IBM Elastic Storage Server vs. Scality ARTESCA

1. Perfect solution for geographically separated teams to work on sharing files/media. 2. Mainly suitable for CCTV/video recordings as the network speed and disk throughput is mammoth 3. Suites well for organizations looking for their own private cloud object storage solutions 4. primarily focused on hosting next-generation of applications centric to AI/IOT and ML.

When high availability and keeping sensitive information safe are top priority Scality is a great option and has good features that make it ideal for these type of applications. For small companies with limited resources to administer extensive systems Scality would not be a good match. It takes people dedicated to this platform to keep it functioning at its best.

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• Very High Availability and Scalability
• Works particularly well for AI and Big Data usecases
• Easily unifies all sorts and types of Data

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• It has a good evolutionary trend to stay alongside AWS as a leader.
• The web-based Supervisor GUI and Grafana statistics allow you to drill down into historical data in many ways.
• Easy for the end user to use.
• The system works so well that we now use it for scalable file system storage and disk-to-disk backups.

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• The maintenance procedure is not straight forward, needs lots of steps/dependency on spectrum scale software
• Should have an option to deliver as an bundled components under IBM, instead of individual components from different vendors

• From my limited experience, I have not seen anything that needs to be improved. I have found the product to be easy to use.

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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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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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IBM ESS is optimized for AI and Big Data usecases while S3 is a general purpose storage solutions. EMR and Databricks have lakehouse/data warehousing solutions for distributed computing but are more optimized for just the big data pipelining solutions and not essentially for AI usecases, especially for inference, when you need to load model artifacts really quickly.

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In reality, it did not become a substitute for AWS, since it allowed us to maintain a much more compact and rigid system by taking advantage of the support and evolutionary trend that Scality has and keeping AWS as a leader.

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• On demand scalability helped us in better projection of storage requirement
• With reduced human resource for operation and maintenance of storage, ROI has been increased a lot.
• High performance of Big Data applications using IBM Elastic Storage Server has improved the business.

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• We have had a positive ROI.

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