We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Quantum ActiveScale based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is stable."
"PowerScale helped free up our employees' time to focus on other business priorities. There are now automated jobs such as backing up and replicating data, that reduce the footprint we have. Those types of tasks were previously done manually."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is all the capabilities together."
"Its most valuable feature is the DR capabilities replication."
"This has been a valuable solution for our business overall. It offers business continuity and replication features."
"Our main goal is to do disaster recovery with whatever solution we use and Isilon makes it pretty simple to replicate those workloads over to our secondary data center."
"The best thing is that it works. We don't have to maintain it too much; we usually upgrade once a year."
"It assists with eliminating storage silos because it provides SMB and NFS protocols. PowerScale has also helped free up our employee's time to focus on other business priorities."
"Workflow is easy to manage and maintain."
"The technology is stable which is good."
"The solution’s interface and pricing could be improved."
"It is a bit higher priced than some of the other systems."
"The replication could lend itself to some improvement around encryption in transit and managing the racing of large volumes of data. The process of file over and file back can be tedious. Hopefully, you never end up going into a DR. If you do go into a DR, you know the data is there on the remote site. However, in terms of the process of setting up the replicates and filing them back, that is just very tedious and could definitely do with some improvement."
"Its configuration needs to be more straightforward."
"Dell PowerScale's deployment is not easy."
"There aren't many templates still coming out for it. They need to provide templates so we can copy and paste what we've done in the past to future, new things."
"Dell PowerScale needs to reduce its price."
"I would like to see increased reporting and statistics functionalities."
"We would like to see a self-sufficient installation."
"Lacks some ability to integrate with different systems."
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Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 3rd in File and Object Storage with 40 reviews while Quantum ActiveScale is ranked 20th in File and Object Storage. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Quantum ActiveScale is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) writes "We can easily deploy, manage, and maintain systems without needing a huge amount of expertise to facilitate them". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quantum ActiveScale writes "Good performance and reliable but the setup is complex". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and HPE StoreEasy, whereas Quantum ActiveScale is most compared with Dell ECS, Qumulo and MinIO. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Quantum ActiveScale report.
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