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."The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"The all-flash storage has tier replication capabilities."
"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."
"Ability to manage third-party arrays and virtualise them: One screen to control multiple arrays. Simplified administration."
"The installation is nice and easy."
"The initial setup is straightforward and can be done in an hour and a half by one person."
"IBM FlashSystem is a flexible solution with plenty of features."
"Virtualization of external storage, while adding cache and speed to the external storage."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is SCM (Storage Class Memory), which has the lowest latency value in the storage industry."
"The Reduxio box has improved our resiliency and management overhead."
"Efficiency of data management (Tier-X tiering, and NoDup inline dedupliclation and compression) provide for quick response time (+150k IOPS) during regular usage."
"Reduxio offers a very simple, elegant user interface (design) to manage it."
"I like the Reduxio TimeOS, specifically. That feature's pretty good. I haven't seen it in any other product. They're the only ones who have it."
"Reduxio delivers a self-contained system with all of the features rolled in and functional."
"In the event of a deletion, corruption, or ransomware, I am never going to lose more than one second of changes."
"Instant recovery through its continuous data protection."
"Immediate data recovery: critical to business continuity in an age of unknown cyber threats."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"The solution should improve its pricing and the mechanism in the reduction pool."
"The basic setup can be challenging when it comes to certain IP addresses and the configuration of the IP. You have to go in to different menus to makes changes and ensure it is stable."
"The only issue my team faced was transferring the data from the old system to IBM FlashSystem, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"The interface of this solution could be improved."
"Their technical support needs improvement in terms of reachability for the clients and response times. They should be more responsive and have more online platforms for support. They should make more technical information available online. There could be some kind of documentation community."
"Events/log analysis tools."
"The pricing could be improved, but I think it's getting better and better with each version. IBM needs to implement NAS storage again, as this is a big flaw. Dell EMC is very good at this and if you compared them based on NAS storage, Dell EMC would win right away. IBM's solution for NAS storage is very complicated. We don't have a storage box that provides file sharing from itself, we have to put software on it and go through a whole complicated process. It should be simplified."
"Our model does not support compression or deduplication."
"the only thing I would say negative about Reduxio is the cabling was a little bit confusing at first, but now that we understand it, it's easy. It was just so different from what we've seen before. That was the only hard part to get used to. The storage array is fully redundant, so there are some cross-connect cables that you have to run, from the A side to the B side, and the B side back to the A side, and we've just never seen anything like that before. But now that I understand the design, it makes complete sense. But initially it was confusing."
"We had a single failure of the device but believe that it was tied to the server losing contact with our NTP server due to DNS issues. As Reduxio is very time-dependent, losing sync made the entire array unstable."
"There is only thing I can think of at the moment, that would be detailed printable reports."
"They're trying to do this, but they need to show more what their growth plan is, the development, what the next steps are, the future."
"Would love to have role-based access and an active directory integration."
"Needs some hooks into cloud storage for backup. Also they should update the system to use additional secondary storage as a resource."
"Maybe it should come in stainless steel, just like its DeLorean time machine predecessor."
"Scalability. Reduxio has only one product, they don’t have an option, for now, to expand the storage product."
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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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