Veeam Backup & Replication is a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution designed primarily for virtual environments. Veeam Backup & Replication offers a blend of simplicity and efficiency, making it a go-to solution for businesses seeking to protect their data. It supports a wide range of virtual platforms, including VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. According to the reviews, what sets Veeam apart is its ability to provide high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged data, and complete visibility.
If you have Exchange, Oracle, SQL, or a supported SAN, then I suggest getting at least an Enterprise edition. It’ll pay for itself in no time.
The pricing and licensing is better than the competitors, but it could be better.
If you have Exchange, Oracle, SQL, or a supported SAN, then I suggest getting at least an Enterprise edition. It’ll pay for itself in no time.
The pricing and licensing is better than the competitors, but it could be better.
Based on user reviews, VxRail is preferred for its seamless integration with VMware environments, superior automation, and scalability. These factors significantly streamline IT operations compared to VMware vSAN, despite its higher initial cost and setup complexity.
StarWind Virtual SAN provides high availability and fault tolerance for virtualized environments without the need for dedicated SAN hardware. It allows for real-time replication between servers, shared storage for Hyper-V clusters, and enables vMotion and High Availability features for VMware vSphere. The solution reduces costs and leverages existing hardware while providing a scalable and reliable infrastructure. Valuable features include ease of use, scalability, top-tier support, hardware agnosticism, and the ability to use off-the-shelf standard servers to increase storage space. StarWind VSAN has helped organizations improve performance, data availability, and data security while reducing downtime and providing cost-saving storage options.
The setup cost is very low. The pricing is great.
We are happy with the price.
The setup cost is very low. The pricing is great.
We are happy with the price.
Rubrik is a backup and recovery solution that can be used as a converged data management platform for physical, virtual, and hybrid environments. The solution works to protect your data and applications from ransomware, operational failures, and rogue employees, and also helps your organization simplify data management and accelerate cloud mobility. In addition, Rubrik is designed for cloud integration and infinite scalability to enable hybrid cloud for all enterprises.
It’s simple, straightforward, and we were able to see 50% hard savings.
The setup cost is a bit high, but the solution is an all-in-one solution.
It’s simple, straightforward, and we were able to see 50% hard savings.
The setup cost is a bit high, but the solution is an all-in-one solution.
The other big advantage is that Ceph is free software. Compared to traditional SAN based storage, it is very economical.
There is no cost for software.
The other big advantage is that Ceph is free software. Compared to traditional SAN based storage, it is very economical.
There is no cost for software.
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.
Doing what this is capable of doing, the cost of it is in line.
It has already paid off itself in the first few months that we implemented it.
Doing what this is capable of doing, the cost of it is in line.
It has already paid off itself in the first few months that we implemented it.
HPE SimpliVity is an HCI software solution that provides powerful data protection, reducing data loss along with lowering the risk of ransomware attacks on your enterprise.
All-in license, simple and fair.
This solution, while costly as all these solutions are, was in fact less expensive than upgrading my old SAN.
All-in license, simple and fair.
This solution, while costly as all these solutions are, was in fact less expensive than upgrading my old SAN.
VxRack System consists of hyper-converged rack-scale engineered systems, with integrated networking, to achieve the scalability and management requirements of traditional and cloud native workloads. The VxRack series is purposely designed to enable customers to quickly deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and/or Private Cloud architectures. VxRack Systems tightly integrate hardware with software and management layers.
The pricing for this solution is good.
The price of the solution is fair, it is priced in the average range amongst competitors.
The pricing for this solution is good.
The price of the solution is fair, it is priced in the average range amongst competitors.
Oracle Exadata allows enterprises to run any Oracle Database workload with the highest performance, scale, availability, and security on fully compatible cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Exadata uses a scale-out design with unique optimizations that include persistent memory, SQL query offload, and built-in resource management to optimize performance for OLTP, analytics, machine learning, and mixed workloads running in consolidated environments. By running hundreds or thousands of optimized Autonomous Database and Exadata Database instances on Exadata Cloud or Cloud@Customer infrastructure, customers are able to minimize their infrastructure, reduce management, improve developer productivity, and lower total costs by up to 40%, as described in Wikibon’s analysis (PDF).
