The snapshots, replication, and the ability to have immutable blades are the most valuable features. You're putting data snapshots out in those blades, and they cannot be touched. Its performance is great.
VP of Engineering at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
Dec 10, 2018
The initial setup was straightforward. If you know how to plug in power and network you're pretty much qualified. They were on site to configure the network, the box to fit into our network architecture. Other than that, we self-managed from there.
Technical Operations Manager at Mideast Data Systems
Oct 6, 2022
What I like best about Pure Storage FlashBlade is its object storage functionality, plus it has fast underlying hardware.
Pure Storage FlashBlade is also very stable. I find its stability one of its valuable features.
National Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Dec 10, 2018
It has also helped to simplify storage for us in the way that it's easy to manage. Their automatic monitoring really helps when things break or are about to break. They see a problem coming and alert us even before our own system does.
Practice Manager for Infrastructure at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 10, 2018
It has absolutely simplified our storage because the dashboards on the consoles show a clear understanding of where you are, and it is also very easy to provision. This been a big help for our teams.
Pure Storage FlashBlade is user-friendly. It's replication feature is great because it has active replication and active DR. That's the beauty of the product. It's a perfect solution for block storage.
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.
VP of Engineering at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
Dec 10, 2018
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.
Technical Operations Manager at Mideast Data Systems
Oct 6, 2022
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.
National Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Dec 10, 2018
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.
Practice Manager for Infrastructure at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 10, 2018
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.
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.
