We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and NetApp StorageGRID 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."I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"I have been satisfied with the stability."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"The scalability is good."
"This solution is very easy to use, and is very reliable."
"It's definitely good for unstructured data. In earlier days, we had Centera, so for the DR it's really good. It has load balancing facility, and we're using it with the Kemp Load Balancer."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"It has enabled us to save money on storage costs. We removed our tape library."
"The technical support is good."
"The speed of the disks removed the bottleneck from our storage."
"The backup features are valuable. I've heard from our backup and data protection people that our clients are very satisfied with the performance in junction with the backup, which they archive on this type of object storage."
"Cost-effective and easy to deploy."
"It helps automate our storage infrastructure."
"It has improved our operational efficiency through time consumption and logistics by 40 to 50 percent. Everything that had to do with our legacy tape solution has been improved and is now more efficient."
"The feature of StorageGRID that I find most valuable for ensuring data durability and protection is its Information Lifecycle Management functionality."
"They could provide centralized reports."
"There is room for improvement in the DPI reports, as they could be made more user-friendly."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"Dell EMC ECS could improve by having Relational Database Services(RDS) to review progress. Additionally, if the training was provided it would be a benefit, it would be good for our engineers."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down."
"Its security can be improved."
"I just recommend improving the marketing campaigns in Pakistan."
"One key improvement I'd like to see in StorageGRID is enhanced visibility for management purposes."
"The integration with more apps has room for improvement."
"The price is something that NetApp could improve, as with most companies. NetApp is known for not being the cheapest storage option, which is also valid for StorageGRID. There are other storage options on the market which we are aware of and have done proofs of concept for, but you cannot really compare the list prices because, as a big user of NetApp storages, we have totally different prices than some list prices. Still, the price information we got for other options are almost always less expensive than StorageGRID."
"The only real issue that we have run into is, when we are cloning, we cannot do a thin provision clone, it has to be a full clone."
"Data retrieval speed could be better."
"Beyond the initial setup, this product is a little bit difficult to configure."
"I would like to see them integrate more with the monitoring platforms. It is a bit difficult to get automated monitoring of the system."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while NetApp StorageGRID is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 12 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while NetApp StorageGRID is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp StorageGRID writes "Scalable object storage with robust data durability with efficient geo-distribution and comprehensive lifecycle management ensuring managing of large volumes of unstructured data". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Scality RING, whereas NetApp StorageGRID is most compared with MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Scality RING, Cloudian HyperStore and Hitachi Content Platform. See our Dell ECS vs. NetApp StorageGRID report.
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