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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HPE Nimble Storage

    Score6.6 out of 10
    N/ANimble Storage was acquired by HPE in 2017. The enterprise flash array product line now goes by the name HPE Nimble Storage.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
    HPE Nimble StoragePure Storage FlashArray
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    HPE Nimble StoragePure Storage FlashArray
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    HPE Nimble StoragePure Storage FlashArray
    Considered Both Products
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Chose HPE Nimble Storage
    A strong user community Improves performance saves time and helps us to focus on other critical components.
    Incentivized
    Chose HPE Nimble Storage
    EMC and Dells products were long in the tooth and kind of outdated. They lacked the reporting and analytics that HPE Nimble provides. Pure is really our gold standard for storage , but even Pure lacks the analytics that HPE is able to achieve. I would love to transfer those …
    Incentivized
    Chose HPE Nimble Storage
    The Main reason for choosing HPE Nimble Hybrid storage is the Cost. However, even though its not ALL Flash Storage it was still providing the high performance, Latency less than 2 ms, good compression and de-duplication, zeop downtime on software upgrade, good reporting through …
    Incentivized
    Chose HPE Nimble Storage
    HPE Nimble compares well from a performance and storage perspective. It is easy to manage and maintain and there is adequate support with a 4hr Same Business Day response for parts. The unit is a little larger than AFA from competitors however it fits well in a 4U rack. Pure …
    Incentivized
    Chose HPE Nimble Storage
    The expense and general cockiness of Pure Storage is what pushed me to Nimble. The guys at Nimble were laid back and had invited me to a bunch of events and I got to learn in a non-pushy environment about the technology that makes their devices tick. They were also there to …
    Incentivized
    Chose HPE Nimble Storage
    All of the storage vendors we tested in a shoot-out performed pretty well, though I don't have the raw numbers. What sold us on Nimble is the service and support, which the others cannot touch.
    Incentivized
    Chose HPE Nimble Storage
    We looked at multiple vendors when searching for storage. Nimble came up ahead on most of the benchmark testing and was within our price spectrum.
    Incentivized
    Pure Storage
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Really the deduplication and compression ratio has been all over these guys. The speed on the flash storage seems more customized if I may say and our deployments were smooth. Nothing against these guys since we work with all at the same level, but there are very notable perks …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    It was a very tight call before finalizing the solution. Since Pure Storage FlashArray was able to offer the best deal and the kind of relationship the pure engineer maintained with us during the entire POC journey made them unique compared with the other vendors and I strongly …
    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 is just simple and it just works.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    There was no Active-Active cluster. Perhaps now there is one.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    We considered Nutanix HyperConverged systems, EMC XtremIO, NetApp SolidFire; evaluated HP Nimble All Flash & Hybrid, NetApp AFF series and VMware vSAN. The former 3 were ruled out for being too expensive and in some cases offering too little for too much money. The later did …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    It beats them hands down on everything. It is faster with better compressions and dedup. Management is at the next level - not legacy at all. Upgrades are easier. Getting a unit online and working was faster, as was expanding storage. vCenter plug-in's are easier to use …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Pure had a better cost offering and better sales process than the vendors above. They were also ranked higher on independent research such as Gartner which made the decision to go with Pure much easier.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Nimble, NetApp and VSAN are all products that were evaluated and with which we had previous experience.

    Nimble and NetApp at the time were both promoting hybrid systems rather than all flash. In both cases, we favoured all flash since it had become affordable and is much more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    NetApp, at the time, was more a hybrid approach as did not have the same level of features and capabilities in the all-flash array market, newer products have since been released to market that would make a closer comparison now, but three years ago this was not the case.
    Nimble,…
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    The Forever Flash offering from Pure is the deal maker. We will always have new controllers every 3 years and will not need to ever purchase new or upgrade our array.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Comparable performance to nimble. The reason we selected Pure Storage for our ERP storage is that other companies in our field have had success with implementing it in AIX.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    The FlashArray is faster and easier to use than all the other products I've used. Other ones are close, but from our perspective, Pure won in every area.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    The all-flash array was in place when I started at this company.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    I have used Nimble all-flash arrays which are very similar. The Pure Storage FlashArray management interface is slightly better, however, Nimble was much better in terms of information available via the cloud monitoring and management via Inisight.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Pure was the better product for our needs
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Nimble storage could not be clustered like Pure, Simplivity was completely converged so if one aspect of the design was under-specified it would require a full new node, Netapp only offered clustering with a special cost licence, whereas with Pure all functionality upgrades are …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    We choose Pure storage FlashArray over all of these competitors because we found better Performance, Price, and Support.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Nimble is good for a mixed workload, but at the time it didn't have an all flash offering. Now there is no advantage to a rip and replace. They were the first into the hybrid space which was good for SMB, but didn't work at the enterprise level.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Performance and the guarantee were the main reasons to replace and move away from the other storage vendor. We looked at EMC, Netapp, HP all products owned within the company, and went with Pure, we went with it because of the simplicity of administration.

    Since we have owned …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Pure wins easily with ease of use and predictable pricing against all competitors we reviewed.
    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
    Pure started with all FlashArray since beginning of the company and Nimble was just changing from convectional spin disk to flash, so we selected Pure because of the length on the business with FlashArray SAN and the review and reputation we read about it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Better price/usable storage, better performance, higher dedupe and compression, easy to use and self-explanatory GUI, good support, rack and stack and running in 4 hours were some of the reasons we selected Pure Storage.
    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
    HPE Nimble StoragePure Storage FlashArray
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of HPE Nimble Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray
    Feature
    HPE Nimble Storage
    8.7
    12 Ratings
    Pure Storage FlashArray
    9.3
    154 Ratings
    Flash Array Performance8.011 Ratings10.0154 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration10.010 Ratings9.0144 Ratings
    Data Compression10.011 Ratings8.0153 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades10.012 Ratings10.0148 Ratings
    Simplicity9.012 Ratings10.0154 Ratings
    Power Savings5.011 Ratings9.0131 Ratings
    User Ratings
    HPE Nimble StoragePure Storage FlashArray
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (28 ratings)
    10.0
    (207 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (5 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)