We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Quantum ActiveScale 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."The solution provides massive performance, scalability, efficiency, and ease of management."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability and flexibility."
"Its most valuable feature is the DR capabilities replication."
"The flexibility and the user-friendly interface are the most valuable features."
"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."
"Its scalability has been huge for us."
"This is the best platform that we could have for storage utilization. It is affordable and scalable. At the end of the day, it's something that we find very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is all the capabilities together."
"The technology is stable which is good."
"Workflow is easy to manage and maintain."
"It would be nice to see tools like Superna Eyeglass built into PowerScale."
"Additional metadata reporting would be great. We have to use a separate tool to report on that. We would like to view the age of data and how long it has been since someone has accessed a file."
"The management and monitoring tools comprise a disparate suite of products and the roadmap is very unclear. We've got four different products that look after the Isilon, management-wise, and it's a bit of a mess."
"The UID mapping and how to configure mapping-related things is a struggle."
"Some improvements to the NFS support would be of interest to us."
"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."
"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is a little bit pricey, and its pricing could be improved."
"I'd like to see more Iceland products in the cloud so that we can port our data into different environments if needed. I would also like to see a virtual appliance or software-defined Iceland product."
"We would like to see a self-sufficient installation."
"Lacks some ability to integrate with different systems."
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Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 2nd in File and Object Storage with 40 reviews while Quantum ActiveScale is ranked 20th in File and Object Storage. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Quantum ActiveScale is rated 7.6. 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 Quantum ActiveScale writes "Good performance and reliable but the setup is complex". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and HPE StoreEasy, whereas Quantum ActiveScale is most compared with Dell ECS, Qumulo and MinIO. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Quantum ActiveScale report.
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