VMware vSAN is a software-defined storage product that is used in collaboration with VMware ESXi hypervisor and that provisions and manages storage based on policies, regardless of the underlying hardware. The solution enables you to prime your business for growth through its seamless evolution (it is integrated with vSphere and requires no new tools), its flexibility, and its multi-cloud capabilities. As an industry-leading software, VMware vSAN provides high levels of performance with minimal impact on CPU and memory.
The first 1-2 years of purchasing vSAN will be expensive. Thereafter, the longer you are running it, the more cost savings you will have.
Its reasonable, compare with other storage vendors
The first 1-2 years of purchasing vSAN will be expensive. Thereafter, the longer you are running it, the more cost savings you will have.
Its reasonable, compare with other storage vendors
Dell EMC PowerStore is a midrange next-generation data storage solution. It is designed with a data-centric, intelligent, and adaptable infrastructure and helps consolidate storage and virtual server environments. The Dell EMC PowerStore platform includes two major configurations, including PowerStore T and PowerStore X. Dell EMC PowerStore enables you to deploy the appliance and consolidate data and applications and supports both flash and SCM Optane devices.
When we compared it with the other solutions, the pricing of PowerStore was equal. The pricing is good.
The price of Dell EMC PowerStore could be better, it is a bit expensive.
When we compared it with the other solutions, the pricing of PowerStore was equal. The pricing is good.
The price of Dell EMC PowerStore could be better, it is a bit expensive.
The NetApp A-Series and C-Series are AFF storage arrays that deliver high performance, scalability, and simplified data management for a wide range of workloads. They are designed for organizations that need to improve the performance and agility of their applications, while also reducing costs and complexity.
It's expensive but we think over time all the prices are going to go down.
Once we did get into the NetApp ecosystem, we realized that the cost effectiveness was greater than we originally thought.
It's expensive but we think over time all the prices are going to go down.
Once we did get into the NetApp ecosystem, we realized that the cost effectiveness was greater than we originally thought.
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is a top-ranking HCI software, cloud management tool, and Software Defined Storage (SDS) tool that is marketed as the foundation for users' hybrid clouds. It offers a powerful and secure hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver all data and applications at any scale and on any cloud. The solution offers a complete software stack that allows users to unify their hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Able to grow with smaller, more linear increments of investment
The basic license that comes with the box allows basic virtualization features but advanced automation features would require an upgrade of licenses.
Able to grow with smaller, more linear increments of investment
The basic license that comes with the box allows basic virtualization features but advanced automation features would require an upgrade of licenses.
Dell EMC Unity XT is one of the best all-flash storage arrays on the market today. Dell EMC Unity XT arrays are designed for performance, optimized for efficiency, and built for a multi-cloud world. In addition, they support digital transformation, enabling businesses to reach the full potential of their data capital quickly and easily. Dell EMC Unity’s All-Flash and Hybrid Flash storage platforms provide the performance, efficiency, enterprise-class software, and virtualization integrations required for running a wide range of virtualized applications.
The price is good for commercial grade storage arrays.
Licensing is easy since all the software is included.
The price is good for commercial grade storage arrays.
Licensing is easy since all the software is included.
IBM FlashSystem products are enterprise computer data storage systems that store data on flash memory chips. Unlike storage systems that use standard solid-state drives, IBM FlashSystem products incorporate custom hardware based on technology from the 2012 acquisition of Texas Memory Systems. This hardware provides performance, reliability, and efficiency benefits versus competitive offerings.
Pricing can be considered as per market competition.
The total storage capacity vs price is still quite high for the IBM Flash Array.
Pricing can be considered as per market competition.
The total storage capacity vs price is still quite high for the IBM Flash Array.
HPE Nimble Storage is a highly effective All-Flash Storage Array solution that aims to enable organizations to reliably store and access their data. Organizations across a wide variety of industries trust Nimble Storage to assist them with all of their data storage-based needs. It both tracks all of the IT architecture that an organization uses and protects that architecture from a variety of digital threats.
