We performed a comparison between Nutanix Unified Storage and Pure Storage FlashBlade based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the unified dashboard, as it allows us to easily observe everything from a single location."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"What I found to be the most valuable features were better performance and uptime."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is a simple, user-friendly, and stable solution."
"The scalability, ease of use, and technical support are the most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage."
"The most valuable features are the interface and support."
"The reliability and availability are the most valuable features. Reliability is important because it can run my workloads. I need to be able to take advantage of the VMs that are executing on the storage. It has to be reliable. It's also important to have the storage available for scaling VMs on demand."
"It is a highly scalable solution."
"It's very easy-to-use."
"The initial setup is pretty quick."
"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."
"It uses the same platform for connectivity so integration is seamless."
"The product is scalable and easy to expand."
"It helps simplify our storage, because the user interface is very simple and the installation is easy."
"I would rate this solution an eight plus. It has has good flexibility and stability, it's easy to manage and the response time is good."
"The initial setup is pretty easy and simple."
"The graphical user interfaces could benefit from more attention to detail."
"With all of the Nutanix equipment, the licensing is expensive. We operate in the enterprise space, but we're a midsized company. At times, the price tag is a little bit shocking for a company with only 35 employees."
"Unified Storage failed to fulfill our object storage requirements."
"One thing I'd appreciate is having a desktop application similar to what VMware offered."
"The feature request I have is for the consistent improvement of how user account permissions are assigned in Nutanix Unified Storage."
"The graphical user interface could provide more detail. It would be nice if we could click on the service and get some expanded definitions of them. When hiring new people, it's difficult to teach them how everything works, but if they can access everything, they can teach themselves."
"We would love to see the analytics and ransomware protection extended beyond just file servers to virtual machines, but they have a different product that covers that."
"I would like to see the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. That could definitely be a major breakthrough in providing a unified, seamless experience for end-users. It could reduce costs as well as human effort."
"They need better integration with public clouds along with a better hybrid solution."
"I would like to see the licensing fees improved as well as the price per terabytes."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"In terms of scalability, it doesn't expand out quite as robustly as some of the others, but it covers 90% of the market in what it does."
"Compared to, for example, Hitachi NAS, the solution is not mature at all. It's just in its infancy as far as technology goes."
"I would like to see more VM-Aware features in the next release of this solution."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"The speed could be improved."
Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 4th in File and Object Storage with 41 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 7th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews. Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Nutanix Unified Storage vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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