StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series are competitive solutions in the modern data center space. Despite Lenovo's advanced features, StarWind's affordability and robust support give it an edge for organizations focused on cost-effectiveness.
Features: StarWind Virtual Tape Library offers seamless integration with existing backup software, virtual air-gapping, and scalability. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is recognized for its hyper-converged infrastructure, enhanced performance features, and easy integration with VMware environments.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StarWind provides a straightforward deployment process with excellent customer service, focusing on minimizing downtime and leveraging efficient support channels. Lenovo, while effective, may involve more complexity due to its rich feature set and broader infrastructure integration, though users note its reliable support.
Pricing and ROI: StarWind Virtual Tape Library offers lower setup costs and faster ROI, appealing to cost-conscious businesses. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, with its higher initial investment, may offer superior long-term ROI for organizations maximizing its advanced features and enterprise-grade capabilities.
Differentiating yourself from the competition is vital in today’s fast-moving business environment. To support your business, IT systems must be simple, agile, and cost-effective so you can meet your customers’ requirements to be ever online. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series enables you to meet these requirements by focusing on the business outcome you require, rather than on building your infrastructure.
ThinkAgile VX Series, powered by VMware vSAN, is available in several models. Each is preconfigured, pretested, and optimized to provide the simplest way to bring a new VMware hyperconverged environment online. If you have an existing VMware environment, the VX Series can integrate into it easily.
Designed for any size business from SMBs through large enterprises, VX Series can be used as infrastructure for remote office/branch office (ROBO) and retail stores as well as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and enterprise applications.
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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