Dell PowerFlex vs. IBM Spectrum Scale

Dell PowerFlex

3 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Spectrum Scale

IBM Spectrum Scale

32 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Dell PowerFlex	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Dell PowerFlex (formerly VxFlex) software-defined storage solutions aim to enable transformational agility for organizations looking to modernize their datacenter operations. The vendor states PowerFlex enables extreme flexibility, massive scalability, and enterprise-class performance and resiliency while simplifying infrastructure management and operations.	N/A
IBM Spectrum Scale	Score 8.0 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	IBM Spectrum Scale supports storage management of unstructured data for big data analytics.	N/A

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Dell PowerFlex

IBM Spectrum Scale

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Dell PowerFlex	IBM Spectrum Scale
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Community Pulse
	Dell PowerFlex	IBM Spectrum Scale
Top Pros	Pro Pane of glass Pro Get expensive Pro Smooth and easy	Pro High availability Pro Use and manage Pro Cost effective
Top Cons	Minus Software upgrades Minus Hit or miss Minus Costs are high	Minus Command line Minus Easy understanding Minus Learning curve

Best Alternatives
	Dell PowerFlex	IBM Spectrum Scale
Small Businesses	StarWind HCA Score 9.6 out of 10	StarWind Virtual SAN Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	StarWind HCA Score 9.6 out of 10	StarWind Virtual SAN Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Score 9.0 out of 10	Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Score 9.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Dell PowerFlex	IBM Spectrum Scale
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (2 ratings)	8.2 (5 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Dell PowerFlex	IBM Spectrum Scale
Likelihood to Recommend	Dell Technologies Definitely would recommend this unit or this family of units into most peoples organizations. Especially if you're starting fresh with a whole dedicated SAN and dont have to move a ton of data over to these (though that is possible, it is very messy). If you're moving from existing storage, then you will have to be prepared for some sore spots! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM When you get a Spectrum Scale solution from IBM you are certain of two things. 1) You will need a specialized storage admin who will be able to take all of its advantages and make available for your organization. It is an appliance that not so many storage admins would be comfortable working on. Invest properly on both hardware and human resources. 2) You will scale forever. We started with a couple of hundred of Terabytes and grew to dozens of Petabytes. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Dell Technologies Gets all your (SAN) ducks in a row, and makes it easy with a single pane of glass The usual good dell support if you're paying for the right support level It can get expensive with options added but base price is pretty competitive Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Secure data storage platform. Secure environment to handle big data through. Creating reports from multiple platforms easily. Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Read full review
Cons	Dell Technologies Costs are high, especially when having to replace multiple old SAN's with the one type There is alot of down time when you have to push updates out to the units Not sure we still have the full hang of all the functions as there's some pretty deep functions that are not explained well Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Not suited for HPC. Doesn't work well for retail. Incentivized Leonardo Molinares Meza Arquitecto de soluciones Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Dell Technologies No answers on this topic	IBM It was the solution that fit the requirements of our customers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Dell Technologies Money saved in having a bunch of other competing storage units All kinds of time saved for our admins that have to deal with storage The units look good and give you that futurey data center vibe! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Allowed reuse of existing storage Flexibility to provision storage quickly, allowing us to right size storage. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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