We performed a comparison between Pure Storage FlashBlade and SolidFire 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."We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"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."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensures efficient replication and helps maintain our data centers' uptime."
"The initial setup was straightforward. If you know how to plug in power and network you're pretty much qualified. They were on site to configure the network, the box to fit into our network architecture. Other than that, we self-managed from there."
"The initial setup is pretty quick."
"The initial setup is pretty easy and simple."
"The main feature I have found to be product replication."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the rewrite speed and the nonstop services."
"The most valuable features include the ease of implementation, ease of use and the speed that you can do backup and recovery on."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability."
"We can just buy them, scale them as we need on demand, and we don't have to spend so many front end cycles on designing the architecture."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"Being able to provide quality of service as promised."
"The system efficiency is excellent overall."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"SolidFire is one of the products that does have great APIs right out-of-the-box. It works great. The tools and the other stuff seem to work a little better right out-of-the-box than the ONTAP stuff does, C-Mode."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"It is a bit expensive."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"They need better integration with public clouds along with a better hybrid solution."
"I would like to have Snapshots and Snapmail in the next release. People who came from a NetApp background, especially expect these features."
"I would like to see the licensing fees improved as well as the price per terabytes."
"We haven't been able to use much of the cloud area of Pure Storage. We have a storage server and it would be better if it could integrate with other cloud features of this solution."
"File storage needs a lot of improvement. Mainframe connectivity also needs improvement because it requires additional components to be integrated with Pure Storage FlashBlade. If you want to keep your backup data, then this becomes an even more expensive solution because Pure Storage FlashBlade will not be able to meet your backup needs."
"Pure Storage FlashBlade should improve on more cloud integration."
"The feature that we're waiting on is better integration with the cell services."
"I would also like to see better support for CIFS workloads."
"So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into it."
"A little better segregation of the multi-tenancy. Right now, it's just VLAN-specific, that's all you can do."
"It would be good to provide administrative access at the root level to be able to do things with the system, if need be."
"I think there is room for improvement needed with its storage capability. A bigger node is needed."
"One of the challenges we faced while using SolidFire was that the product line that we were using in our company was discontinued."
"We had some false positives, power supplies failing, and that's really been about it. We had a couple of glitches during some upgrade processes but nothing that was really concerning to us."
"The technical support is really bad and has to be improved."
"We are looking for, potentially, on the Active IQ reporting side, to do reporting based on the datastore. Right now, I can report on the whole SolidFire, or I can report on just a certain datastore or a volume. I'd like to take all of my VDI infrastructure, which as an example would be multiple datastores."
Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN. See our Pure Storage FlashBlade vs. SolidFire report.
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