VMware vSAN is a software-defined storage product that is used in collaboration with VMware ESXi hypervisor and that provisions and manages storage based on policies, regardless of the underlying hardware. The solution enables you to prime your business for growth through its seamless evolution (it is integrated with vSphere and requires no new tools), its flexibility, and its multi-cloud capabilities. As an industry-leading software, VMware vSAN provides high levels of performance with minimal impact on CPU and memory.
The first 1-2 years of purchasing vSAN will be expensive. Thereafter, the longer you are running it, the more cost savings you will have.
Its reasonable, compare with other storage vendors
The first 1-2 years of purchasing vSAN will be expensive. Thereafter, the longer you are running it, the more cost savings you will have.
Its reasonable, compare with other storage vendors
VxRail is a hyper-converged appliance based on VMware virtual SAN Software and is jointly engineered and built with VMware, for VMware, to enhance Vmware. VxRail software-defined architecture simplifies compute, storage, virtualization, and management. It will safeguard performance, reliability, and flexibility across your organization with a broad range of workloads and applications from business-critical to next-gen. With VxRail, you are covered.
There is a permanent vSAN license included since it is required, but vCenter\ESXi host licensing should be validated in the purchase process.
Most of hyper-converged solutions require additional licenses for the virtualization layer (like VMware).
There is a permanent vSAN license included since it is required, but vCenter\ESXi host licensing should be validated in the purchase process.
Most of hyper-converged solutions require additional licenses for the virtualization layer (like VMware).
StarWind Virtual SAN provides high availability and fault tolerance for virtualized environments without the need for dedicated SAN hardware. It allows for real-time replication between servers, shared storage for Hyper-V clusters, and enables vMotion and High Availability features for VMware vSphere. The solution reduces costs and leverages existing hardware while providing a scalable and reliable infrastructure. Valuable features include ease of use, scalability, top-tier support, hardware agnosticism, and the ability to use off-the-shelf standard servers to increase storage space. StarWind VSAN has helped organizations improve performance, data availability, and data security while reducing downtime and providing cost-saving storage options.
The setup cost is very low. The pricing is great.
We are happy with the price.
The setup cost is very low. The pricing is great.
We are happy with the price.
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is a top-ranking HCI software, cloud management tool, and Software Defined Storage (SDS) tool that is marketed as the foundation for users' hybrid clouds. It offers a powerful and secure hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver all data and applications at any scale and on any cloud. The solution offers a complete software stack that allows users to unify their hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Able to grow with smaller, more linear increments of investment
The basic license that comes with the box allows basic virtualization features but advanced automation features would require an upgrade of licenses.
Able to grow with smaller, more linear increments of investment
The basic license that comes with the box allows basic virtualization features but advanced automation features would require an upgrade of licenses.
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I pay just over £20 per month and have done so ever since I started eight years ago, which to me is good value.
Their pricing is below the average, but they are not the lowest. The pricing is really simple with no hidden fees. What you see is what you get.
I pay just over £20 per month and have done so ever since I started eight years ago, which to me is good value.
Their pricing is below the average, but they are not the lowest. The pricing is really simple with no hidden fees. What you see is what you get.
Red Hat Ceph Storage is preferred over MinIO. Red Hat Ceph Storage is praised for its scalability, reliability, flexibility, and ease of management. Users appreciate its ability to handle large amounts of data, maintain data integrity, and provide constant availability. Positive feedback regarding customer service and support, cost-effectiveness, and efficient management of data further solidified Red Hat Ceph Storage as the preferred choice. MinIO can benefit from enhancements in terms of performance and reliability, and users have suggested improvements in data management features and compatibility.
This is an open-source solution but I am using the licensed version.
This solution is open source so it is free.
This is an open-source solution but I am using the licensed version.
This solution is open source so it is free.
Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) storage solutions are designed to help manage data for enterprises of all types. Dell PowerScale systems are simple to install, manage, and scale to virtually any size and include a choice of all-flash, hybrid, or archive nodes. Dell PowerScale solutions stay flexible and reliable no matter how much storage capacity is added, how much performance is required, or how business needs change in the future.
We paid an additional fee to have Dell's ProDeploy Plus team implement it.
Pricing for this solution is reasonable.
We paid an additional fee to have Dell's ProDeploy Plus team implement it.
Pricing for this solution is reasonable.
