What is the best solution for an enterprise-level storage environment?

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What is the best solution for an enterprise-level storage environment?

Hello,

We're planning to offer Storage as a Service (STaaS) to our customers.

I'm looking for your recommendations on a solution for an enterprise-level storage environment from where we can offer this service. The environment should offer a unified storage environment and should be able to deliver all SAN, NAS, and object storage offerings.

Thanks for your help!

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@Thomas Scheibler can you please specify several reasons why?

Dibyendu Das Director at Apace Systems Corporation · Answer 4 · 2021-10-02T12:14:05Z

You can check us on Apace Systems | www.apacesystems.com. Apace is best known for an intelligent storage platform for both micro and macro data, unified with content or media speciality intelligence…

We do implement it On-Premise, Cloud, Edge or Hybrid with support to all the Cloud Services Globally…

Rastislav Maniak Partial Owner at Storage One · Answer 5 · 2021-09-20T14:14:57Z

NetApp AFF/FAS (or OEM Lenovo DM series), with no doubt, is the best answer.

SVM provides total customer isolation; it's able to run FC/iSCSI/NVMe SAN. CIFS/NFS NAS, object S3 from one box.

It's able to scale up and out. It is possible to combine All-Flash and Hybrid models in one scale-out cluster. Not supported to combine Lenovo and Netapp models in one cluster.

-Ontap Select for VMware ESX or KVM

-Able to run on all the big 3 cloud hyperscalers.

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