Pure Storage FlashArray Valuable Features

Alfadel Alharthy - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Services Manager at NAMA

The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic.

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DC
Operation Manager at a leisure / travel company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The most valuable features of this solution are the speed, ease of use, administration, and the support model.

We have the VMware plugin for Pure storage. It's the plugin that allows us to create a data store. It's super simple but we use it. It's in vCenter. The integrations have helped by making it quicker to deploy data storage.

If we have a LUN that is ready to have a data store put on it, rather than us having to give access to certain people to create data stores, they can just do it directly from vCenter and they won't have to have access to the array. It makes it easier. It's a little faster.

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John_Sweet - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Storage Engineer at Charles Schwab

The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC.

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Buyer's Guide
Pure Storage FlashArray
April 2024
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TY
Senior Network Engineer at US Dept of Energy Idaho Operations Office

The simplicity is the most valuable feature. I do not have to deal with how to provision RAIDs or manage disks. I just plugin my disk groups, and it does it all on the back-end. I just identify the size and volume that I want and the host that I want to deploy it to, then it just shows up and works. It has been incredibly simple to use, and it is incredibly fast.

Simpler is always better in my mind. Just making it quicker and easier to deploy, then also making it so that there is less chance of error. 

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Ricky Winandityo - PeerSpot reviewer
IT system infrastructure manager at Anabatic Technologies

The user interface is very good. It is easy to navigate. 

The deployment is very easy.

It is scalable.

The solution is very reliable.

Technical support is helpful. 

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BH
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

The setup was extremely simple. 

The solution offers amazing performance. The speed and reliability of their flash arrays are great. In terms of flash storage, they're on it. The performance is there.

Their evergreen solution is probably the most needed in any industry. Especially today in unprecedented times and supply chain issues, their evergreen solution is amazing. 

Whenever we come out with a new feature for our system, we just swap out the storage controller. We don't change anything on our desk and we get the new features. That evergreen approach in your third year costs you nothing. 

It's a great company, great solution. They're dominating in their space for a good reason.

Even their management, their interface, is just the best in the industry. 

The solution can scale.

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Ivan Monnier - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Analyst at Whirlpool Corporation

The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using. They have excellent rates of deduplication and compression. To offer 20 terabytes of storage, we just need maybe five terabytes of physical hardware. That's great. At the time, there was a notable difference as it was the only vendor with those numbers in terms of deduplication and compression in real-time.

Today other vendor software offers something similar, however, when it was just Pure, it was the best thing. I want to check again, however, usually, we use the Gartner charts to make decisions and start looking for different vendors and maybe the vendors we want to test. At the time, Pure was the leader in every aspect in terms of flash arrays and deduplication and all of that.

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DM
Infrastructure Systems Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use the metro cluster. It is very intuitive and easy to set up. The data reduction technology is pretty good. We see quite a good reduction in our data. It’s probably in line with other vendors. The performance is excellent. As a storage platform, the solution has been good and very reliable. It's quite difficult to find anything negative to say about it.

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VinceVitro - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level.

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Murray-Kelleher - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Technology, Operations and Security Consultant at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray.

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RG
Storage Specialist at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

This code was mature. We found the hardware to be extremely robust. 

It worked flawlessly.

The deployment was fast. 

The plugin for the ESX, the VMware, was great. That integration is just perfect. They're enhancing it all the time, from what we can tell, so it works flawlessly.

Support is excellent. 

It was a very good proof-of-concept experience.

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MW
Head of presales team at Aptronics

What we had previously wasn't quite working for us. Pure Storage FlashArray gives us the required availability and sufficient performance. We use the secure snapshots for malware protection. We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression.

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Kleber Fernandes - PeerSpot reviewer
Diretor Comercial at a security firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feature-wise, the solution provides direct flash storage.

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SR
Manager I.T. Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability.

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RJ
Executive Director of Computing and Information Systems at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

Speed: Things function pretty quickly for our SAN management team. We have seen a good reduction in the amount of total storage space that we're using because of the deduplication.

