Pure Storage FlashArray Valuable Features

This solution is simple to install. It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity. We use the Evergreen Storage model so that we will get upgrades as they are needed, or as we expand. It has helped us meet some financial challenges we had internally. In the past, we had to buy whole trays of disks from another vendor. It's too much money because we typically bill people ahead of the project. This solution has helped us meet the spending needs of our customers, and allow us to be more flexible. View full review »

The most valuable feature has been its performance. It has allowed us to virtualize our production environment, which has many secondary benefits, primarily involving the automation of database administration activities. Very close to that primary benefit has been the effectiveness of their data reduction technology, a combination of deduplication and metadata indexing. In our environment, nearly all of our databases are copies of copies. With Pure Storage's data-reduction technology we can host an unexpectedly large amount of functional data in an affordable amount of storage. Also, their system-management REST API is excellent: well-documented and very easy to use. View full review »

The simplicity is the most valuable feature. I do not have to deal with how to provision RAIDs or manage disks. I just plugin my disk groups, and it does it all on the back-end. I just identify the size and volume that I want and the host that I want to deploy it to, then it just shows up and works. It has been incredibly simple to use, and it is incredibly fast. Simpler is always better in my mind. Just making it quicker and easier to deploy, then also making it so that there is less chance of error. View full review »

When I was a customer, the most valuable feature is the ease of use. It is the whole package: The ease of use, cost, and the ability for it to perform at a level that traditional storage arrays just can't compete with. It simplifies storage. In the old days, you had to go and decide what ports were going to go to what workloads, which was a lot of work. You had to set up replication. Now, everything is just a few clicks away. It is set up exactly like you would want it to be. That is what it does. It simplifies and optimizes the solution. View full review »

* It's really fast * It's fall-off-the-log easy to use. That is the strongest selling point. The ease of use is really nice. In terms of the Predictive Performance Analytics, it certainly contributes to better overall performance and I'm a total fan of that. I've worked with some other flash storage vendors and the one that has the best overall offering, certainly, is Pure, the Analytics is part of it, whereas some of the other storage vendors haven't had as strong an offering in predictive analytics. View full review »

The most valuable features of this solution are the speed, ease of use, administration, and the support model. We have the VMware plugin for Pure storage. It's the plugin that allows us to create a data store. It's super simple but we use it. It's in vCenter. The integrations have helped by making it quicker to deploy data storage. If we have a LUN that is ready to have a data store put on it, rather than us having to give access to certain people to create data stores, they can just do it directly from vCenter and they won't have to have access to the array. It makes it easier. It's a little faster. View full review »

The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure. Also, performance. The box gives them extreme performance, but ease of use is the main reason they love Pure. View full review »

The magic that the storage does would be the most valuable feature for us. Deduping on the fly is really cool to us because some of our stuff we get around seven to one, which is amazing. I definitely like the new redesign of the UI that was done. We just had to do a DR test, and we had to make snapshots and copy them over, and it was a lot easier to use I think with this new UI than the old stuff. View full review »

Performance is its most valuable feature. There is nobody else who is coming close, not that I have seen. They are on the money with the predictive performance analytics. They claim high performance, and they do have it. View full review »

For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space. Everything needs more space. For us to have a solution that allows deduplication and that lets us deploy more on less. View full review »

I like the five-year controller upgrade, easy-to-use interface, and performance. They do a good job at ease of use for the interface. I don't have a big team, so its easy user interface has helped us be able to manage our data better. View full review »

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. We're pretty complex. Back there, we've got three or four different systems. It's important that we have something that's easy to manage so we don't have to learn something completely new. This solution offers a GUI that you can just set up and it's ready to go. We had it up and running in three or four hours. View full review »

There are a couple of things we really like: the flash storage, the deduplication, and IO times are very good. The snapshots are also fairly useful. View full review »

Ease of use is the most valuable feature for us. It just does what it says. It's very efficient, really quick, and replication is great. Predictive performance analytics are also good. The compression and the predictive analytics tell us how much storage we're using and how much longer we have before it runs out. The compression algorithms are perfect. View full review »

The most valuable feature is the ease of use. It's really plug-and-play. It just works and it works really well. View full review »

The most valuable feature of this solution is its simplicity. It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast. View full review »

Flash is the most valuable feature. Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular, where you can keep replacing components. That was definitely new several years ago. I would bet competitors are doing it now as well, but when they started, it was an innovation. View full review »

We are really enjoying the speed of this solution. The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice. View full review »

* The performance of the high speed FlashArrays. * They have a good API set. Their flash snapshot technologies are efficient. * The deduplication in the array, which is one of the main reasons that it's a cost effective platform, and combining it with the snap technologies, allows the product to be remotely controlled, manually controlled, or scheduled. It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution. View full review »

The solution has a lot of automation features that helped us to deploy the environment faster and to speed the of rate integration. Integration has helped because it helps us to understand the user's requirements. Deployment is done faster, and their applications are more secure. They are reassured that their data is saved in their environment. View full review »

