IBM Storage Scale vs. Quantum ActiveScale vs. Scality ARTESCA

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.

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Enterprise grade organizations with B2B clientele would be served well by using this product. It alleviates the need for an on-premise storage solution by offering a cloud-based alternative. Smaller organizations with less data capacity needs would be better served with an in-house solution, unless they come out with more reasonable pricing down the road.

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

• Flexible data management options
• Powerful data housing system storing trillions of bits of data seamlessly
• Conveniently built in the cloud
• Safe option for storing sensitive data

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• I love the redundancy of the software.

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

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• Lack of customization, though not much is needed with the out of the box solution
• Better options for B2C customers
• More flexible pricing plans

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• 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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It has been a fantastic solution, and now it is so highly integrated into our business, it would be difficult to imagine continuing to without it. It is part of our customer contracts as well, and it saves us from having to invest in the on-premise alternative to provide the required storage capacity.

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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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Support has been wonderful. Representatives are generally empathetic and knowledgeable, and they’re quick to provide status and resolution.

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

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What sets Amplidata apart is the cloud-based storage capability. We’ve realized cost savings due to the fact that we are no longer housing the data on premise, and clients rest assured that they have greater visibility into their data.

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

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• Amplidata has enabled us to replace our on-premise data storage for many of our larger clients, thus reducing the cost to deploy and house this ourselves
• Clients feel confident in storing their sensitive data with us knowing that they have full management and visibility at their fingertips
• The ability to quickly scale allows us to meet the needs of clients of all sizes

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• 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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