Quorum OnQ Scalability

ST
Director of Computer Services at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

The scalability is very good. We bought ours big enough so that we could add another server if we needed to. But we never did max out even the old ones by the time we were done with them. And we ran them for seven years. We've had no issues with scalability. We never outgrew them or ran into storage space issues. 

I believe the maximum they recommend is about 40 days, but whatever their default was is what we left it at. We could probably even increase that some if we wanted to and not have any major problems, but we haven't had any need to.

The only way we would be able to increase the usage would be to add more servers. They're doing exactly what they were designed to do, which is give us an assurance that, should we lose one of our production servers, we can spin it up on the onQ's within a matter of minutes and keep working.

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Presales Information Technology Consultant at JBA

Quorum OnQ is an easily scalable solution.

We have small and medium-sized customers as of now, and we also have large enterprises using the solution.

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KK
Director of IT at City of Gainesville Texas

I'm not sure what the scalability is like. If I decided I need more drive space I don't know if there are any options for actually physically expanding that out.

For some reason, my city council thinks that I should be able to predict five years into the future. They asked me to try to predict what I'm going to need in five years. It's impossible to predict that far in advance. But I'm going to say at this point that I've got five more years of usage out of this solution. I built it up so that I could handle about a 30 percent increase over what I've got now.

I messed up the first time I did this. I chose that number but I didn't look at my own roadmap. I then realized that in three years I would be putting in a full-fledged document imaging solution. I ended up over-utilizing my space really quickly because of that one, unexpected, server. That resulted in my purchasing an updated appliance one year before I was planning on to, because I didn't plan appropriately.

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GV
IT Manager at a individual & family service with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a very scalable solution. Basically, Quorum OnQ has built the appliance to ensure that users get a lot of room for scalability.

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WE
Network Manager at Century Savings Bank

You have to size it to what you think you're going to be doing. Cloud is different, if you're doing cloud, scalability is infinite. We do on-premise machines, so we scale slightly larger than what we need for future expansion. If we're doing a local branch, which are just file servers that do Active Directory, they're not anything special. But our operations center is backing up six to seven servers, so it's a little bit more beefy. We decided to go 64 cores, just to have that extra power.

Currently, we have everything backed up that we need backed up. Unless we're expecting additional servers to be added, which at the moment I don't think we are, for DR purposes it's exactly what we need.

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Team Lead ESS - Sr. Customer Support Engineer, Linux / Storage at OHI TELECOMMUNICATION CO LLC

The majority of our customers are medium and enterprise-level organizations.

This is a good solution for medium-sized customers. It is easy to use and I am working on attracting more customers to it.

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BH
Director of Technology at P&S Investment Company, Inc.

This solution is easily scalable.

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Rajesh Kumar Ramachandran - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead ESS - Sr. Customer Support Engineer, Linux / Storage at OHI TELECOMMUNICATION CO LLC

I am unsure about the scalability because we currently do not need to scale. We use the entry-level system, but we have challenges because a higher system and multiple machines for centralization are required if we want new hardware.

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CM
Server Administrator at CBX Global

It seems to scale very easily, as long as you have the hard drive space.

We currently have 12 servers that are being backed up every four hours. That includes SQL servers, an Exchange Server, database servers, and domain controllers.

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GV
IT Manager at a individual & family service with 1,001-5,000 employees

Quorum OnQ is scalable. That was something that was taken into consideration.

It's just a tool that runs in the background with no users until a problem occurs. It's a security tool, a backup system tool, so users don't deal with it until a problem arises.

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DD
VP Director of Information Technology at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

The scalability is  good, from what I remember. We haven't scaled up a ton. The capacity planning that was done originally, with the estimated growth that we put in for headroom, for expansion and growth, was accurate. We've been able to grow into the solution without making any changes or any adjustments. Scalability was planned out at the beginning. I've been in great shape there.

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Joshua Odunsi - PeerSpot reviewer
I.T INFRASTRUCTURE/SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR at Haggai Mortgage Bank Ltd

The solution is scalable. 

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Sean Fiandaca - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Wineland-Thomson Adventures

For a small business, this solution has everything I need.

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Director of Information Technology at Pugh & Company, P.C.

We have actually scaled back from where we started with the solution because so much of our data has moved to the cloud.

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MT
Solution Consultant at Anamtech

While the basic models or the basic versions are not scalable, the other CDs are very scalable.

Many of our customers use the solution. They are Govt, Mid sized enterprise and corporates for the most part.

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Sivathiban Krishnamurtthu - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Director at Syscentrix

Scalability is something that we haven't tested. We have not tried adding another box but from what I have read so far, I think that the scalability is good.

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MM
CTO at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

Quorum OnQ is very scalable. It can start as a small attached storage device and can go as big as one whole rack, so that's how it can scale up and scale out. For our POC, we were only given the small device to test, so we weren't able to test scalability all the way up to one whole rack. 

We have plans to increase our usage, but it depends on if the distributor will be able to offer disaster recovery of the service. We wouldn't use it on its own, but the way it would work is they would provide the hardware and licenses and we'd just provide the infrastructure. 

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NK
Senior Vice President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It has good scalability although there are some of the lower models where there is a restriction on scalabiity. From a 15dB appliance, you can scale it up to 100dB or 150dB. 

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SS
C.T.O at Sastra Network Solution Inc. Pvt. Ltd.

Quorum OnQ is a scalable solution.

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