StarWind Storage Appliance and Pure Storage FlashBlade are two products in the storage market. StarWind stands out in affordability and support, while Pure Storage FlashBlade excels in feature richness, making it worth the expense for many users.
Features: StarWind Storage Appliance offers comprehensive storage solutions, hyper-converged infrastructure capabilities, and solid support. Pure Storage FlashBlade provides high performance, scalability, and advanced data services.
Room for Improvement: StarWind Storage Appliance could improve its documentation, user training, and interface intuitiveness. Pure Storage FlashBlade's users suggest better data migration tools, lower latency, and enhanced software compatibility.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StarWind Storage Appliance is known for straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. Pure Storage FlashBlade, while also easy to deploy, has a steeper learning curve but offers solid customer support.
Pricing and ROI: StarWind Storage Appliance is cost-effective with a quick ROI. Pure Storage FlashBlade, though more expensive, delivers higher long-term ROI due to its performance and features.
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.
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.
For SMB and Enterprises who are looking for high performance primary storage for server virtualization, VDI, database and Big Data scenarios, or inexpensive secondary backup tier, our solution is StarWind Storage Appliance. It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, and associated software into an easily scalable storage platform.
Additionally, the appliance features an optional gateway to Azure public cloud, which helps to implement an effective Disaster Recovery plan or meet regulatory requirements. StarWind SA scales up by adding individual disks and flash modules, or JBODs, while adding ready controller nodes allows scaling out.
StarWind SA targets those, who need high-performance primary storage or secondary storage for backup. In case there is a whole virtualization infrastructure to build from scratch, StarWind HCA will come in handy. Otherwise, if all the required hardware is present, StarWind Virtual SAN will be enough to build a high-performance virtualization setup.
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