Pure Storage FlashBlade Other Solutions Considered

PM
Chief Executive Officer / CTO at IT VIP, LLC

I didn't have the responsibility to do that in the past. I always just stuck with EMC, which always was easy and simple for me, but things evolved. Like the whole analogy to LEGOs, I move towards that. When you're building storage, you have to worry about performance. Flash drives and all the rest of the stuff are going to give me a certain amount of performance, but as I add more storage, my performance has to go and cover more of an ecosystem. There is more data on there. When you have these LEGO ideas where compute and storage come together as a shelf, you're actually increasing everything at once, which is brilliant. On top of that, they've got all really nice security features, immutable storage, and things like that. 

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MK
Technical Operations Manager at Mideast Data Systems

I've evaluated VAST Data.

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DB
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Customers typically also evaluate EMC and NetApp. The primary reason they choose Pure is probably the ease of use and cost.

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Pure Storage FlashBlade
March 2024
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SB
Platform Technologies Lead Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have evaluated various solutions and recently migrated from Dell EMC with the Cloud and Pure Storage Systems. The migration was done two years ago.

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TT
Principal System Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees

Before choosing this option we also evaluated solutions by IBM. We chose Pure because we like their support model and we like their performance. The vendor came out and did a bake-off for us.

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MZ
Senior Global Manager at DXC Technology

We also evaluate NetApp and Dell EMC. The reason that we chose Pure Storage was because the cost per terabyte was lower and customer demand.

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BA
Senior technical architect at a marketing services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

NetApp and Pure Storage were the two solutions that we considered. The NetApp solution was more complicated. 

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TM
Practice Manager for Infrastructure at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We were in a build a new data center mode, and Pure Storage was one of three option that we considered. Then, it became our final option.

The other options were HPE 3PAR Flash Storage and Dell EMC XtremIO Flash. While all three solutions are comparable in price, we chose Pure Storage because of politics. 

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SS
Senior Architect and IT at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

We qualified with NetApp and have evaluated other solutions, but this is the one that we chose. 

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JS
IT Network Specialist at a university with 501-1,000 employees

Through past experience, we all decided that Pure Storage was a better fit for our environment.

The interface is a lot better than most other storage solutions. We have Nimble, as well, and I prefer the whole layout of Pure Storage over any other storage solution.

While Nimble is definite good, I would recommend Pure Storage because it is a pretty good system.

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LG
Infrastructure Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

NetApp and Isilon were also on the shortlist.

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Buyer's Guide
Pure Storage FlashBlade
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Pure Storage FlashBlade. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.