From a price/performance perspective, Nimble simply can’t be beat. From a TCO perspective, the stability alone pays for itself.
Competitive. No licensing. Since everything is included.
From a price/performance perspective, Nimble simply can’t be beat. From a TCO perspective, the stability alone pays for itself.
Competitive. No licensing. Since everything is included.
HP StoreOnce Backup is a data backup solution that provides a consistent, high-performance, scale-out architecture for your entire enterprise. Reduce the amount of backup data capacity by 95 percent, and choose between powerful dedicated appliances for data centers, or flexible virtual appliances for smaller and remote offices.
The price puts me off. It's definitely on the high side.
There are costs for additional storage and space.
The price puts me off. It's definitely on the high side.
There are costs for additional storage and space.
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is an AI-driven storage solution that prevents issues before they occur by learning and adjusting in real time. The solution offers a tier-1 all-flash foundation for mission-critical workloads. HPE 3PAR StoreServ was designed with more than 3M IOPS and consistent sub-ms latency. It aims to transform midrange and enterprise deployments with solutions that scale from a few TBs to more than 20PBs. In addition, the solution is built to modernize data centers and is made to handle unpredictable workloads effortlessly. By implementing HPE 3PAR StoreServ, you gain automated and rapid provisioning, hardware-accelerated deduplication and compression, and a multi-tenant design.
It's very reliable and it was cost competitive with other arrays at the time that we purchased it.
To be more competitive, as customer, we need a more aggressive price that includes all the licenses available.
It's very reliable and it was cost competitive with other arrays at the time that we purchased it.
To be more competitive, as customer, we need a more aggressive price that includes all the licenses available.
HPE introduces HPE Primera, a new storage platform designed to deliver superior simplicity, availability, and performance for mission-critical applications
HPE Primera advances the HPE Intelligent Data Platform, a portfolio of products and solutions designed to help customers transition from delivering storage to unlocking business value with intelligent data
The price of this solution is good for medium-sized and large businesses.
From what I see, this is competitively-priced and HPE are doing their best to stay competitive.
The price of this solution is good for medium-sized and large businesses.
From what I see, this is competitively-priced and HPE are doing their best to stay competitive.
Dell EMC PowerMax is the world’s fastest storage array. With end-to-end non-volatile memory express (NVMe), real-time machine learning, seamless cloud mobility, and up to 350GB per second bandwidth, PowerMax features high-speed smarts to power your most critical workloads. PowerMax is true modern scale-up and scale-out storageת designed for mission-critical applications of today and tomorrow – including databases and transaction processing applications as well as real-time analytics workloads that demand uncompromising uptime and extremely low latency.
The cost is expensive. While VMAX now has good pricing, PowerMax is a little expensive.
Our costs are on a yearly basis.
The cost is expensive. While VMAX now has good pricing, PowerMax is a little expensive.
Our costs are on a yearly basis.
FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.
We used a reseller for the purchase.
Our customers have seen a reduction in TCO.
We used a reseller for the purchase.
Our customers have seen a reduction in TCO.
Nasuni is a file data services enterprise focused on assisting firms with their digital transformation, global expansion, and information awareness. The Nasuni File Data Platform is a suite of cloud-based services designed to enhance user productivity, ensure business continuity, provide data intelligence, offer cloud options, and simplify global infrastructure. This platform and its auxiliary services are projected to replace conventional file infrastructure such as network attached storage (NAS), backup, and Disaster Recovery (DR), with an expandable cloud-scale solution. By storing file data in scalable cloud object storage from multiple providers, Nasuni positions itself as a cloud-native alternative for traditional NAS and file server infrastructure. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Nasuni serves sectors like manufacturing, construction, technology, oil and gas, financial services, and public sector worldwide, offering its services in more than 70 countries.
The pricing is on par with everybody else, and fair.
The cost is based on the capacity, which is approximately $100 USD per terabyte.
The pricing is on par with everybody else, and fair.
The cost is based on the capacity, which is approximately $100 USD per terabyte.
