We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and Qumulo 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."It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"The performance is good."
"This solution is very easy to use, and is very reliable."
"The tool is easy to use."
"It is 100% stable. It is also scalable."
"The performance is good."
"It is a stable solution."
"The data protection algorithm to protect the data between the nodes has been the most valuable feature. The integration with backup platforms such as Veeam and Veritas has also been valuable."
"The feature that I like most is the analytics part of the file system."
"The most valuable feature is real-time analytics."
"The most valuable features of Qumulo are its rolling updates and all-day availability."
"The most valuable feature of Qumulo is the ability to share files and reliability."
"It is a very stable product. I never faced any issues."
"The most valuable features of Qumulo are the ease of management and special permissions that are quick to enable. The overall performance of the solution is good."
"The ratio of total operational cost to complexity versus feature set is very good."
"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"We have concerns about the write performance. We would also like it to be easier to scale out, to add more boxes to the system. And we want improved performance, to use a next-generation NFS service."
"They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down."
"Its security can be improved."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"Dell EMC ECS should support segregation of duty, particularly for role-based access controls. Having a single pane of glass for smarter observation and better control mechanism would also make this solution better."
"Qumulo should continue to expand automation and orchestration capabilities."
"Some anti-theft permissions do not transfer well to Qumulo."
"In the future, I would like to see non-disruptive updates."
"In the next release, I would like to see the ability to have more control at a terminal level of the file system."
"The support for iMac and protocols should be improved, not all features are available."
"The solution could improve availability and improve data protection or data services such as compression of deduplication. In a future release, we'd like to have more cloud API integrations."
"The price of the software is a bit expensive, so a reduction in cost would make it more competitive."
"One aspect of Qumulo that I hoped to see improved was its software upgrade process, which did see significant progress during my usage. Initially, upgrading the software resulted in several minutes of system downtime. However, by the time I departed last summer, the downtime had reduced to mere ten seconds. Although I am unsure if Qumulo has yet achieved a completely outage-free upgrade, I simply performed the upgrades early in the morning before the marketing department began its workday, so any downtime was inconsequential."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while Qumulo is ranked 7th in File and Object Storage with 8 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while Qumulo is rated 7.8. 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 Qumulo writes "Useful data sharing, simple cluster scaling, and excellent support". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID, MinIO and Nutanix Unified Storage, whereas Qumulo is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, Scality RING, Nasuni and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our Dell ECS vs. Qumulo report.
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