StarWind Virtual Tape Library and HPE Hyper Converged compete in the data storage solutions category. StarWind excels in competitive pricing and ease of integration, while HPE Hyper Converged stands out for its advanced features and robust performance.
Features: StarWind Virtual Tape Library offers quick scalability and simple storage management, and it supports multiple cloud providers and LTO formats. HPE Hyper Converged integrates compute, storage, and networking, includes a fast backup solution, and enhances data protection and operational efficiency.
Room for Improvement: StarWind could improve the complexities involved in deployment, refine cloud archive options, and enhance support for diverse environments. HPE Hyper Converged could offer better pricing options, improve deduplication features, and refine its end-to-end infrastructure costs.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StarWind is straightforward to deploy, favors rapid implementation, and provides reliable customer service. HPE Hyper Converged requires a more complex setup but rewards with comprehensive support and enhanced system performance.
Pricing and ROI: StarWind presents lower initial costs with a focus on operational savings and high ROI. HPE Hyper Converged, though generally more expensive, suggests a longer ROI period, justifying its price with robust long-term benefits and extensive infrastructure capabilities.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| HPE Hyper Converged | 3.0% |
| StarWind Virtual Tape Library | 0.8% |
| Other | 96.2% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 18 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 6 |
| Large Enterprise | 18 |
HPE Hyper Converged solutions combine intuitive software with the reliability of a world class platform to deliver cloud-like simplicity to your business.
Now, IT can become an internal service provider to end-users by quickly delivering the resources they need for application development and consumption. With HPE Hyper Converged systems companies can operate with cloud efficiency to simplify IT operations with one comprehensive control panel to deploy, monitor, analyze and update – with a single generalist; consume with cloud flexibility to deliver a cloud-like experience, with multi-tenant workspaces that eliminate stranded resources and flexes on demand; and deploy at cloud speed to empower developers and lines-of-business with a self-service portal that can instantly compose and recompose VMs in minutes. Built-in enterprise grade features, such as performance and resiliency enable HPE Hyper Converged systems to easily handle a wide variety of virtualized workloads, including general purpose virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and cloud.
For SMB and Enterprises, who either look to get rid of backup tapes completely, or are willing to accelerate backup process and add an extra level of protection, our solution is StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL). It is an appliance that eliminates the need in physical tape and “pretends” to be a supported tape drive or autoloader, keeping all data on inexpensive, fast and high-capacity spinning disks.
Even with explosive data growth, StarWind VTL fits the backup into backup window by accelerating it, so the process does not overlap with production time. Optionally, it creates additional copy of backup data for better safety. It is also available in a software-only form, as part of StarWind VSAN functionality.
StarWind VTL targets those, who need to replace existing tape backup infrastructure or accelerate it if regulatory requirements prohibit replacement. In case the goal is just virtualizing tape backup or creating a stretched backup infrastructure, StarWind Tape Redirector will come in handy.
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