The product is expensive. We bought it because we want to be able to use it for about ten years. The vendor offers maintenance contracts where we are guaranteed to be able to upgrade the system, change controllers, and do other things. We hope that in ten years, the solution will be worth the money.
Storage Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
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2021-12-27T17:20:00Z
Dec 27, 2021
Pretty much everything that you need is licensed when you buy the product. Licensing to me is different than the maintenance cost, but they can bleed into one another. We buy the product, and we expect three years of support bundled into what we negotiate on our storage arrays. I would start to see maintenance costs going into the fourth year, but we're not there yet.
Senior Administrator/IT Systems & Cloud Operations at Etisalat
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Top 5
2021-04-06T14:38:35Z
Apr 6, 2021
The licensing is on a yearly basis. We have a three-year subscription. I don't know about the pricing as it is not my department, but if we were not satisfied with the pricing we would not have purchased it.
Chief Infrastructure & Security Office at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
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2020-10-04T06:40:26Z
Oct 4, 2020
Its price could be better. It is not too expensive, but it is the high-end cost. It is kind of a Rolls-Royce. You pay a lot, but you get a lot out of it. So, the price pressure on the way down would be great, but at the end of the day, if you need to do the work, you just pay for it.
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
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2019-09-03T06:46:00Z
Sep 3, 2019
As far as the licensing costs, everything is included in the license. That's something that our other competitors don't seem to do very well with as they usually have additional costs.
Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array. It represents a new class of storage – shared accelerated storage, which is a term coined by Gartner – that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation.
The product is expensive. We bought it because we want to be able to use it for about ten years. The vendor offers maintenance contracts where we are guaranteed to be able to upgrade the system, change controllers, and do other things. We hope that in ten years, the solution will be worth the money.
It is on the expensive side. I would give it a nine out of ten in terms of costliness.
I would rate the solution as an eight out of ten in terms of costliness.
Pure FlashArray X NVMe’s pricing is cheaper than other products.
We don't have any issues with the pricing. It's not too expensive.
We only pay the support costs. The support cost per array is about $20,000 a year for 24/7 support. There are no additional costs.
Pretty much everything that you need is licensed when you buy the product. Licensing to me is different than the maintenance cost, but they can bleed into one another. We buy the product, and we expect three years of support bundled into what we negotiate on our storage arrays. I would start to see maintenance costs going into the fourth year, but we're not there yet.
We pay for licensing on a yearly basis. We're pretty happy with the cost. It's reasonable and not overly expensive.
The licensing is on a yearly basis. We have a three-year subscription. I don't know about the pricing as it is not my department, but if we were not satisfied with the pricing we would not have purchased it.
Its price could be better. It is not too expensive, but it is the high-end cost. It is kind of a Rolls-Royce. You pay a lot, but you get a lot out of it. So, the price pressure on the way down would be great, but at the end of the day, if you need to do the work, you just pay for it.
Our licensing fees are $500,000+ USD.
With VMware, we pay $300,000 annually.
As far as the licensing costs, everything is included in the license. That's something that our other competitors don't seem to do very well with as they usually have additional costs.
We pay approximately $50,000 USD per year in licensing fees.