Pure Storage FlashArray Implementation Team

Alfadel Alharthy - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Services Manager at NAMA

We used a combination of implementation assistance. There was a remote team from Pure Storage and a local team from a general local partner that helped us.

There were three people who did the handling of the deployment. The management of the solution is completed by only one of our teams, only they can handle everything in the installation. There are engineers and architects that are part of the team.

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Operation Manager at a leisure / travel company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We used a reseller for the integration. The company was Pinnacle Business Solutions from Oklahoma city. It was pretty good. We were happy with it.

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TY
Senior Network Engineer at US Dept of Energy Idaho Operations Office

We had a Pure Storage rep come onsite and help us install the system. We had it up and running in just two hours. Then, he turned us around and had us enter a ticket to do a firmware upgrade on our system, because it was three versions old. 

The technical support was very responsive. They emailed us and scheduled it a couple days out. They talked us through how to enable the Remote Assist tunnel. We had that up and running, then the day came for the upgrade. They emailed us and asked if they could continue. Then 20 minutes later, they emailed saying, "Okay it is done. We will monitor it for 24 hours. Let us know if you have any problems." It was just amazing to me, because I don't have to touch it. I don't have to look at it. We had no downtime nor interruption to service, and yet the upgrade was done.

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Pure Storage FlashArray
March 2024
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Ricky Winandityo - PeerSpot reviewer
IT system infrastructure manager at Anabatic Technologies

We were able to handle the setup ourselves with the help of a local partner. 

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BH
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

We were able to do our migration due to the brilliant people at Pure Storage. We worked through all of it together. It was an amazing setup experience. 

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KS
MTS - Core IP Engineering at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We had the vendor do most of it. It is like a team, and there is usually one installer guy. Our experience with them was great. Our account team with them is really good. 

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SajithEruvangai - PeerSpot reviewer
IT System Specialist - Operations & Infrastructure at Daman

We engaged Pure to assist us with our implementation, and our experience with them was very good. The technical team came onsite for the deployment. If we have any problems then they will return to our site to help.

Only one person is required for deployment and maintenance.

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JK
Senior Systems Administrator for Research at Chapman University

Pure Storage showed up, plugged it in, and we attached it to our Fibre Channel SAN and our iSCSI network. We were copying data within an hour and a half or so. Our Pure Storage team is great. There wasn't really an "implementation". No assistance was necessary.

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Oleg Gussar - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Administration Group at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did the implementation of the solution ourselves and when we had some issues we contacted the support for assistance.

All vendor support engineers are good qualified. In case of escalation it was quick and effective.

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JS
GIS Group Manager (Server, Dir Services, DBA, SAP BASIS/Sec, Mainframe, Storage, Network, & InfoSec) at Haworth

We deployed it in-house.

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DF
Sr System Engineer at Stanford University

We used a reseller for the deployment. They were good, I didn't have any issues with them. 

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Masood Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Storage Analyst at CLSA

We used the reseller to do the implementation of Pure Storage FlashArray. It took one engineer from the reseller and one engineer from my team.

We have approximately 10 users who are managing Pure Storage FlashArray.

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VM
CIO at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use a consultant from Pure for the implementation of the Pure Storage Flash Array.

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MD
Virtual Storage Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Pure Storage FlashArray's team had to install the product in our company.

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CB
Senior Data Center Solutions Architect at ChaanBeard.com

I also install Pure Storage for my clients. The initial setup is very straightforward and very simple. It takes me an hour to set one up.

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Tim Kovars - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Engineer at Quarles & Brady LLP
SS
System Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Pure Storage did the integration for us. 

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JB
Sr Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Pure's consultants assisted us with the deployment, and we liked those guys. Our pre-sales team is really great to work with and I have never heard any complaints about the
support teams. That's typically an indicator that it was an acceptable service. 

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AC
IT Contractor at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We handled the initial setup by ourselves. We did not need any outside assistance from any integrators or consultants. 

