Pure Storage FlashBlade vs. Vultr

Pure Storage FlashBlade

Vultr

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Pure Storage FlashBlade	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Pure Storage offers FlashBlade, a scale-out file and object storage – architected to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) while accelerating tomorrow's discoveries and insights.	N/A
Vultr	Score 6.9 out of 10	N/A	Vultr is an independent cloud computing platform on a mission to provide businesses and developers around the world with unrivaled ease of use, price-to-performance, and global reach.	$1 per month

Pricing

Pure Storage FlashBlade

Vultr

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Block Storage: $1
per month
Cloud Compute: $2.50
per month
Object Storage: $5
per month
Kubernetes Engine: $10
per month
Load Balancers: $10
per month
Managed Databases: $15
per month
Optimized Cloud Compute: $28
per month
Cloud GPU: $90
per month
Bare Metal: $120
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Pure Storage FlashBlade	Vultr
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Pricing is based on specifications chosen in each product category. Bandwidth is also included up to a certain amount per month.

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Community Pulse
	Pure Storage FlashBlade	Vultr
Considered Both Products	Pure Storage FlashBlade Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure Storage FlashBlade provided a flexible and secure solution which these alternatives couldn't quite match. The simple file management system and rapid performance made this solution come out on top for us. The only real benefit over Pure Storage FlashBlade that these other … Incentivized Helpful? Alexander Cooper RPA Developer Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure Storage FlashBlade is in our experience far faster, performance-wise, compared to its close competitors. However, if you factor in any packages you currently have with IBM or AWS for example, you can get more value for money for your data requirements. However, if … Incentivized Helpful? Chirag Deol Chief Marketing Officer Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure Storage FlashBlade is very fast. [It was] simplify with the easy install, easy upgrades, automatic performance. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade The NetApp All Flash FAS provided similar performance but had a larger footprint. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure Storage FlashBlade has certainly very good high speeds when compared to its competition. Its performance is at par with the leading competitive storage solutions and in few cases even exceeds the expectations. Pure Storage FlashBlade's support of talented engineers is very … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade It delivers the following, see below, and this is why it was selected as the platform of choice. Supports CIFS, NFS, and object Speed and performance Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade We did not evaluate any other products, the FlashBlade has nothing similar in my opinion. Incentivized Helpful? Edward Hammond Principal Solutions Architect Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure Storage FlashBlade provides higher performance than the competition. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade The NetApp a800 we tested was 14% faster than Pure FlashBlade with NFS workloads. However, NetApp lacked ease of administration and performing simple tasks such as creating multiple NFS volumes required scripting from the command line. Our flashblade contained 15 baldes and our … Incentivized Helpful? Julie Ulrich Systems Engineer Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Flasharray C is the true second-tier storage we were looking for with all the features we need. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Prior to FlashBlade, we used Avamar for our enterprise backup solution. While Avamar is a solid product, the FlashBlade provides better and more predictable stable performance. Since owning FlashBlade, we have never had any hardware issues or a drop in performance over time. It … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade I've used many different file storage systems in the past from various established firms. They all have their place, but in the end, I wanted a vendor and solution that was high performing, stable, cost-efficient, easy to use and manage with a Sales, Account, and Support team … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade We have Oracle ZFS Appliances and the cost of Flashblade was equivalent to one shelf of SSDs in cost. We shopped Isilon and Oracle Solutions, but FlashBlade had a definite cost/performance advantage. Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Chitwood Sr. Systems Administrator Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade The main difference between them and these mentioned is pure performance. There is no comparing backup and restoration times with competitors. We are talking thrusters vs warp engines here. Data compress and dedupe was for a time when storage came at a premium. Data rehydration … Incentivized Helpful? CS Chris Stotler Manager Platform and Storage Engineering Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade We did not evaluate any other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade The NetApp All Flash FAS provided similar performance but had a larger footprint. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade I haven't used others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade FlashBlade is high capacity and much higher performance than other disk based NAZ servers. Incentivized Helpful? JC Jeremy Calcamuggio Senior Systems Engineer Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Of all the storage arrays I've used in the last 20+ years, Pure Flashblade and Flasharray are by far the simplest and easiest to configure. By miles and miles, to be frank. Additionally, performing an upgrade to software or firmware on non-Pure storage platforms in the past … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure is both more expensive and less configurable than the excellent HNAS. However, the HNAS is now dependent upon Hitachi storage. The Flashblade is a self-contained unit, which helps reduce cross-platform lock-in. It's not mandatory to have Pure block storage to use the … Incentivized Helpful? Todd Crouse IT Hardware Engineer/Storage Architect - Senior Staff Member Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure is easiest to install and administer making it a perfect fit for our EDA scratch environment. Pure lacks mixed mode support which forces Qualcomm to use NetApp or Isilon for any SMB environments. