Pure Storage FlashBlade Room for Improvement
FlashBlade could improve its certificate management. I would also like to see better support for CIFS workloads.
View full review »The features provided for SMB customers are limited. India has more SMB customers. We need more improvements in the SMB features.
View full review »File storage needs a lot of improvement. Mainframe connectivity also needs improvement because it requires additional components to be integrated with Pure Storage FlashBlade.
If you want to keep your backup data, then this becomes an even more expensive solution because Pure Storage FlashBlade will not be able to meet your backup needs.
In the next release, I would like to see the inclusion of cyber resiliency.
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Pure Storage FlashBlade
March 2024
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Jason Devine
Cloud Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
In our case, we are mostly performance-focused. We don't require a laundry list of features. It's sort of a double-edged sword, however. On one hand, the lack of all these features makes it a lot easier to configure and manage. Yet, if you need those features, it might be a negative. For us, it's elegant.
The solution is expensive.
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Patrick Mcgrory
Chief Executive Officer / CTO at IT VIP, LLC
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.
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reviewer1430535
Architecte technique at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Compared to, for example, Hitachi NAS, the solution is not mature at all. It's just in its infancy as far as technology goes.
That means there are some features that just arent yet available on the product. When we ask for customization or certain features, we'll get a response saying "it's not available yet" or "that's in the pipeline". We have a complicated enterprise, therefore we need more features, perhaps, than the average user, and in this sense this product is limited.
We're on a dark site. We don't have internet access. This isn't great for FlashBlade, which needs to be connected to the internet. It's a website, so it needs to be connected in order to provide reports. Therefore, reporting isn't available to us.
We'd love a better dashboard that offers more accurate metrics. We'd like more details about what is happening on the system, so we can notify the clients as necessary.
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LuisRibeiro
Fresh Operations Manager at Jerónimo Martins
I would like to see the licensing fees improved as well as the price per terabyte.
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MOHAMAD KAWTHARANY
Technical Operations Manager at Mideast Data Systems
An area for improvement in Pure Storage FlashBlade is its price. It could be reduced.
The technical support for Pure Storage FlashBlade also needs improvement. It used to be good, with more experienced engineers. Nowadays, it isn't, and it takes longer for support to solve problems.
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Rob Aerts
Program Manager at Máxima Medisch Centrum
It would be nice if you could store file-based in the same box with the same technology.
Now you can only put block storage on the storage array.
It would be nice if you had the same features in the file-based solution on the same box. This would mean you can have all of the storage types in your enterprise on the same box.
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Solution3f8e
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution needs better SMB support. For SMB 3.0 for example, I would expand their footprint to sell FlashBlade, etc.
View full review »Pure Storage FlashBlade should improve on more cloud integration.
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reviewer1359597
Platform Technologies Lead Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The integration with S3 needs some improvement.
There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket.
What FlashBlade can do with S3 buckets needs to be improved. Other things, such as NFS, are simple to implement, but S3 can benefit from improvements.
View full review »It would be beneficial if the layer could support the S3 protocol and be container ready in the next release.
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reviewer1360377
Business Development Manager of Storage Systems at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I want efficiency. FlashBlade doesn't have efficiency now. They have compression. They also don't have the duplication. They have only compression and it's not very good.
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Principa7fd7
Principal System Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees
I would like to see more monitoring capability included in the next release of this solution.
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Mudasser Zaheer
Senior Global Manager at DXC Technology
They need better integration with public clouds along with a better hybrid solution.
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Gustavo Lima
COO at Santa Lucia
We haven't been able to use much of the cloud area of Pure Storage. We have a storage server and it would be better if it could integrate with other cloud features of this solution.
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Otto Warlich
Technical Consultant Storage at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
At the moment, I can't think of anything that needs to be improved; however, the feature that we're waiting on is better integration with the cell services. I know Pure has a company that's working on the cell system, but it's still not completely there yet.
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SeniorTe500e
Senior technical architect at a marketing services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would like to see better integration.
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VpOfEngic9de
VP of Engineering at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
The Pure Storage Orchestrator is our biggest pain point at the moment. If we can have more say in future developments of feature sets that we will need to support for our use case, that would be pretty beneficial to us.
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Practiced5ea
Practice Manager for Infrastructure at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
On our dedupe during our initial buy, we were expecting a number a little higher like 4x. However, we are getting about 3.6. While it is close enough, it doesn't quite hit the numbers. So, this has been a challenge.
We are looking at Pure Storage's capabilities to move off-premise into the cloud.
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National4173
National Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
In the realm of micro-services, I think that Pure Storage can do well if they start getting in there and making their arrays more micro-services ready.
We can add a bunch of compute, we could forever compute, but the array at some point comes to a screeching halt. I think if there's a way to make the flash array go wider that would be the better way to go in the long run.
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SeniorArd17c
Senior Architect and IT at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
I would like to see more VM-Aware features in the next release of this solution.
View full review »There could be improvements in public cloud integration.
In the future, one innovation could be for them to make an embedded backup system.
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Miroslav Ivanov
IT Business Consultant, Presales Specialist and Solution Designer at Veracomp EOOD
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.
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Manager340157
Infrastructure Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The support needs improvement.
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StaffSys92a1
Staff System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like to have Snapshots and Snapmail in the next release. People who came from a NetApp background, especially expect these features.
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Mo Seay
IT Systems Admin at Greer CPW
The speed could be improved.
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Technicad7c9
Technical Director at Envestnet Yodlee
I would like to see more deduplication.
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reviewer2256603
Commvault & EMC Networker, Avamar Backup Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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.
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Pure Storage FlashBlade
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Pure Storage FlashBlade. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,995 professionals have used our research since 2012.