It runs fast and is easy to use, and our SAN manager likes it.

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KS
MTS - Core IP Engineering at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The availability and ease of use are the big features. 

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SajithEruvangai - PeerSpot reviewer
IT System Specialist - Operations & Infrastructure at Daman

Performance-wise, it is giving us a very good result.

We are happy with the data compression and deduplication capabilities.

The interface is user-friendly and very easy to use.

Taking a snapshot and cloning data is very easy to do. We can create a script and it will clone the environment. Similarly, we can replicate the environment from one site to another site, and we can restore the environment where we choose.

The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard. For example, I can see all of the utilization and it has port monitoring capabilities. With other storage vendors, multiple tools are required for this, and there is an additional charge.

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PH
Solutions Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table.

Scalability, ease of use, and non-disruptive upgrades are also valuable. They're not using flash just for your tier one storage needs. They're recommending flash for data protection and archive backup, which is the way to go.

If you get the gold support, which is what I sell and recommend for my customers, Pure's support personnel will take care of both software and hardware upgrades, which is another feather in Pure's cap. They make several claims that once you move to Pure Storage, you can take your team of five dedicated storage admins and trim it down to just one person. Their mantra is getting customers out of the game of managing storage and letting the vendor manage the storage. They want to see their customers just consume storage. They have non-disruptive upgrades. You just set up the software and hardware and just consume the storage. They're continuously looking at the dial-homes, the logs that are automatically sent, and fingerprinting potential issues before they're even a problem. That cuts down on a lot of support tickets the customers have to open up. They'll proactively open up tickets when they see something in their analytics on a particular customer's array and recognize that one of their hosts might have a certain HBA with a fault or a bug. They reach out and open a ticket. So, you get your system upgrade, patched, or whatever is needed to resolve the potential problem.

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JK
Senior Systems Administrator for Research at Chapman University

The most valuable feature has been its performance. It has allowed us to virtualize our production environment, which has many secondary benefits, primarily involving the automation of database administration activities. Very close to that primary benefit has been the effectiveness of their data reduction technology, a combination of deduplication and metadata indexing. In our environment, nearly all of our databases are copies of copies. With Pure Storage's data-reduction technology we can host an unexpectedly large amount of functional data in an affordable amount of storage.

Also, their system-management REST API is excellent: well-documented and very easy to use.

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Oleg Gussar - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Administration Group at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides.

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JS
GIS Group Manager (Server, Dir Services, DBA, SAP BASIS/Sec, Mainframe, Storage, Network, & InfoSec) at Haworth

The most valuable feature is its upgradeability.

Pure Storage helps to streamline storage because of its simplicity.

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DF
Sr System Engineer at Stanford University

The most valuable feature for us would be its speed. 

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Masood Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Storage Analyst at CLSA

The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management.

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VM
CIO at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring. 

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JD
Cloud Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin.

We do a lot of data replication as well, and the replication features are all easy to set up. The networking controls for setting up interfaces and sub-interfaces are also easy to manage.

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MD
Virtual Storage Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature.

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RK
System engineer at a transportation company with 51-200 employees

Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool. We don't use any special features in our organization.

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CB
Senior Data Center Solutions Architect at ChaanBeard.com

The security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward.

The performance analytics are moderate. It's not the best performance platform out there but it's the easiest to operate.

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Tim Kovars - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Engineer at Quarles & Brady LLP
  • Ease of setup
  • Migration to it
  • Upgrading
  • Support responsiveness
  • Kick-butt mobile app
  • On box analytics and vCenter plug-in
  • The ease of creating a snapshot for testing or recovery.

I cannot stress enough the stability, speed, and awesome deduplication and compression rates. The amount of data we have moved to it has allowed us to remove units four times the size. The mobile app is kick-butt and support has been topnotch.

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JB
Infrastructure Engineer at ISAM

I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is.

