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    Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACisco 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/AN/ANexenta, 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/AScality in San Francisco offers scalable file and object storage for media, healthcare, cloud service providers, and others.N/A
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS)Nexenta by DDN (NexentaStor)Scality ARTESCA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
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    8.0
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    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    9.0
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    Support Rating
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    8.9
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS)Nexenta by DDN (NexentaStor)Scality ARTESCA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    IBM Cloud storage is a platform for backing up and archiving an unlimited amount of data in a simple, inexpensive, and adaptable manner. It adds additional smart tier capabilities, such as automatic tier categorization and cost optimizations depending on data activity. More secure storage of sensitive information through encryption and fine-grained regulation. A single, permanent, safe, and inexpensive location for all that historical data is IBM's cloud. Now, with query-in-place and machine-learning technologies, developers may create a data lake from which to draw meaningful insights. Offering both high levels of data durability and transmission speed, it is ideal for storing sensitive information on devices that must remain unchanged. Because of the service's excessive latency, a conventional database cannot be stored on it.
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    DataDirect Networks (DDN)
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    Scality
    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.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Cisco Cloud Object Storage closely monitor the stored content in the entire system.
    • Different collaboration tools are deployed by Cisco Cloud Object Storage.
    • Cisco Cloud Object Storage has deployed [international] standards to avoid insecurity occurrences.
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    DataDirect Networks (DDN)
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    Scality
    • I love the redundancy of the software.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Better 3rd party integration is needed for the use cases where applications can use Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) directly.
    • Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) implementation with an On-premise network can be made more robust.
    • There can be some enhancement in the version control feature of the files specifically for the REST API based applications.
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    DataDirect Networks (DDN)
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    Scality
    • 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.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) stands out in terms of scalability, reliability, and security. Even the storage plans are competitive with other cloud object storage providers. It provides great performance for unstructured data and large datasets, which are highly used in industries requiring analyses of large datasets. For an efficient user experience, it also provides content delivery for the users spanning across the globe.
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    DataDirect Networks (DDN)
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    Scality
    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.
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    Support Rating
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    Scality
    I have seen Scality in the office meeting with our VP and get the feeling that they are here to support us.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    The storage capacity on Cisco Cloud Object Storage is amazing and the data protection functionalities are very active. The Cisco Cloud Object Storage has [the] most cluster storage management options and [easiest] tools which offer amazing capabilities on easy management of multiple media files through the Cloud services without risking any information.
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    DataDirect Networks (DDN)
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    Scality
    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.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Improved Efficiency
    • Smooth team work
    • Knowledge management
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    DataDirect Networks (DDN)
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    Scality
    • 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.
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