We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and INFINIDAT InfiniBox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Nasuni and others in NAS."The Flash core models offer amazing performance."
"IBM FlashSystem is the best solution for storage virtualization."
"One of the valuable features is the performance, it is one of the best in the market."
"The GUI is very easy and performance is also good."
"At the FlashSystem level, customers are especially fond of multi-tier and distributed rate systems, particularly the dynamic rate six arrays."
"The performance is very good and we use this product to enhance our core system."
"The price-performance ratio is most valuable."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the deduplication, because the nature of the data that we are using in our current environment, has a lot of replicated data."
"This product has good performance."
"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"If you want to expand, you cannot expand the disc enclosure. You have to buy a total individual node. Sometimes, this is difficult because we are just looking for capacity and not a node."
"IBM should improve its data reduction development."
"I would like to see bigger modules."
"This solution needs a management console where we are alerted to issues and can report them, or escalate them through email or another method."
"We use some open-source tools for monitoring, such as Grafana and it should be bundled along with IBM FlashSystem."
"Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies."
"Replication features need improvement. Currently, they are there in the product, but I'm not sure as to how it works exactly."
"It is slightly more expensive, however, it all depends on your supplier."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
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IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, Dell XtremIO and VMware vSAN.
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