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    EMC VNX (Discontinued)

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AThe former EMC VNX series is EOL. The vendor invites users to instead try Dell EMC's Unity series family of midrange storage appliances.N/A

    Pure Storage FlashArray

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.N/A
    Pricing
    EMC VNX (Discontinued)Pure Storage FlashArray
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    EMC VNX (Discontinued)Pure Storage FlashArray
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    EMC VNX (Discontinued)Pure Storage FlashArray
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    Pure Storage
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Deduplication provided a key differentiator. Total cost was less for Pure. Complexity and ease of management were significantly less for Pure.

    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Pure Storage stands head and shoulders above their competition. Not only is performance and usable capacity better and faster respectively, but the predictable support costs also make this a "no-brainer." Having used other storage arrays, from setup to support, Pure is by far …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Pure storage was cheaper and faster.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    These are all good systems in their own right, but there are two areas where Pure Storage FlashArray beats them all hands-down! First is management. The software interface for management and provisioning is cleaner and doesn't make one jump through complicated processes to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Pure Storage offers better support plans, simple UI and easy upgrade options. It can be more pricey but, you get what you pay for and Pure is very competitive when it comes to pricing for features/value. Win-Win-Win!
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Pure Support is nine million times better than EMC ever was! And that is probably an understatement.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    There is no comparison to Pure Storage vs. EMC. EMC requires forklift upgrades and their maintenance fees are very expensive. With Pure's flash guarantee, you always keep the storage you paid for and if you keep under maintenance with Pure, you will receive new storage …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Not really comparable but the footprint is much lower and storage density is much higher per rack unit.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Having the VPLEX be the storage interface between all our arrays was nice because some systems required different performance and capacities and it was the single pane of glass. Since the Pure Storage FlashArray offered us the same single pane of glass, the performance improved …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    There is no comparison between our Pure FlashArray and the EMC SAN equipment we used in the past.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Again, we did our research and did our consultations. We conducted a POC, which guaranteed storage controller upgrades at the cost of maintenance and numbers that we could budget for. Simplicity.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    We compared the PureStorage side by side with EMC XtremeIO. At the time, XtremeIO seemed like a beta product compared to the PureStorage offering. XtremeIO had just released a software upgrade which required total evacuation of the array. Deduplication was not production …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    When we looked at retiring the our old VNX arrays we evaluated a lot of different solutions, but the FlashArray beat them across the board. They had the lowest price, the smallest physical footprint to data storage, and fastest time to deliver of all the products we looked at.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    EMC needs a trained engineer to manage it. NetApp was our first HA storage device. It lacked performance. Pure Storage FA is our first all flash storage. No more worries about performance, and hassle-free management.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    My organization leverages both Pure and not-Pure platforms. Larger enterprise arrays such as vmax use all flash. The pure x70s have easily held their performance and reliability against the Xtremios and VMAXes.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    The FlashArray beat the hybrid arrays in performance, the other all-flash arrays we evaluated in price, and all of the legacy spinning-disk arrays in ease of management and in reliability. Their two huge advantages were their "Evergreen" upgrade-everything-forever option and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    No comparison to Pure Storage!
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    No comparison. Pure out performs in every way.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    All of the major competitors did not perform as fast nor were as easy to maintain and administrate.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    During our POC against Tintri, our sales engineer said we should test failures to data and power! That we did! We live pulled all the plugs and cables and moved the Flash Array to another rack and reconnected everything. Our test virtual infrastructure, having paused for the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    We did the comparison of our certain requirements and found Pure Storage was better suited for our IT.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    EMC VNX (Discontinued)Pure Storage FlashArray
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of EMC VNX (Discontinued) and Pure Storage FlashArray
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    EMC VNX (Discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Pure Storage FlashArray
    9.3
    154 Ratings
    Flash Array Performance00 Ratings10.0154 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration00 Ratings9.0144 Ratings
    Data Compression00 Ratings8.0153 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades00 Ratings10.0148 Ratings
    Simplicity00 Ratings10.0154 Ratings
    Power Savings00 Ratings9.0131 Ratings
    User Ratings
    EMC VNX (Discontinued)Pure Storage FlashArray
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.1
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (207 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.3
    (75 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)