We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Pure Storage FlashBlade based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This has been a valuable solution for our business overall. It offers business continuity and replication features."
"Dell PowerScale's performance is good."
"The flexibility and the user-friendly interface are the most valuable features."
"The tool comes with cheap disks and works fast for video content."
"The tool's most valuable features are scalability and stability."
"The solution is extremely easy to manage. This is its most valuable feature."
"It has allowed us to have more consistent quality controls. It has also allowed us to expand the number of servers in clients processing and accessing data, allowing us to get a lot bigger projects out the door."
"For maximizing storage utilization, PowerScale is great. When you write the data to it, it spreads it out to all the nodes, so you get all the performance from the entire pool."
"It uses the same platform for connectivity so integration is seamless."
"We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it."
"The ease of deployment and management has helped us simplify our storage. We also do not have to worry about capacity management as much. A lot of these things are native to Pure Storage."
"The product is scalable and easy to expand."
"The initial setup is pretty easy and simple."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the rewrite speed and the nonstop services."
"It has also helped to simplify storage for us in the way that it's easy to manage. Their automatic monitoring really helps when things break or are about to break. They see a problem coming and alert us even before our own system does."
"The snapshots, replication, and the ability to have immutable blades are the most valuable features. You're putting data snapshots out in those blades, and they cannot be touched. Its performance is great."
"If they integrated some functions, as they have on Data Domain with a cyber recovery vault, it would be ideal."
"The UID mapping and how to configure mapping-related things is a struggle."
"The solution’s interface and pricing could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in its handling of object storage."
"The thing that they are working on now, and we are following closely is more native cloud integrations. The way that we envision workloads in the future is around moving compute to data instead of the other way around. So, we would like to have a single pane glass to manage storage across a variety of different platforms, including native cloud. That would be awesome."
"Data storage performance needs to be improved."
"There aren't many templates still coming out for it. They need to provide templates so we can copy and paste what we've done in the past to future, new things."
"The biggest weakness is small file handling. Small file compression options are not enabled out of the box. It would be good to have this enabled by default."
"I would also like to see better support for CIFS workloads."
"The speed could be improved."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"It would be beneficial if the layer could support the S3 protocol and be container ready in the next release."
"The features provided for SMB customers are limited."
"On our dedupe during our initial buy, we were expecting a number a little higher like 4x. However, we are getting about 3.6. While it is close enough, it doesn't quite hit the numbers. So, this has been a challenge."
"Commvault has mainly driven the Analytics, providing data and reports. However, the product has room for improvement, especially regarding storage analytics. Upgrading firmware has caused issues, requiring feature disabling to revert to traditional backups. The firmware upgrades sometimes affect Commvault backups."
"It usually comes down to just what you hit and the value you're getting when you spend the money and license the products. I would always go, "If you want to make things better, lower your price and make your licensing simpler." There's always an opportunity around that."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 2nd in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) writes "We can easily deploy, manage, and maintain systems without needing a huge amount of expertise to facilitate them". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Qumulo, HPE StoreEasy and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with VAST Data, MinIO, Pure Storage FlashArray, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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