IBM Spectrum Scale vs. StarWind SAN & NAS

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

StarWind is best suited for the integration and deployment part and for the storage part as well. The product is budget-friendly and helps us to improve business agility. Can't think of negative scenarios as of now.

Incentivized

• Secure data storage platform.
• Secure environment to handle big data through.
• Creating reports from multiple platforms easily.

• Ease of Deployment
• Management interface
• Documentation and support
• performance

• Not suited for HPC.
• Doesn't work well for retail.

Incentivized

• Can improve documentation.
• Can more focus on user training.

Incentivized

It was the solution that fit the requirements of our customers.

Incentivized

We chose StarWind SAN & NAS over Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct because it was more flexible to configure.

Incentivized

• Allowed reuse of existing storage
• Flexibility to provision storage quickly, allowing us to right size storage.

Incentivized

• Allowed us to go all flash for 1/5 the cost
• Boosted end user experience due to high iops on flash
• lowered expenses on arrays and licensees