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RG
Associate Director of Cloud Engineering at ZS Associates

We used a reseller, SHI. Our experience with them was good.

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LR
Fresh Operations Manager at Jerónimo Martins

We did the implementation of the solution ourselves with the supervision of the integrator.

We have a team that does the maintenance and operations of the solution.

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PG
IT Manager at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees

The reseller helps with all of the implementation processes. 

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CF
KYC Quality Assurance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Installation was included with the purchase. We didn't do it ourselves.

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WM
Technical Marketing Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

We used a partner (integrator) for the deployment. We used Tech Data. Everything was based on design guides and reference architecture, our experience was very good.

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it_user211857 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Program Manager at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Both devices were installed through one of our partners who did a good job.

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MM
Team Lead for Storage and Back-Up at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

We used the Pure Storage FlashArray team to do the implementation.

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KA
Chief Technology Officer at perfekt

Pure Storage FlashArray is not difficult to maintain.

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TE
Hardware Architect at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Pure Storage FlashArray was implemented by a local product solutions team.

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SB
Supervisor of Systems Engineering at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

A Pure engineer was onsite with me to do it. It was very simple. He asked me about five questions about IP address and NTP, etc. Then he did the rest with a script.

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DT
Sr Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We implemented the solution with the assistance of a vendor. 

Our experience with that vendor was good. They had everything up for us and there were no problems. Everything worked. They pre-configured it before they brought it out and then they just set it up. 

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JB
Director of Information Security at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We bought it from a reseller but we did the installation and design ourselves in-house.

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RZ
Manager of IT Department at Office of Technical Inspection in Poland

We have two administrators that support this solution.

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NW
ICT and Security Specialist at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We are an integrator and reseller so we did the implementation ourselves on one team.

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BP
Systems Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used an integrator for our deployment, and our experience with them was good.

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RB
IT Manager at a government with 51-200 employees

We did use an integrator for the deployment, and our experience with them was good.

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SD
SDDC Senior Director at SK Telecom

We deployed it in-house.

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NG
Infrastructure engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used a Pure Storage engineer for deployment. He came on site and did the setup. 

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SB
Platform Technologies Lead Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

As it's a SAN, it's a corporate solution, that requires experts.

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WB
Network Manager at Macc 911

We used Compunet for the deployment. Our experience with them was good.

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RC
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We deployed it ourselves.

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PK
Technical Consultant at Injazat Data Systems

We implemented through an in-house team. We are the service providers in this region, so we did it ourselves. We only engage vendors and their local partners if there is any hardware issue or hardware replacement we need delivered. 

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DM
IT Supervisor at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We used the reseller for deployment, who came in and worked with our storage guy to deploy the solution. The reseller company was Sirius Computer Solutions. My local rep and his engineer were the ones who came in to install it, and it was a perfect experience. They are whom we have always bought storage through. We have never had any problems with them.

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JD
Head of Infrastructure Architecture at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We did the installation in-house.

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JH
Infrastructure Manager at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

We used a third-party for the implementation. We bought it and we built in some professional services. They were great. Everything with Pure Storage is straightforward. 

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RF
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used an integrator for the deployment.

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SM
Soporte TI at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our organization did use an IT consultant to assist us with the implementation. 

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JW
Infrastructure Architect at a wellness & fitness company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used an integrator for the deployment.

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CC
DBA at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used an integrator to assist us with the implementation and deployment of this solution. We were hands-off, but it seems that all went well because everybody is happy with it.

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SV
Cloud Infra Manager at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

Pure assisted us with the implementation. It was a beautiful experience because we had an older model on which the head had to be upgraded. They did it seamlessly. I had no drops in my VMs.

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DK
Senior Manager of Technical Alliances at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used Sirius Computer Solutions for the deployment. They have been our partner and VAR for a long time. They know our environment very well and were with us every step of the way.

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FL
CTO at Ticel

We deployed directly with Pure Storage.