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SS
System Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution. 

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Vladimir Blazek - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Storage One

I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity. I value its simplicity and artificial intelligence monitoring. It also integrates seamlessly with major platforms like VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Microsoft SQL, while offering tight integration with backup software for faster restores. This connectivity promotes cyber resilience and can be leveraged for disaster recovery solutions.

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David Ivorra - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Lynx View

We find the ease of usability and setup valuable.

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DG
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

V-Vault is pretty new and its implementation is superior to that offered by nearly any vendor. It's easier to configure than most others and to import the V-Vault. A separate working machine is not required. 

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JB
Sr Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is simple to install.

It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity.

We use the Evergreen Storage model so that we will get upgrades as they are needed, or as we expand. It has helped us meet some financial challenges we had internally. In the past, we had to buy whole trays of disks from another vendor. It's too much money because we typically bill people ahead of the project. This solution has helped us meet the spending needs of our customers, and allow us to be more flexible.

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AC
IT Contractor at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The tool size is good. We have a tool size and then each size has one Pure Storage and they form the active cluster. We can just access the data on both sides with a uniform access design.

The scalability is good.

It can do some replications. They're very easy to perform. 

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RS
Storage Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is easy to install.

The stability and scalability are awesome.

The technical support is awesome as well.

Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes.

Also, we can use more capacity and pay less.

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RG
Associate Director of Cloud Engineering at ZS Associates

Flash is the most valuable feature.

Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular, where you can keep replacing components. That was definitely new several years ago. I would bet competitors are doing it now as well, but when they started, it was an innovation.

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TN
Manager of Technical Management at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It does everything they say it will do:

  • It's very cost-effective compared to other big players.
  • Adding storage to it after we bought it was not a shocking cost surprise.
  • It integrates very well with VMware as we're using Site Recovery Manager from VMware.
  • It's also tiny, it doesn't consume very much space. We're saving power and space in the data center. 
  • It's really easy for us to manage.
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KF
APAC System manager at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We like that there isn't a steep learning curve and it is easy to learn how to navigate. It's also quite scalable and easy to implement.

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RG
Senior Director of Databases at a wellness & fitness company with 501-1,000 employees

The most interesting feature is the speed at which it executes I/O. After moving to Pure Storage, I have noticed that our databases are considerably faster.

Our performance has improved by at least four times.

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LR
Fresh Operations Manager at Jerónimo Martins

I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand.

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TS
IT System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

If I compare it to SAN Symphony, for instance, it's much faster, much reliable level. 

The maintenance is very good. The support is very, very good. If you do any maintenance on it you have the support, and it's nice to know they are there to assist.

It's a very good product. It's very easy to manage everything.

With a snapshot, you can schedule it and you can remove it afterward. You can do a kind of production cope. That's very, very good now, and it's performing very well. The storage is amazing. It's so fast.

The total reduction you can expect is excellent. You buy the bundle storage and they give you a ratio of what you can achieve within it.

The mobile app is very helpful. I have an application on my smartphone. I view the latency in real-time on my app. You can see everything on your smartphone. You can also set up alerts on it, and things like this. I don't think you can do this on Dell storage. 

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PG
IT Manager at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees

We like that there are good deduplication savings in terms of the usage in the data center and that the product itself works well. 

Scalability is good. We can do an upgrade in which both of the controllers will be on which has reduced the downtime. The scalability has definitely improved. 

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PS
IT Director at Obstetrics & Gynecology of Indiana, P.C.

It is difficult to say what features are valuable. It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore. 

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Red Hsu - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Logicalis

It is always out of the box, and ready to use. 

It is very simple to set up, and very simple to use.

The interface is easy to use.

It is very easy to implement.

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CF
KYC Quality Assurance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The low latency and the performance, in general, are very good.

The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity.

Replication and active-active features are available.

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Animesh Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Professional Test Engineer at DXC Technology

The integration and migration features have been really good.

We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray.

