"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"This product has good performance."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"Their support system has insight into errors on our SAN fabric that we can't see. They've brought attention to and raised awareness for us about things that we couldn't see, when we were experiencing problems."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
Earn 20 points
INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, VMware vSAN and Dell XtremIO, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.
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