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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    SUSE Harvester

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASuse's Harvester is a cloud-native hyperconverged infrastructure. It is used to unify infrastructure workloads with Harvester and is designed to help operators consolidate and simplify their virtual machine workloads alongside Kubernetes clusters. Harvester is presented as a next generation of open-source hyperconverged infrastructure solutions designed for modern cloud-native environments. Suse Harvester is open source and free to use.N/A
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    Scality ARTESCASUSE Harvester
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    Scality ARTESCASUSE Harvester
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Scality ARTESCASUSE Harvester
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Scality ARTESCASUSE Harvester
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    SUSE
    It's great for provisioning any kind of virtual servers, but for now, we use it to provision only servers for Rancher managed Kubernetes clusters. But we are considering to provision also virtual servers for all kinds of needs on SUSE Harvester in the near future, as it's getting more and more mature with every release.
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    Pros
    Scality
    • I love the redundancy of the software.
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    SUSE
    • Fast to deploy new virtual machines
    • It's easy to use
    • Stable and ready for production
    • Free and open source
    • Has a strong community
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    Cons
    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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    SUSE
    • It takes expertise to set up SUSE Harvester for production
    • You need to get used to SUSE Harvester to be as "fluent" as in VMWare ESXi
    • You need to well prepare for system upgrades
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    Usability
    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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    SUSE
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    Support Rating
    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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    SUSE
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    SUSE
    We used ESXi for years and were happy with it. Then we implemented Rancher managed Kubernetes clusters with nodes provisioned on VMware ESXi. Later, when SUSE Harvester came out, we started to provision SUSE Rancher nodes on Harvester. Both VMware ESXi and SUSE Harvester are great products, and I think - we are keeping both, at least for now, when SUSE Harvester is a young project.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    SUSE
    • We can provision more virtual servers
    • It's cheaper than competitor products (tbh - it's free, if you don't need support)
    • It's easy to manage when you get used to it
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