depends upon the issue only. Otherwise, it is very good storage.

It is on-premises storage only that we are using.

My thoughts on the single pane of glass view for visibility are that it provides very good visibility. Whenever I reach out for any Pure support, we have some KB articles that make it easy to identify the issue and fix those issues within a time or when any major issues happen. The support is very good with Pure support. I would rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

Comparing Everpure FlashArray with other solutions like Dell, NetApp, or IBM, it is very user-friendly and easy to learn, as I mentioned initially. Here, we can directly create the host and host group features, which makes it very easy. Comparing with the other storage, I am not sure about that. I have experience for only two years, but when I came to this environment, it was easy to adapt and learn because when checking the internet through Google or YouTube, there are more videos available, and the learning process is very easy.

It is very easy to deploy because even people who do not have any knowledge about storage can easily learn Everpure FlashArray. It is very user-friendly because the GUI and the CLI are very easy to learn and adapt to.

Comparing this product with other products for flash storage, we are regularly purchasing only Everpure FlashArray because of the support and the user-friendly features.

Regarding Everpure FlashArray's Evergreen Architecture, the upgrade process is very easy. We have two options: we can upgrade manually ourselves in Pure support, or if we do not enable the PS1, we need to reach out to Pure support, and they help us enable the upgrade as well. Currently, we are using version N minus one 6.9.3, which is not the latest version.

In my team, we have five to six people, but in the environment, we have a total of eight Everpure FlashArray systems. Each data center has four storage systems, and around lakhs of people use this SAN storage, the FlashBlade, and Everpure FlashArray.

I would recommend this product to other users because Everpure FlashArray is very easy to maintain compared to other SAN storage and easy to handle as well. I can identify the issue very clearly on the GUI side, and the performance and latency aspects are easy to identify. Furthermore, the replication features are very easy to handle as well.

Pure Storage FlashArray is used for storage purposes.

The best features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the all-flash NVMe, which is the primary one, along with the increased throughput compared to other products, and absolutely close to zero downtime. Pure Storage provides immediate support during any break fixes or outages. In the past 9-10 years, there have been only three to four incidents with serious downtime, and Pure Storage was able to get back on our feet pretty quickly with each of them.

Having a single management pane of glass view is very important for me, as I have 90 to 100 Pure Storage FlashArray arrays. The Pure1 console allows me to access, monitor, and administer all the Pure Storage FlashArray arrays, making it absolutely essential to have the single pane of view. This is a handy way to manage all arrays under one single pane, and this likely goes for other customers as well.

Regarding downtime reduction, Pure Storage FlashArray has reduced downtime by about 98%.

Despite liking Pure Storage FlashArray, there is room for improvement in automation. Pure Storage FlashArray needs to enhance this aspect compared to other products. Even though Pure Storage FlashArray has started working on automation, I believe small issues should be fixed automatically without requiring manual intervention from me.

When I say automation, I mean that Pure Storage FlashArray should be able to auto-recover from small failures, as I do not see it doing this right now. For instance, even if there is a port failure, it requires my intervention. At some point, Pure Storage FlashArray should be able to auto-repair and auto-resolve many of these things, unless it is definitely a hardware replacement, which I understand.

I work with American Express and Pure Storage FlashArray is used a lot. I have been using Pure Storage FlashArray for the past 9-10 years.

Overall, Pure Storage FlashArray has not helped decrease my storage footprint, as I have other solutions. It did not consolidate the other solutions, since we do not work with one storage vendor. We have multiple vendors and products, starting with 30 arrays and now at 90 arrays, which is a pretty big leap we have made. At the same time, it did not encourage us to decrease our footprints on the other products, as we have multiple products for multiple purposes.

For 90 arrays for Pure Storage FlashArray only, we have 20 plus engineers using the solution.

Regarding support for Pure Storage FlashArray, I rate it a nine.

Positive

We have experience with other solutions such as Dell, NetApp, and HP. We do not have IBM, but we have Isilon, which is also Dell, along with some object storage and S3 compatible storage.

