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We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra and HPE Primera based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"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.""It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought.""It's extremely stable and has good performance.""It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future.""The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance.""The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management.""Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators.""The solution offers amazing performance."

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"The tool's notable feature is that we don't need to log a case directly with the vendor. The tool has access to all the logs on-premises. This is an on-premises solution. Additionally, we can provision data as thick or thin provisioned. Moreover, it includes data grid duplication and compression features.""It offers rich features and high speed for transferring data."

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"All of the capabilities of the hardware such as replication, snapshot, and the specific features are all included from the start as opposed to being on another license.""HPE Primera provides me with system reliability and 100% data reliability. The storage is good and is consistently reliable and scalable, allowing me to use it whenever needed. The overall performance is great. The product is stable. The customer service and support is excellent. It's a commendable solution, especially suitable for online transactions. It is reliable in meeting data requirements.""The performance is very good.""The initial setup is simple.""Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.""The most valuable feature is an all-flash system, which means the data access speed is amazing while the latency is almost nothing, and it can deliver IOPS up to 16,000.""The most valuable feature of HPE Primera is its performance and simple replication.""HPE Primera has good integration. All the users are using HP servers and some systems, such as Synergy, which integrate well into the solution."

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Cons
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser.""The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless.""The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware.""I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it.""It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them.""Currently, the solution fails to support file screening.""This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve.""I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."

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"We had some issues while installing it on our servers. It required more resources while cross-checking. So, the initial setup process could be better.""It would be better if there were an option to incorporate the NVMe feature alongside other storage tiers. Currently, the system operates on Autotier but can manually peer and mix different types of drives, such as SAS and SATA drives."

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"The price of the product is an area of concern. From an improvement perspective, the solution should be made more affordable in terms of price.""Some application solutions can be more acceptable on the HPE Primera site.""Increasing the IOPS and throughput values would make the product even better. Improving the scalability of HPE Primera is also recommended.""The file server embedded in Pure, the GUI, and the tracking and reporting features are better with Pure Storage.""Like most storage, we want to see flash become more and more stable. Like any flash that uses MLC or TLC techniques, over time, the more writes you have, the less usable the storage becomes. They try to plan for this and have a lot of extra space in the arrays, but over time, their performance does degrade. This is true for any flash storage.""This solution would be expensive for small business and it could be priced more competitively for that market.""The solution could improve by having seamless migration from other storage systems. The process should be made easier.""We've encountered issues in the past where maintaining a read-only state is essential to prevent data encryption when VPN access is impacted."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We feel that the pricing is fair and the licensing process was easy for both."
  • "There is always room for negotiation."
  • "The price was slightly higher than others, but competitive, if you consider all the other features that you get from it."
  • "It is a more expensive solution, but it is worth it. You are getting what you paid for."
  • "For pricing, you have to take into account their performance on deduplication and compression in a $/GB comparison."
  • "We have seen a reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO)."
  • "It is a cheaper solution."
  • "Pure Storage is all-flash, so this sometimes tends to make it a bit more expensive in the beginning."
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  • "The solution is expensive and can cost around five lakhs."
  • "There is a license. HPE Alletra uses a cloud-based model."
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  • "The price of this solution is good for medium-sized and large businesses."
  • "From what I see, this is competitively-priced and HPE are doing their best to stay competitive."
  • "The price to capacity ratio is good."
  • "It is basically in the mid-range of the price. It is not cheaper than Hitachi, but it is cheaper than Pure Storage. There are no additional costs. Everything was taken care of in the price."
  • "Licensing fees are billed on a yearly basis and the cost of GreenLake service is included."
  • "I believe HPE Primera and Pure Storage are similar in price."
  • "There is only a one-time license purchase needed and no additional costs. If HP could reduce the training cost, then that would be advantageous to the seller."
  • "The price of HPE Primera could improve, it is expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Both are great platforms, but if you are considering all flash solutions, I would recommend you to consider Pure… more »
    Top Answer:We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression.
    Top Answer:We have customers who use a three-year or five-year license. We also have customers who use Evergreen.
    Top Answer:The tool's notable feature is that we don't need to log a case directly with the vendor. The tool has access to all the… more »
    Top Answer:The solution is expensive and can cost around five lakhs.
    Top Answer:It would be better if there were an option to incorporate the NVMe feature alongside other storage tiers. Currently, the… more »
    Top Answer:HPE Nimble is a versatile synced WAN San solution. It is easy to use and doesn’t require much training for admins. The… more »
    Top Answer:HPE Primera has many great features but one of the best is that it is very easy to deploy. From an overall perspective… more »
    Top Answer:For over a year, I have not seen any downtime in the product.
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    Overview

