We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and INFINIDAT InfiniBox 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."It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"The program is very stable."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"The feature I like most about Dell Xtremio is its hardware quality compared to other vendors. It's clear they're continuously improving their research and development."
"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."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"This product has good performance."
"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"If you are looking at flash storage solutions, XtremIO doesn't offer any unique features. Most of my customers are migrating their workload from XtremIO to other formats because of this."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"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 would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"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."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
Earn 20 points
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and VMware vSAN, whereas INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, VMware vSAN, HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.
We monitor all All-Flash Storage reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.