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Our main issue with the Hitachi G-Series is what we consider to be an archaic software licensing scheme and high maintenance costs.
Pricing could be better, because the cost is very high.
Our main issue with the Hitachi G-Series is what we consider to be an archaic software licensing scheme and high maintenance costs.
Pricing could be better, because the cost is very high.
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.
We pay approximately $50,000 USD per year in licensing fees.
Our licensing fees are $500,000+ USD.
We pay approximately $50,000 USD per year in licensing fees.
Our licensing fees are $500,000+ USD.
Huawei's OceanStor Dorado V3 all-flash storage is the ideal choice for enterprises' mission-critical business. It is the industry's first commercial use of NVMe all-flash storage, and it delivers high-performing, reliable, and efficient storage services.
The pricing is very competitive.
There are some costs in addition to the standard licensing fees, depending on the requirements.
The pricing is very competitive.
There are some costs in addition to the standard licensing fees, depending on the requirements.
Innovation to break decades of data storage trade-offs.
We acquired VAST Data as a one-time, capital purchase.
Price-wise, VAST Data is not the cheapest, not the most expensive one.
We acquired VAST Data as a one-time, capital purchase.
Price-wise, VAST Data is not the cheapest, not the most expensive one.
To meet enterprise storage requirements, ThinkSystem All-Flash DM Series systems provide high performance, superior flexibility, and best-in-class data management. DM Series runs on ONTAP data management software, which gives customers unified storage across block-and-file workloads. It accelerates your business while improving the efficiency, flexibility, and reliability of your IT operations.
The price of the Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is good.
I believe it's highly competitive.
The price of the Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is good.
I believe it's highly competitive.
Experience peace of mind with DataCore SANsymphony, the ultimate software-defined storage solution alleviating storage management challenges. Say goodbye to the complexities of managing different storage tiers and disruptions with SANsymphony's block-level storage virtualization technology, empowering you to automate capacity provisioning and data placement across diverse storage environments including SAN, DAS, HCI, and JBOD. Break down silos, control data placement, meet business continuity objectives, boost performance, and seamlessly expand or refresh hardware with SANsymphony. Benefit from features like asynchronous replication for disaster recovery, minimizing data loss, accelerating application responsiveness, and integrating new technology non-disruptively. Trusted by industry leaders like NASA, Thorntons, Inc., and TUI Cruises, DataCore SANsymphony guarantees unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and reliability, ensuring uninterrupted data access and application availability while reducing storage costs and inefficiencies.
In my case, the licensing per terabytes is very high and it must be licensed for each extra functionality.
This solution allows the use of off-the-shelf hardware and charges by the TB of storage.
In my case, the licensing per terabytes is very high and it must be licensed for each extra functionality.
This solution allows the use of off-the-shelf hardware and charges by the TB of storage.
OceanStor Dorado V3 is the industry's first all-flash storage that puts NVMe into commercial use. It is specially designed for enterprises' mission-critical businesses, meeting the most-demanding performance and reliability requirements of databases, VDI, server virtualization, and SAP HANA.
This product value matches its price.
It's roughly affordable.
This product value matches its price.
It's roughly affordable.
Cloudian HyperStore lets you start small and grow to hundreds of petabytes on-premises simply by adding nodes. Leverage the proven interoperability of the industry’s only 100% native S3 API.
Our fees are approximately half a dollar per gigabyte.
The solution is cheap.
Our fees are approximately half a dollar per gigabyte.
The solution is cheap.
Dell EMC SC Series arrays provide a unified platform for the ultimate in performance, adaptability and machine-driven efficiency. SC Series software delivers modern features that help you meet aggressive workload demands using the fewest drives necessary. With an open, future-ready design, SC Series storage integrates seamlessly with applications and infrastructure, enabling you to scale on a single platform and add capabilities without forklift upgrades.
It's a very affordable solution.
The scalability seems a bit more expensive than even buying a brand new one so far. That has been kind of a drawback.
It's a very affordable solution.
The scalability seems a bit more expensive than even buying a brand new one so far. That has been kind of a drawback.
