Compare How Pure Storage Leads Enterprise Storage
Compare How Pure Storage Leads Enterprise Storage
Proven IT agility, unmatched sustainability, and the lowest TCO in the industry. Only Pure Storage delivers a consistent portfolio for all your workloads. With 100% non-disruptive upgrades and savings up to 60%, you can meet your IT needs today and tomorrow.
One architecture. All your workloads. Never obsolete.
Feature |
Pure Storage |
Dell EMC |
NetApp |
HPE |
Ease of Use |
Built from the ground up to eliminate manual tasks and automate tuning, support, and maintenance |
Multiple management interfaces for multiple platforms, PowerStore, PowerScale, PowerMAX, PowerProtect (Data Domain) ECS |
Legacy platform, customer responsible for maintaining and configuring storage primitives |
Multiple independently managed interfaces presented through single pane of glass management via Greenlake |
Non-Disruptive HW and SW Upgrades across Generations |
Truly non-disruptive, data-in-place, full performance, modular upgrades via Evergreen architecture |
Announced, however vendor has history of disruptive upgrades |
Significant performance reduction during "non-disruptive" upgrades* |
Limited (not across generations, nor across product models within Alletra series) |
Highly Consistent All-flash Portfolio |
One architecture, two platforms (scale-up, scale-out), with shared Evergreen, DirectFlash®, Purity, Pure1® |
Multiple separate, inconsistent products, with different upgrade paths, software and management |
Multiple hybrid and All-Flash products with disparate upgrade paths and management interfaces |
Multiple product lines stemming from multiple acquisitions with no consistent upgrade paths or management tools |
One Software Architecture |
All storage systems are based upon a single Purity software platform |
Operating software is different depending on system
|
AFF/FAS systems are based upon a single software platform, ONTAP. E-Series and StorageGrid are different |
Operating software is different depending on system |
Direct-to-flash Management |
DirectFlash® software and hardware technology that increases both density and performance |
Commodity SSD-based, retrofitted architecture that limits efficiency and performance |
Commodity SSD-based, retrofitted architecture that limits efficiency and performance |
Commodity SSD-based, retrofitted architecture that limits efficiency and performance |
Traditional ownership subscription: Investment protection with routine/on-demand upgrades |
Evergreen//Forever™: Controller/blade upgrades at regular intervals, anytime 100% controller/blade trade-in credit, flash trade-in |
"Standard": one-time controller upgrade to next-gen**; "Select": one-time controller upgrade to next-gen and next-model***; no flash trade-in |
Only for "eligible controllers", with convoluted & selective upgrade matrix; has flash trade-in |
None**** |
Proven Record Of Delivering on Upgrade/Trade-in Promises |
Delivered >10,000 controller upgrades, without disruption or rebuy |
Relatively new program and upgrade technology, unproven
|
New Program (Feb 2023) unproven |
None |
Available Fully as-a-Service, with Flexible Terms and All-inclusive Software |
Evergreen//One™: 1 to 5 year terms, all array software features included |
APEX Data Storage Service: 1 or 3 year terms only, extra charges for data protection, other features |
Keystone: semi-flexible 1 to 3 year terms, extra charges for data protection, other features |
GreenLake for Block Storage: 1 or 3 year terms only, extra charges for data protection, other features |
As-a-Service SLAs: Performance, Capacity, Availability, Energy Efficiency |
Evergreen//One: Solutions customized, measured, and remediated according to clear SLAs; industry's first energy efficiency SLA |
APEX Data Storage Service: No published performance or energy efficiency SLO/SLA |
Keystone: Performance SLO only (no known remediation) |
GreenLake for Block Storage: Performance SLO only (no known remediation) |
Energy-efficient, Sustainable Storage |
Up to 85% less energy use/carbon emissions than competing all-flash, lower e-waste with proven Evergreen design***** |
Much less energy efficient |
Much less energy efficient |
Much less energy efficient |
Unified File Services |
Unified file services delivered on a modern storage platform |
Legacy file services based on Celerra data mover technology on top of a block platform |
Block services delivered on top of a native file platform |
No unified file services |
* If controllers are not throttled to 50% or less performance utilization in normal operation
** Available on PowerStore & PowerMax only
*** Available on PowerStore only
**** Investment protection program no longer available for Alletra purchases
***** 2023 ESG Report
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“Pure’s Evergreen model has been fantastic in terms of supporting our operations, because we see the world in the same way.”
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