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We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and Pure Storage FlashBlade based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has.""The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands.""The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization.""The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue.""The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment.""The most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile""I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console.""The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."

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"The solution is able to handle workloads and is easy to use. It allows us to actually manage the boxes in less time.""The tool's most valuable features are data warehousing, speedy recovery, and analytics. Its latest release is cost-effective.""We can capacity plan at a greater level than we used to.""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.""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 ease of deployment and management has helped us simplify our storage. We also do not have to worry about capacity management as much. A lot of these things are native to Pure Storage.""The solution provides many controllers.""The main feature I have found to be product replication."

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Cons
"Its scalability could be better.""The initial setup process is complex.""The solution is difficult to set up.""The product could be made more secure.""The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products.""The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details.""There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required.""The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."

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"I would like to see more deduplication.""I would like to see better integration.""It would be nice if you could store file-based in the same box with the same technology.""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.""I would also like to see better support for CIFS workloads.""The solution is expensive.""The feature that we're waiting on is better integration with the cell services.""The features provided for SMB customers are limited."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It makes much more sense for individual licenses for distributed environments"
  • "Make sure you work with a vendor partner than can get you a substantial discount off of list pricing."
  • "The type of service level purchase will determine the level of support response that you receive from Cisco."
  • "The price of this solution is a little bit higher, but given that this system is Cisco, it feels more secure and dependable."
  • "Cisco products are at the high end in terms of cost, but everything is included with the licensing fees."
  • "The pricing for Cisco is less than for the HP Proliant series."
  • "The pricing for Cisco products is always high."
  • "Pricing with Cisco is very high."
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  • "We used a reseller for the purchase."
  • "Our customers have seen a reduction in TCO."
  • "I have seen ROI. It has allowed me to increase the density of my VMs without having to purchase anything additional."
  • "Our licensing is renewed annually."
  • "Support is a separate line item. Support is a different cost, but whatever your support is now, that's what you're going to pay forever. If your support's $100 today, six years from now it's $100. It doesn't fluctuate unless you upgrade it, or change it, etc."
  • "The price is a little high."
  • "In my opinion, we have paid the right price for the product. I don't think that it is too much or too little."
  • "The price of this solution could be made more affordable."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights.
    Top Answer:The product is expensive. We encounter a licensing issue as well. It could be subscription-based.
    Top Answer:There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors like Dell and HP.
    Top Answer:The tool's most valuable features are data warehousing, speedy recovery, and analytics. Its latest release is cost-effective.
    Top Answer:Pure Storage FlashBlade should improve on more cloud integration.
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    Also Known As
    UCS B-Series, Unified Computing System B-Series
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    Overview
    Based on Intel Xeon processor E7 and E5 product families, Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers work with virtualized and non-virtualized applications to increase: Performance, Energy efficiency, Flexibility and Administrator productivity.

    FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.

    Sample Customers
    Aegean Motorway, Anilana Hotels and Resorts, Anonymous Banking Group, Artoni Transporti, Bellevue, BH Telecom, Bowling Green State University, Children's Hospital Colorado, City of Biel, Dimension Data, Dualtec Cloud Builders, Hertz, Houston Methodist, Kuwait Petroleum Italia, Lufthansa Systems GmbH & Co.KG, Outscale, Sony Corporation, Talbots
    ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL
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    Financial Services Firm23%
    Manufacturing Company17%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Comms Service Provider13%
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    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government10%
    Manufacturing Company10%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Manufacturing Company18%
    Energy/Utilities Company12%
    University12%
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    Educational Organization36%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 62 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 30 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS B-Series writes "Robust hardware and efficient management of hardware, creating group policies, such as scrub policies and maintenance policies". 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". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade and Lenovo Flex System, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Pure Storage FlashArray and Red Hat Ceph Storage.

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