IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe vs Reduxio [EOL] comparison

IBM and Reduxio are both solutions in the All-Flash Storage category. Additionally, 95% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Reduxio users who would recommend it.

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Everpure FlashArray

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Sowjanya MV

Technical Lead at Wipro Limited

Has improved performance for mission-critical workloads and enabled seamless non-disruptive upgrades

The availability is 99.99%, which is the main factor any customer would need because their data should be available whenever they want to access it. This is one main critical thing. It is very easy to upgrade since Pure Storage FlashArray handles it well. Everything is non-disruptive now; previously, there were forklift shifts, but now that is not the case. Pure Storage FlashArray says no to forklift upgrades. Usually hardware requires downtime, but Pure Storage FlashArray has improved their footprint so that they are not asking for downtime; everything is just a non-disruptive activity, which is why customers are more inclined towards Pure Storage FlashArray. Customers want more of the models in their environment due to the performance they are giving, and everything is in one Pure1 Array console where we can view all the models on one page or just an orchestration tool. You don't miss anything; you have replication, notifications about replication, and details about which host groups replication is happening in and if that replication is successful or failed. On a daily basis, our purpose is to create volumes for infrastructure; our daily activities include creating volumes and mapping them to the host, doing any migrations from a VM, clearing the data stores, and carving the volumes to those VMs. One key factor is the data compression with a ratio of 5:1, focusing on space efficiency, inline deduplication, and the compression Pure Storage FlashArray works on; that is a major factor we can suggest to any customer. Analytical capabilities are crucial. Daily, we check the throughput and consumption, and Pure Storage FlashArray provides predictions for one year regarding usage. This prediction helps plan updates well ahead. For support, we just raise a case, and they follow up and get it done. There is also AI readiness, but with the model R2, we don't have much of that AI readiness. For others, we do have AI readiness that predicts capacity based on daily or monthly trends, enabling us to analyze how much space we need or if we need to expand the disk shelf. From an operational point of view, a good feature is that if you accidentally delete a volume, it will be retained in the destroyed state for the next twenty-four hours, which is not the same with any other vendor. I have worked in this storage domain for the past fifteen years, and this option is remarkable, benefiting any L1 or L2 engineer. Additionally, from a compliance perspective, Pure Storage FlashArray has REST APIs enabled. I have not explored automation much, but from a security standpoint, it is strong with encryption data. If you want to automate, you can easily integrate with all clouds and explore Pure Cloud for scheduling workloads, including volume creation. Customers find benefit in Pure Storage FlashArray's single management pane of glass due to the dual controller and active-active setup. If one of the controllers goes down, all workloads automatically shift to the other controller, ensuring their data is safe and accessible at all times. This is a highlighted feature that any customer desires because their data should always be accessible. For SAN workloads, we use Pure Storage FlashArray because for SAN FC fiber channel, we don't use it; we use NetApp for NAS activities. We have clearly split this, so SAN is for mission-critical applications, while network-attached storage handles file systems. This architecture helps us maximize the benefit from Pure Storage FlashArray due to the significant workloads from this giant retail client. From a footprint and energy consumption perspective, you can see energy consumption from the Pure1 storage portal on a daily basis, and it is very compact. The three models we use consume only three units, which is quite low. From a footprint and data center perspective, it doesn't occupy much space. As everything moves to cloud, there are requirements to avoid excess spending on data centers, and Pure Storage FlashArray is efficient in energy consumption and is environmentally friendly.

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Yacine Bouakttaya

Chief Technology Officer North Africa at Huawei

High-speed data processing has improved billing cycles but performance headroom still needs growth

In terms of improvement regarding IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe, I can compare with other competitors, especially regarding solution architecture. Data resiliency can be a concern because IBM can reach up to only four controllers, while others like Dell EMC can support up to eight controllers with better resiliency without service staff. Additionally, the SBC one benchmark is a storage performance console that stresses different storage solutions like Dell EMC and NetApp. It generates metrics of IOPS and latency, showing that the competition can have two million IOPS, significantly outperforming IBM's capabilities. As for the capability of scaling, we can see the limitations in reaching such high-performance levels.

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ITAdmini18be

IT Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees

Point-in-time restore capabilities are built into the storage appliance

Our first impression when we were introduced to the product was very good. I still think it's very good. They are truly different. The whole product is based on point-in-time restore capabilities built into their storage appliance, and no one else I know does that. I'd rate it a 10 out of 10 because it does everything that we have asked it to do.

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Pros

"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."

"Even if they weren't one of the fastest arrays in the entire industry, I would use them for their support model and ease of use."

"Pure Storage FlashArray says no to forklift upgrades; usually hardware requires downtime, but Pure Storage FlashArray has improved their footprint so that they are not asking for downtime—everything is just a non-disruptive activity, which is why customers are more inclined towards Pure Storage FlashArray."

"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."

"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."

"I would definitely suggest this solution to a colleague because of the ease of use."

"It overperforms both in terms of storage capacity and throughput, and bandwidth capability."

"One valuable feature of the Pure Storage FlashArray is its Flash-based architecture, which provides a significant advantage."

