StarWind Storage Appliance and IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe are competing storage solutions. IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced features, despite happier pricing and support feedback for StarWind Storage Appliance.
Features: StarWind Storage Appliance users value its simple management, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe users value its high performance, advanced data reduction capabilities, and comprehensive data protection.
Room for Improvement: StarWind Storage Appliance users suggest enhancing integration with other systems and improving documentation. IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe users mention that firmware upgrade processes could be smoother and point to the need for better analytics tools.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StarWind Storage Appliance is praised for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe also receives positive feedback for deployment but has mentions of complexities with initial setup.
Pricing and ROI: StarWind Storage Appliance offers a lower upfront setup cost and quicker ROI. IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe, while having a higher initial cost, is viewed as offering better long-term value due to its robust performance and feature set.
Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array. It represents a new class of storage – shared accelerated storage, which is a term coined by Gartner – that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation.
IBM FlashSystem 9100 combines the performance of flash and Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) end-to-end with the reliability and innovation of IBM FlashCore technology and the rich features of IBM Spectrum Virtualize - all in a powerful 2U enterprise-class storage system. Providing intensive data driven multicloud storage capacity, FlashSystem 9100 is deeply integrated with the software defined capabilities of IBM Spectrum Storage allowing you to easily add in the multicloud solutions that best support your business.
For SMB and Enterprises who are looking for high performance primary storage for server virtualization, VDI, database and Big Data scenarios, or inexpensive secondary backup tier, our solution is StarWind Storage Appliance. It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, and associated software into an easily scalable storage platform.
Additionally, the appliance features an optional gateway to Azure public cloud, which helps to implement an effective Disaster Recovery plan or meet regulatory requirements. StarWind SA scales up by adding individual disks and flash modules, or JBODs, while adding ready controller nodes allows scaling out.
StarWind SA targets those, who need high-performance primary storage or secondary storage for backup. In case there is a whole virtualization infrastructure to build from scratch, StarWind HCA will come in handy. Otherwise, if all the required hardware is present, StarWind Virtual SAN will be enough to build a high-performance virtualization setup.
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