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80% willing to recommend
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March 2024
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KylePeterson
Tech support is outsourced. Has ​allowed us to consolidate our server and VDI workloads onto one storage system.
Allowed us to consolidate our server and VDI workloads onto one storage system without any issues.
Prajwal Kabbinale
Overall satisfied , with easy implementation ,having a notification feature would be helpful
We use both Red Hat Ceph and Azure storage, for all staging and non-production.
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  • "The other big advantage is that Ceph is free software. Compared to traditional SAN based storage, it is very economical."
  • "There is no cost for software."
  • "Most of time, you can get Ceph with the OpenStack solution in a subscription​​ as a bundle.​"
  • "We never used the paid support."
  • "If you can afford a product like Red Hat Ceph Storage then go for it. If you cannot, then you need to test Ceph and get your hands dirty."
  • "The price of this product isn't high."
  • "The price of Red Hat Ceph Storage is reasonable."
  • "The operational overhead is higher compared to Azure because we own the hardware."

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    27th
    out of 37 in Software Defined Storage (SDS)
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    103
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    3rd
    out of 37 in Software Defined Storage (SDS)
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    4,171
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    3,527
    Reviews
    8
    Average Words per Review
    340
    Rating
    7.7
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    Overview
    Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage - what we call Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS).We uniquely integrate software-only "Open Source" collaboration with commodity hardware-centric "Software-Defined Storage" (SDS) innovation.
    Red Hat Ceph Storage is an enterprise open source platform that provides unified software-defined storage on standard, economical servers and disks. With block, object, and file storage combined into one platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage efficiently and automatically manages all your data.
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    GMO, Northern Backup, Cox Communications, University of Toronto, ScaleMatrix, Wipro, Ruhr University, Drillinginfo, George Washington University, Walton Electric, Faculty of Physics, NAU, ServerCentral
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    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise48%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Nexenta is ranked 27th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while Red Hat Ceph Storage is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 22 reviews. Nexenta is rated 5.0, while Red Hat Ceph Storage is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Nexenta writes "Tech support is outsourced. Has ​allowed us to consolidate our server and VDI workloads onto one storage system". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ceph Storage writes "Provides block storage and object storage from the same storage cluster". Nexenta is most compared with , whereas Red Hat Ceph Storage is most compared with MinIO, VMware vSAN, Portworx Enterprise, Pure Storage FlashBlade and NetApp StorageGRID.

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