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Dell ECS Primary Use Case

MA
Manager, Technical Services at AXS
We are a partner and system integrator with Dell, selling Dell ECS to our customers for integration with archiving solutions, long-term retention solutions, CCTV integration solutions, and as an S3 object for archive files or mailboxes. Additionally, it serves as an extension for Isilon or PowerScale to extend the retention of data, especially for CCTV solutions. View full review »
AM
Associate Vice President at Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP
We have huge data of image and video files and we needed a solution for our customers. We were looking for object storage and found Dell ECS to be a very good solution. View full review »
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IT Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I have used PowerStore, and we have experience dealing with the storage, including all the VMAXes or PowerMax currently.

For PowerStore, some of the main use cases that we have are generic virtualization, which in our cases is a very common generic virtualization case, usually with VMware, so it's the common practice as a storage.

I also have experience with databases and generic use cases, and while I can't recall the specific model currently, we also work with NetApp, which includes all kinds of low to middle mid-range storage.

My day-to-day job involves designing or incorporating the storage that clients have into their environment and needs; all these are mid-range storages, which are quite common tasks. It depends less on the vendor depending on customer requirements, such as either IP-based or Fiber Channel-based solutions from the storage perspective.

Currently, we mostly use Dell EMC Isilon, HPEs, or Ceph storages for software-defined storages, depending on the use case such as HPC, or main generic office applications or modernization cases. For generic cloud usage cases, Dell ECS is mostly for S3 and backups; for data manipulation for business customers or enterprise customers, it's usually Isilon, and for HPC cases and scientific applications, we usually go with Ceph.

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reviewer1685442 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Datacenter Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We use Dell ECS primarily for archiving and backups. NetBackup is used in the front, backing up files to ECS.

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reviewer1344021 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It's our internal application, which is using ECS as an object storage. ECS is primarily used for storing objects securely.

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SamuelThomas - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.
We normally recommend Dell ECS to enterprise customers and government customers. View full review »
MS
System Administrator at Data Edge Limited

In our organization, the main use cases for the platform are long-term archiving of backup solutions and sharing space with some applications. The appliance stores backups and retains them for a long time, integrating well with Dell NetWorker.

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MB
Head of IT Operations at NCC BANK LIMITED

We use Dell ECS to store and integrate data.

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Amarjit Rathee - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

Our archival is on Dell ECS. Some critical data is on the cloud. The rest is stored on-premise.

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Sourabh Madan - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution architect at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

Dell ECS is used for HCI and storage. The good thing about NetApp is that it has the same operating system from start to end. Dell ECS uses multiple environments and operating systems for multiple use cases, which can sometimes be challenging.

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reviewer1338888 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

I deal in the area of IT strategy consultation. There was one assignment in our company for which there was a need for a storage solution, and because of this, we chose Dell ECS. I don't use it on a daily basis.

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Jerome Edwards - PeerSpot reviewer
Ops Specialist: System Engineer Backup at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Our primary use case is for cloud storage to keep the long-term backups.

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reviewer2108760 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dell ECS is used in my company for voice recordings using CAS protocol.

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ST
System Engineer at CSS Versicherung

We primarily use the solution as an archive storage for our documents.

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reviewer1709265 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We are using version 3. It's deployed on-premises. We are using it as a DR as of now. We have the Isilon in our environment, so we are taking the tertiary backups to this ECS just for disaster recovery purposes. It's secondary storage.

We are increasing our usage. Our primary storage is growing, so we have to go to secondary storage to cope with the data. We refresh it almost every six months or one year at least.

Because it's secondary storage, users don't have direct access to it. Only the storage administrators have access to it for any DR or any recovery, but the primary storage itself is used by around 17,000 people. It's one of the largest Isilon clusters in the UK. It's around 106 nodes.

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Harinder  Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at Cisco

I have a few customers using Dell ECS.

Dell ECS is a Security Information and Event Management(SIEM) solution.

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NH
Lead Middleware Admin at National Australia Bank

Dell EMC ECS is for object storage, e.g. for storing some of the archival, internal APIs.

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WM
Executive Manager, IT Operations with 11-50 employees

Dell EMC ECS is the leading storage area network, you can do anything with it. Some companies have 10,000 users, it depends on the structure.

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reviewer1685442 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Datacenter Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We installed it last year at a customer site.

We use it for archive and for backups, our third copy backups.

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LL
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

We create a service for our customers to access EMC Storage.

We use this product for an on-premises server to access the EMC storage. We locate our EMC in our IDC center, and we provide our enterprise customers access to it. 

We sell this service, space, and AWS SAN storage.

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General Director at miromix unitedMiroMIX United

We use the solution for archives and unstructured data.

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AS
Data center sales at PT Sapta Tunas Teknologi

My customers for Dell ECS belong to the healthcare industry. If a customer has a lot of images, a large amount of data, and multiple websites, Dell ECS is a recommended product to use.

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reviewer1344021 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Dell EMC ECS is for the object storage that is specifically designed for the purpose.

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reviewer1537323 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are using it mainly for storage. We have its latest version.

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reviewer1390341 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

We primarily use this as a storage solution. My system is based on it.

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reviewer959067 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are a system integrator and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients.

This is a cloud-based object storage platform.

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MW
Project Manager at Realnux

We have about 20 computing servers on the front end. The computing servers store the data from the network to our Dell EMC storage. We have found recently that the storage has become slower and slower. The capacity is enough but the performance seems not to be enough for our application.

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Valerio Montepaone - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Storage Specialist - Solutions Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

We use this solution for object storage.

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reviewer1764201 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We are using Dell EMC ECS for our web applications.

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reviewer935562 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Buyer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We use the solution for data storage, although not for ones in large quantities. 

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