We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Panzura based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Nasuni and others in NAS."The flexibility and the user-friendly interface are the most valuable features."
"There are also the policies that you set up on replication and purging files, and policies for something called WORM. That's a "write once, read many," where you can't overwrite certain files or certain data. It puts them in a "protected mode" where it becomes very difficult for someone to accidentally delete. We use that for certain files or certain directories, because we're dealing with video and some video has to be protected for chain-of-custody purposes. The WORM feature works great."
"PowerScale has made it extremely easy to scale file data across our organization. We have two implementations of Isilon. One is a replica of the other. When scaling, we add nodes to each location and expand the cluster. The process is straightforward."
"It assists with eliminating storage silos because it provides SMB and NFS protocols. PowerScale has also helped free up our employee's time to focus on other business priorities."
"The guaranteed performance, combined with the scalability through its scale-out capability, makes it an excellent choice."
"The solution is extremely easy to manage. This is its most valuable feature."
"The tool's most valuable features are scalability and stability."
"Ability to scale the number of nodes without having to build additional clusters."
"Its most valuable features are the collaboration, the file snapshots, and the data protection the solution provides."
"The solution isn't suitable for small environments or small customers."
"The biggest weakness is small file handling. Small file compression options are not enabled out of the box. It would be good to have this enabled by default."
"We used to have a chat feature available on the support site. It's not available to us anymore."
"The management and monitoring tools comprise a disparate suite of products and the roadmap is very unclear. We've got four different products that look after the Isilon, management-wise, and it's a bit of a mess."
"The solution’s interface and pricing could be improved."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"It is a bit higher priced than some of the other systems."
"There is room for improvement with the updates. It can take a significant amount of time to do a major OS update. However, even though it takes multiple reboots, the cluster stays up. If we want to apply a newer version of the OS, we have to roll back some of the patches so that we can upgrade. It requires a few reboots just to do that. The cluster doesn't come down, everything is still running, but it's time-consuming, at times."
"It should be easy for people not on the network to connect and access their files."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 37 reviews while Panzura is ranked 13th in NAS with 1 review. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Panzura is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) writes "We can easily deploy, manage, and maintain systems without needing a huge amount of expertise to facilitate them". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Panzura writes "File collaboration and data protection are its strong points, but it needs to improve remote access". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and HPE StoreEasy, whereas Panzura is most compared with Nasuni, CTERA Cloud Backup, Amazon FSx, Azure NetApp Files and Box.
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