Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) vs. Nexenta by DDN (NexentaStor) vs. Scality ARTESCA
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Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) | Score8 out of 10 | N/A | Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) provides distributed, resilient, high-performance storage and retrieval of binary large object (blob) data. Object storage is distributed across a cluster of hardware systems, or nodes. The storage cluster is resilient against hard drive failure within a node and against node failure within a cluster. Nodes can be added to or removed from the cluster to adjust cluster capacity as needed. | N/A |
Nexenta by DDN (NexentaStor) | N/A | N/A | Nexenta, now from DDN (acquired May 2019), offers what they present as flexible, scalable & cost effective enterprise grade, multi-protocol scale-up/scale-out software-defined storage solution. According to the vendor, Nexenta’s flagship Software Defined Storage (SDS) solution, NexentaStor, delivers unified file and block storage services, runs on industry standard hardware, scales from tens of terabytes to multi-petabyte configurations, and includes all data management functionality by default. | N/A |
Scality ARTESCA | Score8 out of 10 | N/A | Scality in San Francisco offers scalable file and object storage for media, healthcare, cloud service providers, and others. | N/A |
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| Small Businesses | StarWind Virtual SAN Score9.5 out of 10 | StarWind Virtual SAN Score9.5 out of 10 | ![]() Azure Blob Storage Score8.7 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | StarWind Virtual SAN Score9.5 out of 10 | StarWind Virtual SAN Score9.5 out of 10 | Everpure FlashBlade Score9.9 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | IBM Storage Scale Score9.9 out of 10 | IBM Storage Scale Score9.9 out of 10 | Google Cloud Storage Score9.2 out of 10 |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.0 | - | 8.0 |
| Usability | 8.0 | - | 9.0 |
| Support Rating | - | - | 8.9 |
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