Dell XtremIO Previous Solutions

JB
IT Manager - Storage & Backup at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We were using several other technologies prior to introducing XtremIO.

We switched because PoC testing proved the all-flash option to offer superior performance as compared to existing in-house technologies.

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RR
Technical Consultant at Fidelity International

I previously used SolidFire and NetApp. There is a third solution I have used called Violin Memory which is not used much, but it's a very good contender. 

The advantages of Dell EMC XtremIO are the market share Dell has and dependability.

All the other solutions are going more towards iSCSI connectivity while Dell is moving away from iSCSI and towards XtremIO's that offer both iSCSI and FC. There is not much development for iSCSI, this is a limiting factor.

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it_user651555 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were using Nimble Storage and HPE and had just purchased EMC Symmetrix VMAX 10k.

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it_user650013 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We did not have a previous solution.

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it_user641274 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We switched for performance and cost.

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it_user560211 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Storage Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mostly all VMAX, we switched for the consolidation of datacenter space.

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it_user560262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Storage Engineer at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Yes, we had a previous all flash array vendor, however we encountered many issues with support, scalability and a general lack of data efficiency services that ultimately were more important than all flash performance.

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AW
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have a two vendor approach with HDS and EMC.

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it_user241425 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technology Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We had VDI running on another storage array. Thus, we switched to this solution so that we could utilize the speed and the inline deduplication.

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it_user640419 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Network Administrtor at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

Over my thirty years in the IT field, I have tried many solutions. I worked with:

  • NetApp
  • EMC SANs
  • Direct attached SCSI drive units
  • An IBM 4300 unit attached by VMware 2.5
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CS
Systems Engineer Senior at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We never ran VDI on any other storage platform, although we did have any other options available: NetApp, 7-Mode/cDOT, VMAX.

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AN
AGT Infrastructure Operations at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We did not use any other solution beforehand.

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CT
IT Operations Manager at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

We previously used deployed EMC VNX storage (and still use it for our lower performance applications) and before that, we had Dell EqualLogic. We switched to an all-flash array as we wanted high performance storage for our three most critical applications (Exchange, ERP and VDI). We wanted to do a full VDI platform for all our users and locations. We wanted the best experience for them, as any hiccup would mean a lower buy-in rate from them. This storage made that task much easier.

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

We used HPE and EMC storage arrays, but the main reason we switched was the positive business case. We have a lot more flexibility (VPLEX), reduction of cost and floor space (XtremIO), due to deduplication and compression.

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RR
Technical Consultant at a recreational facilities/services company with 11-50 employees

We used to employ high-end and mid-range products from multiple vendors like EMC and NetApp before we switched to XtremIO for good performance and space economical-ability.

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RJ
Technical Specialist Storage at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Yes, we were using a VMAX solution before. This product was incorporated in order to get better performance at a reduced cost for our internal customers.

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TB
IT Architect at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We previously used another EMC program, but it was not flash only, so that's why we switched to this solution. It possible to buy an all-flash system and, based on the compression features, we changed to this unit. 

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DB
Senior Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We previously used a large NetApp array, but the issue was storage density. We were at the point where we couldn’t add any further disk shelves to the controllers.

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it_user643908 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

We did have a previous solution. This allowed us to move to a smaller footprint with better performance.

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it_user651519 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We used EMC VMAX. Latency was inconsistent and it lacked cloning and deduplication.

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it_user566712 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

We used EMC VMAX. We switched because EMC made it too costly to stay on VMAX and gave us discounts on XtremIO.

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TD
Director of Infrastructure Services at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Our customers switched from the older generation of VNX to XtremIO. It was ten times faster and deduplication/compression allowed for a much smaller footprint in the data center.

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it_user1175643 - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr. Build Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It was the company's choice to switch to this solution. I don't remember what we had beforehand. I think that they made the switch because we knew we were going to have a large amount of data. The data reduction deduplication that this solution offered was very valuable. We knew that if we were going to be doing an extremely high amount of the right operation, the inline data reduction would be valuable as well. 

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CO
Director at STORAGECORP Tecnologia

We also use PowerStore which we find easier to implement.

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AW
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We are using HDS and EMC.

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it_user651834 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Solutions Director, Converged Infrastructure at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We were using VNX. The compression and deduplication numbers, as well as the level of effort needed to build RAID groups on this storage processor array to support workloads, caused us to consider XtremIO.

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it_user566907 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We had multiple tier storage without deduplication/compression. We switched due to cost and performance.

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it_user650010 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We used DAS Solutions. We were not getting the required IOPS and SAN stability, and that was a concern.

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it_user568230 - PeerSpot reviewer
Windows Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We previously used a VNX series storage array. The array was not as fast as an all-flash array.

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