CenturyLink Public Cloud vs Western Digital ActiveScale

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe for small to mid business application hosting Centurylink provides an adequate service. When moving to larger scale business enviornments I believe the limitations, slowness is going to become a problem

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Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Enterprise grade organizations with B2B clientele would be served well by using this product. It alleviates the need for an on-premise storage solution by offering a cloud-based alternative. Smaller organizations with less data capacity needs would be better served with an in-house solution, unless they come out with more reasonable pricing down the road.

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Pros

Offloading the requirements for hosting apps in house - cost savings
Access ability - users could access documents and programs from anywhere
Collaborative work ability - multiple users could work within the same enviornment

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Flexible data management options
Powerful data housing system storing trillions of bits of data seamlessly
Conveniently built in the cloud
Safe option for storing sensitive data

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Cons

Perhaps ease of use - it's not convoluted but a little more streamlined of an interface would be great
Make your presence more known - in a world of heavily advertised cloud options CenturyLink is not at the top of the pile and I think it may be due to a lack of awareness in the business community. Advertise!
Streamline functionality - interface can be a little slow at times.

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Lack of customization, though not much is needed with the out of the box solution
Better options for B2C customers
More flexible pricing plans

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Western Digital ActiveScale 8.0

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It has been a fantastic solution, and now it is so highly integrated into our business, it would be difficult to imagine continuing to without it. It is part of our customer contracts as well, and it saves us from having to invest in the on-premise alternative to provide the required storage capacity.

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Support

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Western Digital ActiveScale 8.0

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Support has been wonderful. Representatives are generally empathetic and knowledgeable, and they’re quick to provide status and resolution.

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Alternatives Considered

I did not select the application hosting environment - I was a user. That being said I do not have much of a voice in the difference between hosted services that I have experienced.

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What sets Amplidata apart is the cloud-based storage capability. We’ve realized cost savings due to the fact that we are no longer housing the data on premise, and clients rest assured that they have greater visibility into their data.

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Return on Investment

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Amplidata has enabled us to replace our on-premise data storage for many of our larger clients, thus reducing the cost to deploy and house this ourselves
Clients feel confident in storing their sensitive data with us knowing that they have full management and visibility at their fingertips
The ability to quickly scale allows us to meet the needs of clients of all sizes

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CenturyLink Public Cloud vs Western Digital ActiveScale