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Atlantis USX

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Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct

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Anonymous User
There are a lot of different types of ways to deploy this: Hybrid (SAN/NAS or Local Storage), Hybrid using DAS, All-Flash, In-Memory, Simple Hybrid (requires only one host), Simple In-Memory.
Adolfo Albanell
Stable solution with an easy initial setup process
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  • "With the data center licensing and everything that is connected to that, this solution is relatively costly."
  • "Cost-wise the product is one of the more affordable within the category of products."

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    How does VMware vSAN compare with Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?
    Top Answer:We found VMware’s vSAN was easy to set up, configure, and manage compared to other solutions we considered. It is best suited for small- to medium-sized organizations. It is easy to create load… more »
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    32nd
    out of 37 in Software Defined Storage (SDS)
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    75
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    46
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    9th
    out of 37 in Software Defined Storage (SDS)
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    2,063
    Comparisons
    1,377
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    241
    Rating
    7.0
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    All-Flash Performance at Half the Cost of SAN

    Atlantis USX™ is a software-defined storage solution that delivers the performance of an all-flash storage array at half the cost of traditional SAN or NAS. Pool any SAN, NAS or DAS storage and accelerate its performance by up to ten times, while at the same time consolidating storage to increase storage capacity by up to ten times. With Atlantis USX, enterprises can avoid purchasing additional storage for more than five years, meet the performance needs of any application without buying new or faster storage hardware, and transition seamlessly from costly shared storage systems to lower cost hyper-converged systems and public cloud storage.
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    Storage Spaces Direct uses industry-standard servers with local-attached drives to create highly available, highly scalable software-defined storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS arrays. Its converged or hyper-converged architecture radically simplifies procurement and deployment, while features like caching, storage tiers, and erasure coding, together with the latest hardware innovation like RDMA networking and NVMe drives, deliver unrivaled efficiency and performance.

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    Northrim Bank, Waterstones, COX, Cisco, RBS, UBS, US Army, The North Face, Lloyds Bank, Dow Jones, Saab Atlantis Customers
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Government9%
    Comms Service Provider8%
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    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise54%
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    Atlantis USX is ranked 32nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 9th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 7 reviews. Atlantis USX is rated 0.0, while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Atlantis USX writes " There are a lot of different types of ways to deploy this: Hybrid (SAN/NAS or Local Storage), Hybrid using DAS, All-Flash, In-Memory, Simple Hybrid (requires only one host), Simple In-Memory". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". Atlantis USX is most compared with , whereas Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and DataCore SANsymphony.

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