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."Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"Inline compression"
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"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."
"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."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"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."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"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."
"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."
"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 like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 29th 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 and Tintri VMstore, whereas Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with .
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