VxRack System consists of hyper-converged rack-scale engineered systems, with integrated networking, to achieve the scalability and management requirements of traditional and cloud native workloads. The VxRack series is purposely designed to enable customers to quickly deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and/or Private Cloud architectures. VxRack Systems tightly integrate hardware with software and management layers.
The pricing for this solution is good.
The price of the solution is fair, it is priced in the average range amongst competitors.
The pricing for this solution is good.
The price of the solution is fair, it is priced in the average range amongst competitors.
Enterprise-ready. Future-proof. Data-first.
Dell EMC ECS is too expensive.
We are not paying for the license at this stage.
Dell EMC ECS is too expensive.
We are not paying for the license at this stage.
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is a versatile solution with various primary use cases, including databases, backups, VMware, file storage, disaster recovery, and more. The most valuable functionalities of Cloud Volumes ONTAP include ease of deployment, exceptional performance, space-saving capabilities, Snap technology suite features, and seamless migration across environments. This solution has simplified processes, reduced downtime, increased efficiency, and optimized resource usage. It has also led to significant cost savings, improved performance, and enhanced manageability, making it a valuable asset for organizations looking to streamline their storage operations in the cloud.
ROI is seen through reduced usage space and energy consumption.
The AWS consumer-based pricing model makes it easy for developers to use their credit cards to spin up virtual servers immediately.
ROI is seen through reduced usage space and energy consumption.
The AWS consumer-based pricing model makes it easy for developers to use their credit cards to spin up virtual servers immediately.
FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.
We used a reseller for the purchase.
Our customers have seen a reduction in TCO.
We used a reseller for the purchase.
Our customers have seen a reduction in TCO.
Storage Spaces Direct uses industry-standard servers with local-attached drives to create highly available, highly scalable software-defined storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS arrays. Its converged or hyper-converged architecture radically simplifies procurement and deployment, while features like caching, storage tiers, and erasure coding, together with the latest hardware innovation like RDMA networking and NVMe drives, deliver unrivaled efficiency and performance.
With the data center licensing and everything that is connected to that, this solution is relatively costly.
Cost-wise the product is one of the more affordable within the category of products.
With the data center licensing and everything that is connected to that, this solution is relatively costly.
Cost-wise the product is one of the more affordable within the category of products.
Innovation to break decades of data storage trade-offs.
We acquired VAST Data as a one-time, capital purchase.
Price-wise, VAST Data is not the cheapest, not the most expensive one.
We acquired VAST Data as a one-time, capital purchase.
Price-wise, VAST Data is not the cheapest, not the most expensive one.
Portworx is the solution for running stateful containers in production, designed with DevOps in mind. With Portworx, users can manage any database or stateful service on any infrastructure using any container scheduler, including Kubernetes, Mesosphere DC/OS, and Docker Swarm. Portworx solves the five most common problems DevOps teams encounter when running stateful services in production: persistence, high availability, data automation, security, and support for multiple data stores and infrastructure.
I'm not sure how the licensing was broken out, but I don't think our offering of the Portworx was more than USD $20,000.
The price of Portworx Enterprise is high.
I'm not sure how the licensing was broken out, but I don't think our offering of the Portworx was more than USD $20,000.
The price of Portworx Enterprise is high.
Experience peace of mind with DataCore SANsymphony, the ultimate software-defined storage solution alleviating storage management challenges. Say goodbye to the complexities of managing different storage tiers and disruptions with SANsymphony's block-level storage virtualization technology, empowering you to automate capacity provisioning and data placement across diverse storage environments including SAN, DAS, HCI, and JBOD. Break down silos, control data placement, meet business continuity objectives, boost performance, and seamlessly expand or refresh hardware with SANsymphony. Benefit from features like asynchronous replication for disaster recovery, minimizing data loss, accelerating application responsiveness, and integrating new technology non-disruptively. Trusted by industry leaders like NASA, Thorntons, Inc., and TUI Cruises, DataCore SANsymphony guarantees unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and reliability, ensuring uninterrupted data access and application availability while reducing storage costs and inefficiencies.
In my case, the licensing per terabytes is very high and it must be licensed for each extra functionality.
This solution allows the use of off-the-shelf hardware and charges by the TB of storage.
In my case, the licensing per terabytes is very high and it must be licensed for each extra functionality.
This solution allows the use of off-the-shelf hardware and charges by the TB of storage.
Qumulo is a data storage and management platform that promotes object-based storage for users, backup archives, and surveillance. Its primary use case is to provide a cost-effective and feature-rich solution for managing large data.
The price of the solution is in the middle range compared to others. We look at the price per terabyte.
