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IBM Elastic Storage Server vs. StarWind Backup Appliance

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Elastic Storage Server
Score 8.3 out of 10
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IBM Elastic Storage Server (IBM ESS) is a software-defined storage option.N/A
StarWind Backup Appliance
Score 8.0 out of 10
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StarWind Backup Appliance (BA) is designed to help organizations eliminate the dependency of their production environment on the backup processes. Powered by NVMe storage, it removes the common backup repository performance bottleneck and the need to plan and fit into a specific backup window. With it, backups can be performed at any time without impacting applications and services. Moreover, the user can instantly recover files or VMs in case of emergency, to meet the strictest RTO and…N/A
Pricing
IBM Elastic Storage ServerStarWind Backup Appliance
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IBM Elastic Storage ServerStarWind Backup Appliance
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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IBM Elastic Storage ServerStarWind Backup Appliance
Small Businesses
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
StarWind Virtual SAN
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Storage Scale
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Score 6.5 out of 10
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Score 6.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Elastic Storage ServerStarWind Backup Appliance
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User Testimonials
IBM Elastic Storage ServerStarWind Backup Appliance
Likelihood to Recommend
1. Perfect solution for geographically separated teams to work on sharing files/media. 2. Mainly suitable for CCTV/video recordings as the network speed and disk throughput is mammoth 3. Suites well for organizations looking for their own private cloud object storage solutions 4. primarily focused on hosting next-generation of applications centric to AI/IOT and ML.
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Pros
  • Very High Availability and Scalability
  • Works particularly well for AI and Big Data usecases
  • Easily unifies all sorts and types of Data
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Cons
  • The maintenance procedure is not straight forward, needs lots of steps/dependency on spectrum scale software
  • Should have an option to deliver as an bundled components under IBM, instead of individual components from different vendors
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Alternatives Considered
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.
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Return on Investment
  • 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.
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