The Best of the Storage Systems Is IBM
August 23, 2024

The Best of the Storage Systems Is IBM

peter awortwe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with IBM Storage FlashSystem

You can easily configure, upgrade and receive support when need be.
We are using P8 and P9 for our storage. All our application databases are hosted on them. Because of the high security required around our products as we offer services to a financial institution, IBM Power 8 and 9 were our best options. It also solved the problem of data loses during upgrades. P8 & P9 have in place checks to ensure upgrade is

Pros

  • Data protection is top notch
  • IBM FlashSystem will not allow upgrade to complete when any of it pre-checks fails. this is one great feature that has saved us
  • It also manages CPU and memory utilizations very well. The team receives report and notification when I/O is high

Cons

  • Nothing I can think of for now
  • The system has greatly improved the service we offer to customers. We had a bad I/O when our flexcubes were hosted on the other systems but with the introduction of the P8 and P9 it has been far better
  • We successfully increased our mobileApp subscription base to 1million plus last 2 years when we hosted all the application servers on P8 and P9
The performance on i/o is very fast. We have over millions of customers accessing flexcube and mobileApp services on these Storage FlashSystem and the response rate is less than 0.08ms the last time i checked from the dashboard.
IBM Storage FlashSystem are reliable

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

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Storage FlashSystem's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Storage FlashSystem live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Storage FlashSystem go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy IBM Storage FlashSystem again?

Yes

IBM Storage FlashSystem has a good recovery though recovery depends on data size. It has always been our organizations preference over the Dell Storage Systems that we have. It hot swap capability also affords the comfort to change any of the components (CPU,Memory) when need be. The system hardly goes down, been with the organization for 7 years and the only time Our FlashSystem went down was when someone mistakenly pull the power cable in the datacentre.

IBM Storage FlashSystem Feature Ratings

Enterprise Flash Array Storage
10.0
Flash Array Performance
10
Flash Array Integration
10
Data Compression
10
Non-Intrusive Upgrades
10
Simplicity
10
Power Savings
10

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