Dell PowerScale vs. IBM Storage Scale

Dell PowerScale

Dell PowerScale

24 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Storage Scale

IBM Storage Scale

33 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Dell PowerScale	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Dell Technologies presents Dell PowerScale (replacing EMC Isilon) as a scale-out NAS solution and server technology that provides the flexibility of a software-defined architecture with accelerated hardware innovations to harness the value of data. Isilon Systems was acquired by EMC in 2010; some EMC Isilon NAS appliances are still available and supported under the PowerScale brand.	N/A
IBM Storage Scale	Score 9.8 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	IBM Storage Scale (formerly IBM Spectrum Scale) supports storage management of unstructured data for big data analytics.	N/A

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Dell PowerScale	IBM Storage Scale
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Community Pulse
	Dell PowerScale	IBM Storage Scale
Considered Both Products	Dell PowerScale Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell PowerScale Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe, NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays and XtremIO Flash Storage Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell PowerScale Isilon is immensely more scalable than Celerra and gave us better control over snapshots and replication. The addition of global deduplication provides a huge space savings benefit as well. Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Blackburn Storage Engineer Chose Dell PowerScale We are currently evaluating these against our Isilon. No decision made yet. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell PowerScale Raw disk space vs. logical disk space ratio was significantly better on the Isilon. Fast cache using SSD drives for faster searching is available on the Isilon but not available on the Overland solution. Isilon solution included faster backend switching between nodes. Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Storage Scale Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Chose IBM Storage Scale Through the use IBM Spectrum Scale tools its quite easy and secure environment that are provided to manipulate business data smoothly and manage multiple data storage platforms. IBM Spectrum Scale also allows effective data access and data transportation channels for big files … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Storage Scale When we implemented the Spectrum Scale solution, we had in place a NetApp FAS series working in Metro Cluster mode. What is great about NetApp is its low maintenance. On the other hand, it lacks performance, especially on the CPU nodes. We needed a solution that will deliver … Incentivized Helpful? Leonardo Molinares Meza Arquitecto de soluciones Chose IBM Storage Scale We chose this solution thanks to our experience with GPFS, and we have confirmed the functionalities of the product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Storage Scale It was the solution that fit the requirements of our customers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Storage Scale Spectrum Scale is a unique product in that it allows for both storage management and orchestration. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Dell PowerScale	IBM Storage Scale
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Dell PowerScale	IBM Storage Scale
Likelihood to Recommend	It is well suited for scale out NAS storage. One can use Rest API calls to get relevant data. It can be used in the product SRM, where one can discover arrays from Isilon/PowerScale and can monitor the reports. One can monitor Capacity and Performance reports of the array. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Spectrum Scale creates excellent and real time data results and the capability to extract data and data modeling tools via IBM Spectrum Scale is amazing. The capacity planning and data archiving and the data security offered by IBM Spectrum Scale is more productive and the data quality control using the system is impressive. Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Read full review
Pros	Auto data balancing between nodes while still maintaining great performance Directory snapshots Universal namespace Network load balancing across nodes Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Good for storage Optimizing. Good velocity. Strong agility in the product. Incentivized Leonardo Molinares Meza Arquitecto de soluciones Read full review
Cons	In my experience, I have seen a lot of bugs in the oneFS and for remedying it, we need to install patches which requires a node reboot. In old isilon OneFS versions, the nodes need to be rebooted every 250 days which is quite less compared to other storage devices. The operational cost of Isilon is a bit on the higher side. Incentivized Vishal Ranjan Srivastav Senior Storage Administrator Read full review	Price Requires a learning curve and training to manage the product Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Isilon is immensely more scalable than Celerra and gave us better control over snapshots and replication. The addition of global deduplication provides a huge space savings benefit as well. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	When we implemented the Spectrum Scale solution, we had in place a NetApp FAS series working in Metro Cluster mode. What is great about NetApp is its low maintenance. On the other hand, it lacks performance, especially on the CPU nodes. We needed a solution that will deliver steady performance while keeping a steady growth. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	We are currently researching other vendors for our Medical imaging archives due to issues with space utilization efficiency on Isilon. Incentivized Kevin Blackburn Storage Engineer Read full review	Different versions in a short period of time Re-creation of the certificates after an update creates confusion Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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