Compare DataCore SANsymphony SDS vs. StorMagic
DataCore SANsymphony SDS is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 23 reviews while StorMagic is ranked 16th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). DataCore SANsymphony SDS is rated 9.2, while StorMagic is rated 0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony SDS writes "Provides HA virtualized storage independent of storage type or vendor". On the other hand, DataCore SANsymphony SDS is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and StarWind Virtual SAN, whereas StorMagic is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN and DataCore SANsymphony SDS.
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It's much more expensive than rack servers. It was an issue, but when you compare it to the number of people who were administrative assistants before, it's on the positive ROI side. It's much cheaper. We currently have a perpetual license, which is kind of unlimited, so we don't have the normal licensing cost, yet. Our licensing costs are large, but it is combined between all of the Cisco products that we have. One of the challenges we have with HyperFlex is that they have a subscription fee for the operating system that runs on it, and if I remember correctly, it costs approximately $15,000 USD per month. It is relatively expensive, but it can easily return value by freeing up other resources. It's roughly $30,000 per Hyperflex license, so that would be about $60,000 a year. Our licensing is Hybrid. We have all of our applications for billing and outage management through this. They are not the cheapest on the market. But there's an old saying I like to quote: "If you know that you are getting what you pay for, it's fine if it's expensive." | This solution allows the use of off-the-shelf hardware and charges by the TB of storage. Make sure you are made aware of the annual subscription cost when purchasing. The cost is at the same level as other storage solutions and it is easy to understand the licensing. The pricing and licensing are better with DataCore. | Information Not Available |
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| DataCore SANsymphony, SANsymphony, DataCore Virtual SAN | ||
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The Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform is a purpose-built, high-performance, scale-out file system with a wide array of enterprise-class data management services. The data platform’s innovations redefine distributed storage technology, giving you complete hyper-convergence with enterprise storage features:
| DataCore™ SANsymphony™ enterprise-class Software-defined Storage (SDS) platform provides a high-performance, highly available and agile storage infrastructure with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). | StorMagic SvSAN simplifies storage at the edge. It is a virtual SAN, virtualizing the internal storage of two servers and creating an active-active mirror that ensures an exact copy of data resides on both servers at any time. Needing just two nodes in each cluster, using any x86 server, any CPU and any storage combination, SvSAN gives you the flexibility to deploy lightweight, low cost highly available storage as you wish. A single, incredibly lightweight witness provides quorum to as many as 1000 SvSAN clusters and they can all be deployed and managed from a central location. Stretch your SvSAN clusters across entire cities for added resiliency. Deploy on VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V or Linux KVM hypervisors and avoid vendor lock-in. Leverage sophisticated caching algorithms when superior performance is required. If security is a priority, implement StorSecure - SvSAN's integrated encryption and key management feature. And if redundancy is a concern, deploy three nodes per cluster to withstand two node failures and still keep your applications online. |
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| BluePearl Veterinary Partners, Ready Pac Foods, Bryant University, Bellevue Group, KPIT Technologies, City Harvest | Volkswagen , Maimonides Medical Center, The Biodesign Institute, ISCO Industries, Pee Dee Electric Cooperative, United Financial Credit Union, Derby Supply Chain Solutions, Mission Community Hospital, Bellarmine College Preparatory, Colby-Sawyer College, Mount Sinai Health System, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Quorn Foods, Bitburger, University of Birmingham, Stadtverwaltung Heidelberg, NetEnt to name a few. | E.ON, Bayer, NHS, Keiser Corp., TDK, Oxford University, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Bridgestone, Argos, UnitedHealthcare, Harris Corp. |
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Manufacturing Company18% Comms Service Provider12% Energy/Utilities Company12% Healthcare Company9% Software R&D Company36% Comms Service Provider12% Retailer7% Manufacturing Company6% | Government23% Manufacturing Company15% Transportation Company15% Non Profit15% Real Estate/Law Firm24% Software R&D Company15% Government11% Outsourcing Company10% | No Data Available |
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Small Business14% Midsize Enterprise11% Large Enterprise75% Small Business4% Midsize Enterprise20% Large Enterprise76% | Small Business52% Midsize Enterprise19% Large Enterprise29% | No Data Available |
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