Pivot3 Acuity vs. Scality ARTESCA

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Pivot3 Acuity
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Pivot3 in Austin, Texas offers Pivot3 Acuity (formerly the vSTAC line of products), a hyperconverged infrastructure solution.N/A
Scality ARTESCA
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Scality in San Francisco offers scalable file and object storage for media, healthcare, cloud service providers, and others.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Pivot3 AcuityScality ARTESCA
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.0
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Usability
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9.0
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Support Rating
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8.9
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User Testimonials
Pivot3 AcuityScality ARTESCA
Likelihood to Recommend
It is only suitable for a vSphere deployment. This particular cluster is best suited for very demanding workloads.
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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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Pros
  • Deployment was very easy. Pivot3 staff were involved in the POC, and the transition was fairly smooth.
  • This is an all-flash hyperconverged cluster. It is easily scalable and has excellent performance.
  • We frequently burst internal virtual workloads, and this 5 node cluster can support around 15,000 IOPs and 1 GB/sec of throughput.
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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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Cons
  • The cluster is actually very easy to use. It might be nice if the dashboard had more detailed metrics, but those are available in a different interface.
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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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Usability
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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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Support Rating
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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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Alternatives Considered
We reviewed the technology and pricing prior to commencing a POC. Pivot3 looked the best initially and delivered. We did not test the others ourselves.
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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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Return on Investment
  • Definitely a positive ROI. We are not seeing some of the latency issues that were beginning to crop up on our older hardware.
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  • We have had a positive ROI.
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