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"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"The scalability options are very nice because you can scale it much better and faster. The scalability was there in the previous environment also, but this is far better than what we had before. It basically helps the user in case they are looking for more storage. We can scale it much faster."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"We are a 100% satisfied with the stability of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is that is supports a high IOPS rate."
"When it comes to the interface of the solution we did not encounter any challenges. Additionally, the solution has good documentation."
"The initial setup is straightforward and can be done in an hour and a half by one person."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression."
"Ability to manage third-party arrays and virtualise them: One screen to control multiple arrays. Simplified administration."
"Speed (IOPS/second) – It is most vital for applications that need low latency and high speed for transferring the data."
"The price-performance ratio is most valuable."
"VIOLIN QV2020 is the latest in terms of performance. It has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category."
"It’s simple to use hardware to fix performance issues. Our issue is poor coding/queries. This greatly speeded things up. It’s too costly to track down poor programming in applications. The price of a developer’s time to scan through all the coding is high compared to buying Violin."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"It has room for improvement in the area of stability."
"The solution is quite expensive. That's one of the downsides to using it."
"Enterprise data storage needs improvement. They should create a feature for data and file storage."
"The installation is not easy. You need to have extensive knowledge to handle it."
"The interface of this solution could be improved."
"Our customers have raised concerns about the limitations of the FlashSystem 5200 and 7300, which only offer a 32-gigabyte connection."
"Customization features must be improved."
"The support could improve by allowing you to speak to someone when you call rather than them calling you back. However, once we do have contact with one of their technicians they are excellent."
"VIMM replacement is poorly designed. You have to slide out an entire drawer, remove the cover and then pop out the failed VIMM. I would like to see a front replacement just like with hard disks. This leaves room for error; for example, when you slide it out from the rack, you are moving cables along the cable management arm. This leaves the possibility of accidentally unplugging a cable from the array if it is not seated properly. Also, you might pinch the cables when sliding it back into the server rack."
"I set up Wi-Fi for storage, and since then, we haven't experienced any interruptions in service."
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews while VIOLIN QV2020 is ranked 28th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while VIOLIN QV2020 is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VIOLIN QV2020 writes "Has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas VIOLIN QV2020 is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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