The Initial investment price could use improvement
I think it's free.
The Initial investment price could use improvement
I think it's free.
Technical support is pretty good. It is doing fine, but you pay for it.
Licensing can be either complicated or simple depending on what type of licensing you wish to use and what works best for your environment.
Technical support is pretty good. It is doing fine, but you pay for it.
Licensing can be either complicated or simple depending on what type of licensing you wish to use and what works best for your environment.
Sangfor HCI is an IT infrastructure platform built on converged architecture. It integrates server virtualization, distributed storage, and networking. Sangfor HCI provides a unified management platform that converges compute, storage, networking, and security on a single software stack. This approach delivers a simplified architecture, ease of use, and reliability for business-critical applications.
The price of Sangfor is cheaper than other competing products.
The pricing of Sangfor is very competitive.
The price of Sangfor is cheaper than other competing products.
The pricing of Sangfor is very competitive.
HPE Alletra dHCI, a data storage solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), offers Disaggregated Hyperconverged Infrastructure (dHCI), separating storage from compute resources for independent scaling and management. Utilizing HPE Nimble Storage technology, known for AI-driven optimization, it ensures high performance and management efficiency. With scalability and agility, users can effortlessly expand storage or processing power as data requirements evolve. Additionally, boasting rapid deployment in under 15 minutes and a claimed 99.9999% data availability, HPE Alletra dHCI promises robust and reliable storage solutions.
I think it's priced right and it's extremely intelligent.
The customers have found the solution to be expensive. However, when compared to the competition the price is reasonable.
I think it's priced right and it's extremely intelligent.
The customers have found the solution to be expensive. However, when compared to the competition the price is reasonable.
HPE Hyper Converged solutions combine intuitive software with the reliability of a world class platform to deliver cloud-like simplicity to your business.
It could be cheaper, everything could be cheaper.
With this solution, I buy everything together, pre-packaged, pre-installed, and in just 15 minutes, it's installed.
It could be cheaper, everything could be cheaper.
With this solution, I buy everything together, pre-packaged, pre-installed, and in just 15 minutes, it's installed.
Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are pre-configured building blocks that reduce deployment
risks with certified configurations, improve storage efficiency by up to 50%1
, and can help
you build or scale your vSAN cluster faster.14 Whether you're just getting started, and/or
expanding your existing VMware environment, Dell EMC is here for you every step of the
way with consulting, education, deployment and support services for the entire solution.
There is a problem, which is the lack of an integrated price structure.
The price of the solution was reasonable.
There is a problem, which is the lack of an integrated price structure.
The price of the solution was reasonable.
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.
StorMagic SvSAN is simple hyperconverged storage used to eliminate downtime. It provides high availability with two nodes per cluster, and boasts users among thousands of organizations to keep mission-critical applications and data online and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The pricing of StorMagic SvSAN is fairly good because if you compare it with VMware, it's at a better price. This is an important thing to remember.
The licensing cost is $7,000 per two nodes for two terabytes.
The pricing of StorMagic SvSAN is fairly good because if you compare it with VMware, it's at a better price. This is an important thing to remember.
The licensing cost is $7,000 per two nodes for two terabytes.
Differentiating yourself from the competition is vital in today’s fast-moving business environment. To support your business, IT systems must be simple, agile, and cost-effective so you can meet your customers’ requirements to be ever online. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series enables you to meet these requirements by focusing on the business outcome you require, rather than on building your infrastructure.
You need to pay a license for additional features. If we need to monitor hardware for the automatic alert notification, we need to pay them.
The tool's pricing is competitive.
You need to pay a license for additional features. If we need to monitor hardware for the automatic alert notification, we need to pay them.
The tool's pricing is competitive.
