Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) vs. Quantum ActiveScale
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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 |
Quantum ActiveScale | Score7 out of 10 | N/A | Quantum offers the ActiveScale cloud object storage system, acquired from Western Digital February 2020, designed to provide a highly durable, scale-out economic storage system. ActiveScale is a more recent model replacing the former Amplidata Object Storage product line that was acquired by Western Digital from HGST in 2015. | N/A |
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| Small Businesses | 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 | Everpure FlashBlade Score9.9 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | IBM Storage Scale Score9.9 out of 10 | Google Cloud Storage Score9.2 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.0 | 7.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 8.0 |
| Usability | 8.0 | - |
| Support Rating | - | 8.0 |
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