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    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

    Alta from Knewton, a Wiley brand

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAlta is Knewton’s product for higher education. Alta is a courseware solution that combines Knewton’s adaptive learning technology with content, and is designed to deliver a personalized learning experience that is affordable, accessible and improves student outcomes. Knewton is a Wiley brand (acquired 2019).N/A
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    User Ratings
    Scality ARTESCAAlta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Scality ARTESCAAlta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
    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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    Wiley
    It is appropriate as a learning system and helps your students gain mastery. I would not use it as much for an assessment system, although they have been slowly building up those capabilities.
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    Pros
    Scality
    • I love the redundancy of the software.
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    Wiley
    • Adaptive learning
    • LMS integration
    • Focus on meeting learning standards rather than just on grades
    • Each student gets different questions so it can reduce cheating
    • Explanations are included if students get problems wrong
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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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    Wiley
    • I have yet to run into something that Wiley reps did not handle well.
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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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    Wiley
    Easy to use
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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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    Wiley
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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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    Wiley
    alta from Knewton, a Wiley brand, is much less expensive than the other LMSes, not just for the students but for the institution, too.
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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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    Wiley
    • Higher pass rates.
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