We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and IBM FlashSystem 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."The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"The first set up we had was really straight forward and simple."
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"IBM FlashSystem is flexible, quick, and has a solid design."
"IBM FlashSystem has been stable in our operations."
"This solution is convenient, user-friendly, convenient and reliable."
"The technical support for this solution is good. They used to help us when the motherboard of Power Systems broke. Their response times are really fast."
"One of the valuable features is the performance, it is one of the best in the market."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is compression."
"IBM's technical support do excellent work."
"The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"Automation could be simplified."
"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."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"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."
"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."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"The data reduction pool feature sucks and is not recommended for use with heavy workloads."
"The ease of installation should be improved. We had issues with the configuration model."
"This solution needs a management console where we are alerted to issues and can report them, or escalate them through email or another method."
"Cloud file sharing is an area that needs improvement."
"Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies."
"IBM should improve its data reduction development."
"The storage capacity of this solution could be improved."
"The solution is quite expensive. That's one of the downsides to using it."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. 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 IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF and Tintri VMstore, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage.
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