We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and INFINIDAT InfiniBox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Nasuni and others in NAS."This solution is very stable."
"The solution is very easy to configure and use."
"The GUI is very easy and performance is also good."
"The most valuable feature is reliability."
"The ability to create LUNs and modify them are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The speed of the unit is its best feature. It performs very well."
"The maintenance service and support from IBM is very good."
"They have a virtualization feature and, even if you do not want to buy that feature, you can have it as a trial for two to three months. If you have another brand of storage from another company, you can use this tool to transfer all your data from the old system to the new Storwize system, which really shortens the migration time."
"This product has good performance."
"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"They don't offer subscription-based payments."
"The solution is not easy to use and could improve."
"They can improve its initial configuration. The initial configuration is currently very difficult. There are multiple choices or alternative ways to configure based on the use case and what you are targeting out of the device, that is, more capacity or more performance. These multiple alternatives cause a lot of confusion. They should increase the processing part of the nodes. Currently, you can cluster up to eight nodes. From my experience and the workload that I am facing in my environment currently, I would like to see either a bigger or stronger node or a larger number of nodes that can be clustered together. We formally communicated to them that we need to see either this or that, and they are working on something."
"The solution's infrastructure technology level could be PCI Express 5 instead of PCI Express 4 for the next version."
"The ease of installation should be improved. We had issues with the configuration model."
"Cloud file sharing is an area that needs improvement."
"Our model does not support compression or deduplication."
"It could be easier to implement."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
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IBM FlashSystem is ranked 5th in NAS with 106 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell Unity XT and NetApp AFF, whereas INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, Dell XtremIO and VMware vSAN.
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