I would rate FlashBlade nine out of ten. We have 40 to 50 users of FlashBlade in our organization. No maintenance has been required as of yet. I recommend Pure Storage FlashBlade for high-capacity requirements, suggesting specific models based on performance needs and price levels.
We had a meeting with the vendor, and they are in the development phase of the SMB features. Customers must have a proper environment to use the tool. They must have a proper core switch and networking capabilities. The product is generally very good. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
If you are looking for a high-performance, scalable solution, you should choose FlashBlade for your object workload. It is not a cheap solution. Where a lot of people look at object workloads as cheap, thinking of cloud or Glacier, FlashBlade is built for high-performance object workloads to make things like Kafka and different Kubernetes workloads using object storage fast. I rate FlashBlade a ten out of ten.
If you're using multiple storage products to meet business needs, my advice would be to replace them with one Pure Storage FlashBlade box. One box will be able to meet all your requirements because it has high capacity, IOPS, and performance, and has minimum latency. Pure Storage FlashBlade's effective capacity is very high. For example, if you have 10 TB of raw capacity, then Pure Storage FlashBlade gives an effective capacity of around 90 TB. Thus, I would give Pure Storage FlashBlade an overall rating of eight out of ten.
Technical Operations Manager at Mideast Data Systems
Real User
2022-10-06T10:25:54Z
Oct 6, 2022
I'm a partner of Pure Storage FlashBlade. My rating for Pure Storage FlashBlade is eight out of ten. My advice to anyone planning on using Pure Storage FlashBlade is that it's a very important storage solution, and I would especially recommend it for data management platforms. Pure Storage FlashBlade will serve you well when you need to make data decisions and when you want better performance. I would also recommend Pure Storage FlashBlade for business intelligence environments.
I love this solution. I would actually buy it. As a matter of fact, I recommended that somebody buy it just the other day. I'm really sorry that I didn't buy more Pure when I had the buying in my responsibilities. I should've bought more. I didn't see it years ago the way I saw it last year. I would rate it an eight out of ten.
Business Development Manager of Storage Systems at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2021-12-24T19:19:00Z
Dec 24, 2021
We use cloud and on-premises deployments. I would recommend the product to others, however, it depends on the task. The task is very important, especially with FlashBlade, as, for some applications, it's not ideal. Some people think you should be very careful and size it first, and talk with the vendor first to understand the task, the application you going to deploy on the FlashBlade. If it matches and you get support and recommendations from the vendor you definitely should use it. I can honestly say, they are quite honest in this case. Pure Storage, if they see that your task is not good for FlashBlade, they will say it to you, "Sorry, but your task is different and you have to think about some other products. Maybe X, maybe Y." So are they not going to push you to buy this hardware that doesn't suit your purposes. I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten.
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.
If you are looking for a new storage array, Pure Storage is, what I call 'the new kids on the block' who don't need to pull legacy systems with it. It's the right choice because the former storage we had, VNX and XtremeIO boxes, were about 40 height units in one closet. Now we have a four height unit for the entire storage array, that contains six times the volume of our old storage environment. It's a much lower footprint than before. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
Technical Consultant Storage at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
2020-11-17T18:07:38Z
Nov 17, 2020
On a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of eight. I would recommend this solution to other interested companies because it's extremely fast. That's the biggest reason why we recommend it to our customers.
Architecte technique at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-10-08T07:25:17Z
Oct 8, 2020
We're just a customer. We don't have a business relationship with the company. Overall, I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. We'd recommend the solution to others. It's worked well for us so far. Of course, it would depend on a company's use case and what they need to achieve.
IT Business Consultant, Presales Specialist and Solution Designer at Veracomp EOOD
Consultant
2020-06-14T08:03:12Z
Jun 14, 2020
There is a 30-day trial period for the product and there is no penalty for the customer if they don't like it. We rarely have issues with it. I would rate this solution a 10 out of 10.
