We performed a comparison between Pure Storage FlashBlade and Quantum ActiveScale based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about MinIO, Dell Technologies, Red Hat and others in File and Object Storage."The most valuable features include the ease of implementation, ease of use and the speed that you can do backup and recovery on."
"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."
"It is very easy to use, and it is very fast."
"We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it."
"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."
"Pure Storage FlashBlade is user-friendly. It's replication feature is great because it has active replication and active DR. That's the beauty of the product. It's a perfect solution for block storage."
"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 product is scalable and easy to expand."
"The technology is stable which is good."
"Workflow is easy to manage and maintain."
"I want efficiency. FlashBlade doesn't have efficiency now."
"The features provided for SMB customers are limited."
"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."
"It would be beneficial if the layer could support the S3 protocol and be container ready in the next release."
"I would like to have Snapshots and Snapmail in the next release. People who came from a NetApp background, especially expect these features."
"The feature that we're waiting on is better integration with the cell services."
"I have not seen ROI."
"Lacks some ability to integrate with different systems."
"We would like to see a self-sufficient installation."
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Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews while Quantum ActiveScale is ranked 19th in File and Object Storage. Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8, while Quantum ActiveScale is rated 7.6. 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 Quantum ActiveScale writes "Good performance and reliable but the setup is complex". Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Pure Storage FlashArray and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas Quantum ActiveScale is most compared with Dell ECS, Dell PowerScale (Isilon), MinIO, Qumulo and NetApp StorageGRID.
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