It has an Evergreen model and always maintains the controllers, so the controllers never let you down.

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WM
Technical Marketing Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature is the performance of Pure Storage underneath and that many applications, which are already integrated with it. I can use the system applications, e.g., for backup restore. Therefore, I don't need to buy them in addition to the product, as they are already part of the solution.

It helps to simplify storage, especially because we can do in-place upgrades and can grow on demand. I can pay on demand, so it helps me to simplify the usage of the storage.

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JD
Director of IT at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Provides awesome performance, and it's been able to shrink all of our data center from two-and-a-half racks to one rack and give better performance with SSD drives versus spinning disk drives. It has saved overall costs from our heat and power within our data center where we're now just powering up a 3U device.

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it_user211857 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Program Manager at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The Pure Storage system is, of course, very fast and completely redundant. All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are performed online with no impact. The Pure Storage customer service is by far the best part of the product and organization.

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MM
Team Lead for Storage and Back-Up at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance.

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KA
Chief Technology Officer at perfekt

The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions.

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TE
Hardware Architect at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

One of the things I like about Pure Storage FlashArray is that it has a high data reduction average, e.g. 4.5.

Pure Storage FlashArray is also advantageous for data centers in terms of rack space for maximum capacity.

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AM
Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The administration is very easy and quite minimal.

The performance is very good.

The installation is pretty straightforward. 

Technical support is good.

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MS
Solutions Architect at SC PROSERVICECORP SRL

What I like most about this solution is the simplicity of the array.

The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it.

The education, compression, and the speed to perform these are astonishing.

The array is really resilient.

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SB
Supervisor of Systems Engineering at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the ease of use. It's really plug-and-play. It just works and it works really well.

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AV
Senior Vituralization Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The solution has a lot of automation features that helped us to deploy the environment faster and to speed the of rate integration. Integration has helped because it helps us to understand the user's requirements. Deployment is done faster, and their applications are more secure. They are reassured that their data is saved in their environment. 

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PN
Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

What I like most about this solution is that it is simple to bring in, install, and get it going. You can get it installed in a few days.

What's more, the compression ratio that we're getting is that our database portion is pretty high, so it saves a lot of money.

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DT
Head of Infrastructure at a wellness & fitness company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution has great efficiencies because it has scalability. It also becomes the core between our synergy of all our platform systems across the United States.

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DT
Sr Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day. 

We're pretty complex. Back there, we've got three or four different systems. It's important that we have something that's easy to manage so we don't have to learn something completely new. This solution offers a GUI that you can just set up and it's ready to go. We had it up and running in three or four hours.

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GL
Sr Manager at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution. 

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SK
System Administrator at VERIFI

The deduplication and compression are its most valuable feature. They have done a really good job, as they were able to shrink down 15 gigs into five gigs.

It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use.

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CG
CEO at Intellect Dynamics

It's very good storage for what we use it for, very efficient. It's very cost-effective for the amount of data we have when we're crunching the numbers that we're crunching, for our algorithms which use a lot of processing power.

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it_user302121 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Systems Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
  • It has a small footprint, as the current system is only four units per rack.
  • It's got good speed for the price, as it uses eMLC, an advanced type of SSD.
  • It's very scalable, and we're not paying for capacity.
  • We get free controllers every three years.
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TS
Chief Consultant and Architect at Tahir Professional Services

We are satisfied with the product. It is very good.

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JB
Director of Information Security at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The white glove customer service that I get is their greatest value. They even do the firmware upgrades for me. I don't have to worry about it.

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JW
CTO at CCL

vSphere integration and DevOps are our most valuable features. 

Also, one of our customers used to have a rates run that ran for eight hours, and when we migrated them across to Pure that went down to under two hours.

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PD
GIDC India - Architecture Design and Engineering Leader at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Pure Storage has been the go-to storage array for me. It's a lot smaller, easier to set up, faster to upgrade, and more reliable. 

The performance is very stable. This is something which I don't get out of a solution such as, for example, 3PAR. 

