IBM FlashSystem Pros
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Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It's a mature product. It's like a BMW that evolves consistently.
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Savera-Menezes
Head of IT Infrastructure at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
The performance is very good and we use this product to enhance our core system.
View full review »At the FlashSystem level, customers are especially fond of multi-tier and distributed rate systems, particularly the dynamic rate six arrays.
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IBM FlashSystem
May 2023

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Moahmed Nabil
Infrastructure Solutions Architect at areebah
One of the most valuable features is that it's very easy to use and configure. It used to be more difficult, but now it's almost flawless.
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reviewer1125696
UNIX Security Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution allows for easy migrations from previous products or vendors via its embedded storage virtualization function.
View full review »The solution is scalable and has varying degrees of scalability.
View full review »The most crucial feature of IBM FlashSystem is compression.
View full review »The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features.
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reviewer1983588
General Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Data deduplication is one of the most valuable features of this solution.
View full review »The performance of IBM FlashSystem is very good. The new technology and high throughput have given us more confidence in the solution. The management of the system has improved and we can control the monitoring system alerts and multiple FlashSystems with the Enterprise Cloud Edition, which is free. The migration of recently stored data to a new flash is much easier. You can move your data because you can utilize it externally.
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C.
Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is slightly more expensive, however, it all depends on your supplier.
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Savera-Menezes
Head of IT Infrastructure at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
This product lacks some of the options we wanted. For example, expansion was difficult and it required a lot of patching to be done.
View full review »Our customers have raised concerns about the limitations of the FlashSystem 5200 and 7300, which only offer a 32-gigabyte connection.
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May 2023

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Moahmed Nabil
Infrastructure Solutions Architect at areebah
The pricing could be improved, but I think it's getting better and better with each version.
IBM needs to implement NAS storage again, as this is a big flaw. Dell EMC is very good at this and if you compared them based on NAS storage, Dell EMC would win right away. IBM's solution for NAS storage is very complicated. We don't have a storage box that provides file sharing from itself, we have to put software on it and go through a whole complicated process. It should be simplified.
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reviewer1125696
UNIX Security Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution has a low number of NVME host attachments at 16 per IO group over the fiber channel.
View full review »IBM FlashSystems is lagging in optimizing storage technologies.
View full review »The only issue my team faced was transferring the data from the old system to IBM FlashSystem, which is an area for improvement in the solution.
View full review »In the next release having the next level of high-speed performance would be great.
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reviewer1983588
General Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies.
View full review »The technical support in my region is satisfactory but it could improve. Support is very important for customers and downtime is very critical for us. We would like onsite or complete technical support which can help us to minimize our downtime or if problems occur.
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IBM FlashSystem
May 2023

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