We performed a comparison between HPE StoreOnce and Pure Storage FlashArray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"The system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."
"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."
"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"HPE StoreOnce has high performance."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that the tool provides good value for somebody who needs an affordable and reliable storage solution."
"The important feature is compression and duplication. It has a good compression ratio and is very stable."
"Quick recovery."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its catalyst mode, along with better performance, backup, and recovery."
"The solution's licensing policy is more practical and not confusing."
"The speed and deduplication ratio are two of the most valuable features of the solution."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"Technical support is good."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"Very efficient storage"
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"We need better data deduplication."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
"Our use cases require more multi-tenant capabilities and additional VLAN interfaces for separating different customers. We currently use it to provide storage, sometimes shared storage, to different customers, but it is less flexible in comparison to a dedicated solution."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"One item I wanted to see is SSD drives as a cache, and that was, for a time, still lacking in StoreOnce, however, they have done it now. It's not available yet, however, it will be shortly."
"The latency is a bit high."
"I would like to see an emphasis placed on making data deduplication and compression more powerful."
"While StoreOnce has many features, it needs to focus on integrating with third-party backup software solutions."
"The product could be improved with better support for data protection."
"I would like to see better integration with Veeam software."
"The product's price could be better."
"HPE StoreOnce should come with a detailed installation guide."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"The price should be lower."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 103 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and VMware vSAN. See our HPE StoreOnce vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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