We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Scality RING 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 most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is all the capabilities together."
"The solution provides massive performance, scalability, efficiency, and ease of management."
"It's easy to manage. The web UI is very intuitive, and there's CLI also that you can use to manage it."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability and flexibility."
"PowerScale helped free up our employees' time to focus on other business priorities. There are now automated jobs such as backing up and replicating data, that reduce the footprint we have. Those types of tasks were previously done manually."
"Our main goal is to do disaster recovery with whatever solution we use and Isilon makes it pretty simple to replicate those workloads over to our secondary data center."
"The solution has simplified management by consolidating our workloads. Rather than managing all the different workloads on different storage arrays, Windows Servers, etc., we just have one place per data centre where we manage all their unstructured data, saving us time."
"The solution is stable."
"I think it's the economic factor. This solution has the lowest cost for storage systems."
"Another feature I like is the life cycle management that helps me with data storage efficiency."
"The most valuable feature of Scality RING8 is its performance and good interface."
"The solution's rate structure or rate redundancy needs to be improved."
"There is room for improvement in its handling of object storage."
"The product’s expansion capacity, pricing clarity, and ease of use need improvement."
"That said, for the other security features, it would be helpful if Tenable - and I know it's outside the scope of this question itself - had Isilon-specific plugins."
"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is a bit expensive compared to other products."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"Dell PowerScale needs to reduce its price."
"Data storage performance needs to be improved."
"Scality RING is not easy to learn for someone new. It is a little bit difficult. There are a lot of components to it, and you also need to understand them to work with it effectively."
"Scality RING8 could improve by having more features. We have to use two automation tools to meet our needs. We would prefer to use only one."
"When we used this solution in 2015, it was not scalable at all. I don't know if they have improved on that, but at the time, scalability was just horrible."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 3rd in File and Object Storage with 40 reviews while Scality RING is ranked 14th in File and Object Storage with 4 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Scality RING is rated 7.8. 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 Scality RING writes "Offers UTIPI (Unified Tiered Infrastructure Per IOPS) feature in billing but lacks extensive testing ". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and HPE StoreEasy, whereas Scality RING is most compared with MinIO, Dell ECS, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Qumulo and VMware vSAN. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Scality RING report.
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