"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable."
"SANsymphony is flexible, with many potential options for implementation. SANsymphony's can be used with VMware, Hyper-V, or even with a hypervisor agnostic approach. It can also be used for strictly physical non-virtualized solutions."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"If it could integrate to a cloud gateway, then we could carry it directly to storage, instead of having middleware in between the storage and the cloud."
"For customers or technicians that don't speak and understand English, it could be great to have other languages support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"The alert system could have more features."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 2nd in Storage Software with 53 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and VMware vSAN.
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