My advice for anybody considering this solution is to go by the business needs, as opposed to just choosing the fastest solution. In our area, we needed the fastest, which is why we bought it. However, there are other deployments within our company where we don't use Pure because we don't need the performance. Other options make sense. Base your decision on the value, and what makes sense. This is a nice product. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
Solutions Architect at Presidio Networked Solutions
MSP
2019-09-03T06:46:00Z
Sep 3, 2019
We use a hybrid deployment model. Most of the new data backups to the private cloud and then we can push it off to the public cloud for archiving. The cloud provider we're most likely to use is AWS. Our customers also run VMware on Pure. I'd say in general, the solution helps IT departments. It allows consolidation in virtualization. The main drivers around VMware on Pure for our customers are the speed, ease of use, and the Evergreen model for their licensing or support. The joint solution, VMware on Pure, makes it easier for them to consolidate. They have smaller footprints out of their racks because it's all slashed, so they do not have a bunch of spinning drives. It's faster. It's easier for them to use. They don't have to buy their terabytes any more. They like the evergreen model because of the support. Any integration to the vCenter helps in our deployment of VMs. You don't have to go out to the Pure interface and do anything you can do inside the vCenter. My advice to others thinking about implementing the solution would be to look at them long and hard before you make a decision because they're definitely worth looking at. I would rate FlashBlade an eight out of ten.
Principal System Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2019-09-03T06:46:00Z
Sep 3, 2019
For anybody considering this solution, my advice is to ask the vendor for a bake-off, or a demo product, so that you can evaluate it. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
IT Network Specialist at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2019-06-19T08:37:00Z
Jun 19, 2019
We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it. I would rate it as a nine (out of ten). Altogether, it is a pretty good system. Everything is well setup: The management, interface, and everything else are all pretty good.
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.
VP of Engineering at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2018-12-10T06:53:00Z
Dec 10, 2018
I would rate this solution a solid eight to nine, it does tick all of the major boxes. Our main concern is just with the little customizations that we need. If someone is considering this solution I would say that for the gap in the market that Pure Storage is going to fill, essentially updating NAS to the 2018s, they excel at that. If you have an existing solution that isn't performing then Pure Storage makes perfect sense to drop into a lot of enterprises.
National Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2018-12-10T06:53:00Z
Dec 10, 2018
In terms of performance analytics, due to our own fault, we tend to use a lot of capacity faster than we think. Because of our slow internal processing, we can't add capacity fast enough when we need it. We know it is capable of easily adding capacity. I would rate this solution a nine and a half and I would definitely recommend this solution to a colleague at another company. It's very stable, efficient and it performs very well.
Nowadays we have plenty of data storage solutions in the market. Pure Storage is very fast, very straightforward. The price was nice. I believe that in terms of at least storage needs, it filled its role very well.
Senior technical architect at a marketing services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2018-12-10T06:53:00Z
Dec 10, 2018
I would rate this solution a ten. We haven't had any issues with it, it's easy to use, and the speed is incredible. I would advise someone considering this solution to buy it.
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.
I would rate FlashBlade nine out of ten. We have 40 to 50 users of FlashBlade in our organization. No maintenance has been required as of yet. I recommend Pure Storage FlashBlade for high-capacity requirements, suggesting specific models based on performance needs and price levels.
I rate the overall product a seven out of ten. It would be best if you are ready with the upgrade process.
We have enterprise clients for the product. I rate it a nine out of ten.
We had a meeting with the vendor, and they are in the development phase of the SMB features. Customers must have a proper environment to use the tool. They must have a proper core switch and networking capabilities. The product is generally very good. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
If you are looking for a high-performance, scalable solution, you should choose FlashBlade for your object workload. It is not a cheap solution. Where a lot of people look at object workloads as cheap, thinking of cloud or Glacier, FlashBlade is built for high-performance object workloads to make things like Kafka and different Kubernetes workloads using object storage fast. I rate FlashBlade a ten out of ten.
If you're using multiple storage products to meet business needs, my advice would be to replace them with one Pure Storage FlashBlade box. One box will be able to meet all your requirements because it has high capacity, IOPS, and performance, and has minimum latency. Pure Storage FlashBlade's effective capacity is very high. For example, if you have 10 TB of raw capacity, then Pure Storage FlashBlade gives an effective capacity of around 90 TB. Thus, I would give Pure Storage FlashBlade an overall rating of eight out of ten.
I'm a partner of Pure Storage FlashBlade. My rating for Pure Storage FlashBlade is eight out of ten. My advice to anyone planning on using Pure Storage FlashBlade is that it's a very important storage solution, and I would especially recommend it for data management platforms. Pure Storage FlashBlade will serve you well when you need to make data decisions and when you want better performance. I would also recommend Pure Storage FlashBlade for business intelligence environments.
I love this solution. I would actually buy it. As a matter of fact, I recommended that somebody buy it just the other day. I'm really sorry that I didn't buy more Pure when I had the buying in my responsibilities. I should've bought more. I didn't see it years ago the way I saw it last year. I would rate it an eight out of ten.
