Pure Storage FlashBlade pros and cons

The snapshots, replication, and the ability to have immutable blades are the most valuable features. You're putting data snapshots out in those blades, and they cannot be touched. Its performance is great.

The product is scalable and easy to expand.

The initial setup is pretty quick.

The onboarding and integrated monitoring tools are pretty good.

It's very easy-to-use.

The most valuable features are the Metro clustering, and disaster recovery.

It is very easy to use, and it is very fast.

The main feature I have found to be product replication.

It performs well and it is also very fast.

The most valuable features of this solution are the rewrite speed and the nonstop services.

It usually comes down to just what you hit and the value you're getting when you spend the money and license the products. I would always go, "If you want to make things better, lower your price and make your licensing simpler." There's always an opportunity around that.

I want efficiency. FlashBlade doesn't have efficiency now.

Compared to, for example, Hitachi NAS, the solution is not mature at all. It's just in its infancy as far as technology goes.

The solution is expensive.

The feature that we're waiting on is better integration with the cell services.

It would be nice if you could store file-based in the same box with the same technology.

There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket.

There could be improvements in public cloud integration.

I would like to see the licensing fees improved as well as the price per terabytes.

It would be beneficial if the layer could support the S3 protocol and be container ready in the next release.