In terms of deployment experience with Pure Storage FlashArray, I find it to be pretty easy.

Deploying one array takes three to four hours if the rack and cabling are in place. However, a week is a standard time because we have to do a lot of rack and cabling and physical infrastructure as well.

We handle a lot of upgrades ourselves, but if there is something critical, the vendor comes into the picture. In terms of dependability, we are at 80-20, with 80% of the work done by ourselves and 20% requiring Pure Storage FlashArray's help.

Pure Storage FlashArray has not helped decrease the total cost of ownership.

Regarding pricing, I think we are around eight on this scale. When I first started with Pure Storage FlashArray, I would say the product was very cheap compared to other storage products. Starting around 10-15 years ago, and obviously to balance in the market, Pure Storage FlashArray had to increase their cost. While I still find it very cost-effective, prices have increased a lot in the past 10 to 12 years. Along with that, there are new capabilities, so I would go with eight.

In evaluating Pure Storage FlashArray against other disk and flash storages in terms of performance and power, I think it is on par with the biggest player in the market, which is Dell EMC. There are cheaper software storage solutions available in the market. Therefore, if Pure Storage FlashArray can work on the costing, it will be good for end-users like me.

We are actually using the self-service portal for upgrades. We started doing this for the past one year and are yet to make a transition to Evergreen. It is in the roadmap to use Evergreen because Pure Storage FlashArray has not actually given us the complete view for Evergreen, since a lot of our products are being onboarded on Pure Storage FlashArray. As of now, we are doing the self-service upgrade and it is in the roadmap to have Evergreen onboarded.

Regarding how Pure Storage FlashArray has helped with decreasing downtime, in terms of how it has decreased my storage footprint, I am unsure if I am referring to storage footprints on other products or not.

Pure Storage FlashArray does not require maintenance such as updates, upkeeping, or patching. It was a partner purchase, and I was not actually involved in the purchasing process, as we have a dedicated team. We have a long-standing relationship with Pure Storage FlashArray, so I think it always goes pretty smoothly. As we talk, we are still in the process of buying multiple Pure Storage FlashArray products, so the process has been absolutely smooth and the experience has been good.

I would recommend Pure Storage FlashArray to other users because, first, the speed that I get with Pure Storage FlashArray is not remotely possible with any other product at this price range, and second, the support is absolutely fantastic. For P1 scenarios, we get on a call with an engineer, and the engineers are mostly available throughout the day, whether it is a weekday or a weekend. When we need someone to join the webex, Pure Storage FlashArray joins in very quickly, which is not possible with the other products. We prefer Pure Storage FlashArray, which is why we have a lot of them. Pure Storage FlashArray is the primary solution at the moment for SAN and block storage. I would rate this review a 9.

I think plenty of our customers find Everpure FlashArray's single management pane of glass important because they are telling us that they are using the management once a month or something like that. It's simple and not demanding on either the training or the maintenance. It's easy to find the assets even if you are not entering many times, and it's easy to perform changes. Now it's becoming even much easier because if you are working with seven or ten arrays in your environment, with Fusion, you can manage all of them with just one. Having access to one of those arrays, you can be performing operations as a whole with the rest. The latest upgrades and software functionalities they are developing make this even easier. You can even perform operations with Copilot, which is integrated. It's becoming easier and easier compared to other solutions. I know about Data on Tap, for example, or some other solutions of the other manufacturers. Compared to those, this is something that the customers are telling us. When they are buying Pure, they are finding that it's much easier and more robust.

I see room for improvement because the only moment you don't have room for improvement is when either you are dead or you are obsolete. There's room for improvement because the market is going to demand more and more automation, which Pure has a very clear roadmap about. The situation about pricing is uncertain, and nobody can tell if it's going to change and revert to a prior state. The difference in pricing could become a problem for Pure because the commoditization of the solutions could lead to a different price being a problem. Even though there are differences, you have to keep working to ensure those differences are related to the pricing and make sense. The gap and balance between pricing and features is important, and Pure should keep trying to be similar in prices, at least not just in the total cost of ownership for six years, but at the starting point. More room for improvements exists in general when you are in the market. Pricing and being different and making things easier for the customer is going to keep you in the market for a long term. Probably there are more things that could be improved, but overall, those two things are what I think they have to keep an eye on.

