We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and Panasas ActiveStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Flash disk with Easy Tier option"
"Speed (IOPS/second) – It is most vital for applications that need low latency and high speed for transferring the data."
"The valuable features for us are the extra add-ons, such as the FIM provisioning, the compression, the disaster recovery capabilities, and the storage pooling functions."
"The installation is nice and easy."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the deduplication, because the nature of the data that we are using in our current environment, has a lot of replicated data."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression."
"Installing FlashSystem is very easy. It takes less than half an hour, and I can handle it all myself."
"The performance of IBM FlashSystem is very good. The new technology and high throughput have given us more confidence in the solution. The management of the system has improved and we can control the monitoring system alerts and multiple FlashSystems with the Enterprise Cloud Edition, which is free. The migration of recently stored data to a new flash is much easier. You can move your data because you can utilize it externally."
"We've found the product to be quite flexible."
"I am impressed with the tool's performance and bandwidth."
"The product needs to improve their scalability."
"It has room for improvement in the area of stability."
"The support could improve by allowing you to speak to someone when you call rather than them calling you back. However, once we do have contact with one of their technicians they are excellent."
"A big area for improvement is that the data reduction pool feature is not recommended for use in a production environment because it has stability and performance issues."
"The GUI for monitoring performance metrics could provide better visibility. For example, it doesn't let me segregate the IOPS per volume."
"They don't offer subscription-based payments."
"The solution should improve its pricing and the mechanism in the reduction pool."
"The design is a little old-fashioned and could be updated. The rack is very primitive and designed in an older style."
"We have received complaints from customers that the tool is not easy to use. The tool's local technical service is slow. The solution is good for Linux customers and not for customers with other operating systems like Windows. The solution should provide storage without client software integration."
"The solution is quite expensive."
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews while Panasas ActiveStor is ranked 14th in NAS with 2 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while Panasas ActiveStor is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Panasas ActiveStor writes "A stable solution with good performance and bandwidth". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas Panasas ActiveStor is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and NetApp FAS Series. See our IBM FlashSystem vs. Panasas ActiveStor report.
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