Dell SC Series vs IBM System Storage DS8000 Series comparison

"Technical support is very good. I do use it from time to time and it's always excellent."

"The solution has a wide variety of valuable features. The data progression works well. We use the snapshot functionality quite a bit and really like it."

"It had many features, like a snapshot, replication, on-the-file RAID levels, mix-and-match files, those kinds of things."

"The most valuable feature is the speed for the end-user."

"I find this version to be more budget-friendly compared to products from other vendors. This aspect greatly benefits my customers. It's highly advantageous due to its affordability. The operational aspect is also noteworthy. Additionally, its availability and performance are commendable. The speaker are also equally powerful."

"The process of reallocating data from fast disks (SSD or SAS) to slow disks (SATA) gives you better performance and better use of resources."

"The solution is stable; we've had no problems at all."

"We see very low latency with very high IOPS for mixed workloads."

"The high throughput feature is the most powerful thing in this product."

"The Global Copy and Global Mirror features are the solution's most valuable aspects."

"Dell could improve the upgrading process."

"In some customer cases, customers experienced more performance or latency."

"The lack of reporting would be the main issue."

"An issue we had was that the controller went down during an upgrade because of their upgrading the code. One side of the switch was down."

"I would like to see higher compression, dedupe, faster I/O, and bigger drives."

"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."

"Overall, I'd like to see more synergy between Dell EMC's higher-tier platforms and their mid-tier platforms. What I have said, constantly, to my partners at Dell EMC is that the clear articulation of the path is really important to us. In that vein, what I'd also like to see is, with the migration strategy that's built into this product, a lot more attention paid to Dell's - in particular - legacy platforms and how we get from some of our legacy EMC platforms onto this platform with a straight-through migration and scaling strategy, not host-based migrations and not piecemeal... Dell EMC would do well to focus more on my ability to skip a generation, rather than having me take individual hops because I can't greenfield my way into a software-defined data center fast enough. This journey of multiple hops is not helpful."

"The cost of the solution could be better."

"The GUI isn't as user-friendly as other options."

"The solution should embedded replication switches into the hardware instead of using them externally."

"It's absolutely affordable. Again, not having to do a forklift upgrade like some of the others have had to do in the past, it's very affordable for our customers and they continue to buy."

"We have found the solution to be affordable."

"It is one of the most cost effective systems for us. We have been able to run it longer than most, getting the most benefit and money out of it."

"This solution could be better priced in comparison with other vendors."

"It has a good price point and offers some value-added enterprise features."

"Always keep in mind, this is not just a enclosure with disks is a complete SAN as a service. There is software, license, and storage in one single solution."

"Compared to other solutions out there, it's affordable."

"There are costs involving the solution, vendor fees and product safety which are additional."

"The license is very expensive."