I would highly recommend Pure Storage and FlashBlade in particular. I would rate Pure Storage FlashBlade a nine out of ten.
We use cloud and on-premises deployments. I would recommend the product to others, however, it depends on the task. The task is very important, especially with FlashBlade, as, for some applications, it's not ideal. Some people think you should be very careful and size it first, and talk with the vendor first to understand the task, the application you going to deploy on the FlashBlade. If it matches and you get support and recommendations from the vendor you definitely should use it. I can honestly say, they are quite honest in this case. Pure Storage, if they see that your task is not good for FlashBlade, they will say it to you, "Sorry, but your task is different and you have to think about some other products. Maybe X, maybe Y." So are they not going to push you to buy this hardware that doesn't suit your purposes. I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten.
For FlashBlade I'd probably rate it a ten out of ten as so far it has been amazing.
For those who are interested in using this solution, I would recommend it. I would rate Pure Storage FlashBlade a ten out of ten.
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.
If you are looking for a new storage array, Pure Storage is, what I call 'the new kids on the block' who don't need to pull legacy systems with it. It's the right choice because the former storage we had, VNX and XtremeIO boxes, were about 40 height units in one closet. Now we have a four height unit for the entire storage array, that contains six times the volume of our old storage environment. It's a much lower footprint than before. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
On a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of eight. I would recommend this solution to other interested companies because it's extremely fast. That's the biggest reason why we recommend it to our customers.
We're just a customer. We don't have a business relationship with the company. Overall, I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. We'd recommend the solution to others. It's worked well for us so far. Of course, it would depend on a company's use case and what they need to achieve.
There is a 30-day trial period for the product and there is no penalty for the customer if they don't like it. We rarely have issues with it. I would rate this solution a 10 out of 10.
My advice for anybody considering this solution is to go by the business needs, as opposed to just choosing the fastest solution. In our area, we needed the fastest, which is why we bought it. However, there are other deployments within our company where we don't use Pure because we don't need the performance. Other options make sense. Base your decision on the value, and what makes sense. This is a nice product. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
We use a hybrid deployment model. Most of the new data backups to the private cloud and then we can push it off to the public cloud for archiving. The cloud provider we're most likely to use is AWS. Our customers also run VMware on Pure. I'd say in general, the solution helps IT departments. It allows consolidation in virtualization. The main drivers around VMware on Pure for our customers are the speed, ease of use, and the Evergreen model for their licensing or support. The joint solution, VMware on Pure, makes it easier for them to consolidate. They have smaller footprints out of their racks because it's all slashed, so they do not have a bunch of spinning drives. It's faster. It's easier for them to use. They don't have to buy their terabytes any more. They like the evergreen model because of the support. Any integration to the vCenter helps in our deployment of VMs. You don't have to go out to the Pure interface and do anything you can do inside the vCenter. My advice to others thinking about implementing the solution would be to look at them long and hard before you make a decision because they're definitely worth looking at. I would rate FlashBlade an eight out of ten.
For anybody considering this solution, my advice is to ask the vendor for a bake-off, or a demo product, so that you can evaluate it. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it. I would rate it as a nine (out of ten). Altogether, it is a pretty good system. Everything is well setup: The management, interface, and everything else are all pretty good.
The compression is true and does happen.
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.
I would rate this solution a solid eight to nine, it does tick all of the major boxes. Our main concern is just with the little customizations that we need. If someone is considering this solution I would say that for the gap in the market that Pure Storage is going to fill, essentially updating NAS to the 2018s, they excel at that. If you have an existing solution that isn't performing then Pure Storage makes perfect sense to drop into a lot of enterprises.
In terms of performance analytics, due to our own fault, we tend to use a lot of capacity faster than we think. Because of our slow internal processing, we can't add capacity fast enough when we need it. We know it is capable of easily adding capacity. I would rate this solution a nine and a half and I would definitely recommend this solution to a colleague at another company. It's very stable, efficient and it performs very well.
We are using it for our scratch space, and it works well for our use case.
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.
Nowadays we have plenty of data storage solutions in the market. Pure Storage is very fast, very straightforward. The price was nice. I believe that in terms of at least storage needs, it filled its role very well.
I would rate this solution a ten. We haven't had any issues with it, it's easy to use, and the speed is incredible. I would advise someone considering this solution to buy it.
Pure Storage should be the top contender for certain types of workloads.
It works quite well for us, and I would recommend it. From a standpoint of pure performance, it's moving. We've been very happy with it.