StarWind Storage Appliance and VAST Data are competing storage solutions with distinct strengths. VAST Data seems to have the upper hand due to its robust feature set, making it worth the higher cost despite StarWind's appealing pricing and customer support.
Features: StarWind Storage Appliance offers high availability, seamless integration, and competitive pricing. VAST Data stands out with performance, scalability, and advanced data protection features. Users find VAST's features to be more comprehensive.
Room for Improvement: StarWind Storage Appliance could improve its management interface, automation capabilities, and learning curve. VAST Data needs better support for diverse workloads, enhanced documentation, and other refinements to fully serve its user base.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StarWind Storage Appliance has a straightforward deployment process but sometimes needs more in-depth support. VAST Data provides an intuitive deployment experience and extensive customer service options that surpass StarWind's ongoing support.
Pricing and ROI: StarWind Storage Appliance offers competitive setup costs and solid ROI, making it cost-effective. VAST Data, although more expensive, provides higher ROI through its comprehensive feature set, justifying its price despite higher initial costs.
Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array. It represents a new class of storage – shared accelerated storage, which is a term coined by Gartner – that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation.
For SMB and Enterprises who are looking for high performance primary storage for server virtualization, VDI, database and Big Data scenarios, or inexpensive secondary backup tier, our solution is StarWind Storage Appliance. It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, and associated software into an easily scalable storage platform.
Additionally, the appliance features an optional gateway to Azure public cloud, which helps to implement an effective Disaster Recovery plan or meet regulatory requirements. StarWind SA scales up by adding individual disks and flash modules, or JBODs, while adding ready controller nodes allows scaling out.
StarWind SA targets those, who need high-performance primary storage or secondary storage for backup. In case there is a whole virtualization infrastructure to build from scratch, StarWind HCA will come in handy. Otherwise, if all the required hardware is present, StarWind Virtual SAN will be enough to build a high-performance virtualization setup.
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