The code upgrades are very smooth. They're actually all tracking their vulnerabilities. As a customer, Pure Storage gives sufficient time to the customer to showcase the new features and to say this is how to go about going over to the upgrade, and so on. We are quite prepared. We can schedule ahead and be ready for these things. That's something which I like - the selective approach - and everything is on the cloud which helps Pure reach out to their customers and gives these new features. 

Its ability to use multiple services such as the file services, the block services, backup, fast backups, lightning backup, and so on, is great. These features are something that StoreServ or HP doesn't have. They have multiple products for that. Pure tries to bundle them together. That's something which I really like. It reduces the footprint and helps me sell this a lot more to the customer.

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RZ
Manager of IT Department at Office of Technical Inspection in Poland

The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray.

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NW
ICT and Security Specialist at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The performance and the Evergreen maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution.

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BP
Systems Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature of this solution is the support.

This solution is easy to use.

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RB
IT Manager at a government with 51-200 employees

Reliability and performance are its most valuable feature.

Its ability to simplify storage is great.

I look at the performance metrics periodically, which are spectacular.

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SD
SDDC Senior Director at SK Telecom

The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data.

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MB
Director of MIS at Watson Clinic

Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on, and the biggest selling point for me was the replacement of the hardware, the controllers, without any major expense to the clinic.

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FP
Systems Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Infrastructure as a base is important, but the end game is to have the DevOps pipeline, which is the most valuable feature. 

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NG
Infrastructure engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free. 

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RS
Storage Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications.

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SB
Platform Technologies Lead Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is very easy to use.

The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray.

It's a brilliant solution with brilliant support.

Pure Storage FlashArray has a lot of features.

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JN
Sr IT Analyst at a local government

I find the speed of the solution its most valuable feature. It is really fast and it is also very easy to use. You can basically set it up and forget about it. You don't have to manage it on a day-to-day basis. I also like the plugins that go into beta where you can see there. For instance, if I need to extend a datastore I can go straight to the plugin and extend the data store, refresh the VAs, and see the new store. I don't have to log in and use my credentials, so I save time and it is easy.

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DS
President and Principal Architect Engineer at Technetics

Performance is its most valuable feature. There is nobody else who is coming close, not that I have seen. 

They are on the money with the predictive performance analytics. They claim high performance, and they do have it.

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WB
Network Manager at Macc 911

It is fast and reliable. It works. 

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PM
CTO at a wellness & fitness company with 201-500 employees

The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market. I replaced another couple of vendors that I had in place for storage, who over-promised and under-delivered on their technical expectations, and who certainly over-promised on their ability to do conversions from one array to another. My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure.

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RC
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We like the speed. It's very low latency. In virtualization, you can mask lots of problems, and even in code you can mask lots of problems, with low latency. It's just pure speed and low latency.

We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power.

Finally, we love the predictive performance analytics. It's an excellent tool. It's something we were asking for in the past. When they rolled it out, it made a difference.

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PK
Technical Consultant at Injazat Data Systems

FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy. 

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DM
IT Supervisor at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I like the five-year controller upgrade, easy-to-use interface, and performance.

They do a good job at ease of use for the interface. I don't have a big team, so its easy user interface has helped us be able to manage our data better.

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JD
Head of Infrastructure Architecture at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Performance and support quality.

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JH
Infrastructure Manager at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

The value of the storage in the way that it stores the data is a very valuable feature for us. We also like that it's robust and stable and that we get good support from them when we have an issue. 

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RF
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features are the speed, cost, and that we get the best value for the money. 

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MM
CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
  1. It's really fast
  2. It's fall-off-the-log easy to use. 

That is the strongest selling point. The ease of use is really nice.

In terms of the Predictive Performance Analytics, it certainly contributes to better overall performance and I'm a total fan of that. I've worked with some other flash storage vendors and the one that has the best overall offering, certainly, is Pure, the Analytics is part of it, whereas some of the other storage vendors haven't had as strong an offering in predictive analytics.

