EMC XtremIO Flash Storage (discontinued) vs. StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

XtremIO would be useful for any production storage environment, or even any staging or development environment where performance mattered. It would not be ideal to use for backup storage.

It is well suited in data transfer and storage of files under secure environment. It has contributed to immediate Return on Investment with low cost performance. I totally recommend it to any company for its high speed performance under secure data channels. It does reliable reporting on data integration and analysis on daily basis pointing out areas that have challenging operations.

• The deduplication and compression is very good. This especially helps for VDI applications.
• It is easy to setup and map hosts to volumes.
• The new HTML5 console is much better than the older Java.

• Very cost-effective. You choose the hardware.
• Very reliable and performant.
• Excellent proactive support. They call us when there is an issue.
• Very flexible. Can mix and match spinning disk and SSD depending on capacity and performance needs.

• Its expensive but worth it

• Not sure what improvements are needed. The UI could possibly be more intuitive.

This was one area of real disappointment. EMC support was very slow to schedule work like installations and upgrades. Break/fix support was fairly standard. After the Dell merger, things have started improving but there is a lot left to be desired here.

I/O delievered by XtremIO can't be compared with any other flash storage. Existing relationship with vendor and pressure to improve I/O bottleneck was the key objective

I have not been able to work with same featured product in our organization, however the performance of this platform has been excellent. The support center has been reliable and trustworthy giving us 100% support on daily basis when we deach them. It is affordable to any business enterprise that is ready to implement data storage and transfer programs. The maintenance and scalable cost is reasonable and and the services has been great.

• Using XtremIO has made our VDI much more palatable for users.

• It enabled us to upgrade our storage and switch from FC to iSCSI at a reasonable cost.
• iSCSi is so much less expensive to maintain.
• StarWind is upgradable and you never lose your investment.