IBM Elastic Storage Server vs. Nutanix Unified Storage

IBM Elastic Storage Server

4 Reviews and Ratings

Nutanix Unified Storage

7 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Elastic Storage Server	Score8.3 out of 10	N/A	IBM Elastic Storage Server (IBM ESS) is a software-defined storage option.	N/A
Nutanix Unified Storage	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Nutanix Unified Storage is a software-defined storage (SDS) solution used to intelligently manage and share data, aimed at replacing storage silos that limit visibility, block access, and slow innovation. The software-based unified storage solution is built upon clustered, shared-nothing nodes to create a pool of resources. Storage controllers are virtualized and provide access to block distributed data, files, and objects.	N/A

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IBM Elastic Storage Server

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Pricing Offerings
IBM Elastic Storage Server	Nutanix Unified Storage
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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User Ratings
	IBM Elastic Storage Server	Nutanix Unified Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Elastic Storage Server	Nutanix Unified Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	IBM Reliable data storage and access is a big challenge in AI applications and IBM ESS is a service you need to solve the problem. If you are building an AI service and you already use the IBM ecosystem for AI compute requirements, ESS can serve as an excellent software based storage solution. Integration with other platforms such as EMR/Databricks is still a challenge and should be improved. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Nutanix No answers on this topic
Pros	IBM Powerful processing power, literally support unlimited scale out storage capabilities well integrated and supported with multi flavor environment and file systems. Huge capacity with in a very reduced form factor of disks/enclosures Verified User Read full review	Nutanix No answers on this topic
Cons	IBM Integration and configuration need a bit more technical expertise which is I guess expected. There can be some improvement in integration with Legacy applications. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Nutanix No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	IBM IBM ESS is optimized for AI and Big Data usecases while S3 is a general purpose storage solutions. EMR and Databricks have lakehouse/data warehousing solutions for distributed computing but are more optimized for just the big data pipelining solutions and not essentially for AI usecases, especially for inference, when you need to load model artifacts really quickly. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Nutanix No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	IBM When the cost and price dynamics comes into account, we have replaced age old traditional arrays with almost negligible cost with ESS able to extend the capabilities of global teams to work and share their experiences and knowledge with other teams. Verified User Read full review	Nutanix No answers on this topic
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