Likelihood to Recommend Azure Data Lake is an absolutely essential piece of a modern data and analytics platform. Over the past 2 years, our usage of Azure Data Lake as a reporting source has continued to grow and far exceeds more traditional sources like MS SQL, Oracle, etc.
Read full review The team in charge of implementing Scality has to be full stack in order to guarantee the correct functioning of the entire system. However, you have to think very carefully about the balance between servers and disks, perhaps adopting smaller fully populated servers instead of large semi-populated servers, which would mean that over time our disk updates will not have a fully useful life.
Read full review Pros Setting up Azure Data Lake Storage account, container is quite easy Access from anywhere and easy maintenance Integration with Azure Data Factory service for end to end pipeline is pretty easy Can store Any form of data (Structured, Unstructured, Semi) in faster manner Read full review I love the redundancy of the software. Read full review Cons study for the certifications also to have them as a reference for work when you have any questions about applying a configuration to the equipment. The Internet interface is simple and easy to use. Capacity is good and it's good that HP continues to innovate with this technology Read full review The overall packaging is not very good. I think it could be more efficient for installation. There are many components in storage servers. This can generally be complex to understand, you have to be patient. Read full review Usability As an organization, it took us a while to understand the shift from a traditional black box SAN to software-defined storage, but now we are much more certain of what this means. The time invested and the resources were not very high, thanks on the one hand to the technical support and on the other to the coherence and good development of the platform.
Read full review Support Rating I have seen Scality in the office meeting with our VP and get the feeling that they are here to support us.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Azure Data Lake Storage from a functionality perspective is a much easier solution to work with. It's implementation from
Amazon EMR went smooth, and continued usage is definitely better. However,
Amazon EMR was significantly cheaper overall between the high transaction fees and cost of storage due to growth. The two both have their advantages and disadvantages, but the functionality of Azure Data Lake Storage outweighed it's cost
Read full review Due to the nature of our business we require extensive encryption and availability for sensitive customer data. The erasure encoding that Scality provides gives us the assurance that documents are rest are never in a state of being downloaded or available to a casual data thief. This is something that can be found with other vendors but at a fraction of the same cost. Having this kind of performance, availability and redundancy at the cost that Scality provides has made a large difference to our organization.
Read full review Return on Investment Instead of having separate pools of storage for data we are now operating on a single layer platform which has cut down on time spent on maintaining those separate pools. We have had more of an ROI with the scalability as we are able to control costs of storage when need be. We are able to operate in a more streamlined approach as we are able to stay within the Azure suite of products and integrate seamlessly with the rest of the applications in our cloud-based infrastructure Read full review Keeping sensitive customer data secure is a must for our organization and Scality has great features to make this happen. We replaced a single SAN with a Scality ring and found performance to improve as we store more and more customer data. Being able to lose various portions of our Scality ring and allow it to continue to service customers while maintaining high performance has been key to our business. Read full review ScreenShots