We performed a comparison between Dell ECS 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."I have found Dell ECS to be scalable."
"Dell ECS is a cost-effective solution that provides ease of use and availability."
"What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"The technology is very good, it performs well."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"It is 100% stable. It is also scalable."
"The tool's most valuable features are data warehousing, speedy recovery, and analytics. Its latest release is cost-effective."
"The initial setup is pretty easy and simple."
"The snapshots, replication, and the ability to have immutable blades are the most valuable features. You're putting data snapshots out in those blades, and they cannot be touched. Its performance is great."
"The initial setup is pretty quick."
"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."
"Speed and ease of use are the two most valuable features."
"The most valuable features include the ease of implementation, ease of use and the speed that you can do backup and recovery on."
"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"Its security can be improved."
"The solution could be more cost-effective and secure."
"Dell EMC ECS should support segregation of duty, particularly for role-based access controls. Having a single pane of glass for smarter observation and better control mechanism would also make this solution better."
"You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%."
"Dell ECS needs to improve its performance."
"The setup is very complex."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"I would like to see better integration."
"In terms of scalability, it doesn't expand out quite as robustly as some of the others, but it covers 90% of the market in what it does."
"There could be improvements in public cloud integration."
"The feature that we're waiting on is better integration with the cell services."
"They need better integration with public clouds along with a better hybrid solution."
"The Pure Storage Orchestrator is our biggest pain point at the moment. If we can have more say in future developments of feature sets that we will need to support for our use case, that would be pretty beneficial to us."
"I would like to see more monitoring capability included in the next release of this solution."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". 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 ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID, MinIO and Microsoft Azure, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Pure Storage FlashArray and NetApp AFF. See our Dell ECS vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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