We performed a comparison between IBM SoftLayer and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and others in Public Cloud Storage Services."The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The most valuable feature is the unified dashboard, as it allows us to easily observe everything from a single location."
"What I found to be the most valuable features were better performance and uptime."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward. With a few clicks, you can stand up your storage. It reduces the overall life cycle of deployment within the ecosystem."
"Nutanix Objects is reliable."
"They have well-documented best practices and the interface is good."
"The solution is simple and robust."
"It is a highly scalable solution."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"What's missing in Nutanix Files Storage is the support for multiple intranets or VLANs on the same file from different networks and network devices."
"The escalation process with technical support could do with some improvement."
"The graphical user interfaces could benefit from more attention to detail."
"The graphical user interface could provide more detail. It would be nice if we could click on the service and get some expanded definitions of them. When hiring new people, it's difficult to teach them how everything works, but if they can access everything, they can teach themselves."
"We have some problems with Nutanix Unified Storage's support because they asked us to change our hardware."
"Improving quota policies would be advantageous, particularly by offering the option to implement blocking instead of just issuing warnings."
"The GUI is not user-friendly for new users and has room for improvement."
"With all of the Nutanix equipment, the licensing is expensive. We operate in the enterprise space, but we're a midsized company. At times, the price tag is a little bit shocking for a company with only 35 employees."
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IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd in Public Cloud Storage Services while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 7th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 39 reviews. IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Qumulo.
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