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    Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AKaminario K2 was an on-premise flash array storage. Silk updated its brand and focus to reflect the move of customers to the cloud. The former Kaminario K2 product is no longer available.N/A

    Platform9 Managed OpenStack

    Score8 out of 10
    N/APlatform9's Managed OpenStack enables users to deploy and operate OpenStack Hybrid Cloud with a 100% SaaS based service. The SaaS platform lets users go live with an OpenStack private cloud with its deployment tools. The Platform9 dashboard is designed to offer visibility into infrastructure across compute, storage, network, and existing workloads.N/A
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    Kaminario K2 (discontinued)Platform9 Managed OpenStack
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Kaminario K2 (discontinued)Platform9 Managed OpenStack
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    User Testimonials
    Kaminario K2 (discontinued)Platform9 Managed OpenStack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Silk
    K2 works well in our mixed-use virtual environment. I would not hesitate to place any workload on K2, it has always performed well. We use fiber-channel connectivity as it replaced our large legacy storage array, replacing one rack of spinning disks with 4U of flash.
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    Platform9
    If you're having OnPremise Infrastructure and you want to use OpenStack in that case Platform9 Managed OpenStack is recommended to use it will cut down all the complexities of setting up and managing OpenStack IaaS. Platform9 also offers setting up OpenStack on Cloud Such as AWS, GCP, and Azure but wouldn't recommend using this kind of offering as Openstack performs well when underneath virtualized infrastructure is backed directly hypervisors not cloud providers.
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    Pros
    Silk
    • Great performance
    • Great support
    • Super-simple to use
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    Platform9
    • It removes all the Openstack complexities and provides a simple UI to the end user.
    • Reduced the pain of System Administrator and Engineers.
    • Highly responsive support.
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    Cons
    Silk
    • Not well known, so third-party support is lacking
    • Data reduction is good, but not as good as expected (actual 2.7:1)
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    Platform9
    • User interface and User experience are not upto the mark. UI needs lots of improvements.
    • We need to do entire setup from the scratch.
    • Nothing as such other than UI Improvements.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Silk
    We performed a bake-off with K2 and one other vendor and they performed identically. K2 pricing was aggressive, performance was great, and it offered the features that we needed at a price that we could afford
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    Return on Investment
    Silk
    • Installing K2 reduced runtime of one of our batch processes, freeing up one employee for other tasks.
    • Less time managing storage.
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    Platform9
    • Platform9 simplified scaling in and out hypervisors now adding capacity takes very less time than other OpenStack environments.
    • Platfrom9 Managed Openstack gives us feeling of having our own private cloud!
    • It has increased the availability of our infrastructure which resulted lessen downtime on workloads deployed on top of it.
    • Overall it benefited us in all means.
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