The price of Qumulo is reasonable.
The price of the solution is in the middle range compared to others. We look at the price per terabyte.
The price of Qumulo is reasonable.
Store and manage unstructured data at scale using NetApp StorageGRID for secure, durable object storage. Place content in the right location, at the right time, and on the right storage tier, optimizing workflows and reducing overall costs for globally distributed rich media.
Buying the solution is expensive, but it saves you money down the line when you factor in the logistics of not having to buy tapes.
The price is attractive.
Buying the solution is expensive, but it saves you money down the line when you factor in the logistics of not having to buy tapes.
The price is attractive.
Cloudian HyperStore lets you start small and grow to hundreds of petabytes on-premises simply by adding nodes. Leverage the proven interoperability of the industry’s only 100% native S3 API.
Our fees are approximately half a dollar per gigabyte.
The solution is cheap.
Our fees are approximately half a dollar per gigabyte.
The solution is cheap.
The cost of Scality RING8 could be less expensive. It is difficult for smaller businesses to afford it.
The initial cost (CAPEX) to set up the infrastructure is expensive due to the specific hardware required.
The cost of Scality RING8 could be less expensive. It is difficult for smaller businesses to afford it.
The initial cost (CAPEX) to set up the infrastructure is expensive due to the specific hardware required.
The licensing is based on the number of terabytes.
The licensing model is complex and depends on factors such as the number of processing cores and the amount of storage.
The licensing is based on the number of terabytes.
The licensing model is complex and depends on factors such as the number of processing cores and the amount of storage.
StorMagic SvSAN is simple hyperconverged storage used to eliminate downtime. It provides high availability with two nodes per cluster, and boasts users among thousands of organizations to keep mission-critical applications and data online and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The pricing of StorMagic SvSAN is fairly good because if you compare it with VMware, it's at a better price. This is an important thing to remember.
The licensing cost is $7,000 per two nodes for two terabytes.
The pricing of StorMagic SvSAN is fairly good because if you compare it with VMware, it's at a better price. This is an important thing to remember.
The licensing cost is $7,000 per two nodes for two terabytes.
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is a software-defined storage solution that consolidates seamless access and management of siloed block, file, and object storage into a single platform. Leveraging the Nutanix Cloud Platform, NUS is built for scale, performance, and integrated data security requirements of modern applications deployed on core, cloud, or edge.
The price of the license is expensive when comparing it to traditional storage.
I find Nutanix Files Storage competitively priced, even its feature set. Its price is seven out of ten.
The price of the license is expensive when comparing it to traditional storage.
I find Nutanix Files Storage competitively priced, even its feature set. Its price is seven out of ten.
IBM Cloud Object Storage is a web-scale platform that stores unstructured data - from petabyte to exabyte - with reliability, security, availability and disaster recovery without replication.
Pricing is not cheap.
IBM Cloud is cheaper than AWS. If you want to scale your cloud infrastructure, it can be bought at almost the same price.
Pricing is not cheap.
IBM Cloud is cheaper than AWS. If you want to scale your cloud infrastructure, it can be bought at almost the same price.
Zadara is a powerful enterprise-level storage solution whose design enables it to handle every aspect of a user’s data storage needs. It can be deployed in any location, using any protocol, and storing any data type that an organization requires. With Zadara, organizations can do everything that they were able to do with more traditional systems in a cheaper and more efficient way.
For our use, it's appropriately priced and overall, it's proved to be very cost-effective against other tier-one vendors.
The pricing is very competitive and the fact that they have very compelling discounts for multi-year commitments is great.
For our use, it's appropriately priced and overall, it's proved to be very cost-effective against other tier-one vendors.
The pricing is very competitive and the fact that they have very compelling discounts for multi-year commitments is great.
HPE StoreVirtual storage ensures that organisations can optimise the benefits of server virtualisation with cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery. The iSCSI-based, scale-out storage platform is easy to manage and change – meeting ongoing business demands without creating IT bottlenecks or application downtime. Overcoming the cost and management limitations of traditional storage area networks (SANs), HPE StoreVirtual nodes use storage clustering to form a single pool of resources that enable organisations to buy only what they need today, scaling non-disruptively to meet requirements in the future.
Licensing is not exactly straightforward, but not the worst I have ever seen.
One of the key features about it is that when you buy either a VSA license or a StoreVirtual appliance, all your software's included.
Licensing is not exactly straightforward, but not the worst I have ever seen.
