The product must adapt to other storage technologies like HPE 3PAR. When we use 3PAR storage, we have to use another technology to load balance. The product must be integrated with other products like Dynatrace for reliability management.

Dell PowerPath should cost less since it has become very expensive nowadays. The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required.

After Dell took over EMC, the support has actually degraded, meaning the quality of support has gone down a bit. Even though you get a single window of approach and all those things with the support offered by Dell, there are definitely a lot of improvements required.

The solution should provide extensive reports on backups and backup failures. It must allow us to perform backups for Linux VMs.

While I utilize it for data migration, I would love to do that data migration in a GUI from an ease of use perspective. I would love to have this feature in the future. I would love to work in host-based migration instead of the native operating system tools.

If there is an operating system that is discontinued, PowerPath will now also stop the support for that operating system; for example, in the case of Solaris. I would prefer them to keep supporting that system, however, at the same time, I can understand why they have discontinued services.

Customers do not choose PowerPath unless they have Unix or Linux. The adoption rate for the product is not much.

The solution is quite stable, although they have not quite worked out all of the kinks.

Although PowerPath is very mature and has been on the market for more than 15 years there are still a lot of bugs that have been profiled with PowerPath, specifically during any OS upgrade. In certain cases PowerPath doesn't have the capability to do an automatic scanning of discs. Also PowerPath is very specific to EMC portfolios and very few other products on the market. It is not wide open for the other vendors in the market. And EMC has competitors like HP, Hitachi, IBM, and Pure Storage. There are a lot of other competitors for EMC storages, but PowerPath doesn't have the capability to support a wide variety of storages in the market, it only works with specific products. I felt that being in the market for more than 15 years it should the capability and have matured enough to support the various products in the market. This is what I feel needs improvement.

Specifically, they have to open their compatibility with other products in the market. That is what I would see improved first.

Additionally, let's say a customer is moving towards a private cloud. How is PowerPath going to play a role? They need to educate the customers with what the product can do.