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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LanSchool

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ALenovo offers LanSchool, a classroom management platform supporting collaboration, monitoring student activity, chat, teacher broadcasting / screen-sharing, and other features.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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    LanSchoolScality ARTESCA
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    LanSchoolScality ARTESCA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
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    9.0
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    Support Rating
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    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LanSchoolScality ARTESCA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Lenovo
    I have recommended it across campus and would not hesitate to do so again. It has been great in our lab environments and would like to continue using it for years to come. In the future as we move away from physical labs I will be investigating to purchase for BYOD devices, however I know that I will face pushback from students on this. However we must weigh privacy & security vs. using BYOD devices and integrity on exams.
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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
    Lenovo
    • Lenovo LanSchool has a very easy to use and easy to learn interface. With software, the hardest thing to do is to teach new teachers or veteran teachers how to use technology in their classrooms. Being able to easily teach teachers to use this software is one of the best aspects of the [Lenovo LanSchool].
    • Something that LanSchool does well is to monitor student actions. On the screens, you can see all the linked computers of all students. This feature lets you see every student on one screen. The alternative is walking around the classroom or scrolling through pages of student screens, with LanSchool you can guarantee that you are seeing all screens at once.
    • Overall classroom management is a key feature on the platform. You can share files, freeze student screens, blank out student screens and share another screen to the entire class. There are far more options in terms of engaging the students than a conventional method of asking students to pay attention. Installing LanSchool is a huge asset for teachers to engage and update their lessons.
    • A cool element I seldom use is the speaking software, being able to speak through their computer screens is great to give direction or get attention quickly.
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    Scality
    • I love the redundancy of the software.
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    Cons
    Lenovo
    • Messaging could be improved for notification when messages are sent.
    • When multiple users use the same computer, sometimes LanSchool needs to be restarted to show changes in usernames.
    • You can save layouts, but I would like more options for how to arrange the layout you see the computers on your screen.
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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
    Lenovo
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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
    Lenovo
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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
    Lenovo
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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
    Lenovo
    • Helps us serve thousands of students each year
    • Has helped us improve classroom management
    • Saves us time with technology set up (e.g. being able to do all from Lanschool, not having to set up each individual computer every day)
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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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