Zadara is a powerful enterprise-level storage solution whose design enables it to handle every aspect of a user’s data storage needs. It can be deployed in any location, using any protocol, and storing any data type that an organization requires. With Zadara, organizations can do everything that they were able to do with more traditional systems in a cheaper and more efficient way.
For our use, it's appropriately priced and overall, it's proved to be very cost-effective against other tier-one vendors.
The pricing is very competitive and the fact that they have very compelling discounts for multi-year commitments is great.
For our use, it's appropriately priced and overall, it's proved to be very cost-effective against other tier-one vendors.
The pricing is very competitive and the fact that they have very compelling discounts for multi-year commitments is great.
It is costly but worth it.
It is great when a product can deliver high-end performance capabilities while offering a very competitive price point.
It is costly but worth it.
It is great when a product can deliver high-end performance capabilities while offering a very competitive price point.
For over 10 years, Tintri has been unburdening IT teams of tedious, manual data management with the most advanced, AI-enabled solution on the market. With a commitment to ongoing R&D, Tintri delivers an infrastructure solution built for today’s future-ready, integrated operations from the ground up. We are redefining what data management and analytics look like for today’s dynamic workloads.
Tintri arrays are cheaper then other vendors while still providing an excellent level of performance.
With any SAN purchase, the sizing procedure is the most important step.
Tintri arrays are cheaper then other vendors while still providing an excellent level of performance.
With any SAN purchase, the sizing procedure is the most important step.
Your data is a gold mine. Get the most out of it - faster - with AFF A800. Designed for NVMe media, further accelerated with NVMe/FC connectivity to the host, AFF A800 all-flash systems deliver an incredible sub-200 microsecond latency. Providing more than 11.4M IOPS and 300GB/s throughput in a single cluster, AFF A800 redefines the limit of what’s possible with artificial intelligence and deep learning.
Considering the requirements and the situation, I don't feel that this is an expensive product.
There are licenses for the use of this solution, such as commercial licenses.
Considering the requirements and the situation, I don't feel that this is an expensive product.
There are licenses for the use of this solution, such as commercial licenses.
The HPE Alletra product is designed to provide high-performance storage solutions for enterprise environments, particularly for running mission-critical applications such as data analytics, AI/ML workloads, VDI deployments, and cloud-native applications. It is also used for disaster recovery, backup solutions, and improving storage efficiency in data centers.
Users have praised HPE Alletra's exceptional performance, reliability, scalability, and ease of use. The product's high-performance capabilities deliver fast and efficient storage solutions, while its reliability ensures consistent storage service.
Its scalability allows businesses to expand storage capacity easily, and users appreciate its user-friendly interface for simplified storage management processes. Overall, HPE Alletra has significantly improved user efficiency, productivity, and organizational success.
The solution is expensive and can cost around five lakhs.
There is a license. HPE Alletra uses a cloud-based model.
The solution is expensive and can cost around five lakhs.
There is a license. HPE Alletra uses a cloud-based model.
Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches have met and often exceeded the demanding requirements for storage area networks for more than a decade. They offer a combination of performance, non-stop operations, and multiprotocol flexibility.
It's perpetual licensing and maintenance is a recurrent cost.
The price of the Cisco MDS Series is high.
It's perpetual licensing and maintenance is a recurrent cost.
The price of the Cisco MDS Series is high.
InfiniBox, high performance enterprise data storage, eliminates performance, availability and scalability issues to accelerate critical business applications. Based upon a fully abstracted set of software driven storage functions layered on top of industry standard hardware, INFINIDAT delivers a fast, highly available, and easy-to-deploy storage system.
The license covers any feature and also, the future features are already included. It is as easy as a 1, 2 and 3.
The best features come included without any additional cost.
The license covers any feature and also, the future features are already included. It is as easy as a 1, 2 and 3.
The best features come included without any additional cost.
