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Jason Devine
Cloud Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I've used a lot of technologies over the years from NetApp to Dell and others. This product is more or less in a class by itself when it comes to its performance and its scalability.
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Patrick Mcgrory
Chief Executive Officer / CTO at IT VIP, LLC
I've been seeing a lot more, but previously, I was all about EMC. EMC backed my VMware environment, which was extensive and had built-in disaster recovery. Today, if someone asks what I would go for and buy, I'd say that I'm just going to go with Pure.
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reviewer1430535
Architecte technique at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We used to use Hitachi NAS, which is a much more robust product. It's been on the market for a while, so it definitely has a few more features than this solution.
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Pure Storage FlashBlade
April 2024
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MOHAMAD KAWTHARANY
Technical Operations Manager at Mideast Data Systems
I'm a new partner for VAST Data, and I don't have much experience with it yet, but I've used PureStorage FlashArray. I can't compare Pure Storage FlashBlade with PureStorage FlashArray, but I can say that Pure Storage FlashBlade is stable, strong, fast, and modern, and it's an enterprise-class object storage product.
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Rob Aerts
Program Manager at Máxima Medisch Centrum
Previously, we worked with EMC XtremIO.
We decided to switch because it is less complex and very simple to implement in relation to XtremIO from EMC. You don't need any appliance to make it a Metro Cluster.
In the past, we had a Vplex from Dell EMC. This is an appliance you put above the XtremIO storage, which is not needed in Pure Storage. It is in the same box you have.
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reviewer1359597
Platform Technologies Lead Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are also using FlashArray.
View full review »We have always used NetApp FA Series. When compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, I would recommend Pure Storage FlashBlade. It's easier to set up, easy to expand capacity, and very easy to upgrade.
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Principa7fd7
Principal System Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees
We outgrew our old solution, which is why we implemented this one. We are traditionally a Dell EMC shop.
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Mudasser Zaheer
Senior Global Manager at DXC Technology
Our customers asked us to change from our previous solution, HPE.
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Gustavo Lima
COO at Santa Lucia
I would rate this solution a nine. The only reason I wouldn't give it a ten is because the servers are a little big. We have seen smaller products with the same storage capacity. We switched because we were looking for a solution that could meet our data storage and performance needs. We researched the costs for different storage solutions and Pure Storage was the one that fit our needs. Its cost-benefit was the most valuable part for us.
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Otto Warlich
Technical Consultant Storage at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I have a little bit of experience with NetApp, but we don't sell the latest NetApp systems. In the past, we worked with NetApp — it's a good filing system.
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VpOfEngic9de
VP of Engineering at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
We were just using a very homebrew, on-premise, traditional NAS-style storage solution that was quite a few years out of date already. We took the opportunity then to upgrade our infrastructure completely.
The other solution we looked at was a startup that uses NBME fabric as their solution, but it's not zero touch. You have to configure a lot, you have to take a lot of care of it, so it just didn't appeal from that perspective. That's still why I think Pure Storage ultimately won our business just because it works out of the box.
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SeniorTe500e
Senior technical architect at a marketing services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We knew we needed to switch to this solution because of the speed. We had these in our data centers and the speed was rock solid and we wanted to get these out to video editors.
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Practiced5ea
Practice Manager for Infrastructure at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We switched to Pure Storage as a decision to get away from Dell EMC.
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National4173
National Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We considered building our own solution but at some point, we realized that there was a higher risk to that. We ended up choosing Pure Storage because they could prove that other customers had successful implementations with minimal issues that was a huge plus.
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SeniorArd17c
Senior Architect and IT at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Performance needs are what caused us to replace our existing solution.
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ITNetwor7697
IT Network Specialist at a university with 501-1,000 employees
We use Nimble. We found out that Nimble had a lot of latency issues, so we decided to switch to Pure Storage. Ever since then, everything has been running a lot more smoothly.
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Manager340157
Infrastructure Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
My previous solution was EOL.
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StaffSys92a1
Staff System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We wanted to have a multi-vendor strategy. We already had two storage vendors and we wanted to more competition. This was where Pure Storage came in. We were looking for a SSD data storage or all-flash base, so that is where this solution fits in.
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Mo Seay
IT Systems Admin at Greer CPW
It was setup before I joined the company.
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Pure Storage FlashBlade
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Pure Storage FlashBlade. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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