We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Quantum ActiveScale 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."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."
"The solution is extremely easy to manage. This is its most valuable feature."
"The single pane of glass for both IT and for the end-user is a valuable feature. On the IT side, I can actually control where things are stored, whether something is stored on solid-state drives or spinning drives... The single pane of glass makes it very easy to use and very easy to understand. We started at 100 terabytes and we moved to 250 and it still feels like the exact same system and we're able to move data as needed."
"Our users are able to easily roll back snapshots without going through IT."
"Isilon is flexible in supporting various data workloads while keeping them protected. Dell continues to release updates and patches which enhance the use of this solution. This includes offering ransomware protection."
"The solution is stable."
"The recent introduction of inline deduplication and compression has drastically improved our efficiency ratios to make it an economical product. This solution has also had a positive impact on our employees' productivity because it reduces the amount of admin that our staff needs to handle."
"Since it can scale so easily, as long as I have money to buy more nodes, I can grow it as big as I need to. That is important in our business. As sequencing technologies continue to evolve, and as those technologies evolve, the amount of data generation never gets smaller. It just always seems to get bigger. This is one of the absolute key aspects: We can grow on demand without having to forklift stuff."
"The technology is stable which is good."
"Workflow is easy to manage and maintain."
"If they integrated some functions, as they have on Data Domain with a cyber recovery vault, it would be ideal."
"The product’s expansion capacity, pricing clarity, and ease of use need improvement."
"The solution’s interface and pricing could be improved."
"The cost of Dell PowerScale is currently high and there is room for improvement."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"I'd like to see more Iceland products in the cloud so that we can port our data into different environments if needed. I would also like to see a virtual appliance or software-defined Iceland product."
"The legacy file system for Epsilon didn't scale into the cloud and didn't have a separate OS. It would be key if this was made possible."
"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."
"Lacks some ability to integrate with different systems."
"We would like to see a self-sufficient installation."
Earn 20 points
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 2nd in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews while Quantum ActiveScale is ranked 20th in File and Object Storage. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Quantum ActiveScale is rated 7.6. 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 Quantum ActiveScale writes "Good performance and reliable but the setup is complex". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and HPE StoreEasy, whereas Quantum ActiveScale is most compared with Dell ECS, Qumulo and MinIO. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Quantum ActiveScale report.
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