IBM FlashSystem 9100 combines the performance of flash and Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) end-to-end with the reliability and innovation of IBM FlashCore technology and the rich features of IBM Spectrum Virtualize - all in a powerful 2U enterprise-class storage system. Providing intensive data driven multicloud storage capacity, FlashSystem 9100 is deeply integrated with the software defined capabilities of IBM Spectrum Storage allowing you to easily add in the multicloud solutions that best support your business.
The price of the FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is reasonable.
There are pricing options from the mid-rand to the high-range, of which the suitability depends upon the requirements.
The price of the FlashSystem 9100 NVMe is reasonable.
There are pricing options from the mid-rand to the high-range, of which the suitability depends upon the requirements.
Western Digital through its IntelliFlash arrays delivers high-performance storage with a complete range of features and connectivity options, including inline compression and deduplication, application and VM consistent snapshots, replication, RAID, data encryption, VMware vCenter integration, and multi-protocol support for SAN (FC, iSCSI) and NAS (NFS, SMBv3). IntelliFlash arrays deliver high availability through dualredundant and hot-swappable components, active/active or active/passive controllers, non-disruptive software upgrades, eMLC flash, and proactive cloud-based monitoring, analytics, and intelligence. A RESTful API provides scripted or programmatic control.
I recommend the full bundle software in order to have all the functionality. It is more expensive to purchase it one by one.
This is an expensive solution.
I recommend the full bundle software in order to have all the functionality. It is more expensive to purchase it one by one.
This is an expensive solution.
SolidFire delivers all five core elements needed to deliver newfound storage agility to your next generation data center and beyond. With SolidFire you can deploy new applications and capabilities faster, provide more agile and scalable infrastructure, increase application performance and predictability, enable automation and end-user self-service and raise operational efficiency and reduce cost.
The price of this solution is more expensive than others.
Based on what I heard from other people, its price was on the higher side.
The price of this solution is more expensive than others.
Based on what I heard from other people, its price was on the higher side.
The NetApp ASA is an all-flash SAN storage array that delivers industry-leading availability, superior performance, and simplified data management across your hybrid cloud. It is designed for a wide range of workloads, including mission-critical applications, databases, and virtualized environments. NetApp ASA features a scale-out architecture that can be scaled to meet the needs of your growing business. They also support a wide range of built-in data protection and data security features, including snapshots, replication, disaster recovery, and autonomous ransomware protection.
EMC PowerPath: Host-based software for automated data path management, failover and recovery, and optimized load balancing. PowerPath automates, standardizes, and optimizes data paths in physical and virtual environments as well as cloud deployments to deliver high availability and performance.
The price of the solution is fair.
Pricing is good. I don't have any issues with the pricing of this solution.
The price of the solution is fair.
Pricing is good. I don't have any issues with the pricing of this solution.
The Oracle FS1-2 flash storage system, Oracle’s premier preferred SAN storage solution, delivers enterprise-grade storage capabilities that are optimized for flash media and coengineered with Oracle software. Using the Quality of Service Plus (QoS Plus) feature, the Oracle FS1-2 flash storage system places data across flash and disk storage to maximize performance, efficiency, and cost based on usage profiles and business priorities. The Oracle FS1-2 flash storage system takes application-engineered storage to a new level by providing out-of-the-box tuned storage provisioning profiles for Oracle Database and key applications, including Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange, and VMware support including VAAI. With the Oracle FS1-2 flash storage system, you can consolidate storage while achieving predictable performance for multiple diverse workloads in enterprise computing or multitenant environments.
The Fungible Storage Cluster provides scale-out Cassandra deployments with an alternative to conventional storage that addresses severe infrastructure limitations to deliver flexibility, performance and value.
Virtualization, containers, databases, analytics, cloud computing, digital media, and technical applications demand high-performance, ultra-efficient storage. By supporting virtually any block, file, and object protocol simultaneously, ExaFlash all-flash arrays provide the versatility to meet diverse workload requirements. Precise QoS controls, unrivaled in the industry, let you optimize the storage for your exact needs. The purpose-built architecture delivers high availability and maximum performance while minimizing power consumption and footprint. All ExaFlash arrays can be managed in one elegant interface, simplifying administration as your business grows.
