LizardFS vs Veritas Access comparison

LizardFS and Veritas are both solutions in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category. LizardFS is ranked #21, while Veritas is ranked #17 with an average rating of 9.0. LizardFS holds a 1.9% mindshare in SDS, compared to Veritas’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of LizardFS users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Veritas users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

LizardFS and Veritas Access are competitive products in the distributed file system market. LizardFS has the upper hand in scalability and cost-efficiency features, while Veritas Access competes with its comprehensive data management capabilities, potentially worth its higher price.

Features: LizardFS is known for scalability, easy integration, and hardware agnosticism. Veritas Access offers advanced data management, high availability, and extensive platform support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: LizardFS is recognized for straightforward deployment and community-driven support. Veritas Access requires more complex deployment, offering professional support and a more extensive support network.

Pricing and ROI: LizardFS offers lower setup costs and attractive ROI for scalability-driven needs. Veritas Access may incur higher upfront costs, but its features provide substantial ROI over time for enterprises focusing on robust functionality and platform compatibility.

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Pure Storage FlashBlade

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category, the mindshare of Pure Storage FlashBlade is 4.2%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LizardFS is 1.9%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Access is 0.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Eric Black

Solutions Architect at Recovery Point Systems

The ability to leverage multi-tenancy along with immutability is a huge benefit for us

The only thing I feel FlashBlade is missing is the SOS API. If it had SOS API, that would put it well over the top. Veeam Backup specifically has started to streamline their API, and they are doing that with SOS API. They have optimized it. Any of the S3 devices out there that support this SOS API can have far more API calls at once. On our side, that translates to better restoration. With SOS API, it can leverage far more restorations at a single given time or read from the device in simple terms. That results in maximizing the output and throughput from the device itself.

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it_user302112

Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

There is an automated built-in failover mechanism, but you must build it yourself if you have no support contract in place.

LizardFS allows storing data across several nodes (which run on commodity hardware, even inside virtual machines) and also has a built-in HA mechanism. This works very well if failover can be done in a manual or simple way (e.g. by using Pacemaker). Also there is an automated built-in failover mechanism if you are ready to spend money for a support contract (it is not expensive, though). Update: After having tested the commercial failover mechanism which comes with signing the support contract or a software demo I can say that it works as expected. It is easy to manage and just seems to work. To be fair I have to state that I didn't use it in production yet, only within tests. But it looks very good.

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Jayson Martin

Head IT Data Storage at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Provides seamless integration within the existing infrastructure and has an easy deployment process

We leverage Veritas Access for efficient management of our extensive unstructured data. Its cost-effectiveness, notably providing the lowest cost per terabyte, has influenced our decision to use it for extended data retention periods. We aim to minimize yearly expenditure on capacity while ensuring high-performance levels. Despite focusing on long-term retention, it enables direct and efficient data recovery from the client, ensuring that accessibility is maintained. The most essential feature of Veritas Access for our storage needs is its support for both block and object storage. The data tiering capability of Veritas Access has had a positive impact on our storage efficiency by preventing unnecessary expenditures on capacity, especially in terms of backup operations. It provides seamless integration within the existing infrastructure. It helps us meet compliance and data retention requirements, particularly from an insurer's perspective. I rate the product a nine out of ten.

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure Storage FlashBlade?

The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power out...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage FlashBlade?

The pricing for FlashBlade is between cheap and moderate. FlashBlade is worth the money due to the experience and per...

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What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?

Its configuration should be easier. There should be easier language for the configuration.

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What do you like most about Veritas Access?

The product deployment is easy.

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What needs improvement with Veritas Access?

They could improve additional fees for the platform's data capacity. It could be more cost-effective.

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What is your primary use case for Veritas Access?

We use the product for long-term data retention.

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Overview

FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.

Pure Storage

Software Defined Storage LizardFS is a distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant and highly available file system. It allows users to combine disk space located on many servers into a single name space which is visible on Unix-like and Windows systems in the same way as other file systems. SDS LizardFS makes files secure by keeping all the data in many replicas spread over available servers. It can also be used to build space-efficient storage, because it is designed to run on commodity hardware. Disk and server failures are handled transparently without any downtime or loss of data. If storage requirements grow, it's possible to scale an existing SDS LizardFS installation just by adding new servers _ at any time, without any downtime. The system will automatically move some data to newly added servers, because it continuously takes care of balancing disk usage across all connected nodes. Removing servers is just as easy as adding a new one.

LizardFS

Veritas Access is a software-defined, scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) solution for unstructured data that uses intelligent policies to optimize data placement on-premise or on public clouds. Access provides resiliency, multi-protocol access and automated data movement to realize application performance, cost-effectiveness and scalability gains.

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ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL

Orange Polska, Platige Image, United State Department of Agriculture, Virtu Financial

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