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FR
Datacenter Systems Engineer at Logicalis

Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent. 

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SAP Services Manager at Think about IT

I'm a Pure Storage fan because I think this solution offers great performance. It provides fast access, is user-friendly and it's easy for us to support this product. The product is also very powerful with high-speed duplication which makes it easier to manage things. I understand that there is a new version of system operation that includes a self-protect configuration to avoid getting hacked. It's crucial for us here in Brazil where we need to be safe. 

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JM
IT Manager at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

Access speed and power consumption are most valuable.

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DA
Enterprise Account Executive at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

It's just very easy for general block storage. Generally, the ease of use is what customers comment on. It's very user-friendly.

The initial setup is very straightforward. 

Scalability is possible. You can expand the solution.

The stability and reliability are great.

Technical support has been helpful in general. 

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SM
Soporte TI at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

The experience has been very good so far for the company. It's very fast and it's very easy to configure the storage. 

It's very efficient. 

The snapshot feature is great. It's very easy to apply. You can see present error applications by going back using snapshot. It's very good for the company.

We haven't had any problems with it in the time we've used it.

I like the user interface.

Support has been helpful.

We have no issues with pricing.

Integration is easy.

The initial setup is simple. It's easy to deploy using the whitepapers on offer. 

The compression is quite good compared to other options.

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GM
Project Deployment at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

This is the best all-flash storage array on the market. They were the first brand that provided access directly from CPU to memory to disk.

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MZ
Sr. Cloud Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I like that every few years, they provide us with a free controller upgrade.

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JW
Infrastructure Architect at a wellness & fitness company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad.

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CC
DBA at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are really enjoying the speed of this solution. The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice.

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DK
Senior Manager of Technical Alliances at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

When I was a customer, the most valuable feature is the ease of use. 

It is the whole package: The ease of use, cost, and the ability for it to perform at a level that traditional storage arrays just can't compete with.

It simplifies storage. In the old days, you had to go and decide what ports were going to go to what workloads, which was a lot of work. You had to set up replication. Now, everything is just a few clicks away. It is set up exactly like you would want it to be. That is what it does. It simplifies and optimizes the solution.

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FL
CTO at Ticel

The most valuable feature is its simplicity. It simplifies the administration and backup.

The predictive performance analytics works well.

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JH
CTO at a individual & family service with 1,001-5,000 employees

The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte. Then we added another one and I think the total storage is five terabytes now.

The UI is pretty good.

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JE
Pre-Sales Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc.

The most valuable feature is its data reduction. 

It is very easy to use.

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PS
Infrastructure Architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Ease of use is the most valuable feature for us. It just does what it says. It's very efficient, really quick, and replication is great.

Predictive performance analytics are also good. The compression and the predictive analytics tell us how much storage we're using and how much longer we have before it runs out. The compression algorithms are perfect.

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KH
Principal Engineer at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the speed of it. It is much faster than anything that we can get from similar competitors.

The solution helps to simplify storage.

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DP
Sr Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is its performance.

The solution’s inline deduplication and compression are very good.

The upgrade architecture is very good.

Our data reduction rates, latency, and availability are all good.

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AZ
CIO at NGS srl

It's simple, powerful, and ready to use.

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DB
Chief Architect at VLSS LLC
  1. The performance that you receive and its ease of use. 
  2. Being able to get it up and running in a very short order. 
  3. Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great.
  4. It takes away a lot of issues that customers were dealing with before. E.g., a lot of times, customers are dealing with performance problems when they migrate to Pure Storage that go away, then they don't have to worry about them anymore. Then, they can focus on other things, like automation.
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MV
General Manager at PRACSO S.R.L.

I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities. The performance is extremely good. They have a complete replication set, including near-zero RTO and zero RPO. FlashArray integrates with all the new microservices technologies. It integrates with many products like Oracle, Cisco, Veeam, and Rubrik. 