One of the key features about it is that when you buy either a VSA license or a StoreVirtual appliance, all your software's included.
Hitachi Content Platform is an object storage solution that enables IT organizations and cloud service providers to store, share, sync, protect, preserve, analyze and retrieve file data from a single system. It is more efficient, easier to use, and capable of handling much more data than traditional file storage solutions. HCP automates day-to-day IT operations like data protection and readily evolves to changes in scale, scope, applications, storage, server and cloud technologies over the life of data. In IT environements where data grows quickly or must live for years, decades or even indefinitely, these capabilities are invaluable.
The pricing could be better.
Pricing is comparable to other solutions in the market.
The pricing could be better.
Pricing is comparable to other solutions in the market.
Red Hat Gluster Storage (formerly known as Red Hat Storage Server) is a software-defined storage (SDS) platform designed to handle the requirements of traditional file storage—high-capacity tasks like backup and archival as well as high-performance tasks of analytics and virtualization. But unlike traditional storage systems, Red Hat Gluster Storage isn’t rigid and expensive. It easily scales across bare metal, virtual, container, and cloud deployments.
If you need cheap storage, but still need high availability, it's a good product to look at.
If you need cheap storage, but still need high availability, it's a good product to look at.
We have had a 40 to 50 percent reduction in CAPEX on the acquisition of new hardware, which is probably conservative.
COST_SAVING; We have had a 40 to 50 percent reduction in CAPEX on the acquisition of new hardware, which is probably conservative.
We have had a 40 to 50 percent reduction in CAPEX on the acquisition of new hardware, which is probably conservative.
COST_SAVING; We have had a 40 to 50 percent reduction in CAPEX on the acquisition of new hardware, which is probably conservative.
For SMB, ROBO and Enterprises, who look to bring in quick deployment and operation simplicity to virtualization workloads and reduce related expenses, our solution is StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA). It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, hypervisor of choice, StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN and associated software into a single manageable layer. The HCA supports scale-up by adding disks and flash, and scale-out by adding extra nodes.
Its cost was reasonable.
This was all completed at an affordable price point for an SMB, which was also a key element for an NPO.
Its cost was reasonable.
This was all completed at an affordable price point for an SMB, which was also a key element for an NPO.
IBM Spectrum Virtualize is a dependable solution that improves data value, security, and simplicity for new and existing storage infrastructure. Proven over 12 years in thousands of deployments, its innovative virtualization capabilities help organizations achieve better data economics by supporting new workloads that are critical to their success. IBM Spectrum Virtualize software helps make new and existing storage more effective and standardizes functions traditionally deployed separately in disk systems for greater flexibility and potentially lower costs.
We would like the CPU cycle to save more on the licensing costs for us.
Do a proof of concept, if you are not comfortable jumping in, but do it.
We would like the CPU cycle to save more on the licensing costs for us.
Do a proof of concept, if you are not comfortable jumping in, but do it.
Huawei FusionStorage fully distributed cloud storage features massive scale-out capability designed for cloud-based architectures. The on-board storage system software combines the local storage resources of standard x86 servers into fully distributed storage pools, providing block, object, or file storage resources to the upper layer. An enterprise can easily obtain the required flexibility and efficiency in data storage to keep up with the ever-changing dynamics of business.
It is expensive but might be optimal based on the partnership.
It is expensive but might be optimal based on the partnership.
We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive.
VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion.
We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive.
VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion.
Intel has been building an entirely open source software ecosystem for data-centric computing, fully optimized for Intel® architecture and non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies, including Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory and Intel® Optane™ DC SSDs. Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) is the foundation of the Intel exascale storage stack. DAOS is an open source software-defined scale-out object store that provides high bandwidth, low latency, and high I/O operations per second (IOPS) storage containers to HPC applications. It enables next-generation data-centric workflows that combine simulation, data analytics, and AI.
For SMB and Enterprises, who either look to get rid of backup tapes completely, or are willing to accelerate backup process and add an extra level of protection, our solution is StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL). It is an appliance that eliminates the need in physical tape and “pretends” to be a supported tape drive or autoloader, keeping all data on inexpensive, fast and high-capacity spinning disks.
If you currently have Veeam there is no other solution that is as easy and affordable as StarWind.
The initial setup and deployment are also covered in the purchase at no additional cost.
If you currently have Veeam there is no other solution that is as easy and affordable as StarWind.
The initial setup and deployment are also covered in the purchase at no additional cost.
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.
The product is quite expensive and is among the most expensive for this type of solution.
