What is your primary use case for Dell EMC ECS?

For object storage, I will give some use cases related to the object storage that we already use. The object storage provides a huge capacity size. It is very good for file sharing. PowerScale is also a good selection for file sharing. For archiving in general, whether it is archiving at file level, email system, or backup itself, it is the best use case you can select. One of the selections we already use involves major backup using Data Domain as a first tier, and Dell ECS as a second tier. Data Domain has advanced features related to backup, such as compression and deduplication, but it is expensive. If you need a huge capacity for backup, this will be too costly. For example, one of our customers needed more than one petabyte as usable capacity for backup, so we divided the backup into two tiers: Data Domain for the first tier and Dell ECS as object storage for the second tier. Another customer, a major organization in Saudi Arabia, uses CCTV across more than 64 branches. For CCTV, compression and deduplication are not applicable solutions because image compression ratios are not high. In this case, it is better to use PowerScale as first tier and Dell ECS as object storage for the second tier. Dell ECS provides compatibility between on-premises and cloud-based storage, supporting protocols such as S3, which is commonly used in cloud storage. This protocol enables integration between on-premises storage and cloud storage. Dell ECS offers scalability features and scale-out upgrade capabilities. Some backup solutions, such as Veeam, recommend object storage as it provides lock retention features for security, enabling its use as an air gap solution for backup. The main use cases are backup and archiving scenarios, and applications requiring huge capacity sizing, such as big data and AI solutions. Dell ECS is particularly effective for data analytics, integrating with systems such as Cloudera or OpenText for data classification. We have two customers using it specifically for analytics purposes, with one using Cloudera for data management and another using OpenText for data classification.

I have used PowerStore, and we have experience dealing with the storage, including all the VMAXes or PowerMax currently. For PowerStore, some of the main use cases that we have are generic virtualization, which in our cases is a very common generic virtualization case, usually with VMware, so it's the common practice as a storage. I also have experience with databases and generic use cases, and while I can't recall the specific model currently, we also work with NetApp, which includes all kinds of low to middle mid-range storage. My day-to-day job involves designing or incorporating the storage that clients have into their environment and needs; all these are mid-range storages, which are quite common tasks. It depends less on the vendor depending on customer requirements, such as either IP-based or Fiber Channel-based solutions from the storage perspective. Currently, we mostly use Dell EMC Isilon, HPEs, or Ceph storages for software-defined storages, depending on the use case such as HPC, or main generic office applications or modernization cases. For generic cloud usage cases, Dell ECS is mostly for S3 and backups; for data manipulation for business customers or enterprise customers, it's usually Isilon, and for HPC cases and scientific applications, we usually go with Ceph.

We have huge data of image and video files and we needed a solution for our customers. We were looking for object storage and found Dell ECS ( /products/dell-ecs-reviews ) to be a very good solution.

We normally recommend Dell ECS ( /products/dell-ecs-reviews ) to enterprise customers and government customers.

It's our internal application, which is using ECS as an object storage. ECS is primarily used for storing objects securely.

In our organization, the main use cases for the platform are long-term archiving of backup solutions and sharing space with some applications. The appliance stores backups and retains them for a long time, integrating well with Dell NetWorker.

We use Dell ECS to store and integrate data.

Our archival is on Dell ECS. Some critical data is on the cloud. The rest is stored on-premise.

We use the solution for archives and unstructured data.

Our primary use case is for cloud storage to keep the long-term backups.

My customers for Dell ECS belong to the healthcare industry. If a customer has a lot of images, a large amount of data, and multiple websites, Dell ECS is a recommended product to use.

We primarily use the solution as an archive storage for our documents.

I have a few customers using Dell ECS. Dell ECS is a Security Information and Event Management(SIEM) solution.

Dell EMC ECS is for object storage, e.g. for storing some of the archival, internal APIs.

Dell EMC ECS is for the object storage that is specifically designed for the purpose.

We use the solution for data storage, although not for ones in large quantities.

We are using it mainly for storage. We have its latest version.

We create a service for our customers to access EMC Storage. We use this product for an on-premises server to access the EMC storage. We locate our EMC in our IDC center, and we provide our enterprise customers access to it. We sell this service, space, and AWS SAN storage.

We primarily use this as a storage solution. My system is based on it.

We are a system integrator and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients. This is a cloud-based object storage platform.