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DA
Implementation and Support Engineer at PRACSO S.R.L.

Pure Storage has been of great value to us as it provides us with a lot of great tools, especially for monitoring and capacity planning.

Also, Pure Storage is extremely user-friendly. 

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JV
Technology and Architecture Deputy Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc.

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AA
Systems Engineer at PayPal

The performance is great.

The predictive performance analytics are good.

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RW
Infrastructure Engineer at Paylocity

Manageability is its most valuable feature.

It is simplified storage, as we don't have to maintain or administer it on a daily basis, which is good. We don't have to be experts in managing the storage. We can depend on the solution's ability to phone home and leverage the built-in support function of the product.

It has strong statistics and historical metrics with Pure1. Therefore, it has been everything that we have needed out of a platform.

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SS
Systems Admin at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Speed
  • Scalability
  • The cost
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FF
IT Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The storage is very simple. 

We can use more capacity because of the compression and deduplication.

The predictive performance analytics are good, easy to use, and simple to see. They are simple to understand, not complicated.

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DB
Digital Architect at CBC/Radio-Canada

The thickness and the sizing for when we put it in the data center. Also, the performance and price.

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RF
Sys Admin at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features for us would be the ease of implementation and box-to-box replication.

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it_user186294 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage and Backup Engineer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

The features of this product that are most valuable include the data reduction capabilities. Being able to write and read data at incredibly high rates of speed and reduce the footprint of your data by three to four times at least is invaluable. Also the ability to clone and snapshot the data with little to no additional size impact. In the database world this function has quickly become a must have and not just a nice option.

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GC
Project Manager at WFSFAA

The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution.

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SC
Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature of this solution is its simplicity.

It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast.

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TR
Chief Technology Officer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value.

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ZS
SRE at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The magic that the storage does would be the most valuable feature for us. Deduping on the fly is really cool to us because some of our stuff we get around seven to one, which is amazing. I definitely like the new redesign of the UI that was done. We just had to do a DR test, and we had to make snapshots and copy them over, and it was a lot easier to use I think with this new UI than the old stuff.

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JM
Systems Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Firstly, dedupe is the most valuable feature. Hands down. Simplifying storage is also a big win overall. As far as the monitoring with the latency goes, we're not monitoring the apps to see how they're doing at different periods, which saves us time. We're just setting thresholds, walking away, and waiting for emails if they're broken.

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MA
Strategy Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  • The automation: It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage.
  • Their business model: Where you pay for your support, then you can have that support for X number of years. This way you are not worrying about your support going up three to four years down the line and having to change your infrastructure at that time because it becomes obsolete. This is a positive feature that clients are seeing.
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MS
Principal Product Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
  1. The performance of the high speed FlashArrays. 
  2. They have a good API set. Their flash snapshot technologies are efficient. 
  3. The deduplication in the array, which is one of the main reasons that it's a cost effective platform, and combining it with the snap technologies, allows the product to be remotely controlled, manually controlled, or scheduled. It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution.
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EP
Director at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I rate the product at ten out of ten because the performance of the storage is just unbelievable.

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MR
System Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements.

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MO
Senior Network Systems Engineer at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Performance is the most valuable feature. 

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VK
Senior Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable features would be its performance, retrieval, recovery, and backup. It meets the customer's expectations. 

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it_user358962 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at MBS Textbook Exchange

The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible.

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MS
IT Architect at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster.

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KK
IT Network Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
  • Resiliency
  • Speed: It's fast. It's like I don't notice anything. 
  • It's very easy to use. The GUI is simplistic, which can be nice.

The predictive performance analytics are great. I get everything I need to know: IOPS, latency, etc. The tech support works with me if I have any questions that need to be answered.

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JV
Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is an easy to use product for all of my team members.

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SJ
Customer Support Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's very fast, easy to use, and the cloud-based management is good.

The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage.

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MC
Technical and Pre-sales Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The VME feature is interesting. Additionally, I like the way they went to market with their All Green Program.

