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HPE Synergy vs Pure Storage FlashBlade comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

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Sentiment score
8.2
Pure Storage FlashBlade's customer service is praised for expertise but sometimes experiences slower responses due to growth challenges.
 

Room For Improvement

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Sentiment score
5.5
Users want better cloud integration, support, pricing, efficiency, and improvements in analytics, configuration, and backup for FlashBlade.
 

Scalability Issues

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Sentiment score
8.9
Pure Storage FlashBlade is praised for its scalability and ease of expansion, satisfying various industries like banking and media.
 

Setup Cost

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Sentiment score
7.4
Pure Storage FlashBlade is costlier but valued for performance, ease, and reliability, justifying its comprehensive licensing with included software.
 

Stability Issues

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Sentiment score
8.8
Pure Storage FlashBlade is highly rated for stability, reliability, and performance, with minimal downtime and swift recovery.
In case there is any issue with any blade, the data is moved to another.
 

Valuable Features

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Sentiment score
8.0
Pure Storage FlashBlade offers high performance, scalability, and ease of use with excellent data protection and seamless integration for large storage needs.
We can plug in many blades, and we can have data up to one terabyte.
 

Categories and Ranking

HPE Synergy
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
88
Ranking in other categories
Blade Servers (1st), Composable Infrastructure (1st)
Pure Storage FlashBlade
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
All-Flash Storage (18th), File and Object Storage (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

HPE Synergy and Pure Storage FlashBlade aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. HPE Synergy is designed for Blade Servers and holds a mindshare of 21.3%, down 22.5% compared to last year.
Pure Storage FlashBlade, on the other hand, focuses on File and Object Storage, holds 6.4% mindshare, up 5.8% since last year.
Blade Servers
File and Object Storage
 

Featured Reviews

Petr Student - PeerSpot reviewer
The composable infrastructure allows you to build and stack shared capacity
The hardware is fine but OneView needs additional event management and filtering options. Documentation could better describe the solution's configuration possibilities. Sometimes there are firmware or software difficulties when connecting between networks or with storage. The solution is a hardware that is defined by its software so management issues can occur on servers or within the software running the hardware. For example, an electric car depends on its software. If the software is bad, then you can expect issues and problems that might not allow you to start the car. A technician might have uploaded the wrong code into firmware or a software developer might have make code mistakes and these things cause issues. The solution can only be as reliable as the software used to run it.
Eric Black - PeerSpot reviewer
The ability to leverage multi-tenancy along with immutability is a huge benefit for us
The only thing I feel FlashBlade is missing is the SOS API. If it had SOS API, that would put it well over the top. Veeam Backup specifically has started to streamline their API, and they are doing that with SOS API. They have optimized it. Any of the S3 devices out there that support this SOS API can have far more API calls at once. On our side, that translates to better restoration. With SOS API, it can leverage far more restorations at a single given time or read from the device in simple terms. That results in maximizing the output and throughput from the device itself.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Educational Organization
37%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How would you choose between HPE's Bladesystem and Synergy?
For me, choosing between HPE’s Bladesystem and Synergy came down to which solution was more powerful, reliable, and stable. It turns out Bladesystem was the winner. Bladesystem is excellent because...
What do you like most about HPE Synergy?
It is a good product for hypervisors.
What do you like most about Pure Storage FlashBlade?
The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensure...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage FlashBlade?
The pricing for FlashBlade is between cheap and moderate. FlashBlade is worth the money due to the experience and performance it delivers, including quick response times.
What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?
The documentational aspect of FlashBlade needs improvement. It’s important for documentation to be comprehensive for all users working on FlashBlade. Additionally, more attention to documentation a...
 

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Sample Customers

HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United
ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL
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