FlexPod XCS is the secure platform your applications need from edge to cloud. Easily manage your suite of cloud-native, edge, and enterprise apps. Integrate advanced cloud services without compromising performance, security, reliability, or scale.
Pricing and licensing is very affordable from a FlexPod perspective.
It seems very cost effective once it's in place, and it's easy to expand and easy to add capacity without a lot of extra money.
Pricing and licensing is very affordable from a FlexPod perspective.
It seems very cost effective once it's in place, and it's easy to expand and easy to add capacity without a lot of extra money.
HC3 is an appliance-based hyperconverged infrastructure solution. HC3 combines servers, storage, virtualization, and backup/disaster recovery into a single appliance. This hyperconvergence of technologies radically simplifies IT infrastructure making it easier to implement and manage and significantly reduces the total cost of ownership of infrastructure. The HC3 hyperconverged appliance approach allows seamless, non-disruptive infrastructure scale out and automated, non-disruptive software and firmware updates. Our customers choose HC3 to reduce complexity and cost from IT infrastructure so they can focus their IT administration on improving applications and process rather than managing and maintaining complex infrastructure.
I give the pricing a nine out of ten.
rate HC3's pricing a five out of ten since it is affordable.
I give the pricing a nine out of ten.
rate HC3's pricing a five out of ten since it is affordable.
Huawei FusionCube is a hyper-converged infrastructure, which consists of computing, storage, network, virtualization, and management systems.
I rate Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure's pricing a six out of ten.
I rate Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure's pricing a six out of ten.
HPE StoreVirtual storage ensures that organisations can optimise the benefits of server virtualisation with cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery. The iSCSI-based, scale-out storage platform is easy to manage and change – meeting ongoing business demands without creating IT bottlenecks or application downtime. Overcoming the cost and management limitations of traditional storage area networks (SANs), HPE StoreVirtual nodes use storage clustering to form a single pool of resources that enable organisations to buy only what they need today, scaling non-disruptively to meet requirements in the future.
Licensing is not exactly straightforward, but not the worst I have ever seen.
One of the key features about it is that when you buy either a VSA license or a StoreVirtual appliance, all your software's included.
Licensing is not exactly straightforward, but not the worst I have ever seen.
One of the key features about it is that when you buy either a VSA license or a StoreVirtual appliance, all your software's included.
IBM Spectrum Virtualize is a dependable solution that improves data value, security, and simplicity for new and existing storage infrastructure. Proven over 12 years in thousands of deployments, its innovative virtualization capabilities help organizations achieve better data economics by supporting new workloads that are critical to their success. IBM Spectrum Virtualize software helps make new and existing storage more effective and standardizes functions traditionally deployed separately in disk systems for greater flexibility and potentially lower costs.
We would like the CPU cycle to save more on the licensing costs for us.
Do a proof of concept, if you are not comfortable jumping in, but do it.
We would like the CPU cycle to save more on the licensing costs for us.
Do a proof of concept, if you are not comfortable jumping in, but do it.
For SMB, ROBO and Enterprises, who look to bring in quick deployment and operation simplicity to virtualization workloads and reduce related expenses, our solution is StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA). It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, hypervisor of choice, StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN and associated software into a single manageable layer. The HCA supports scale-up by adding disks and flash, and scale-out by adding extra nodes.
Its cost was reasonable.
This was all completed at an affordable price point for an SMB, which was also a key element for an NPO.
Its cost was reasonable.
This was all completed at an affordable price point for an SMB, which was also a key element for an NPO.
I use it as an open-source tool.
The pricing is low.
I use it as an open-source tool.
The pricing is low.
VxRack FLEX and VxFlex Ready Nodes, also known as the Flex family, create a server-based SAN by combining virtualization software, known as VxFlex OS, with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers to deliver flexibility, scalability, and capacity on demand. Local storage resources are combined to create a virtual pool of block storage with varying performance tiers. The platform enables you to start small (with as little as four nodes) and scale incrementally. The Flex family provides enterprise-grade data protection, multi-tenant capabilities, and add-on enterprise features such as QoS, thin provisioning, and snapshots. VxFlex OS is the key enabler and provides an unmatched combination of performance, resiliency and flexibility to address enterprise data center needs. The unique features of VxFlex OS make it an excellent complement to Kubernetes for stateful applications, such as databases, continuous integration, logging and monitoring platforms.
Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a cheaper solution than Nutanix and HyperFlex.
Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a cheaper solution than Nutanix and HyperFlex.
Designed for easy deployment and manageability in scale-out clusters, the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series combines Nutanix software with Lenovo’s highly reliable and scalable servers. These appliances ship fully integrated, tested, and configured so that you can dramatically accelerate your time to value and reduce your infrastructure maintenance.
When comparing this solution to other OEM solutions it is relatively inexpensive.
When comparing this solution to other OEM solutions it is relatively inexpensive.
CloudSphere is an intelligent cloud management platform that enables organizations to plan, optimize, secure, and scale their cloud adoption. The platform has three solutions to help organizations manage dynamic, multi-cloud environments, including cloud migration planning, cloud cost management, and cloud security posture management. By using application intelligence (AI), the platform is able to discover and collect all of the data points that collectively define an application across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. Because the solution is very scalable, it can accommodate companies of all sizes.
It depends on how that model will be used. It might be anywhere between $4 and $15 per license per month. It’s less expensive than other options.
The product is very expensive.
It depends on how that model will be used. It might be anywhere between $4 and $15 per license per month. It’s less expensive than other options.
The product is very expensive.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) is the company's product for converged infrastructure (CI), combining resources server, storage, networking, virtualization, and software management.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure - based on our leading OpenStack and virtualization platforms - provides co-located, scalable, software-defined compute and storage, driven by Red Hat Ansible Automation on economical, industry-standard hardware.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is an open-sourced, low-cost solution with full features.
It is quite pricey.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is an open-sourced, low-cost solution with full features.
It is quite pricey.
Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Nodes are designed for deploying highly available, highly scalable hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and software-defined storage (SDS) from Microsoft on Lenovo enterprise platforms. The ThinkAgile MX Certified Nodes deliver fully validated and integrated Lenovo hardware and firmware that is certified for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI solutions.
The product has competitive pricing.
The product has competitive pricing.
PRIMEFLEX is a pre-defined, integrated and tested combination of servers, storage, network connectivity and software. Fujitsu’s PRIMEFLEX integrated system family includes both, classical converged and hyper-converged systems. It comprises ready-to-run factory-installed solutions and reference architectures which are easily adjusted to customer-specific requirements. Along with its reference architectures, Fujitsu makes detailed configuration and installation descriptions available as a standard. Optional deployment and integration services ensure a smooth integration into the on-site environment. To ensure simplified operation and maintenance, Fujitsu provides support at solution level, and further data center services including managed and hosting services.
Pivot3 improves the simplicity and economics of the enterprise data-center with industry-leading hyper-converged infrastructure technology. By combining storage, compute, networking and virtualization on commodity hardware, Pivot3 provides software-defined platforms that let IT run multiple, mixed application workloads on a single infrastructure while guaranteeing performance to the applications that matter most. Pivot3’s agile infrastructure solutions extend performance, scale and efficiency across more of the data-center so customers can keep pace with the demands of modern business.
Our fees are approximately $100,000 yearly.
Our fees are approximately $100,000 yearly.
Deploy cloud-native apps wherever you need them with distributed hybrid infrastructure. Run any applications, virtual machines, or container-based workloads anywhere with a consistent Azure experience. Choose right-sized turnkey, node, and integrated solutions from Microsoft and partners including Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Securely store and process customer data at the edge to stay compliant with HIPAA, FedRAMP, and other regulations.
The pricing is high compared to other tools.
The pricing is high compared to other tools.
PureSystems is a simple, smart, integrated IT infrastructure that frees your hands and opens your vision to new possibilities.
