Pure Storage FlashBlade Reviews

This solution is mainly used in a very performance-sensitive environment for enterprise software storage.

The main feature I have found to be product replication.

There could be improvements in public cloud integration.

In the future, one innovation could be for them to make an embedded backup system.

I have been using the solution for a couple of years.

The stability of the solution is really impressive.

The scalability is possible, however, if they could make the process faster to the cloud it would be better.

The technical support is fantastic.

The installation was extremely easy.

The fact that the solution is extremely stable and it works really great each dollar spent on this solution is worth it.

The price of this solution could be made more affordable.

My advice to those wanting to implement this solution is it can be very effective only in proper use cases, not in every use case.

I rate Pure Storage FlashBlade an eight out of ten.

The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensures efficient replication and helps maintain our data centers' uptime. 

Commvault has mainly driven the Analytics, providing data and reports. However, the product has room for improvement, especially regarding storage analytics. Upgrading firmware has caused issues, requiring feature disabling to revert to traditional backups. The firmware upgrades sometimes affect Commvault backups.

I have been using the product since 2022. 

Pure Storage FlashBlade is fairly stable. 

My company has three storage engineers using the product. 

Pure Storage FlashBlade's deployment is straightforward. It took about six months to deploy the solution across five data centers. For deployment and maintenance, we needed three engineers from our team and two from the partner company. 

I rate the overall product a seven out of ten. It would be best if you are ready with the upgrade process. 

Our use cases vary but usually we use the solution for cloud-based solutions. We use it for containers, which provide security on premises for our customers to test environments. Most of our customers are medium to large enterprises based in Bulgaria where we are located. We are resellers, distributors and system integrators. We have a partnership with FlashBlade. 

I think the most valuable part of the solution would be the seamless integration. The fact that they all use the same platform for connectivity, regardless of the physical position of the place. From the customer's perspective, this is the easiest product that I've tested, it's seamless.

It's difficult to find something that could be improved. The new version of the Purity operational system will be released this week and we've been told a lot of improvements have been made so we'll have to wait a few days and see what they're talking about.

I've been using this solution for a year. 

This is a stable solution. 

It's very easy to scale out and to scale up. 

The technical support is good. I've been to the support center in Ireland. I've been doing this kind of work for 10 years and this is the best support line I've ever encountered. Very little maintenance is required although every solution requires troubleshooting if something is not running right. Usually the system reports any issues before they occur and sometimes the customer doesn't even know that he or she has a problem. The support line responds very swiftly, within 30 or 40 minutes. It's all automated.

The initial setup is quite straightforward. It's takes about half an hour to deploy. Everything is usually web based and very thoroughly described. The company I currently work for is a reseller and system integrator so we usually do the integration. If the customer would like to do it, they can do it themselves. They're usually quite surprised at how easy it is to deploy. 

This solution is on the more expensive side but it's usual for niche products with a lot of compatibility and features, so the price is right.

There is a 30-day trial period for the product and there is no penalty for the customer if they don't like it. We rarely have issues with it. 

I would rate this solution a 10 out of 10. 

It is for our enterprise. The product is fantastic. 

We have an Evergreen Storage subscription.

Our latency has gone down.

We can capacity plan at a greater level than we used to.

Speed is its most valuable feature.

The compression is amazing.

The support needs improvement.

I would rate the technical support as a five (out of ten). They need to improve. When we open a case, it is auto assigned to a support tech person. Nine out of ten times, we get an email right back saying that person is off until tomorrow. I cannot handle that. They just did this over the weekend to us, too. I had to call our rep and have them do something about it.

My previous solution was EOL.

The initial setup was straightforward because Pure Storage set it up for us.

We have undergone an upgrade of our controllers, and the process was okay.

We did use a company for the deployment, and our experience was fantastic. We ended up buying the company.

I have seen ROI. It has allowed me to increase the density of my VMs without having to purchase anything additional.

NetApp and Isilon were also on the shortlist.

The compression is true and does happen.

We are using it for scratch space.

Most of our jobs require partial storage (or read/write). While it is temporary storage, it is doing a fantastic job. 

Its SSD to storage is its most valuable feature.

It helps simplify our storage, because the user interface is very simple and the installation is easy.

I would like to have Snapshots and Snapmail in the next release. People who came from a NetApp background, especially expect these features.

It is very scalable. I have gone from five blades to seven blades. While it did require some rebooting, it scales well.

We wanted to have a multi-vendor strategy. We already had two storage vendors and we wanted to more competition. This was where Pure Storage came in. We were looking for a SSD data storage or all-flash base, so that is where this solution fits in.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We used an integrator for the deployment.

We are using it for our scratch space, and it works well for our use case.

We use it for backups and replications of our IBM Systems.

It does a good job in-house, as an onsite solution.

The solution’s inline deduplication and compression do a good job.

The speed could be improved.

We are on the low side for our storage. I wish we had purchased more.

We are looking to grow, so we will probably be adding more storage.

The tech support is pretty good.

It was setup before I joined the company.

The initial setup is pretty easy and simple.

We have done upgrades of our physical controllers.

Our licensing is renewed annually.

They are doing very well with the product.

We have integrated the solution with VMware. The integration process was user-friendly.

We use SolarWinds to evaluate our performance metrics.

We are pretty sensitive to response times and have been running storages before PR. We used to not have a great response time but once we moved to this solution it has saved total production storage usage. It has better overall performance. 

There is predictive analysis that PR provides us and the customer. It's useful for as to translate what is being expected. We can calculate and plan the capacity based on the predictive analysis.

Deduplication and response time are its most valuable features. 

I would like to see more deduplication. 

Has been pretty stable. We haven't encountered any issues. 

I like the scalability options. We recently expanded the storage and it's not straightforward but their team helped make it happen.

Their technical support is awesome. I would give it five stars. 

The initial setup was straightforward. 

I would rate this solution an eight plus. It has has good flexibility and stability, it's easy to manage and the response time is good.