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I have not tried any other brands.
All my customers request it and it has to be supported by us. We never had any failures. Therefore, they stick to this product.
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Francisco Gimo
Management Information System Officer at a mining and metals company with 501-1,000 employees
I was previously using HP High-Performance Unit Storages. There was a need to purchase a new unit because we were struggling with the resources, performance, support, and other aspects. The best solution that was on offer that came to us was Dell Unity XT. The company decided to move to it and buy the full flash version to support all the applications that we have on-site.
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Pawel Augustyn
System Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I used two storage units a year ago. The Unity storage is newer, whereas the Bionic storage is older. However, Dell now manufactures new storage as a Dell PowerStore.
I have two products, Dell Unity XT, and Dell PowerStore.
It has three storage units. It was Bionics first, and Unity is now in production. And we have been using PowerStore for two years. I am still interested in using Unity because the end of support for Unity is in 2025.
Bionics' support is about to expire in a few months. I purchased PowerStore. It's storage; everything after that is flash storage. And I migrate from Bionics to PowerStore, but I believe I will continue to use Unity for a few years.
Bionics was the first product we deployed before moving to Dell Unity XT., and then to Dell PowerStore.
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Dell Unity XT
March 2024
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RAJESHPURI
Owner at FORE SOLUTIONS
Before Dell Unity XT, we were familiar with IBM and had sold a lot of IBM Storwize V3700 storage boxes.
The storage boxes by IBM are not number one in the market since they were not unified storage but SAN storage. Though IBM launched unified storage, our company does not sell much of IBM. After IBM launched unified storage, they allowed Lenovo to sell off their storage, and our company stopped selling IBM products.
We have already found a solution. We have already purchased the solution from Dell EMC. Not the usual traditional HCI, we used the standard traditional one instead of HCI because our environment is more compatible with the previous set.
I've previously used the VNX, this one is superior to the VNX. And, in particular, the NAS file sharing feature. It's easier than before when compared to the other one.
The HP does not have the complete block. They have their own SAN, which is not in a single block. We cannot configure everything from a single, interface.
Multiple blocks are required in the HP one to control and monitor everything.
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Mostafa Shoaei
IT expert/sys admin at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
When I started working with databases, I immediately started with Dell EMC. Later on, I discovered different solutions and choices such as Fujitsu, HPE, Hitachi, NetApp, and Sophos, but it is not possible to implement any of the mentioned solutions due to geopolitical reasons and issues with licensing.
Previously, we had Dell devices on our site. We use Windows servers for our physical server needs, particularly file sharing. Therefore, we sought a solution for data replication between our primary and secondary data centers.
Our goal was to achieve data replication with a minimal Recovery Point Objective (RPO) to ensure we have well-defined recovery points for the company. This setup has proven to be helpful, especially when there's a need to access necessary records.
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Jeremy Meeler
Systems Programmer/Specialist -- Infrastructure Engineer at NC State University
We previously used VNX. We switched solutions to have an updated platform and integrated NAS services.
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reviewer1851864
Works at a media company with 10,001+ employees
I have previously used HPE. HPE only offers hardware and so we needed to find a cloud-based solution.
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reviewer1851870
Works
I have previously used HPE 3PAR 7400. We switched over to Dell Unity because 7400 was being retired and did not offer two-factor authentication. The biggest difference between the two solutions is security and Dell is offered at a lower price point.
We used other Dell solutions prior to Dell Unity XT and we use Synology for more simple projects.
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reviewer1516434
Head of Team at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
I previously worked with Sequel Logic and a little with NetApp. We switched because it was a natural upgrade. I don't think either of those solutions is better than XT. I like it a lot although I think Unity does a pretty decent job as well.
I was working with HPE 3PAR StoreServ previously. If I compare Dell Unity XT to HP 3PAR, they are similar.
View full review »I previously worked with Fujitsu and IBM and would say Unity XT is very good compared to them.
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Dell Unity XT
March 2024
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