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GD
Cloud Solution Architect at Dimension Data
  • Performance
  • Deduplication
  • They work well with Oracle and other database workloads.
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BD
CTO at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's really fast.

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JA
Senior Manager of IT Infrastructure at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us. 

We are going to start using it as a filer. In January, we're going to migrate away from NetApp and use Pure Storage as file service. 

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VA
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure.

Also, performance. The box gives them extreme performance, but ease of use is the main reason they love Pure.

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NL
Solutions Architect at a training & coaching company with 1-10 employees

We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent.

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FS
Datacenter & Cloud Architect - South America Zone at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

From the first test that we have conducted, we are very satisfied with this solution.

The interface is easy to use.

At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way.

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JH
IT Officer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

For flash storage, the speed access is its most valuable feature.

The solution’s inline deduplication and compression is very good.

The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before.

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MG
President at Computer Network Architects, Inc.

It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future.

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KG
Senior Director of Systems Engineering at Bill.com

The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes.

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JS
System Engineer at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees

There are a couple of things we really like: the flash storage, the deduplication, and IO times are very good. The snapshots are also fairly useful.

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it_user649044 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information, Facility, Purchasing and Services Manager at Roma Metropolitane S.r.l.

The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression.

We liked the non-disruptive downgrade from FA-420 (POC) to FA-405 in production and the non-disruptive upgrade from FA-405 to M20.

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it_user277047 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Storage Engineer and Architect at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The dashboard of the product provides a lot of value to the administrator. It provides everything needed in a single view.

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CL
Network Engineer at Altura Credit Union

The encryption is its most valuable feature.

The solution’s inline deduplication and compression are pretty good.

Its ability to simplify storage seems good.

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it_user789861 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Systems Administrator at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
  • Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry.
  • The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive. 
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SB
Sever Engineer at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature is the speed. 

We are taking advantage of the VMware integrations developed by Pure. 

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PG
Unix and storage manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The ability to seamlessly and easily upgrade storage capacity and upgrade to a completely new generation of the array are the most valuable features. 

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VT
Deputy Executive Officer at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The performance.

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PW
IT Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use. We transferred our old architecture from hyper storage to all-flash storage. It made our business faster and more connected to our customers.

The dashboard is very friendly. We can see information about IPs and the bandwidth and every host who connects to it — it's very useful.

We really like the easy-to-use GUI.

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GK
Engineer at CSG Systems

Compared to VMware, it has two to three times better performance. 

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PH
Development Manager at Moreton Bay Technology
  • Cheaper
  • Quicker
  • Easy to access if we need to obtain backups.
  • It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything.
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it_user700146 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architecture & Infrastructure Consultant at a hospitality company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive. Also, this allows all the hardware and software updates to be completed while the system is completely online.

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it_user187086 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Flash Reduce - The data reduction methods employed by the Pure Storage array is one of the best that I have seen.

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JA
Intertecno Co-Founder at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The most valuable feature is replication.

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LA
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The performance is the most valuable feature. 

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BT
Cloud Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space. Everything needs more space. For us to have a solution that allows deduplication and that lets us deploy more on less.

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BH
Network Engineer at a logistics company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature is its speed.

It is easy to use and manage.

The time to value of the solution is pretty quick.

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it_user472458 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency.

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PM
Network Specialist at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN.

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AE
CTO at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

The value for the storage, in the way it stores the data, but also the robustness of the product, it's very stable. And then the support that we get when we have an issue.

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TM
ICT Operations Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Asynchronous and synchronous replication between two data centers. Our platform is housed in two centers, and we're using Pure Storage for their replication.

We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform.

The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job.

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PA
Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I like its speed. It has all the features that I need.

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DF
Sr Tech Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Performance and scalability are the most valuable features for us. 

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FT
Director of Network Services at Engage

It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well.

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Buyer's Guide
Pure Storage FlashArray
April 2024
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