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade We did not evaluate other options before purchasing. My personal history is mostly around personal NAS and old platter drive arrays. This thing is light years beyond. Not fair to compare older arrays versus FlashBlade. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Cannella Enterprise Cloud Architect Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Performace knocked it out of the park. Our only issue at the time was that ECS wasn't supported with Replication. Incentivized Helpful? DT David Thornton, CISSP Security Engineering Manager Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade We considered all of the major manufacturers of storage when we were evaluating our choice of a product to replace our older storage. We considered HP, EMC, DELL, and Netapp-- all of which the team has used at various times. Interestingly enough, initially no one had experience … Incentivized Helpful?	Vultr Isaac Gomez CTO Chose Vultr 4Thought Marketing Automation Services Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Price to performance ratio and ease of managemenated Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Cost of bandwidth and network quality for us is what mattered. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr is cheaper than most providers. Only contabo is cheaper, but they have lower uptime. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr comes in at the lower end of the spectrum in terms of the breadth of the services they provide compared to the larger vendors, but they are consistently demonstrating their commitment to growing their service offering and platform features. We selected Vultr because of … Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Honor Chief Information Officer Chose Vultr Vultr has a greater offering of servers whilst staying reasonably priced compared to some of the larger infrastructure providers. They may not have all the services as some of the other providers but they don't need it when they can do what they do with the services they provide. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr On shared services, such as VPS, I have noticed greater confidence of usability and resource availability with Vultr. Incentivized Helpful? David Collins App developer Chose Vultr Vultr is much cheaper than AWS, and also simpler to set up and use Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr We did extensive performance comparisons and testing and Vultr was not only better priced, but much better on the performance and speed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr AWS and Azure are too complicated and costly for small businesses like ours. Incentivized Helpful? Ben Brown Enterprise Security Solutions Architect Chose Vultr Vultr has better support and competitive pricing. The network is solid and globally deployed. IP reputation is clean, and security is tight. Ease of use and documentation is really good. User experience has been the best I ever experienced. Low stress, reliable … Incentivized Helpful? MT Mark Tenney CEO/Founder Chose Vultr The performance beats upcloud. The only thing I really liked about upcloud better was the backup offerings. They had more flexible backup plans, but I love the every other night plan on Vultr as well. Incentivized Helpful? Trevor Convirs Business Owner Chose Vultr For someone who has a more technical background, there is no competition. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Server updates are clear and always noticed on the platform which my last company did not have clear. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr CloudCo was not listed. In comparison, the pricing of the competition is in a place where I wouldn't retain any margin for smaller customers, that's why I use Vultr for those. Vultr's self serve interface and UI is much better and more customizable for the general architect. If … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr has been a more cost effective solution in some areas. Compared to AWS EC2, Vultr has been a lot more cost effective for our environment. Vultr has the right vCPU, RAM, and storage for our needs. In the object storage space, Vultr has not been the best fit for our … Incentivized Helpful? HB Hector Burciaga CEO Chose Vultr Vultr offers the same services as all the major cloud providers however Vulr offers a clear pricing modeling with no hidden fees. This has been incisive in deciding which provider to go with. I have never encountered any downtime with their services Technically, Vultr has the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Incredible performance to cost ratio. I absolutely love Vultr for minimizing costs associated with running a one-man operation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr They are very similar but we are more comfortable with Vultr Incentivized Helpful? BJ Brian Johnson Business Owner Chose Vultr From the perspective of the above, Vultr provides the best balance of cost vs. performance for us. Cloudways stacks a large fee for each VPS you spin up, and this quickly escalates. Linode comes closest (at least when I used it a few years ago) to Vultr, and 3 years ago this … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr is much easier to get started with, less things to configure, a simpler interface. To deploy and manage a server is much easier. I am sure for a production SaaS app there are features in AWS and Azure that are needed, but for dev/test environment, I prefer Vultr. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr It is reliable, stable and very manageable, but, I think, very expensive too Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr is a dream to use after coming from AWS - the products are intuitively named, don't require gaining a certification to use, and have better documentation. Vultr's documentation is a little less comprehensive and organized than google cloud's; however, its pricing and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Much easier to deploy and manged than AWS Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Linode: Similar pricing, changed our business over to Vultr to save credit card fees by using Crypto. Digital Ocean: Fast and reliable, same pricing didn't stay because the payment methods (Similar case to Linode) Hetzner: Good pricing, good reputation, limited locations. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Pure Storage FlashBlade

