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"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.""The initial setup was easy and simple.""I like the tool's CloudIQ feature.""It is an inexpensive storage solution.""PowerVault comes with free software that performs functions like data deduplication and replication, which is cost-effective and delivers added value to the product.""The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is easy to manage and easy to use.""The storage has been good.""Dell PowerVault offers valuable full flash storage."

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"This product has good performance.""Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."

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"There have been situations when our customers requested professional support and the price of that feature is quite high.""Dell PowerVault is block-oriented storage only.""If the solution came with a synchronous application, it would be particularly advantageous for small businesses operating across multiple sites.""Sometimes integrating into a cluster can be difficult as you have to do it manually.""PowerVault doesn't integrate with Active Directory. Other storage solutions offer SAN and NAS unified storage in a single appliance, but PowerVault is only SAN.""The tool needs to improve its UI.""The implementation process takes a while.""I would like to see improvements made to the user interface."

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"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages.""The response time for read requests can be improved."

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  • "The price is reasonable and we are satisfied with it."
  • "It is important to remember that the retail price may seem high, but the final price is usually different."
  • "I rate the price of Dell PowerVault a nine out of ten."
  • "The price of Dell PowerVault could be reduced. It is more expensive than some IBM solutions."
  • "I rate Dell PowerVault a six or seven out of ten for pricing."
  • "The solution is more cost-effective than the competitors. It’s an affordable option for small businesses."
  • "The cost, compared to other solutions, is on the higher end."
  • "Dell PowerVault's price is the tool's main attraction."
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  • "The license covers any feature and also, the future features are already included. It is as easy as a 1, 2 and 3."
  • "The best features come included without any additional cost."
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    Top Answer:Dell PowerVault offers valuable full flash storage.
    Top Answer:I rate the solution's pricing a seven to eight out of ten.
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    Overview
    PowerVault MD3 storage arrays help you cost-effectively address the challenges of data growth with versatile solutions that are optimized for smaller-scale storage consolidation, flexible virtualization projects and high business continuity.

    InfiniBox, high performance enterprise data storage, eliminates performance, availability and scalability issues to accelerate critical business applications. Based upon a fully abstracted set of software driven storage functions layered on top of industry standard hardware, INFINIDAT delivers a fast, highly available, and easy-to-deploy storage system.

    Unmatched reliability and performance (99.99999% uptime) is delivered through an innovative self-healing architecture, high performance double-parity RAID, and comprehensive end-to-end data verification capability. In addition, an efficient data distribution architecture that uses all drives all the time, and a very large flash cache, deliver ultra-high performance with up to 1M IOPS, and over 12GB/s throughput along with our InfiniMetrics detailed performance monitoring.

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    Outsourcing Company14%
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    Healthcare Company7%
    Reseller7%
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    Financial Services Firm9%
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    Small Business46%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise29%
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    Midsize Enterprise52%
    Large Enterprise37%

    Dell PowerVault is ranked 2nd in Enterprise SAN with 23 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN. Dell PowerVault is rated 8.4, while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerVault writes "Easy to use with good integrations and reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". Dell PowerVault is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Huawei OceanStor SNS, Lenovo Storage V Series and ExaGrid EX, whereas INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, Dell XtremIO and VMware vSAN.

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