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Best cloud storage solution for Big Data and AI
January 14, 2023

Best cloud storage solution for Big Data and AI

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Elastic Storage Server

IBM Elastic Storage Server or IBM Elastic Storage Server is one of the best scalable, high-performance storage appliances available in the market. We are using IBM Elastic Storage Server for Big Data Application storage which needs on-demand scalability and high performance. IBM Elastic Storage Server is best suited for such purpose as it has reduced our maintenance and operational issues with the traditional on premise storage solution.
  • On demand high scalability
  • High performance specially for Big Data and AI Applications
  • Less operation and maintenance cost
  • Integration and configuration need a bit more technical expertise which is I guess expected.
  • There can be some improvement in integration with Legacy applications.
  • Scalability
  • Reliability
  • High Performance
  • Better integration with other Appliances
  • On demand scalability helped us in better projection of storage requirement
  • With reduced human resource for operation and maintenance of storage, ROI has been increased a lot.
  • High performance of Big Data applications using IBM Elastic Storage Server has improved the business.
  • Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS)
We have used Cisco Cloud Object Storage earlier which is also a good object storage solution. COS has partnered with multiple vendors for object storage solutions and IBM storage solution is one of them. As far as the high performance of AI and Big Data applications is concerned, COS can't beat IBM Elastic Storage Server.

Do you think IBM Elastic Storage Server delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Elastic Storage Server's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Elastic Storage Server live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Elastic Storage Server go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy IBM Elastic Storage Server again?

Yes

Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS), Dell ECS, Storage as a Service from Hitachi Vantara (STaaS)
The biggest challenges with Big Data Applications are scalability and performance. IBM Elastic Storage Server provides solutions for both of these challenges. With on-demand scalability, we can forecast the storage requirement better unlike in traditional storage solutions where we had to predict the storage requirement months before. Also, we get a lot more performance with IBM Elastic Storage Server as its spread across multiple nodes over the cloud which helps in fault tolerance also.