Vultr

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	Pure Storage FlashBlade - Ratings	Vultr 2.8 Ratings 97% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	2.80 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	2.40 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	00 Ratings	2.60 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	00 Ratings	2.80 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	2.10 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	00 Ratings	2.70 Ratings
Operating system support	00 Ratings	2.90 Ratings
Security controls	00 Ratings	4.50 Ratings
Automation	00 Ratings	2.20 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Pure Storage FlashBlade	Vultr
Small Businesses	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Score 9.6 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Azure Blob Storage Score 9.7 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises	Azure Blob Storage Score 9.7 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Pure Storage FlashBlade	Vultr
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (0 ratings)	2.5 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Pure Storage FlashBlade	Vultr
Likelihood to Recommend	Pure Storage FlashBlade is best for companies that want their data stored and secure. The big storage capacity and cloud integration secure our data and ensure no third-party access without authorization. It provides us a secure data storage services for our objects. Fast and easy to install and easy to use. Incentivized Chirag Deol Chief Marketing Officer Read full review	Vultr is well suited for South African based organisations as they have a presence here. It makes dev servers for WordPress more feasible. Having to wait on roundtrips from EU or US slow things down. Ease of setting up new servers, with clear information on what you are getting for what you pay, makes it so easy to spin up just what you need. With a large range of specifications it means you can find that sweet spot of cost vs. performance. BJ Brian Johnson Business Owner Read full review
Pros	Speed. We are seeing large transactions take very little time. Upgrades- In-place upgrades of both hardware and software are extremely easy. Ease of use- I have several engineers working on this and from setup to day to day operations it is extremely easy to maintain. Incentivized Michael Cannella Enterprise Cloud Architect Read full review	The uptime is perfect . If there are any downtimes it is well informed and its in non - production hours to ensure that the systems are not hit Accessibility and the dashboard is amazing where you have full control over the VPS system. The flexibility of OS on which to create your VPS is also amazing . Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	When reporting out a user has exceeded there quote, it only references the UID. It would certainly be nice it calls out the UID name that is clearly present in the Dashboard. The ability to determine a snapshot total size would be helpful. Proactive reachout to discuss new versions and assist in planning the upgrade would be a key win. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	the ability of increasing a specific configuration without the need of upgrading the whole plan, for example i might need to add more memory but i'm satisfied with my current processors and hard disk capacity (or vise versa) Solving the problems of taking an image to the server if the server capacity (hard disk) is bigger than 1TB (which i'm currently facing a big problem because of that) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	We’ve been extremely satisfied with the service for many years. After trying other providers, we’ve found nothing that matches the reliability and performance—so we’re not likely to switch anytime soon. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Good API, multi-protocol support is great. Edward Hammond Principal Solutions Architect Read full review	easy to use and configure. great bang for the buck. I need an affordable solution to host in the cloud data from systems installed at our client's site with the ability to drill down and change the configuration remotely. Vultr enabled us to do that in an efficient and affordable way. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Without exception, the contacts with support have been quick and extremely knowledgeable. I do not fear getting an underqualified engineer to assess or work on my arrays. In addition to this support structure, the sales engineers are top notch as well. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Because of the 24 hour turnaround timing with servers I need immediate reply Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Nothing in particular to share that I did not already discuss Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Pure Storage FlashBlade is in our experience far faster, performance-wise, compared to its close competitors. However, if you factor in any packages you currently have with IBM or AWS for example, you can get more value for money for your data requirements. However, if performance is a must, the increased cost is not an issue. Incentivized Alexander Cooper RPA Developer Read full review	Vultr has better support and competitive pricing. The network is solid and globally deployed. IP reputation is clean, and security is tight. Ease of use and documentation is really good. User experience has been the best I ever experienced. Low stress, reliable hosting I would recommend to anyone. It helped me easily scale and expand my business. Incentivized Ben Brown Enterprise Security Solutions Architect Read full review
Return on Investment	Pure has greatly narrowed the performance gap between file storage and fiber channel block storage with FlashBlade. Exotic file systems and costly FC fabrics are no longer needed to run performant storage. Training is not required for a storage admin who has never touched a Pure array. Everything is where you would expect to find it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Vultr allowed us to have an online presence without breaking the bank Vultr allows us to offer an online access to the business services that we offer our clients beyond the systems installed on premises. We are planning on using Vultr more in the coming months as a standard feature to our Real-Time Energy Monitoring platform Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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