We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and Reduxio [EOL] 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."One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"The GUI is very easy and performance is also good."
"IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution."
"The solution is very easy to configure and use."
"Ability to manage third-party arrays and virtualise them: One screen to control multiple arrays. Simplified administration."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression."
"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."
"The all-flash storage has tier replication capabilities."
"Stability-wise, this solution is fine."
"Write latency is averaging way under a millisecond."
"The whole product is based on point-in-time restore capabilities built into their storage appliance, and no one else I know does that."
"I like the performance. I think it's what you call a hybrid SAN. It has solid state drives and, of course, regular optical drives, which would make performance a lot better, faster."
"Immediate data recovery: critical to business continuity in an age of unknown cyber threats."
"The down-to-the-second restore capability, native to the device is a valuable feature."
"It's very intuitive, has a very modern interface. Instead of making the user set up a million parameters for things that the system knows better anyway, they put all the intelligence in the product and made the controls much easier."
"The Reduxio unit is superior in its ability to recover from any second."
"In the event of a deletion, corruption, or ransomware, I am never going to lose more than one second of changes."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"The solution is not cheap."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"It needs to improve its price."
"The GUI for monitoring performance metrics could provide better visibility. For example, it doesn't let me segregate the IOPS per volume."
"Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies."
"The price is very costly."
"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."
"The deduplication and compression ratio is not very good. It's not reaching a very high ratio."
"It could be easier to implement."
"This product lacks some of the options we wanted. For example, expansion was difficult and it required a lot of patching to be done."
"They can improve its initial configuration. The initial configuration is currently very difficult. There are multiple choices or alternative ways to configure based on the use case and what you are targeting out of the device, that is, more capacity or more performance. These multiple alternatives cause a lot of confusion. They should increase the processing part of the nodes. Currently, you can cluster up to eight nodes. From my experience and the workload that I am facing in my environment currently, I would like to see either a bigger or stronger node or a larger number of nodes that can be clustered together. We formally communicated to them that we need to see either this or that, and they are working on something."
"Scalability is a little unusual. We came from the NetApp world where, if you needed more disk space, you just added more drives into the chassis, whereas with Reduxio, if you need more disk space, you have to buy a new chassis."
"I would love to see deeper integration with VMware vSphere/vCenter. Right now, I can edit existing Reduxio datastore sizes in the vSphere web client. Provisioning new datastores that way would be nice."
"I would love an iPhone app to monitor my system from outside the firewall."
"The only critique that we have is it needs the ability to have local users added. You have to log in as one built-in admin account. You can't create your own."
"If Reduxio could manage multiple Reduxio systems within the same dashboard, or manage them as a single mode, it be very, very helpful for us."
"Needs some hooks into cloud storage for backup. Also they should update the system to use additional secondary storage as a resource."
"A centralized management would be nice, the ability to manage all cluster in one management portal."
"I am waiting on a feature set in the new version which should allow me to replicate between Reduxio iSCSI SANs for disaster recovery and also to 3rd party iSCSI SANs which are cheaper for an archive or DR target."
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IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews while Reduxio [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while Reduxio [EOL] is rated 9.8. 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 Reduxio [EOL] writes "Its access speed and now its recently released features makes Reduxio not only an equal, but also better than your older version SANs". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Reduxio [EOL] is most compared with .
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