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    Firecracker

    Score4 out of 10
    N/AFirecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services. Firecracker enables users to deploy workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs that may provide security and workload isolation over traditional VMs, while enabling the speed and resource efficiency of containers. Firecracker was developed at Amazon Web Services with the goal of improving services like AWS Lambda…N/A

    Scality ARTESCA

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AScality in San Francisco offers scalable file and object storage for media, healthcare, cloud service providers, and others.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
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    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Firecracker and Scality ARTESCA
    Feature
    Firecracker
    6.4
    1 Ratings
    23% below category average
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    Virtual machine automated provisioning6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management console8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    FirecrackerScality ARTESCA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.0
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    8.0
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    Usability
    -
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    9.0
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    Support Rating
    -
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    8.9
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    User Testimonials
    FirecrackerScality ARTESCA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    While deploying workloads in lightweight microVMs presents a couple of perks, Firecracker may not be the best software to handle this. Startup times are slow and scalability is quite limited because of the jailer and virtualization barriers. We have had security breaches on isolated EC2 instances while using Firecracker. It however has a silver lining by improving how serverless functions in container ecosystems are run with their VMMs.
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    Scality
    The team in charge of implementing Scality has to be full stack in order to guarantee the correct functioning of the entire system. However, you have to think very carefully about the balance between servers and disks, perhaps adopting smaller fully populated servers instead of large semi-populated servers, which would mean that over time our disk updates will not have a fully useful life.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • It makes it easy to secure virtual machines as they are segmented into microvms with a minimal attack surface area
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    Scality
    • I love the redundancy of the software.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • Excludes devices unnecessarily
    • Has a slow startup time the basis being to improve security which is quite irrelevant.
    • It has limited functionalities on monitoring VMs despite being an open source.
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    Scality
    • The overall packaging is not very good. I think it could be more efficient for installation.
    • There are many components in storage servers. This can generally be complex to understand, you have to be patient.
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    Usability
    Open Source
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    Scality
    As an organization, it took us a while to understand the shift from a traditional black box SAN to software-defined storage, but now we are much more certain of what this means. The time invested and the resources were not very high, thanks on the one hand to the technical support and on the other to the coherence and good development of the platform.
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
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    Scality
    I have seen Scality in the office meeting with our VP and get the feeling that they are here to support us.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
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    Scality
    Due to the nature of our business we require extensive encryption and availability for sensitive customer data. The erasure encoding that Scality provides gives us the assurance that documents are rest are never in a state of being downloaded or available to a casual data thief. This is something that can be found with other vendors but at a fraction of the same cost. Having this kind of performance, availability and redundancy at the cost that Scality provides has made a large difference to our organization.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Low memory overhead on each microVM
    • We can run workloads from different customers on the same machine.
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    Scality
    • Keeping sensitive customer data secure is a must for our organization and Scality has great features to make this happen.
    • We replaced a single SAN with a Scality ring and found performance to improve as we store more and more customer data.
    • Being able to lose various portions of our Scality ring and allow it to continue to service customers while maintaining high performance has been key to our business.
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