We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and IBM FlashSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"The system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."
"Offers excellent features like efficient data reduction, a reliable SafeMode, and a great support model for continuous assistance and updates."
"It is very easy to install and configure. It has got excellent diagnostics. If you really need to see how the box is performing, the console gives you a lot of information. You can set thresholds as well as alerts based on the thresholds, which is a very powerful functionality. They are very proactive. They know how to monitor and manage the systems. They see a problem, and they are all over it before us. They see the problem before we see it, which is very good."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"Performance-wise it's high speed. It's also more stable and scalable."
"Its leading feature is the price-performance ratio, which is very good."
"They have a feature called Live Migrate; it's been very, very useful."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replicate. We are running a financial company and it needs to be available 24/7. We can't afford any downtime."
"Most valuable features have been the system customization with it, the performance you receive, and their CoPilot Support (or Dell EMC Storage Support)."
"The user interface is good, I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."
"It's very scalable, especially with federation. If you outgrow the number of spindles that a unit can support, depending on the model, you can go into federation."
"IBM FlashSystem is flexible, quick, and has a solid design."
"The maintenance service and support from IBM is very good."
"The most valuable feature is that is supports a high IOPS rate."
"The most valuable features in IBM FlashSystem are IOPS, performance, duplication, and compression."
"It is simple to make an update."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is replication...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The power systems are very reliable if you are running 24/7 operations. For ongoing mission-critical applications, it's the best solution."
"Virtualization of external storage, while adding cache and speed to the external storage."
"We need better data deduplication."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
"There is room for improvement in catering to midrange storage needs, especially for customers seeking Enterprise-class features."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"Many options to check performance, like read, writes, random writes, and random reads, are missing in Pure FlashArray X NVMe."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"It is on the expensive side."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex and should be made simpler to do."
"The cost of the solution could be better."
"The configuration could be easier in Dell EMC SC Series."
"This product should be a lot more user-friendly."
"Compellent comes in the form of a component that's not true of a unified storage platform."
"The administration and support (on the way that they delivered) was a little bit slow."
"One option I would like to see is, when you're up on the view-screen, to be able to incorporate getting to what HPE call the iLO, the Integrated Lights-Out. To be able to get that instead of having to go back and trying to find IP addresses and re-institute those would be good. It would be good to be able to that put on the initial splash screen."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered higher performance, at least on the back end."
"Our model does not support compression or deduplication."
"The marketing could be improved."
"One area for improvement is in the GUI, where host clusters are not properly dealt with. With Hypervisor host clusters, all hosts must see the same volumes in the same order. Using the concept of a “host-group” has been around (even with IBM) for many years, so why not with the V7000?"
"Cloud file sharing is an area that needs improvement."
"The solution is not able to replicate data in one-to-many scenario."
"This solution could be improved by offering greater amounts of storage."
"The storage capacity of this solution could be improved."
"The solution's pricing is a bit high so there is room for improvement."
Dell SC Series is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor, NetApp AFF and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell Unity XT and NetApp AFF. See our Dell SC Series vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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