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"The technical support team is excellent.""The price tag is good compared to the amount of data and high availability provided.""It's very easy to upgrade storage."

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"The team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider.""The speed of the storage solution also allows us to provide service to applications that are ​very I/O ​intensive.""With StorPool we were able to build live failover on top of our LXC infrastructure. This allows us both to live-migrate containers between compute nodes without any downtime and, in case of an entire node suffering any type of failure, we can bring all containers back online within a minute on a spare compute node.""The two 10GE networks provide redundancy and increased performance as they serve as two separate networks doubling the throughput and doing multipathing and load balancing. We now have a high performance shared storage system which enables us to run on private cloud. Our previous system used bare-metal hardware, which provided high performance but inflexible management. Now we have best of both worlds, SSD-class performance with flexibility of a private cloud system.""Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas.""Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time."

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"The user interface could be simplified.""The system should be more intuitive and easier to manage.""The performance of the solution must be improved."

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"Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy.""I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them.""he only place we feel they could improve is the time it takes to bring new features to production.""Live and historical performance statistics would be useful, though my understanding is that this is on the way in a future release.""At times we need to check the disks and do some minor operations. A friendlier user interface would be useful in such cases.""It would be good if, with next releases, StorPool provide a better GUI for monitoring and statistics. This would make our experience even better and complete."

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  • "If you need cheap storage, but still need high availability, it's a good product to look at."
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  • "It provides us with a significant reduction in TCO due to their pay-as-you-grow licensing model, which means we don’t have to pay upfront for hardware and licensing for capacity thStorPoolat we don’t yet need to use."
  • "StorPool's pricing and licensing model is very transparent. As always, one has to due his due diligence when choosing a product like distributed storage solutions."
  • "StorPool software is cost-effective and gives us a pricing advantage over our competitors."
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    Red Hat Gluster, Red Hat Storage Server
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    Overview

    Red Hat Gluster Storage (formerly known as Red Hat Storage Server) is a software-defined storage (SDS) platform designed to handle the requirements of traditional file storage—high-capacity tasks like backup and archival as well as high-performance tasks of analytics and virtualization. But unlike traditional storage systems, Red Hat Gluster Storage isn’t rigid and expensive. It easily scales across bare metal, virtual, container, and cloud deployments.

    StorPool is intelligent storage software that runs on standard servers and builds scalable, high-performance storage system out of these servers (software-defined storage). It focuses on the block-level storage and excels at it. It is incredibly flexible and can be deployed in both converged setups (on compute nodes, alongside VMs and applications) or on separate storage nodes.

    StorPool has advanced fully-distributed architecture and is arguably the fastest and most efficient block-storage software on the market today. It is the best storage system when building a cloud.

    Sample Customers
    NTT Plala, McMaster University, University of Basque Country, Goodtech ASA, Cox Automotive, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), SaskTel, Glashart Media, Casio
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Government9%
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    Comms Service Provider22%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government7%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Small Business86%
    Large Enterprise14%
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    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise55%
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    Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews while StorPool is ranked 20th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 7.6, while StorPool is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Red Hat Gluster Storage writes "A scalable and easy-to-implement solution that has an excellent technical support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorPool writes "Enabled us to increase both our gross margins and performance while also decreasing latency". Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale, Red Hat Ceph Storage, LizardFS and LINBIT SDS, whereas StorPool is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, VMware vSAN, LINBIT SDS, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual SAN.

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