VMware Software Defined Storage is a slightly expensive solution.
The product is quite expensive and is among the most expensive for this type of solution.
VMware Software Defined Storage is a slightly expensive solution.
LINBIT keeps Linux systems up and running. As the developers of DRBD® software (www.linbit.com), LINBIT has led the way in high availability since 2001. DRBD has been included in the Linux kernel since version 2.6.33 (2009), has been deployed on all major Linux distributions and is fully compatible with systems, applications, devices and services.
StorPool is intelligent storage software that runs on standard servers and builds scalable, high-performance storage system out of these servers (software-defined storage). It focuses on the block-level storage and excels at it. It is incredibly flexible and can be deployed in both converged setups (on compute nodes, alongside VMs and applications) or on separate storage nodes.
StorPool software is cost-effective and gives us a pricing advantage over our competitors.
StorPool software is cost-effective and gives us a pricing advantage over our competitors.
Software Defined Storage LizardFS is a distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant and highly available file system. It allows users to combine disk space located on many servers into a single name space which is visible on Unix-like and Windows systems in the same way as other file systems. SDS LizardFS makes files secure by keeping all the data in many replicas spread over available servers. It can also be used to build space-efficient storage, because it is designed to run on commodity hardware. Disk and server failures are handled transparently without any downtime or loss of data. If storage requirements grow, it's possible to scale an existing SDS LizardFS installation just by adding new servers _ at any time, without any downtime. The system will automatically move some data to newly added servers, because it continuously takes care of balancing disk usage across all connected nodes. Removing servers is just as easy as adding a new one.
For developers who demand ownership of their data and who want to build with confidence, Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage (DCS) is private by design and secure by default—delivering unparalleled data protection and privacy when compared to traditional centralized cloud object storage alternatives.
Storj DCS offers affordable and predictable pricing, S3 compatibility, a robust library of open source technical documentation and familiar development tools—along with a vibrant community of customers—which enables developers to economically and easily learn and leverage decentralized cloud storage technology to take control of their data when building the next great application or service.
StorNext File System
Increase productivity and reduce time to critical business insights with StorNext® File System. StorNext architecture delivers the necessary performance to get your business moving forward.
Quantum ActiveScale is open-source.
Quantum ActiveScale is open-source.
Elastifile provides the first-ever hybrid cloud data infrastructure, enabling unprecedented consolidation and self-service workflows across private and public clouds. Your application, analytics, and infrastructure teams can manage data across complex workflows with the simplicity and control of a single global namespace. All this is enabled by the Elastifile Cloud File System–a breakthrough application-level distributed file/object system. This elastic, scale-out software-defined solution brings
Swarm provides a platform for data protection, management, organization and search at massive scale. You no longer need to migrate data into disparate solutions for long-term preservation, delivery and analysis. Consolidate all files on Swarm, find the data you are looking for quickly, and reduce total cost of ownership by continuously evolving hardware and optimizing use of your resources.
You pay for what you use. For example, if you use one terabyte, you just pay for that one terabyte. But the pricing could always be better
The first installation brick is expensive but the upgrades are extremely simple and granular by adding disks or nodes.
You pay for what you use. For example, if you use one terabyte, you just pay for that one terabyte. But the pricing could always be better
The first installation brick is expensive but the upgrades are extremely simple and granular by adding disks or nodes.
IBM Spectrum Accelerate is a software-defined block storage solution designed for rapid deployment across heterogeneous infrastructure for hybrid cloud and delivering consistent service levels to a dynamic workload mix. It is based on proven grid-architecture, enterprise-scale IBM XIV technology. IBM Spectrum Accelerate can be deployed, including as hyper-converged infrastructure, on any x86 server, on pre-installed third-party appliances or on public cloud infrastructure, and is available as a service on IBM Cloud infrastructure.
If you are cost-sensitive then this solution is not for you.
If you are cost-sensitive then this solution is not for you.
The Veritas Access Appliance enables a turnkey deployment of Veritas’ software-defined Access scale-out network attached storage - a storage solution optimized for unstructured data use cases. The appliance is cost-optimized and tuned for high-capacity workloads like long-term retention (LTR), tape replacement and backup archiving.
The solution is not expensive compared to other storage solutions.
The solution is not expensive compared to other storage solutions.
Lightbits delivers scale-out, disaggregated, software-defined storage that performance like local flash.
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.
This product is not cheap. The only extra cost is the licensing.
This product is not cheap. The only extra cost is the licensing.