Pure Storage Flashblade Alternative & All-Flash Comparison
Choosing the Best Storage for Modern Workloads
From big data analytics to artificial intelligence, the most exciting applications in many data centers today glean information from large pools of unstructured data and, therefore, require new scale-out file storage solutions.
About Pure Storage’s Flashblade
Pure Storage’s Flashblade technology repackages the shared-nothing, scale-out model into a chassis that holds 15 all-flash nodes in the form of plugin blades. Flashblade supports the S3 object protocol, in addition to NFS and SMB, but files and objects occupy independent namespaces.
Pure Storage Flashblade Comparison to the VAST Data Platform
VAST Data’s Platform reduces the cost of all-flash file and object storage to make it affordable for all of an organization’s applications, not just a privileged few. The VAST Data Platform is based on the DASE architecture of containerized, stateless protocol servers. These servers are connected over NVMe-oF to highly available storage enclosures filled with Storage Class Memory and low cost QLC SSDs.
Feature | Pure Storage Flashblade | VAST Data Platform |
|---|---|---|
Class | Scale-Out NAS/Object | Scale-Out NAS/Object |
Architecture | Shared-nothing | DASE™ |
Low-Cost QLC support | ✗ | ✓ |
Global, Cross-Block Compression | ✗ | Inline, Always on |
All Flash Cost | $$$ | $ |
Multi-Protocol File <> Object | ✗ | ✓ |
Download the Full Feature Comparison
Learn how leading data storage vendors—including Dell EMC, IBM Spectrum Scale, Pure Storage Flashblade, and VAST Data's Platform—compare on features that modern applications demand. We consider data storage concerns such as petabyte scalability, multi-protocol support, storage efficiency, and performance.