Pure Storage FlashBlade Reviews

We are using it for scratch space.

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

Its SSD to storage is its most valuable feature.

It helps simplify our storage, because the user interface is very simple and the installation is easy.

I would like to have Snapshots and Snapmail in the next release. People who came from a NetApp background, especially expect these features.

It is very scalable. I have gone from five blades to seven blades. While it did require some rebooting, it scales well.

We wanted to have a multi-vendor strategy. We already had two storage vendors and we wanted to more competition. This was where Pure Storage came in. We were looking for a SSD data storage or all-flash base, so that is where this solution fits in.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We used an integrator for the deployment.

We are using it for our scratch space, and it works well for our use case.

We use it for backups and replications of our IBM Systems.

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

The solution’s inline deduplication and compression do a good job.

The speed could be improved.

We are on the low side for our storage. I wish we had purchased more.

We are looking to grow, so we will probably be adding more storage.

The tech support is pretty good.

It was setup before I joined the company.

The initial setup is pretty easy and simple.

We have done upgrades of our physical controllers.

Our licensing is renewed annually.

They are doing very well with the product.

We have integrated the solution with VMware. The integration process was user-friendly.

We use SolarWinds to evaluate our performance metrics.

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.

Deduplication and response time are its most valuable features. 

I would like to see more deduplication. 

Has been pretty stable. We haven't encountered any issues. 

I like the scalability options. We recently expanded the storage and it's not straightforward but their team helped make it happen.

Their technical support is awesome. I would give it five stars. 

The initial setup was straightforward. 

I would rate this solution an eight plus. It has has good flexibility and stability, it's easy to manage and the response time is good. 

This solution is mainly used in a very performance-sensitive environment for enterprise software storage.

The main feature I have found to be product replication.

There could be improvements in public cloud integration.

In the future, one innovation could be for them to make an embedded backup system.

I have been using the solution for a couple of years.

The stability of the solution is really impressive.

The scalability is possible, however, if they could make the process faster to the cloud it would be better.

The technical support is fantastic.

The installation was extremely easy.

The fact that the solution is extremely stable and it works really great each dollar spent on this solution is worth it.

The price of this solution could be made more affordable.

My advice to those wanting to implement this solution is it can be very effective only in proper use cases, not in every use case.

I rate Pure Storage FlashBlade an eight out of ten.