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JE
Pre-Sales Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc.

In most cases, we do the implementation because we are the integrator.

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PS
Infrastructure Architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used an integrator called ProMax. We did 50/50 with them. We got ProMax to come in and start the process and then we finished off the work. This was the first time that we worked with them and we had no problems with them. I would rate them a ten out of ten. The engineer was helpful the whole way through. He helped me unbox the solution, get it into the racks, build it, cable it up, and get it into production. 

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KH
Principal Engineer at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used Oracle.

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RW
Infrastructure Engineer at Paylocity

We worked with a field engineer on the deployment. Prerequisites and those kinds of things were shared and identified ahead of time. There wasn't a whole lot of guesswork.

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SS
Systems Admin at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We dealt directly with Pure Storage engineers for the deployment, and our experience was good.

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FF
IT Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

For the integration, we used a reseller. It was so easy to put in place and put it to work. They did a good job, but I think we could also do it.

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DB
Digital Architect at CBC/Radio-Canada

We used a retailer to buy it and it was easy.

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RF
Sys Admin at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used a reseller called Sirius for the implementation. They were good, we didn't have any complaints. 

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it_user186294 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage and Backup Engineer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We implemented through a vendor, but the manufacturer did the actual installation. There were no PS hours incurred for the installation from the vendor.

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GC
Project Manager at WFSFAA

The reseller was able to assist us.

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SC
Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We implement this solution for our customers. We are a partner and we're certified to do deployments.

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ZS
SRE at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did the implementation and worked with professional services. For the most part, our main guy in the compute team has had experience and it was pretty simple. We didn't need a forklift like we needed for the HPE. Just rack and sack and ready to go.

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JM
Systems Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees

We used a reseller, but then we did our own deploy along with their help. They came in and gave us a training course so that we could maintain it ourselves.

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MR
System Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used a consultant from Pure Storage.

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SJ
Customer Support Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We had a guy from Pure Storage helping us and sharing skill sets. This way, they could know our stuff and we could know their stuff.

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JA
Senior Manager of IT Infrastructure at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

We used a reseller for the deployment: Bridge Data. They provided good expertise and timely services, so we were happy with them.

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VA
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's so simple that there is not much that an integrator or a partner needs to do on the Pure platform.

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FS
Datacenter & Cloud Architect - South America Zone at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We have had help from the vendors, they have been very close to us, helping us all the way.

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JH
IT Officer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used a Pure Storage partner for the deployment. They were very good, supportive, and responsive.

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KG
Senior Director of Systems Engineering at Bill.com

We used an integrator for the deployment.

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it_user649044 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information, Facility, Purchasing and Services Manager at Roma Metropolitane S.r.l.

The product was implemented directly by the vendor’s team and they are very skilled.

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it_user277047 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Storage Engineer and Architect at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product was installed by the vendor’s SE. Their level of expertise was a solid 10/10.

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CL
Network Engineer at Altura Credit Union

We used an integrator, Jack Henry, for the deployment.

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SB
Sever Engineer at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

We used a reseller for the integration. 

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VT
Deputy Executive Officer at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We used a reseller, ePlus. They worked closely with Pure, with their engineers.

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TC
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We used a reseller for the deployment named SHI, and our experience with them was good.

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it_user187086 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

A vendor team performed the installation with the assistance of an in-house team. The vendor team performed the installation very professionally and have a wealth of knowledge across various vendor platforms.

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BT
Cloud Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Pure Storage did the deployment for us. 

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PM
Network Specialist at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use a reseller for the integration. We had a good experience with them.

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AE
CTO at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

We used a third party for deployment. When we bought it, we built-in some professional services who did great work. 

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PA
Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We did it on our own. We had only two Admins for its deployment.

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DF
Sr Tech Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We used a reseller for the integration and we had a good experience with them. 

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Buyer's Guide
Pure Storage FlashArray
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Pure Storage FlashArray. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.