We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and Kaminario K2 [EOL] 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."It's actually very stable"
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"Very efficient storage"
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"The reliability is very good."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"Ease of use: My installers - my administrators over the system - they love how easy and fast it is to install and spin up a LUN and get going."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"Inline compression"
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"The solution is not cheap."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"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."
"I'm hoping to see Active Directory integration. Right now, you still have to use a local admin account to log in and manage everything."
"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."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"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 like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"I would like to see them work with Cisco, so it comes off the FIs, instead of having to go through my 10-gig network."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 28th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kaminario K2 [EOL] writes "Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms license separately". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF, Tintri VMstore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with .
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