I rate the technical support of Everpure FlashArray really, really good. This is what the customers are telling us that they are most happy with. The technical support is what is convincing them the most that this is the best solution. It's very good compared to other support options.

I would rate their support as nine point five out of ten. The company is growing and it's difficult to keep the excellence and the level of quality that they maintain. The quality in this case is excellent. For a long time, the solution was ten out of ten. Now it's nine point five out of ten because we are so used to having responses in fifteen minutes and having so much excellent service that when it's just superb, it can sometimes leave the impression that they scaled to a huge size and it's quite similar to what it was.

My experience with the deployment of Everpure FlashArray is that it is easy to deploy. This was the main first reason I came to start working with Pure. I was used to deployments that could last for weeks, but the deployment of Everpure FlashArray takes forty-five minutes at maximum. When you have training and are trained, if this is not the very first time you are doing it by yourself, it could take a little more, but one hour at the most. This has been my experience for all the time we are working with Pure. It's not that there are more features today, but the complexity of installation has remained the same.

Overall, I am sure that Everpure FlashArray is the best option on the market. I have been competing with many other solutions, and the fact is that when I'm selling to any customer that is buying this solution for a long-term project, we are usually offering the Forever option for the maintenance. The Evergreen Forever program is valuable. A couple of our customers have had their SSD modules changed at no cost to NVMe modules with much higher capacities and much higher performance without any cost. They are keeping the promises they made ten years ago. This is quite important because most of our customers bought this solution three years ago or six years ago, and they expect the same in the next years. This is of utmost importance. The promises they were making at the beginning, they are keeping them. The pricing of the maintenance is so important. We are keeping the same cost to the customer for maintenance that we started seven years ago. This is really important when you want to keep a healthy infrastructure.

Nowadays, I find the pricing of Everpure FlashArray reasonable as the difference between Pure and other solutions is almost not much of a difference. Pure is going to have the prices raised as the rest of the manufacturers because this is an environment that is the same for everyone almost. It used to be a difference, a premium of nearly thirty to fifty percent higher in the case of Pure Everpure when it wasn't called Everpure a couple of years ago. You had to speak to the customer and sell them the difference between the solutions because talking capacity to capacity, terabyte per terabyte, euro per euro and IOPS per IOPS, you have to make the customer see the differences, and the pricing was much higher compared. Nowadays, there's not much of a difference because the hardware cost has reached a point that is quite balanced with other solutions. Overall, if you are comparing some other solutions, they don't have a program like the Evergreen program. In the end, in a six-year term, all the other solutions are becoming more expensive than Pure. I would rate this review as nine point five out of ten.

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.

I have used Everpure FlashArray's Evergreen architecture for my upgrades and scaling up.

Everpure FlashArray's continuous uptime capability is a really important function for my customer's ability to maintain operations.

Everpure FlashArray has helped to decrease my customer's storage footprint.

Everpure FlashArray has also helped to reduce downtime. The distribution and selling channel in Taiwan is not as strong compared to other countries, which is a consideration for our customers.

Our customers using Dell storage also use competing solutions. Our customers who have Everpure FlashArray may also have the NetApp AFF series or Dell Isilon.

I have been dealing with Everpure FlashArray for four years.

Everpure FlashArray is very good with AI development. I would say Everpure FlashArray is very suitable for low downtime and critical mission storage. Customers who need critical mission storage and those chasing performance should consider this solution. Our customers have to realize that if they want to iterate fast in AI development, they need to invest in Everpure FlashArray.

In the long term, I would recommend Everpure FlashArray. With the Evergreen program, you will always keep the hardware fresh, which is very beneficial. Our customers who may have an old NetApp with storage that is end of service or end of lifetime but is still being used for six or eight years in Taiwan are experiencing issues with old, unsecure machines that have no maintenance. I do not see this as very good because the machine just survives, but the productivity is very low. Everpure FlashArray always keeps the hardware fresh. Our customers can scale up or scale out, raise the performance, and expand the storage spaces by investing every year. From a sustainability perspective, I would say Everpure FlashArray is a better choice.

