Dell PowerScale vs. Scality ARTESCA

It is well suited for scale out NAS storage. One can use Rest API calls to get relevant data. It can be used in the product SRM, where one can discover arrays from Isilon/PowerScale and can monitor the reports. One can monitor Capacity and Performance reports of the array.

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When high availability and keeping sensitive information safe are top priority Scality is a great option and has good features that make it ideal for these type of applications. For small companies with limited resources to administer extensive systems Scality would not be a good match. It takes people dedicated to this platform to keep it functioning at its best.

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• Auto data balancing between nodes while still maintaining great performance
• Directory snapshots
• Universal namespace
• Network load balancing across nodes

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• It has a good evolutionary trend to stay alongside AWS as a leader.
• The web-based Supervisor GUI and Grafana statistics allow you to drill down into historical data in many ways.
• Easy for the end user to use.
• The system works so well that we now use it for scalable file system storage and disk-to-disk backups.

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• In my experience, I have seen a lot of bugs in the oneFS and for remedying it, we need to install patches which requires a node reboot.
• In old isilon OneFS versions, the nodes need to be rebooted every 250 days which is quite less compared to other storage devices.
• The operational cost of Isilon is a bit on the higher side.

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• From my limited experience, I have not seen anything that needs to be improved. I have found the product to be easy to use.

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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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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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Isilon is immensely more scalable than Celerra and gave us better control over snapshots and replication. The addition of global deduplication provides a huge space savings benefit as well.

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In reality, it did not become a substitute for AWS, since it allowed us to maintain a much more compact and rigid system by taking advantage of the support and evolutionary trend that Scality has and keeping AWS as a leader.

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• We are currently researching other vendors for our Medical imaging archives due to issues with space utilization efficiency on Isilon.

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• We have had a positive ROI.

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