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"The most valuable feature is the speed."

"It is a very stable solution."

"The product is a game-changer; IBM changed the game architecturally by moving computational resources into the flash media."

"IBM FlashSystem is an excellent product."

"The FlashCore modules support more value to the architecture due to their unique characteristics."

"It's easy to use, has good stability, and many features."

"The high performance and high availability improved our overall processes."

"A key feature is that compared to storage systems that we've been familiar with over decades, IBM simply does not fail. The reason is that IBM is the only manufacturer that engineers its own flash module, and there is a key architectural difference from everything else that we have seen in the market. The difference is that the flash module has the computational capability, which allows reliability and capacity enhancements to be uploaded from the main controllers and run in each module. So, each of the flash drives becomes its own little storage system, and that is extremely effective architecture. In this field, with this type of system, IBM has made a statement. They've never had one of these modules cause an outage. So, the failure rates on these things are just in a whole different universe from what we were accustomed to."

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"The HTML5 UI is clean, easy to navigate, and very intuitive."

"Reduxio delivers a self-contained system with all of the features rolled in and functional."

"Our first impression of Reduxio was that it was simple to setup and use, and highly reliable."

"The down-to-the-second restore capability, native to the device is a valuable feature."

"The Reduxio unit is superior in its ability to recover from any second."

"The ability to target existing remote storage with NoRestore is going to allow us to leverage existing storage without an increased financial investment."

"The BackDating feature which allows us to go back to any point in the past at one second granularity, is an amazing feature and allows us to recover from any mishap to our data – whether it's a malware attack, an application error or a human error. We have never seen this capability in any other storage product."

"I can't remember if I have ever been so impressed with a product or with a company."

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Cons

"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."

"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."

"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."

"Storage. There could be better storage."

"Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE."

"We had one instance with an eight-hour outage in our primary data center because the upgrade to the controller failed, and the controller redundancy didn't work."

"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."

"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."

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"In the FlashSystem 5200, there were only four ports of 32 fiber channels for the architecture. This has been resolved in the new generation."

"The storage system itself should have built-in capabilities for different ransomware attacks."

"IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is an expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."

"IBM is currently not offering volume-based encryption or compression, while other brands or IBM's competitors are doing it."

"The solution's compression needs to be improved, as it's not the best."

"I'd like to be able to connect to tape drives behind the storage device to back up the tape if need be. We have all of our storage running in all-flash, and we make a copy on tape. Currently, when we want to hook up tape drives, we have to add some extra equipment, which is a little bit complex. We want IBM to add a feature where we could install a tape into the storage so that we can connect it through a single pane of glass. We'd like to have a feature in the IBM flash storage system so that we can connect backup tape drives through the IBM storage system and we can manage the backup tape from the storage system."

"The tool's architecture is complex. It also needs to add data utilization reports."

"The pricing should be more competitive."

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"A centralized management would be nice, the ability to manage all cluster in one management portal."

"The only thing that I would point out would be the basic administration management of the machine."

"Needs some hooks into cloud storage for backup. Also they should update the system to use additional secondary storage as a resource."

"The user interface for the web console could be more user-friendly, while it is flashy, how to find functions is not necessarily obvious."

"It would be helpful to have the ability to recover virtual machines individually without having to restore the full LUN."

"It would be nice feature if the GUI had an option to export the current unit configuration to a file or an email recipient. In case of a disaster, this way it would be quicker to get a replacement unit up and running again."

"Scalability. Reduxio has only one product, they don’t have an option, for now, to expand the storage product."

"I think that the only issue that I would like to see an improvement in would be the price."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It was less expensive than some of the alternatives. It's not as though it was a premium price to get that kind of quality. It's a very competitive product from a price perspective..."

"The licensing is $100,000."

"Cost-wise, I imagine that the product's price would probably give you a nosebleed if you were a younger company."

"The price is very reasonable when compared to other solutions."

"We are finding the TCO of flash to be lower than SSD implementations."

"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray is expensive."

"Our Evergreen Storage subscription is supposed to be good when we go to upgrade."

"The price was more favorable than Dell EMC."

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"Price-wise, the solution offers excellent pricing to its users. In short, the prices offered by the solution are competitive compared to similar solutions."

"The price of IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is less than Dell. For upgrades, the Dell solutions are more expensive."

"The price of IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMele can be considered affordable when taking into account the operating system that is required for it to function properly. This operating system, which is licensed by IBM, may carry a higher cost, but it is worth the investment for larger corporate entities, such as insurance companies, Fortune Five companies, and banks, who make up a significant portion of their target market. The FlashSystems are designed for larger corporations and multinational enterprises, and may not be the most cost-effective solution for smaller businesses."

"Compared to its competitors, IBM's offering is the most cost-effective."

"There are pricing options from the mid-rand to the high-range, of which the suitability depends upon the requirements."

"The solution is priced well."

"The tool's pricing is competitive."

"Compared to other solutions, the cost of IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is reasonable, with a one-time payment of around $70,000. However, additional support is available for $25,000 for three years. The overall maintenance cost is steep."

