Kaminario K2 [EOL] pros and cons

Name: Kaminario K2 [EOL]
Brand: Silk
Rating: 4.4 (18 reviews)

Vendor: Silk

4.4 out of 5

18 reviews
94% willing to recommend

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Kaminario K2 [EOL] Pros review quotes

it_user448698

Senior Systems Engineer in the Storage & Systems Practice at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 23, 2016

The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use.

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it_user509214

IT Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 8, 2016

The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication.

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it_user509217

IT Manager Of Infrastructure Services at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 8, 2016

Ease of use: My installers - my administrators over the system - they love how easy and fast it is to install and spin up a LUN and get going.

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it_user509223

System Engineer - R&D at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 8, 2016

The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high.

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it_user509226

Network Administrator at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 7, 2016

Latency is definitely the big key for us.

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it_user509229

Senior DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 8, 2016

The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication.

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it_user590436

Security Big Data Analysis Team at a government with 1-10 employees

Jan 19, 2017

It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.).

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it_user342342

Director Of Information Technology at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 19, 2017

The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives.

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it_user597600

Vice President / Chief Information Officer at a healthcare company

Jan 30, 2017

Logic/software management

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it_user592860

System Administrator at a consumer goods company

Feb 12, 2017

Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.).

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Kaminario K2 [EOL] Cons review quotes

it_user448698

Senior Systems Engineer in the Storage & Systems Practice at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 23, 2016

The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI.

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it_user509214

IT Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 8, 2016

I'm hoping to see Active Directory integration. Right now, you still have to use a local admin account to log in and manage everything.

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it_user509217

IT Manager Of Infrastructure Services at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 8, 2016

I would like to see them work with Cisco, so it comes off the FIs, instead of having to go through my 10-gig network.

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it_user509223

System Engineer - R&D at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 8, 2016

I think it should have better performance with small files. With big data, its performance is top notch, but it is difficult to load small files.

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it_user509226

Network Administrator at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 7, 2016

Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature.

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it_user509229

Senior DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 8, 2016

I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it.

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it_user590436

Security Big Data Analysis Team at a government with 1-10 employees

Jan 19, 2017

I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves.

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it_user342342

Director Of Information Technology at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 19, 2017

The management graphical interface needs more improvement.

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it_user597600

Vice President / Chief Information Officer at a healthcare company

Jan 30, 2017

The interface look and feel could be improved.

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it_user592860

System Administrator at a consumer goods company

Feb 12, 2017

A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful.

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