We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Pure Storage FlashBlade based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Dell PowerScale is a scalable solution. It allows non-disruptive upgrades and maintenance of the system."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"The recent introduction of inline deduplication and compression has drastically improved our efficiency ratios to make it an economical product. This solution has also had a positive impact on our employees' productivity because it reduces the amount of admin that our staff needs to handle."
"For maximizing storage utilization, PowerScale is great. When you write the data to it, it spreads it out to all the nodes, so you get all the performance from the entire pool."
"Dell PowerScale's performance is good."
"Our main goal is to do disaster recovery with whatever solution we use and Isilon makes it pretty simple to replicate those workloads over to our secondary data center."
"It's easy to manage. The web UI is very intuitive, and there's CLI also that you can use to manage it."
"Our users are able to easily roll back snapshots without going through IT."
"We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it."
"It's very easy-to-use."
"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."
"We have seen a reduction in the total cost of ownership by around 20%."
"The onboarding and integrated monitoring tools are pretty good."
"The most valuable features include the ease of implementation, ease of use and the speed that you can do backup and recovery on."
"It is very easy to use, and it is very fast."
"The ease of deployment and management has helped us simplify our storage. We also do not have to worry about capacity management as much. A lot of these things are native to Pure Storage."
"The solution's rate structure or rate redundancy needs to be improved."
"We lost our technical sales reps about two years ago. We haven't gotten one assigned to us and we'd love to have one."
"Dell PowerScale needs to reduce its price."
"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) could improve the load distribution capability. For example, in some cases, the system load is not distributed automatically on all the nodes but is concentrated only on one. You have a peak request on only one node and the others don't do anything."
"Isilon has limitations on the number of files that can be generated."
"Some improvements to the NFS support would be of interest to us."
"There is room for improvement in its handling of object storage."
"There aren't many templates still coming out for it. They need to provide templates so we can copy and paste what we've done in the past to future, new things."
"Compared to, for example, Hitachi NAS, the solution is not mature at all. It's just in its infancy as far as technology goes."
"I want efficiency. FlashBlade doesn't have efficiency now."
"It would be nice if you could store file-based in the same box with the same technology."
"Commvault has mainly driven the Analytics, providing data and reports. However, the product has room for improvement, especially regarding storage analytics. Upgrading firmware has caused issues, requiring feature disabling to revert to traditional backups. The firmware upgrades sometimes affect Commvault backups."
"They need better integration with public clouds along with a better hybrid solution."
"We haven't been able to use much of the cloud area of Pure Storage. We have a storage server and it would be better if it could integrate with other cloud features of this solution."
"Pure Storage FlashBlade should improve on more cloud integration."
"It would be beneficial if the layer could support the S3 protocol and be container ready in the next release."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 2nd in File and Object Storage with 40 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) writes "We can easily deploy, manage, and maintain systems without needing a huge amount of expertise to facilitate them". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Qumulo, HPE StoreEasy and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with VAST Data, MinIO, Pure Storage FlashArray, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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