    Pure Storage FlashArray is the world’s first enterprise-class storage array that runs exclusively on the nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) protocol for memory access and storage. It represents a totally state-of-the-art type of storage technology. It offers users shared accelerated storage that delivers cutting-edge features in the realms of performance, simplicity, and consolidation. Pure Storage is fresh and modern today and will be for the next decade. Without forklift upgrades or planned downtime, Pure Storage takes the work out of storage ownership and delivers unprecedented customer satisfaction.

    Pure Storage FlashArray is built with simplicity and reliability in mind. The solution can be implemented and optimized in hours, as opposed to other similar solutions that can take days. It has no moving parts, which removes areas where it could potentially be vulnerable to suffering errors. It is highly stable and gives users the ability to manage system shutdowns in a way that  prevents data loss.

    Benefits of Pure Storage FlashArray

    Some of the benefits of using Pure Storage FlashArray include:

    • A much higher level of speed than similar pieces of technology. Pure Storage FlashArray maximizes the speed at which data can be transferred while at the same time minimizing system latencies that might slow the transfer down. Additionally, it offers users quick memory read and data access speeds.

    • A higher bang for your buck in terms of the storage capabilities you get for the money you pay. They are smaller in size than more standard storage technologies, but they offer flash memory, which enables users to store larger amounts of data than the current standard.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Pure Storage FlashArray is a highly effective piece of storage technology which stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its overall robustness and the value that it offers by way of its reliability and ease of use. It provides users with many valuable features that allow them to maximize what they can do with this solution. Pure Storage FlashArray’s reliability and ease of use make it a highly valuable solution. 

    PeerSpot user Prabakaran K., a technical consultant at Injazat Data Systems, notes the robustness of this solution when he writes, "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."

    PeerSpot user Jason D., a cloud solutions architect at a tech services company, notes three features that make this solution valuable when he writes, "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."

    HPE Alletra offers high-performance storage solutions for enterprise environments, ideal for mission-critical applications like data analytics, AI/ML workloads, VDI, and cloud-native applications. 

    Users praise its exceptional performance, reliability, scalability, and ease of use, highlighting its ability to enhance storage efficiency and improve data center performance. It has proven to increase efficiency, productivity, sales, and customer satisfaction for organizations.

    HPE introduces HPE Primera, a new storage platform designed to deliver superior simplicity, availability, and performance for mission-critical applications
    HPE Primera advances the HPE Intelligent Data Platform, a portfolio of products and solutions designed to help customers transition from delivering storage to unlocking business value with intelligent data

    Sample Customers
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    1. Accenture 2. Aetna 3. AIG 4. Airbus 5. Allianz 6. American Express 7. ATT 8. Bank of America 9. Barclays 10. BASF 11. Bayer 12. Berkshire Hathaway 13. Boeing 14. BNP Paribas 15. Citigroup 16. Coca Cola 17. Comcast 18. Credit Suisse 19. Dell 20. Deutsche Bank 21. Eni 22. ExxonMobil 23. Ford Motor Company 24. General Electric 25. Google 26. HSBC 27. IBM 28. Intel 29. JPMorgan Chase 30. Kroger 31. L'Oreal 32. Merck
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    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm19%
    Healthcare Company12%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Computer Software Company8%
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    Educational Organization31%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Government10%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Healthcare Company7%
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    Computer Software Company29%
    Financial Services Firm24%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Government10%
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    Educational Organization38%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise40%
    Large Enterprise42%
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    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise44%
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    Small Business47%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise34%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise47%
    Large Enterprise36%
    Buyer's Guide
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    HPE Alletra is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews while HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. HPE Alletra is rated 9.0, while HPE Primera is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Alletra writes "Offers high-intensity IOPS for data operations and delivers extremely low latency for disk operations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". HPE Alletra is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.

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