Pure Storage FlashBlade Benefits

Dale Sides - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner at StoneCreek Technologies

FlashBlade is so much easier to use than the previous solution; it reduced the time to market to serve our customers.

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PM
Chief Executive Officer / CTO at IT VIP, LLC

The whole idea was to be able to recover the hospital in the event they got hit with ransomware and taken over. The whole idea of Pure worked very well because you could take a snapshot multiple times a day. If somebody comes in and basically grabs your data from you, you can delete that and put back the one before they got here. That's what I loved about the whole opportunity.

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

One customer we're working with in particular is using FlashBlade along with another solution called an object engine. They're using that to revamp how they store their backups, then store them onsite. They can push stuff up to S3 and then archive into Glacier, so it reduces their onsite costs.

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

Using this solution has made our backups more reliable.

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MZ
Senior Global Manager at DXC Technology

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.

Our availability is at nine nines.

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GL
COO at Santa Lucia

We needed a separate storage device because we have a large amount of data. The cost benefits of this storage have improved my organization. 

Has simplified storage because it is easy to use. It's plug-and-play. We don't need too much support or technical support to be able to start using it. 

There has been a reduction in the total cost of ownership by around 20%. 

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DD
VP of Engineering at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees

This solution has improved how our organization functions in the way that it has essentially made us not have to think about storage. That's probably the biggest selling point. Storage is boring and you don't want to think about it. From that point of view, it's provided a lot of benefits. It ticks the big boxes. It's fast, it's scalable, it's essentially zero-touch maintenance. All of those get us eighty, ninety percent of the way.

The biggest feedback is that none of the teams have noticed. I'm not getting negative feedback which is a big improvement from where we were.

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

This solution has improved my organization in the way that we used to have a lot of spinning discs. There had to be multiple racks because of the capacity and performance required, now we can put it all in just a couple of Us. 

The ease of use of this solution has absolutely simplified storage for us. 

We've seen some good data reduction rates. We get about 4:1 at our data center. We're getting around 2:1 for the one that we're using for video editing.

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

It creates a much smaller footprint. Previously, we had a large data center with 30 racks with 12 racks of storage, and we are now down to one. So, a huge electric savings along with freeing our data center ports.

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BC
National Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We have an improved the lifecycle of database testing and has improved QA in the space that we use it for. 

Storage has been simplified for us in the way that it's easy to manage. Their automatic monitoring really helps when things break or are about to break. They see a problem coming and alert us even before our own system does. 

It's good to have a good way to back up high-performance type arrays like this,
especially if we could back it up on the back end versus the front side where things are impacted.

As a Pure Storage platform, the cost-benefit is hugely based on the deduplication and capacity. Otherwise, we would have had to have a bunch of arrays to support that capacity. The physical footprint of the array, the capacity that it's using, and the high performance are all things that we have seen benefit from.

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

It improves our organization by making the management much easier to access and not as time consuming. It has made the management easy and simple.

We use it to monitor latency. The solution corrects the latency and makes it easier.

For space requirements, it helps expand what we are trying to use it for on the network, which is all positive.

It does a great job of capacity planning for us.

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

Our latency has gone down.

We can capacity plan at a greater level than we used to.

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VS
Staff System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Most of our jobs require partial storage (or read/write). While it is temporary storage, it is doing a fantastic job. 

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MS
IT Systems Admin at Greer CPW

It does a good job in-house, as an onsite solution.

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AD
Technical Director at Envestnet Yodlee

We are pretty sensitive to response times and have been running storages before PR. We used to not have a great response time but once we moved to this solution it has saved total production storage usage. It has better overall performance. 

There is predictive analysis that PR provides us and the customer. It's useful for as to translate what is being expected. We can calculate and plan the capacity based on the predictive analysis.

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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.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.