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Archera vs FlashGrid Cluster for Oracle RAC comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Archera
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (29th)
FlashGrid Cluster for Oracl...
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
High Availability Clustering (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Archera and FlashGrid Cluster for Oracle RAC aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Archera is designed for Cloud Cost Management and holds a mindshare of 0.6%, up 0.1% compared to last year.
FlashGrid Cluster for Oracle RAC, on the other hand, focuses on High Availability Clustering, holds 2.1% mindshare.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Archera0.6%
IBM Turbonomic5.9%
Cloudability5.5%
Other88.0%
Cloud Cost Management
High Availability Clustering Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
FlashGrid Cluster for Oracle RAC2.1%
InfoScale20.8%
Windows Server Failover Clustering15.6%
Other61.5%
High Availability Clustering
 

Featured Reviews

LJ
Medical professor at University of Lamar
Resource management in neuroscience has become faster and data-driven and now supports better studies
From my experience now, Archera has a very good program and useful tools. It is great, but as I said earlier, you can show more through social networks, sites, or training to help people use these tools. Formation is more specific. How can people such as me study and learn more about your program? Initially, they are very happy with Archera, which I appreciate. But perhaps if we can use the tool with more than one group of people and have shared information, that would be very good. If you understand me, it is about training and allowing more people to use it simultaneously. I see that when they are using it in their department, this group has maybe ten or twelve people who know about it. When I saw that, I thought it was incredible, and I want more information about it. They have given me information, but I want to learn by myself.
SD
Technology Leader at eTCaaS
Migration to cloud has cut database costs and simplified shared storage but still needs lower latency
The best features FlashGrid Cluster for Oracle RAC offers include shared storage, which is critical because for on-premise Oracle high availability clusters, I do not need FlashGrid. When I migrate to the public cloud, I need FlashGrid to provide that shared storage. It is easy to migrate from on-premise to cloud because the Oracle architecture does not change; the only difference is that in the public cloud, shared storage block was not available, but FlashGrid provides that feature to the Oracle RAC cluster. FlashGrid Cluster for Oracle RAC has positively impacted my organization cost-wise because by migrating to the cloud from my on-premise data center, I could consolidate the price structure for my storage and compute needs. Oracle RAC was the bottleneck for that because previously, without FlashGrid, I could not configure Oracle RAC in the public cloud, but with FlashGrid, I managed to consolidate costs for Oracle RAC infrastructure in the cloud. After migrating with FlashGrid, I have a substantial presence of Oracle RAC clusters in my data centers, around 50 RAC clusters across the U.S., and each was costing around $100,000 per year per cluster. However, I was able to migrate 25 of those clusters to the public cloud using FlashGrid, and the cost was reduced to $50,000 for those clusters, meaning I saved $50,000 per annum for the 25 instances. After installing and configuring FlashGrid in AWS cloud, I was able to reduce the storage cost substantially compared to my on-premise data center storage. I saved $50,000 per Oracle RAC cluster per annum using FlashGrid, which includes both storage cost, compute cost, and also manpower cost.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Archera is an all-in-one unit; all work is done in one specific way, which is very good for me."
"The platform is very user-friendly, and it's helpful to have all the tools readily available without needing to send an email or do extra work."
"Using the product is a very smooth process, and they help you every step of the way, so it has been great and will not be hard for anyone to join and start using the product."
"The stability and performance of the cluster during testing were impressive."
"I saved $50,000 per Oracle RAC cluster per annum using FlashGrid, which includes both storage cost, compute cost, and also manpower cost."
 

Cons

"From my experience now, Archera has a very good program and useful tools. It is great, but as I said earlier, you can show more through social networks, sites, or training to help people use these tools."
"We don't have issues. We discussed with them that we wanted to have other clouds implemented with us, and they have been very helpful, going step by step in solving that issue."
"Maybe there are some tiny improvements regarding the UI, the configuration aspect, or integration capabilities."
"There is room for improvement in the area of migration or integration with existing on-premises infrastructure."
"One weakness is that there might be performance degradation once I install Oracle RAC in the public cloud using FlashGrid; that is one weakness I have encountered after migrating to the public cloud with FlashGrid."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
34%
Healthcare Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Construction Company
24%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Insurance Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Large Enterprise3
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Archera?
From my experience now, Archera has a very good program and useful tools. It is great, but as I said earlier, you can show more through social networks, sites, or training to help people use these ...
What is your primary use case for Archera?
Over the past six months, I have had contact with Archera, and other doctors told me about them. In the Department of Science and Research, I discuss the program, and they demonstrate the quality o...
What needs improvement with FlashGrid Cluster for Oracle RAC?
There is room for improvement in the area of migration or integration with existing on-premises infrastructure.
What is your primary use case for FlashGrid Cluster for Oracle RAC?
I tested the product as a proof of concept for Oracle RAC and Database High Availability in a non-production environment.
 

Also Known As

No data available
FlashGrid for Oracle RAC and Database HA (on OL 9), FlashGrid for Oracle RAC and Database HA (on RHEL 9)
 

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