We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and Dell XtremIO based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The scalability is good."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"Speed and reliability:"
"The price should be lower."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"In some cases where we don’t need the flexibility of the virtualization layer, we could free up resources on the VPLEX by using the storage replication."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"In the next release, the solution could have better integration and if we can host assets on the cloud, such as NetApp has the NetApp volumes, which we can host on the cloud directly called NetApp CVO (cloud volume ONTAP). Dell EMC should come up with something purely on the cloud rather than manage services."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"I would like hardware capacity additions to be a little more flexible. The upgrade path for the existing XTremIO units requires you to purchase 2 XBricks at a time and they need to be the same capacity as the existing XBricks."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF and Tintri VMstore, whereas Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox.
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