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 EMC VNX (Discontinued) | Score7 out of 10 | N/A | The 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/A | Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance. | N/A |
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| Considered Both Products | No answer on this topic | 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 … Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info 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 … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info 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! Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Pure Support is nine million times better than EMC ever was! And that is probably an understatement. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Pure Storage FlashArray Not really comparable but the footprint is much lower and storage density is much higher per rack unit. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info 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 … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Pure Storage FlashArray There is no comparison between our Pure FlashArray and the EMC SAN equipment we used in the past. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info 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. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info 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 … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info 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. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info 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. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info 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 … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Pure Storage FlashArray No comparison to Pure Storage! Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Pure Storage FlashArray No comparison. Pure out performs in every way. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Pure Storage FlashArray All of the major competitors did not perform as fast nor were as easy to maintain and administrate. Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info 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 … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Pure Storage FlashArray We did the comparison of our certain requirements and found Pure Storage was better suited for our IT. Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Would buy again 12 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 92% Delivers good value for the price 11 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Happy with the feature set 12 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 12 Answers | |
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| Medium-sized Companies |  Dell Compellent (discontinued) Score8 out of 10 | Dell Compellent (discontinued) Score8 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Pure Storage FlashArray Score10 out of 10 |  Dell VMAX Score9.7 out of 10 |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 3.1 | 10.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 9.1 |
| Usability | - | 9.1 |
| Availability | - | 9.1 |
| Performance | - | 8.8 |
| Support Rating | - | 9.3 |
| In-Person Training | - | 8.8 |
| Online Training | - | 9.1 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 9.1 |
| Configurability | - | 9.1 |
| Ease of integration | - | 9.1 |
| Product Scalability | - | 9.1 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 9.1 |
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