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"All of their new features that were released following our purchase are free of charge. For example, we are about to upgrade getting cloud integration for free."

"Depending on your cost of data loss, one ransomware or accidental deletion could pay for a Reduxio appliance."

"The licensing is very simple with Reduxio. It is actually one of the attractions, unlike some of the other products. The other product we're using, in some of its incarnations, has extremely complex pricing, with every spindle having an associated license and fees. With Reduxio it's very simple. For the box - the hardware comes in essentially one configuration for the chassis, the unit (and you can buy multiple units and daisy-chain them) - there is no "a-la-carte," so many drives of this kind or that kind, etc. It has a basic hardware configuration. Then, through the software license, they allocate or assign you the right to use the full capacity, or half of it, or a quarter of it. Of course, if you're not using the full capacity but need to, it is a simple phone call to upgrade. It's as simple as it gets."

"I think the pricing is good value, because you're not just buying a storage array, you're buying a backup solution and a DR solution and a "time machine" solution, all bundled in one storage array. When we had NetApp storage we had to then go out and buy a copy of Veeam which is a backup solution. With the Reduxio, you still need to do backups but you don't need that software product."

"For less money than my previous solution, I receive way more performance and backup features that far surpass anything on the market."

"I think that the only issue that I would like to see an improvement in would be the price."

"Reduxio’s licensing model is quite attractive. All licenses are included in the product pricing."

"You want the best, you've got to pay for the best, that's all. In terms of licensing, just work with your VAR. The features, overall, were just too good to pass up, even though it comes at a premium."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Construction Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Construction Company

10%

Marketing Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

25%

Financial Services Firm

25%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	71
Midsize Enterprise	38
Large Enterprise	159

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Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	6

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Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	4

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Also Known As

Pure Storage FlashArray

IBM FlashSystem 9100, FlashSystem 9100

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Overview

The FlashArray family delivers consistent, high-performance data services across block, file, and object workloads. As part of the Everpure Platform, it provides the foundation for a unified data plane, enabling applications to reliably access, protect, and manage data across environments with simplicity and predictability. With built-in capabilities such as inline data reduction, snapshots, replication, and ransomware resilience, FlashArray ensures efficient operations, protected data, and consistent application uptime.

As the foundation of the (unified) data plane, FlashArray enables policy-driven automation, monitoring, and centralized management while integrating across cloud and on-premises environments. Built on an Evergreen architecture, it supports non-disruptive upgrades and continuous performance improvements over time while simplifying operations at scale.

What Key Features Does FlashArray Offer?

Simplicity and Speed: Easy management and rapid performance enhancements.
Data Reduction: Effective deduplication and compression.
Flash Architecture: Seamless upgrades and outstanding resilience.
VMware Integration: Excellent compatibility with virtualization platforms.
Predictive Analytics: Strong insights for proactive management.

What Benefits Should Users Consider?

Reliability: Proactive support with minimal downtime.
Efficiency: Reduced storage footprint and enhanced data management.
Performance: Faster processing speeds and low latency.
User Experience: Simplified management with Evergreen model.

In industries like finance, banking, and healthcare, FlashArray supports high-performance storage needs focusing on virtualization and database environments. Employed for VMware workloads, disaster recovery, and storage provisioning, it ensures application performance in private or hybrid cloud setups while enhancing management of virtualized environments.

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage)

IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is recognized for its speed, reliability, and performance, offering a high-speed enterprise storage solution. It supports various high-demand applications and environments with superior data processing and ease of use.

IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is known for its exceptional high-performance storage facilitated by FlashCore modules and unique architecture. It efficiently handles high I/O operations and supports hybrid cloud environments, including integration with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud. While users appreciate features like HyperSwap and efficient data tiering, there are challenges with scalability, management complexity, and cost-effectiveness. Reports highlight limited security against ransomware, inadequate compression and deduplication, as well as insufficient technical support for battery repair and backup connectivity.

What Are the Key Features of IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe?

FlashCore Modules: Deliver high-speed storage performance.
HyperSwap: Enhances data availability and reliability.
Hybrid Cloud Support: Seamless integration with major cloud providers.
Data Tiering: Efficiently manages data with advanced tiering capabilities.
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies management and monitoring tasks.

What Benefits Should You Expect from IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe?

High I/O Performance: Efficiently supports intensive workloads.
Reliable High Availability: Maintains continuous operation with minimal downtime.
Strong Technical Support: Provides comprehensive assistance to users.
User-Friendly Operation: Facilitates ease of use and management for IT teams.

IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is implemented across industries like finance and manufacturing for enterprise storage, supporting applications such as VMware clusters, core ERP databases like SAP HANA, and banking operations. It serves as primary storage for databases, web applications, and virtual infrastructures, supporting on-premise, public, or hybrid cloud environments.

IBM

Reduxio's HX550 flash hybrid storage arrays, based on Reduxio's TimeOS storage operating system allow you to recover application data to any second in the past, eliminates most of the complexity associated with managing storage, and provides exceptional performance and efficiency, far exceeding anything available today.

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