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"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"What is most valuable about the Dell EMC SC Series system was its reliability."
"The Dell support is helpful and the response is quick. The agents' knowledge is very good."
"The process of reallocating data from fast disks (SSD or SAS) to slow disks (SATA) gives you better performance and better use of resources."
"Customers are most impressed with SC's provisioning because you don't need to buy a large amount of storage upfront. It's pay-as-you-grow. It also has solid compression and duplication features."
"We see very low latency with very high IOPS for mixed workloads."
"It is just as stable as any other high-end solution."
"In terms of stability, it's good enough. It's okay."
"The solution is stable."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"The solution is not cheap."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"In terms of additional features, I would like to see some kind of I/O meter, to indicate what we are using in terms of performance. I would like to see automation with that, where it would give me the trends. I want to know those things easily, to help me know where issues are going to occur."
"We have seen some degraded throughput with mixed workloads. We have been working with Dell EMC to correct some of these latency issues."
"Technical support should respond more quickly because the turnaround time is very high."
"The cost of the solution could be better."
"From a performance point of view, it's getting a bit old."
"I would like to have 100% functionality through the web app."
"Compellent comes in the form of a component that's not true of a unified storage platform."
"I would like to see an integrated key manager in the controllers. Currently, it's an external product. It would be nice to have the option of having a built-in key for self-encrypting drive features."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while Dell SC Series is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF and Tintri VMstore, whereas Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and HPE Nimble Storage.
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