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Pure Storage FlashBlade

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What is Pure Storage FlashBlade?

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.

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What users are saying about Pure Storage FlashBlade.
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Performance is the Name of the Game

Incentivized
Alexander CooperView profile
RPA Developer in Corporate at Randstad UK (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At our organization, we used Pure Storage FlashBlade to store data that had to be accessed with as little latency as possible. It was used by the Hyper-Automation team solely and was used as the storage for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation purposes. It allowed integration with our existing Amazon Web Services solutions.

Pros

  • NVMe Flash Storage allows super fast reads and writes.
  • More energy-efficient and "green" compared to other solutions involving moving parts.
  • Easy integration with AWS and other important tools.

Cons

  • The demo environment/product only has a small window to use.
  • Savings over AWS can be minimalised by the necessary learning curve.
  • Cost of the product of a whole.

Return on Investment

  • Massive decrease in time spent running data processes.
  • No discernible downtime of the solution.
  • Increased cost compared to slower solutions.

Alternatives Considered

IBM Storage Insights, AWS Backup and AWS Storage Gateway

Other Software Used

UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform, Blue Prism Intelligent RPA, AWS Backup

Pure Storage FlashBlade Review

Incentivized
Chirag DeolView profile
Chief Marketing Officer in Information Technology at Boxinall (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are an IT company. We using Pure Storage FlashBlade to store our data securely and it is great for data management. Having a user-friendly interface: A simple file management and sharing system makes it easy to use across an organization. Our IT team also uses it for database backup. It is very fast in transferring data and secures storage.

Pros

  • Easy-to-scale archives.
  • Data protection.
  • High performance.
  • Easy to manage.

Cons

  • Pricing model.
  • Add more documentation.

Return on Investment

  • Easy to access files.
  • Having the incredible backup.

Alternatives Considered

Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics

Other Software Used

OneLogin, OneLobby, Cisco 3504 WLAN Controller

My experience using Pure Storage FlashBlade

Incentivized
Shivani PandeyView profile
Project Engineer in Information Technology at Wipro Limited (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our team is using Pure Storage FlashBlade as a backup repository for the applications and critical deployments. We are successfully able to establish a secure content delivery network for the end-users and internal teams. It has helped us to improve the overall stability of the system.

Pros

  • High performance and 24/7 availability.
  • Reliable storage system with good data security in place.
  • Seamless integration and connectivity.

Cons

  • Costly.
  • The technology needs maturity when compared to other competitors like Hitachi NAS.
  • Scalability options need more flexibility and more robust functionality to quickly adapt to the system needs.
  • Integration with public cloud environments need improvement.

Return on Investment

  • Extremely fast solution.
  • Stable storage solution for the business requirement.
  • Good after sales support from Pure Storage team.

Other Software Used

JFrog Artifactory, Azure CDN, IBM FlashSystem 9200

Attention-catching storage solution

Incentivized
Tanay AroraView profile
Engineer Intern in Information Technology at GREAT FUTURE TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITED (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

FlashBlade is being used by me and my department most of the time, whenever we got a need to. In many cases, whenever we have to solve a problem related to data optimization, and whenever we have to handle data more precisely or we have to make the data flow smooth and fast.

Pros

  • High processing power.
  • There is no risk of interruption while data handling.
  • Amazing speed.
  • Scalable.

Cons

  • Pure Storage FlashBlade needs to work on their documentation.
  • It's an expensive solution to use.

Return on Investment

  • Easy to use and manage.
  • Data optimization and security plays a major role.
  • Many add on features are available to optimize data more precisely.
  • Efficient manufacture support, makes it easier to go with.

Other Software Used

IBM Storage Insights, AWS Backup, AWS Storage Gateway

My Pure Storage FlashBlade Review

Edward HammondView profile
Principal Solutions Architect in Engineering at CogoLabs (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Kubernetes support
  • Replication
  • Great support

Cons

  • Price
  • BYO keys to S3 storage

Return on Investment

  • Has been very reliable
  • Has given us a fast enough storage for us to attempt things that would;t be possible otherwise

Usability

Alternatives Considered

vSphere and Cloudian HyperStore