Strong performance and state-of-the-art security features for enterprise storage systems can be crucial to support your business-critical workloads, yet selecting the best solution for your infrastructure can seem daunting. To assist buyers in making informed decisions, we researched publicly available information about two all-flash arrays: Dell PowerMax 8500 and Pure Storage FlashArray//XL170.
We assessed both storage solutions in the following categories: expandability, mainframe support, capacity, latency, throughput, and suitability for secure environments. (In our research, technical information for the Dell PowerMax array was easy to access, while information for the Pure Storage array was either restricted or harder to locate.)