I find the speed of the solution its most valuable feature. It is really fast and it is also very easy to use. You can basically set it up and forget about it. You don't have to manage it on a day-to-day basis. I also like the plugins that go into beta where you can see there. For instance, if I need to extend a datastore I can go straight to the plugin and extend the data store, refresh the VAs, and see the new store. I don't have to log in and use my credentials, so I save time and it is easy. View full review »

The most valuable features for us would be the ease of implementation and box-to-box replication. View full review »

The storage is very simple. We can use more capacity because of the compression and deduplication. The predictive performance analytics are good, easy to use, and simple to see. They are simple to understand, not complicated. View full review »

It's very good storage for what we use it for, very efficient. It's very cost-effective for the amount of data we have when we're crunching the numbers that we're crunching, for our algorithms which use a lot of processing power. View full review »

The deduplication and compression are its most valuable feature. They have done a really good job, as they were able to shrink down 15 gigs into five gigs. It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use. View full review »

The value of the storage in the way that it stores the data is a very valuable feature for us. We also like that it's robust and stable and that we get good support from them when we have an issue. View full review »

The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad. View full review »

It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us. We are going to start using it as a filer. In January, we're going to migrate away from NetApp and use Pure Storage as file service. View full review »

* Resiliency * Speed: It's fast. It's like I don't notice anything. * It's very easy to use. The GUI is simplistic, which can be nice. The predictive performance analytics are great. I get everything I need to know: IOPS, latency, etc. The tech support works with me if I have any questions that need to be answered. View full review »

The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression. We liked the non-disruptive downgrade from FA-420 (POC) to FA-405 in production and the non-disruptive upgrade from FA-405 to M20. View full review »

We like that there isn't a steep learning curve and it is easy to learn how to navigate. It's also quite scalable and easy to implement. View full review »

We like the speed. It's very low latency. In virtualization, you can mask lots of problems, and even in code you can mask lots of problems, with low latency. It's just pure speed and low latency. We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power. Finally, we love the predictive performance analytics. It's an excellent tool. It's something we were asking for in the past. When they rolled it out, it made a difference. View full review »

The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market. I replaced another couple of vendors that I had in place for storage, who over-promised and under-delivered on their technical expectations, and who certainly over-promised on their ability to do conversions from one array to another. My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure. View full review »

The security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward. The performance analytics are moderate. It's not the best performance platform out there but it's the easiest to operate. View full review »

The white glove customer service that I get is their greatest value. They even do the firmware upgrades for me. I don't have to worry about it. View full review »

* The automation: It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage. * Their business model: Where you pay for your support, then you can have that support for X number of years. This way you are not worrying about your support going up three to four years down the line and having to change your infrastructure at that time because it becomes obsolete. This is a positive feature that clients are seeing. View full review »

The most valuable feature is the speed of it. It is much faster than anything that we can get from similar competitors. The solution helps to simplify storage. View full review »

Manageability is its most valuable feature. It is simplified storage, as we don't have to maintain or administer it on a daily basis, which is good. We don't have to be experts in managing the storage. We can depend on the solution's ability to phone home and leverage the built-in support function of the product. It has strong statistics and historical metrics with Pure1. Therefore, it has been everything that we have needed out of a platform. View full review »

Performance and support quality. View full review »

* Speed * Scalability * The cost View full review »

What I like most about this solution is that it is simple to bring in, install, and get it going. You can get it installed in a few days. What's more, the compression ratio that we're getting is that our database portion is pretty high, so it saves a lot of money. View full review »

Provides awesome performance, and it's been able to shrink all of our data center from two-and-a-half racks to one rack and give better performance with SSD drives versus spinning disk drives. It has saved overall costs from our heat and power within our data center where we're now just powering up a 2U device. View full review »

* Ease of setup * Migration to it * Upgrading * Support responsiveness * Kick-butt mobile app * On box analytics and vCenter plug-in * The ease of creating a snapshot for testing or recovery. I cannot stress enough the stability, speed, and awesome deduplication and compression rates. The amount of data we have moved to it has allowed us to remove units four times the size. The mobile app is kick-butt and support has been topnotch. View full review »

The ability to seamlessly and easily upgrade storage capacity and upgrade to a completely new generation of the array are the most valuable features. View full review »

The performance and the Evergreen maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution. View full review »

It's simple, powerful, and ready to use. View full review »

Firstly, dedupe is the most valuable feature. Hands down. Simplifying storage is also a big win overall. As far as the monitoring with the latency goes, we're not monitoring the apps to see how they're doing at different periods, which saves us time. We're just setting thresholds, walking away, and waiting for emails if they're broken. View full review »

We like that there are good deduplication savings in terms of the usage in the data center and that the product itself works well. Scalability is good. We can do an upgrade in which both of the controllers will be on which has reduced the downtime. The scalability has definitely improved. View full review »

