Pivot3 and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance compete in the hyperconverged infrastructure market. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance has the upper hand due to its robust features and high availability support.
Features: Pivot3 excels in efficient performance analytics, advanced storage management, and competitive pricing. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance gains favor with comprehensive synchronization capabilities, resource optimization tools, and robust feature sets that prioritize high availability environments.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StarWind HyperConverged Appliance offers a seamless deployment experience and responsive customer service, enhancing implementation efficiency. Pivot3, although straightforward in setup, receives mixed reviews on customer support, indicating potential room for improvement in responsiveness.
Pricing and ROI: Pivot3 boasts a lower setup cost, appealing to budget-conscious buyers and offering quick ROI through operational management efficiency. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance's higher price is counterbalanced by its comprehensive features, delivering strong ROI via enhanced operational capabilities over time.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| StarWind HyperConverged Appliance | 1.3% |
| Pivot3 | 0.6% |
| Other | 98.1% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 50 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 22 |
| Large Enterprise | 8 |
Pivot3 improves the simplicity and economics of the enterprise data-center with industry-leading hyper-converged infrastructure technology. By combining storage, compute, networking and virtualization on commodity hardware, Pivot3 provides software-defined platforms that let IT run multiple, mixed application workloads on a single infrastructure while guaranteeing performance to the applications that matter most. Pivot3’s agile infrastructure solutions extend performance, scale and efficiency across more of the data-center so customers can keep pace with the demands of modern business.
For SMB, ROBO and Enterprises, who look to bring in quick deployment and operation simplicity to virtualization workloads and reduce related expenses, our solution is StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA). It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, hypervisor of choice, StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN and associated software into a single manageable layer. The HCA supports scale-up by adding disks and flash, and scale-out by adding extra nodes.
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance consists of StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN “Ready Nodes”, targeting those, who are building their virtualization infrastructure from scratch. In case there is an existing set of servers, we offer a “software only version”, which is essentially our years proven StarWind Virtual SAN. Basically, it’s the fuel powering StarWind HCA.
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