We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and HPE Nimble Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"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."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"The reliability is very good."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"The deployment is fast."
"HPE Nimble Storage is very stable and performs well."
"The most useful features are high availability and the storage snapshot backup functionality."
"It has totally taken away a layer of time and effort, management-wise, from two engineers to give that time back into developing more solutions. It has provided us essentially with a platform to go away and be more creative, knowing that that is stable and can do whatever we chuck at it."
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"The most valuable feature is InfoSight, and the ability that InfoSight gives you, from insight within your environment to what is going on at the storage layer."
"We have seen our average latency go from four milliseconds to point four. Therefore, we are getting 10 times better performance down to the end user on everything. We have seen an increase in our IOPS by ten times."
"InfoSight, for sure, has been the best feature so far."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"The amount of firmware updates released seem excessive."
"We want to start storing data in the cloud really soon and we are looking at options."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
"HPE Nimble Storage should improve its latency. It is expensive."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
"I would like to see greater integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V platform."
"The way the market is going, supporting NVMe storage would be useful as a step up."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF and Tintri VMstore, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem.
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