The most valuable feature for us would be its speed. View full review »

The performance. View full review »

vSphere integration and DevOps are our most valuable features. Also, one of our customers used to have a rates run that ran for eight hours, and when we migrated them across to Pure that went down to under two hours. View full review »

* The performance that you receive and its ease of use. * Being able to get it up and running in a very short order. * Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great. * It takes away a lot of issues that customers were dealing with before. E.g., a lot of times, customers are dealing with performance problems when they migrate to Pure Storage that go away, then they don't have to worry about them anymore. Then, they can focus on other things, like automation. View full review »

The solution has great efficiencies because it has scalability. It also becomes the core between our synergy of all our platform systems across the United States. View full review »

The most interesting feature is the speed at which it executes I/O. After moving to Pure Storage, I have noticed that our databases are considerably faster. Our performance has improved by at least four times. View full review »

The VME feature is interesting. Additionally, I like the way they went to market with their All Green Program. View full review »

The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements. View full review »

Speed: Things function pretty quickly for our SAN management team. We have seen a good reduction in the amount of total storage space that we're using because of the deduplication. It runs fast and is easy to use, and our SAN manager likes it. View full review »

It is an easy to use product for all of my team members. View full review »

The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution. View full review »

The most valuable feature is the performance of Pure Storage underneath and that many applications, which are already integrated with it. I can use the system applications, e.g., for backup restore. Therefore, I don't need to buy them in addition to the product, as they are already part of the solution. It helps to simplify storage, especially because we can do in-place upgrades and can grow on demand. I can pay on demand, so it helps me to simplify the usage of the storage. View full review »

Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on, and the biggest selling point for me was the replacement of the hardware, the controllers, without any major expense to the clinic. View full review »

What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability. View full review »

The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. This solution is easy to use. View full review »

Infrastructure as a base is important, but the end game is to have the DevOps pipeline, which is the most valuable feature. View full review »

The most valuable feature is the speed. We are taking advantage of the VMware integrations developed by Pure. View full review »

The most valuable features are the speed, cost, and that we get the best value for the money. View full review »

It does everything they say it will do: * It's very cost-effective compared to other big players. * Adding storage to it after we bought it was not a shocking cost surprise. * It integrates very well with VMware as we're using Site Recovery Manager from VMware. * It's also tiny, it doesn't consume very much space. We're saving power and space in the data center. * It's really easy for us to manage. View full review »

It's very fast, easy to use, and the cloud-based management is good. 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. View full review »

Performance is the most valuable feature. View full review »

The most valuable feature is its upgradeability. Pure Storage helps to streamline storage because of its simplicity. View full review »

The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution. View full review »

Reliability and performance are its most valuable feature. Its ability to simplify storage is great. I look at the performance metrics periodically, which are spectacular. View full review »

It is fast and reliable. It works. View full review »

The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte. Then we added another one and I think the total storage is five terabytes now. The UI is pretty good. View full review »

For flash storage, the speed access is its most valuable feature. The solution’s inline deduplication and compression is very good. The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before. View full review »

The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data. View full review »

Asynchronous and synchronous replication between two data centers. Our platform is housed in two centers, and we're using Pure Storage for their replication. We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform. The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job. View full review »

The value for the storage, in the way it stores the data, but also the robustness of the product, it's very stable. And then the support that we get when we have an issue. View full review »

The thickness and the sizing for when we put it in the data center. Also, the performance and price. View full review »

It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future. View full review »

* Cheaper * Quicker * Easy to access if we need to obtain backups. * It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything. View full review »

* Performance * Deduplication * They work well with Oracle and other database workloads. View full review »

The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN. View full review »

Performance and scalability are the most valuable features for us. View full review »

The most valuable feature is its performance. The solution’s inline deduplication and compression are very good. The upgrade architecture is very good. Our data reduction rates, latency, and availability are all good. View full review »

My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value. View full review »

Compared to VMware, it has two to three times better performance. View full review »

The most valuable feature is its simplicity. It simplifies the administration and backup. The predictive performance analytics works well. View full review »

The encryption is its most valuable feature. The solution’s inline deduplication and compression are pretty good. Its ability to simplify storage seems good. View full review »

It's really fast. View full review »

The performance is the most valuable feature. View full review »

The most valuable feature is its speed. It is easy to use and manage. The time to value of the solution is pretty quick. View full review »

I rate the product at ten out of ten because the performance of the storage is just unbelievable. View full review »

The most valuable feature is its data reduction. It is very easy to use. View full review »

The most valuable features would be its performance, retrieval, recovery, and backup. It meets the customer's expectations. View full review »

It is difficult to say what features are valuable. It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore. View full review »

The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes. View full review »

The performance is great. The predictive performance analytics are good. View full review »

The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free. View full review »

It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well. View full review »

The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible. View full review »

* Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry. * The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive. View full review »