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IBM PurePower System vs SteelFusion comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

IBM PurePower System
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Converged Infrastructure (11th)
SteelFusion
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
HCI (30th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Storage Solutions solutions, they serve different purposes. IBM PurePower System is designed for Converged Infrastructure and holds a mindshare of 4.4%, up 0.5% compared to last year.
SteelFusion, on the other hand, focuses on HCI, holds 1.3% mindshare, up 0.2% since last year.
Converged Infrastructure Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM PurePower System4.4%
FlexPod XCS12.7%
HPE ConvergedSystem11.2%
Other71.7%
Converged Infrastructure
HCI Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SteelFusion1.3%
VxRail10.1%
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)9.0%
Other79.6%
HCI
 

Featured Reviews

it_user1288227 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Infrastructure Division at ADM
Easy to work on and has never had any glitches or issues
My advice to others would be the following: if you have a traditional application, like core banking, or transactional, or something that has to do with money, it is better to go with IBM. The reason I'm saying this is because it is more stable and easier to monitor. But if you are looking for the newest architecture of the application cloud, you should go with either hyper-converged or converged. I would like to see better management and high availability in the next release of this program. With classical architectural systems, it's more delicate and difficult to have a high availability of systems. But with hyper-converged systems, we can have it in the easiest way. On a scale from one to ten, I will rate this program an eight.
it_user866178 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at MAZZETTI+GBA
Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices
The level of tech support depends on who you get. There are some techs that just read the script and ask you if you’ve rebooted, but once you get past that - or if you have a very technical issue - the support is great. They really know the product and get you up and running again ASAP.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We never have any issues or glitches."
"I am very impressed by the stability of the program."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"That is why Riverbed SteelFusion has delivered a masterclass technology that not only abstracted and virtualized the storage vendors’ unique logical storage structures, it has made it logically closer and seamless to the branch applications from a performance and experience perspective."
 

Cons

"The management is really difficult when it comes to systems with traditional services."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Price is an issue – this is expensive stuff. My advice is to beat up Riverbed as much as possible on price. These things are expensive and there is room for negotiation."
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