Likelihood to Recommend Dell EMC VMAX All-Flash Storage is a very powerful storage that easily manages huge data transactions with high IO processing speed. This Storage is well suited for critical production environments because response times are much better. This storage enables direct data backup. It's always up and running during updates because it creates a redundant connection from the controller.
Read full review For environments where high IO and read writes are performed the flash storage is very well suited . We also use this for another customer as a back end storage for high performance backups where we run multi stream data writes to it via 100G interface.
Read full review Pros It creates a fully redundant connection from multiple controllers that are always up even during updates. Once setup there is little to no adjustments that need to be made to the storage array. All that's needed is volume updates. Read full review Cyber resilience with the new functionality of immutable copies called sfaguarded copies With the IBM FlashCore modules it allows us to have good levels of online compression of the information, besides that it is a hardware compression that would not affect the performance of the equipment the virtualization of other storages that can be IBM or other brands binary replication works great Read full review Cons Initial configuration are bit difficult need some experience resource to manage it. We faced issue with vendor support during major impact. Read full review Drive firmware updates are a bit clunky, the update files have to be sourced manually IBM has separate storage monitoring you need to set up to get good historical statistics. If you need 8 16Gb ports you will not be able to expand with a SAS connector. Read full review Likelihood to Renew As flash technology evolves rapidly, vendors should [adapt] to the changes and onboard them in their products. IBM is a bit slow in adopting advanced technology in [its] portfolio. Even though the current product is good, my decision is purely based on how the transformation of the product [is] being produced and supplied to [the] end-user.
Read full review Usability The low latency for best performance and improve productivity. This is very much suitable for all the usecases where data intensive processing need to be performed. The administration is very easy and logical. It helps to run the infrastructure at optimial cost and optimal performance. It offers great deal of virtualisation featurs and they are indeed very much powerful.
Read full review Performance Even though the model is suited towards smaller or medium sized businesses, the speeds and performances seen via our benchmarks exceeded any requirements we initially had. The setup was quite simple and the additional features such as allowing for better hyrbid storage and containerization has improved the backend performance of our company immensely.
Read full review Support Rating The best part about this array is that once you have it configured it is pretty much done. There is little to no other configurations to be done other than normal volume adjustments. Support is great as they understand this array very well. The updates are very hands-off and are done solely by support. You contact them and then there are no other changes done on the end-user's side.
Read full review IBM support ecosystem is robust and well organized, due to the advent of Watson based case management system IBM offers a decent support system for the customers and the users of its products.
Read full review Implementation Rating I was amazed by the way IBM Flash storage provides a huge amount of storage within the limited footprint, it helped us to replace big fat storage arrays, which aided in the process of moving towards lower hardware, carbon, and energy consumption footprint. We can comfortably say that Flash helped us to host applications fast with a blazing speed and user transactions are quite quick.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Lukas Mizera Information Technology Infrastructure Specialist - Storage Management
Read full review For the past six months, we have been utilizing this technology in our projects to manage a massive workload and produce swift business outcomes on a crucial production database. The IBM FlashSystem 7200, which offers high performance and compression, has so far been a great experience for us. The results and functionality of this product have delighted our consumers.
Read full review Return on Investment Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provides the hybrid cloud solution Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provides the great storage capacity with data security Data Migration from other storage, data compression, stability Read full review Flash System 5000 Built on a software foundation that delivers a 359% ROI. IBM Flash System 5000 Gain the highest levels of availability to support mission-critical applications. IBM Flash System 5000 benefits from [the] integration of modern data protection and rich cyber resiliency features. IBM Flash System 5000 Enhance storage efficiency. Read full review ScreenShots IBM Storage FlashSystem Screenshots