We performed a comparison between Kaminario K2 [EOL] and Pure Storage FlashBlade based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"Logic/software management"
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"It has absolutely simplified our storage because the dashboards on the consoles show a clear understanding of where you are, and it is also very easy to provision. This been a big help for our teams."
"The solution is able to handle workloads and is easy to use. It allows us to actually manage the boxes in less time."
"The initial setup is pretty quick."
"It has also helped to simplify storage for us in the way that it's easy to manage. Their automatic monitoring really helps when things break or are about to break. They see a problem coming and alert us even before our own system does."
"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 tool's most valuable features are data warehousing, speedy recovery, and analytics. Its latest release is cost-effective."
"The most valuable features include the ease of implementation, ease of use and the speed that you can do backup and recovery on."
"I would rate this solution an eight plus. It has has good flexibility and stability, it's easy to manage and the response time is good."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"It was not proactive communication."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"I would love to see capacity on its DRAM. I know it's not cost effective for them to do it, but I think that it could be a big differentiator and was a big differentiator from the beginning."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"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."
"On our dedupe during our initial buy, we were expecting a number a little higher like 4x. However, we are getting about 3.6. While it is close enough, it doesn't quite hit the numbers. So, this has been a challenge."
"Pure Storage FlashBlade should improve on more cloud integration."
"Commvault has mainly driven the Analytics, providing data and reports. However, the product has room for improvement, especially regarding storage analytics. Upgrading firmware has caused issues, requiring feature disabling to revert to traditional backups. The firmware upgrades sometimes affect Commvault backups."
"I would also like to see better support for CIFS workloads."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"The feature that we're waiting on is better integration with the cell services."
"The features provided for SMB customers are limited."
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Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Kaminario K2 [EOL] writes "Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms license separately". 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". Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS.
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