We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and Pure Storage FlashBlade based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is its speed."
"Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"The program is very stable."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"The most valuable feature of Dell EMC XtremIO is the data protection (DP) group, it is one of the most advanced features in these types of arrays. The dedupe and compression that this array provides both do a superb job."
"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."
"The main feature I have found to be product replication."
"The most valuable features are the Metro clustering, and disaster recovery."
"What I like best about Pure Storage FlashBlade is its object storage functionality, plus it has fast underlying hardware. Pure Storage FlashBlade is also very stable. I find its stability one of its valuable features."
"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."
"The solution is able to handle workloads and is easy to use. It allows us to actually manage the boxes in less time."
"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 initial setup is pretty easy and simple."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"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."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"One thing that should be improved is the reporting and monitoring tools. It should use real time monitoring for storage, IOPS, latency, etc."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"There could be improvements in public cloud integration."
"The feature that we're waiting on is better integration with the cell services."
"The Pure Storage Orchestrator is our biggest pain point at the moment. If we can have more say in future developments of feature sets that we will need to support for our use case, that would be pretty beneficial to us."
"I want efficiency. FlashBlade doesn't have efficiency now."
"In the realm of micro-services, I think that Pure Storage can do well if they start getting in there and making their arrays more micro-services ready."
"It would be beneficial if the layer could support the S3 protocol and be container ready in the next release."
"An area for improvement in Pure Storage FlashBlade is its price. It could be reduced. The technical support for Pure Storage FlashBlade also needs improvement. It used to be good, with more experienced engineers. Nowadays, it isn't, and it takes longer for support to solve problems."
"I would also like to see better support for CIFS workloads."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". 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". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS. See our Dell XtremIO vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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