We performed a comparison between Kaminario K2 [EOL] and SolidFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"Inline compression"
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"Being able to provide quality of service as promised."
"The dashboard is such that you don't need to be a storage expert to administer it."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability."
"Feature-wise, it is a good solution allowing users to monitor and simplify their networks. The solution also provides its users with flexibility by enabling them to utilize its extensions."
"If you buy the solution for its specific purpose it will work well."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"I would say in terms of architecture and in terms of functionality, the product is quite good."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"They could improve the price."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"I think it should have better performance with small files. With big data, its performance is top notch, but it is difficult to load small files."
"I would love to see capacity on its DRAM. I know it's not cost effective for them to do it, but I think that it could be a big differentiator and was a big differentiator from the beginning."
"Improved scale and budget planning with flexibility of the solution for budget needs and efficiency for growth with the great optimization ratio due to the nature of our use."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"We had some false positives, power supplies failing, and that's really been about it. We had a couple of glitches during some upgrade processes but nothing that was really concerning to us."
"It would be good to provide administrative access at the root level to be able to do things with the system, if need be."
"For example, the ease of use with the reporting. Right now it's not impossible, but you have to know Sequel. It's a little time consuming to get those customized reports in there."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"I would like to see integration with the cloud, number one. Being able to spin SolidFire in the cloud."
"Though it is a stable solution, its users may face some security issues at times...The security provided by the solution is one area that can be improved."
"The inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"The upgrade process could be better."
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Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8, while SolidFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Kaminario K2 [EOL] writes "Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms license separately". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN.
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