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We performed a comparison between Veritas Access and VMware Software Defined Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The product deployment is easy.""Veritas Access is user-friendly and the NAS and SAN volumes are valuable.""It has a huge deduplication ratio for backups of long-term archives."

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"The single management panel is the main feature that is wonderful for the customer.""The best part of the solution is that you can actually scale up to a large number of operating systems without additional hardware.""VMware Software Defined Storage gives higher availability against data corruption.""This is an easy-to-use product for adding flexibility to your storage solution."

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Cons
"I would like to see Veritas Access included as an S3 target.""They could improve additional fees for the platform's data capacity. It could be more cost-effective.""The downtime of Veritas Access could be improved."

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"It doesn't have the ability to be deployed on any kind of hardware and network connectors.""The performance is not as good as some competing products and reporting can be improved.""VMware Software Defined Storage should include a shared database on a standard version.""I'd like to see improved hardware compatibility"

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This product is not cheap. The only extra cost is the licensing."
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  • "The product is quite expensive and is among the most expensive for this type of solution."
  • "A single socket costs you around US $6,000 for three years. At a minimum, you have a three load cluster for a medium or enterprise-scale company. It can get quite expensive because you're likely to need four to six sockets on the other side. It comes to around $30,000."
  • "I believe there is a yearly licensing fee of around $2000 - $5000. I don't think there are additional costs above that but it depends on the type of infrastructure you're booting."
  • "VMware Software Defined Storage is a slightly expensive solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:They could improve additional fees for the platform's data capacity. It could be more cost-effective.
    Top Answer:We use the product for long-term data retention.
    Top Answer:VMware Software Defined Storage gives higher availability against data corruption.
    Top Answer:VMware Software Defined Storage is a slightly expensive solution. We do a three-year license for the solution, then renew it after every three years. I rate VMware Software Defined Storage a seven out… more »
    Top Answer:VMware Software Defined Storage should include a shared database on a standard version. Right now, it's included in the enterprise version.
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    Overview

    Veritas Access is a software-defined, scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) solution for unstructured data that uses intelligent policies to optimize data placement on-premise or on public clouds. Access provides resiliency, multi-protocol access and automated data movement to realize application performance, cost-effectiveness and scalability gains.

    VMware software-defined storage is a simple, yet intelligent, storage data center architecture that aligns with business and application demands—eliminating static, purpose-built and inefficient hardware with dynamic, agile and automated solutions.

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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Hospitality Company7%
    Government5%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Software Defined Storage (SDS)
    March 2024
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    Veritas Access is ranked 17th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews while VMware Software Defined Storage is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews. Veritas Access is rated 9.0, while VMware Software Defined Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Veritas Access writes "Provides seamless integration within the existing infrastructure and has an easy deployment process ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Software Defined Storage writes "A stable solution that can be used for database applications and virtualization for multiple locations". Veritas Access is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and Veritas Access Appliance, whereas VMware Software Defined Storage is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).

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