Pure Storage FlashBlade and Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) are advanced storage solutions targeting data management. Based on user reviews, Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has the upper hand in deployment flexibility and customer service, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is more competitive regarding ROI and setup costs.
Features: Pure Storage FlashBlade offers high-performance computing, scalability, and ease of integration with existing infrastructure. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has software-defined storage capabilities, efficient data management, and robust data protection. NUS is preferred for its advanced data management features in complex environments.
Room for Improvement: Pure Storage FlashBlade needs better support for more data protocols and an improved management interface. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) requires simplified licensing models and improved integration with third-party tools. Both products need refinement in their respective areas but NUS's integration improvement takes precedence.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Pure Storage FlashBlade is recognized for its straightforward deployment process and efficient customer service. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) provides deployment flexibility with adaptable architecture and superior customer service, placing it ahead in this category.
Pricing and ROI: Pure Storage FlashBlade users find setup costs reasonable with satisfactory ROI due to high performance. Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) may have higher upfront costs but users report substantial ROI from advanced features and efficient operation, offsetting initial expenditures.
Rather than Pure just saying it's Cisco's problem, call Cisco, they actually got on with a TAC engineer and talked us through it.
The guys in South Africa, and they're very, very good.
What I like about Pure Storage technical support is that when you enter a request, you immediately get a response.
I would rate them an eight out of ten.
I want to see Pure Storage not only be for fast storage, but I want to see it be for the entire data center.
We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency.
We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC.
Its configuration should be easier.
We also have an X90R2 with two petabytes of NVMe in it which fits in about six rack units of space.
We are able to push the X70 way past our current needs from a throughput and IOPS perspective – without any degradation on latency.
We have also performed storage and controller upgrades live with zero downtime.
While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see it as a market leader with benefits.
The support can be a bit pricey, but the solution is more cost-effective than anything else out there.
We pay approximately $50,000 USD per year in licensing fees.
We have gone through multiple software upgrades, as well as completely non-disruptive hardware upgrades.
During the eight years, there have been no problems such as hardware failure or stopping.
There was one minor issue when the M70s were first released – but they have been 100% stable since.
In case there is any issue with any blade, the data is moved to another.
Going from a legacy vendor to Pure Storage, we saw reductions in MRP reports previously running at six hours going to 30 minutes.
The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance.
The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use.
We can plug in many blades, and we can have data up to one terabyte.
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.
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is a software-defined storage solution that consolidates seamless access and management of siloed block, file, and object storage into a single platform. Leveraging the Nutanix Cloud Platform, NUS is built for scale, performance, and integrated data security requirements of modern applications deployed on core, cloud, or edge.
FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.
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