IBM Cloud Object Storage and Dell ECS compete in scalable cloud storage solutions. IBM Cloud Object Storage has a slight upper hand due to its ease of integration and cost-effectiveness, appealing to budget-conscious businesses, whereas Dell ECS attracts enterprises needing advanced capabilities with its rich feature set and high performance.
Features: IBM Cloud Object Storage offers seamless integration with other IBM Cloud services, strong data durability, and geo-dispersal for enhanced data availability. Dell ECS provides comprehensive data management capabilities, strong support for object storage protocols, and is effective for hybrid cloud environments.
Room for Improvement: IBM Cloud Object Storage could enhance its feature set to meet more advanced enterprise needs, improve technical support for complex environments, and expand hybrid integration capabilities. Dell ECS could aim for simpler deployment processes, reduce its technical expertise requirement, and offer more cost-efficient options for smaller businesses.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Cloud Object Storage features a straightforward deployment process with extensive support, making it suitable for rapid deployment. Dell ECS, although robust, demands more technical expertise during deployment but offers excellent support to navigate these complexities.
Pricing and ROI: IBM Cloud Object Storage is competitively priced with efficient ROI, making it appealing to smaller enterprises or those on a tight budget. Dell ECS requires higher initial investment but justifies the cost with a comprehensive suite of features and strong long-term ROI for enterprises requiring extensive data management capabilities.
Enterprise-ready. Future-proof. Data-first.
Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) is a file and object storage solution from Dell EMC. ECS has been created to support both traditional and next-generation ecosystems equally. ECS boasts unrivaled economics, manageability, resilience, and scalability to satisfy the demands of today's next-gen, robust business enterprise ecosystems. ECS can easily be deployed in a software-defined model or as a turn-key appliance. ECS is software-defined and multi-layered for unlimited scalability. Every layer is abstracted and scalable with no single point of failure.
Everything is done within the software, which is containerized, using docker.
ECS is currently deployed using basic commodity hardware, which can easily be federated across as many as eight different locations and managed as a single resource. Additionally, ECS can also protect data at the site level, locally, disk, node, and rack levels. The federation enables a single global namespace with everywhere access to content. Applications can quickly rewrite in an active/active or everywhere active manner.
ECS is also able to be used as secondary storage or archival storage. This will free up valuable primary storage of data that is stale, redundant, or used infrequently, and the data will remain easily accessible. ECS uses policy-based tiering such as Data Domain, Cloud tiering, Isilon using cloud polls, and Geodrive, which give Windows systems direct access to ECS. Windows users can still use server message block (SMB) while leveraging the more expansive ECS storage.
ECS is enterprise-grade and offers valuable features such as retention, multi-tenancy, metering, monitoring, quotas, and more. ECS builds in robust security from the ground up and encrypts data. ECS is compliant with STIG guidelines and adheres to SEC rule 17A-4F.
ECS is an enterprise-ready solution that allows organizations to easily simplify object storage management and visualize information in intuitive new ways, and empowers your business to do even more with data. With ECS, enterprise organizations can deliver cloud-scale economics in-house that will lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and scale, creating greater levels of productivity and profitability.
Reviews from Real Users
One user, who is a deputy director at a tech service company, says ECS offers “good performance, reliability, and technical support”.
Dell EMC ECS is “a stable solution which is easy to scale, install and manage”, relates another user, who is a senior buyer at a tech service company.
"What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor," summarizes a system engineer at a tech services company.
IBM Cloud Object Storage is a web-scale platform that stores unstructured data - from petabyte to exabyte - with reliability, security, availability and disaster recovery without replication.
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