Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS offer scalable data storage solutions, competing in the enterprise storage category. Dell ECS generally has an edge due to its robust enterprise features, although Red Hat Ceph Storage benefits from competitive pricing.
Features: Red Hat Ceph Storage provides open-source flexibility, scalability, and compatibility, enabling customization for various organizational needs. Dell ECS offers enterprise-grade features, including advanced data protection, multi-protocol support, and strong analytics capabilities, which meet the demands of comprehensive data management.
Room for Improvement: Red Hat Ceph Storage could benefit from enhanced user interface design and reduce the technical expertise needed for advanced configurations. It may require more intuitive management tools. Dell ECS might improve by offering more cost-effective expansion options, diversifying deployment configurations, and further optimizing its cloud integration.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Red Hat Ceph Storage features simplified deployment with comprehensive documentation; however, technical expertise is necessary for optimization. Dell ECS provides a guided setup with dedicated customer service, making the process streamlined for enterprises seeking direct support.
Pricing and ROI: Red Hat Ceph Storage generally offers a lower initial setup cost, presenting long-term savings with its open-source approach, suitable for firms investing in technical resources. Dell ECS demands a higher initial investment but provides significant value through feature-rich capabilities and support, potentially yielding a higher ROI for fully integrated solutions.
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.
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