We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and Panasas ActiveStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression."
"The Flash core models offer amazing performance."
"The valuable features are high availability, compression, and a failover mechanism. It's a very highly available storage solution."
"Most of the features for the reduction in data compression are useful. It is also very easy to use and administer. Its performance is also good."
"It's very easy to manage."
"When it comes to the interface of the solution we did not encounter any challenges. Additionally, the solution has good documentation."
"IBM FlashSystem is the best solution for storage virtualization."
"I am impressed with the tool's performance and bandwidth."
"We've found the product to be quite flexible."
"The interface could improve in IBM FlashSystem."
"There could be some extra features added."
"This solution needs a management console where we are alerted to issues and can report them, or escalate them through email or another method."
"The solution is not easy to use and could improve."
"The solution's pricing is a bit high so there is room for improvement."
"The solution is quite expensive. That's one of the downsides to using it."
"The solution is not able to replicate data in one-to-many scenario."
"GUI interface should be enhanced more as there is some issues in copy services."
"We have received complaints from customers that the tool is not easy to use. The tool's local technical service is slow. The solution is good for Linux customers and not for customers with other operating systems like Windows. The solution should provide storage without client software integration."
"The solution is quite expensive."
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews while Panasas ActiveStor is ranked 14th in NAS with 2 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while Panasas ActiveStor is rated 9.0. 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 Panasas ActiveStor writes "A stable solution with good performance and bandwidth". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas Panasas ActiveStor is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and NetApp FAS Series.
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