Dell ECS Room for Improvement

RB
Systems Administrator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users. There should be an improvement in the product's basic architecture to be able to handle large datasets.

For a multi-technology stack environment, the platform engineering aspect could be simpler.

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Jerome Edwards - PeerSpot reviewer
Ops Specialist: System Engineer Backup at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

There is room for improvement in the DPI reports, as they could be made more user-friendly. Currently, I have to create my own reports to get the type of information I need. The reporting aspect of the product could benefit from improvements, but it requires some time and investment to learn how to produce the desired reports. I need to familiarize myself with DPS, as it is only integrated with DPC, and I mainly use DPA for searching. A couple of things are not as up-front or as user-friendly as you would want them to be. For example, DPA, I upgrade it now and then, but I never use it.

For me, DP ECS is doing what it's supposed to do. My main thing is that it's elastic cloud storage, but it's basically just off-site storage. It's not a cloud solution, even though you can create your S3 buckets in it, and it's just another storage device set in a different data center where you can keep your backups for longer-term storage. Maybe the name is misleading because you expect it to be a cloud solution that has everything - computing, storage, and applications behind it.

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NH
Lead Middleware Admin at National Australia Bank

There's one problem with Dell EMC ECS. There are certain utility processes that come from the boot, and there isn't any user who can execute them. It's comparable to a serious power migration. The segregation of duty needs to be improved in this product, e.g. we have role-based access controls, so they should support segregation of duty, as that would be very helpful.

These days, everyone's trying to get more unified storage, and then you need to have a single pane of glass to allow everything, so it would be good if the next release of this product would have a single pane of glass for smarter observation and better control mechanism.

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NM
Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS. The product supports Copaco Cloud when you upgrade to Dell ECS Version 3.8. So, Copaco Cloud is only used for AWS and not for Azure.

The additional feature that Dell ECS should have is that it should be made movable to Azure.

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AS
Data center sales at PT Sapta Tunas Teknologi

If Dell ECS would be available as standalone software, so you can use any hardware with it, would make the solution better.

It would also be good if Dell ECS had more integrations with other products.

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ST
System Engineer at CSS Versicherung

At the moment, I don't feel like we have to improve anything. 

When the system goes down, then the compliance mode will not be all over the system. The system will stop working. They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down. That said, we have yet to have a site outage.

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Sourabh Madan - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution architect at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

The solution’s stability could be improved.

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Muhammad Alihyder Bhuiyan - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Operations at NCC Bank PLC

More features for remote management and administration could be included in the product. They could provide centralized reports.

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Amarjit Rathee - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

The setup is very complex.

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OI
General Director at miromix unitedMiroMIX United

The initial setup is not so easy.

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Harinder  Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at Cisco

Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive.

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Valerio Montepaone - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Storage Specialist - Solutions Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

The troubleshooting feature of this solution needs to be improved, to allow organizations to fix issues without having to contact the support team.

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