I would rate Everpure FlashArray's technical support as nine out of ten. It is excellent.

For now, our customers do not have the Evergreen program because of the price. Evergreen is an excellent product, but the total cost of ownership is too high. Our customers say that if they had Evergreen, they would upgrade their storage maybe every four years and could save on maintenance fees.

The initial deployment is very smooth. We always just connect to the network and proceed. It is a very good experience to deploy Everpure FlashArray.

Everpure FlashArray is more suitable with the NVIDIA DGX series because most computer science applications cannot build that much throughput to storage. If you are using the NVIDIA HGX, especially the NVIDIA DGX series, they can produce that much throughput and will stretch the performance. I would say Everpure FlashArray is more suitable for customers with performance requirements.

In the long term, I would recommend Everpure FlashArray. With the Evergreen program, you will always keep the hardware fresh.

The only issue is the pricing. Because we have competition, our customers always take another brand and say they can save their investment. We always lose because of the pricing issue.

Our customers who have Everpure FlashArray may also have the NetApp AFF series or Dell Isilon.

I cannot think of any negative feedback because I always prefer Everpure FlashArray. I would rate this review a nine out of ten.

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.

The best features Everpure FlashArray offers include flash storage because of its high speed and also the redundancy. We really love that redundancy, which is not only at the storage level but at the array level and at the power level and network level. Everything is redundant, making Pure Storage stand out compared to other tools and technologies provided by different vendors.

These features have benefited my organization in terms of performance and reliability because the redundant array means not only is the storage level such as the disks redundant, but the network cards and power are also redundant. That's why we decided to use that, as our virtual machines run some really critical applications. We needed that redundancy available to us all the time, and in case something goes wrong on one side of the storage, we know that the other side will always be available to help. The redundancy from Pure Storage is really efficient.

One unique feature that stood out to me is that their GUI portal is really helpful to check the status of Everpure FlashArray, all the networks, and all the components. You can actually go and see and view the status so you can proactively monitor them and also ingest the monitoring with different monitoring tools. That's a really good feature of Pure Storage.

Everpure FlashArray has positively impacted my organization by improving uptime and making our job easier, but it obviously comes with a high cost because Pure Storage is an expensive product.

I have noticed specific outcomes related to improved uptime and making my job easier, including a limited number of outages and faster recovery times, as we never had any outage in terms of Pure Storage, so it was always up and available for us.

Everpure FlashArray can be improved by possibly enhancing the user experience by providing users with more access so they can tweak the settings by themselves, which could be suited to their own environment. Currently, Pure does not provide that, so you have to actually lean on Pure support to make changes to the configuration.

I have been using Everpure FlashArray for three years.

Everpure FlashArray is stable.

In terms of scalability, it can be tricky because if you're going to scale your storage, sometimes you have to go for another array or maybe you need to change the chassis. Scalability is not an easy option for Pure Storage, so you have to be very careful when you are getting that product for you.

Customer support for Everpure FlashArray is amazing, as they're always available and they are all around the globe, so whenever you need them, they are always able to help you.

I did not previously use a different solution, as we started with Pure Storage.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was good, as the account manager was closely in touch with us to decide and design the pricing module for us.

I have seen a return on investment, particularly in that we needed fewer employees.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was good, as the account manager was closely in touch with us to decide and design the pricing module for us.

Before choosing Everpure FlashArray, I evaluated other options, including IBM and Dell.

My advice to others looking into using Everpure FlashArray is that it's a really good product, especially if your main purpose is to get high speed with more redundancy and reliability; then go for it. However, it comes with a cost, as it's not cheap.

I rate the customer support a nine on a scale of one to ten.

I rate Everpure FlashArray a ten on a scale of one to ten for being the best.

I chose ten for my rating because of the speed, redundancy, and support—all these three things.