Dell XtremIO vs HPE StoreOnce comparison

"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."

"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."

"The system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."

"The solution uses newer technology for deduplication and compression."

"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."

"Everything, especially the VMs inside, is pretty fast."

"It is very easy to install and configure. It has got excellent diagnostics. If you really need to see how the box is performing, the console gives you a lot of information. You can set thresholds as well as alerts based on the thresholds, which is a very powerful functionality. They are very proactive. They know how to monitor and manage the systems. They see a problem, and they are all over it before us. They see the problem before we see it, which is very good."

"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."

"Deduplication and cloning capability"

"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."

"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."

"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."

"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."

"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."

"XtremIO is very stable."

"Linear performance – The XtremIO wasn’t the fastest in all tests against other all flash arrays, but even with a massive workload, the response time and user experience were absolutely predictable with no sharp drop-offs."

"The implementation is not that complex for someone who has experience."

"HPE StoreOnce is an easy-to-use tool."

"The product’s data retention is very good."

"The interface is very user-friendly."

"It is very easy to implement."

"The solution is stable."

"HPE StoreOnce is particularly useful in situations where organizations require a backup solution to store their data. Its deduplication feature is quite impressive, providing a deduplication ratio of around 25 to 26."

"We also really benefit from the GUI capabilities."

"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."

"There are some challenges with data encryption and reduction."

"Many options to check performance, like read, writes, random writes, and random reads, are missing in Pure FlashArray X NVMe."

"Adding some functions to the product would be beneficial. Storage replication should be essential, and the analytics should not incur extra charges."

"One point I'd like to improve is that the tool should start selling small boxes again. It discontinued some products and is focusing on bigger, more capable boxes, neglecting the SMB market. Even though it's not a big market, it shouldn't have removed them."

"Right now, the box itself is just strictly working as a backend storage system. It would be fantastic if we could access it directly like a NAS device through network access or SIS drives. I think they have an interface, but I am not sure how good it is. If we could address a box directly on the network without having to go through a server, it would be great. The replication schemas could be improved. We are not using replication on the storage level right now. We use a different type of replication. If their replication would be as good as the one that we have, I would probably run the replication schema because it might be faster, but I don't know that for a fact. So, I cannot say that they have good replication. All I can say is that they need to inform us better."

"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."

"There is room for improvement in catering to midrange storage needs, especially for customers seeking Enterprise-class features."

"The product is highly expensive."

"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."

"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."

"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."

"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."

"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."

"In the next release, the solution could have better integration and if we can host assets on the cloud, such as NetApp has the NetApp volumes, which we can host on the cloud directly called NetApp CVO (cloud volume ONTAP). Dell EMC should come up with something purely on the cloud rather than manage services."

"Dell's technical support could be better."

"The product's price could be better."

"The product's support is an area with certain shortcomings requiring improvements. Support needs to be faster."

"Agnostic backups."

"The solution would be improved if it could also be used as a data store for VMware."

"While StoreOnce has many features, it needs to focus on integrating with third-party backup software solutions."

"We archive our backups on tape, so I feel like if we could somehow plug our tape drive directly into the StoreOnce device and set it up to where it would archive based on, if some kind of rules based engine or what have you, that would really be an improvement for us."

"We're outsourced with a partner who recalls a larger amount of problems with the stability of the product."

"The setup phase is not so simple that an end user can plug and play to make it operational."

"They can tout the functionality and cutting edge technology that they have, but that's where the price tag comes in. The cost is high, but I think as they grow their business and get more customers that it will probably go down a little bit."

"Pretty much everything that you need is licensed when you buy the product. Licensing to me is different than the maintenance cost, but they can bleed into one another. We buy the product, and we expect three years of support bundled into what we negotiate on our storage arrays. I would start to see maintenance costs going into the fourth year, but we're not there yet."

"The tool is an investment that we've budgeted for. While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see it as a market leader with benefits. We don't regret purchasing it."

"Its price could be better. It is not too expensive, but it is the high-end cost. It is kind of a Rolls-Royce. You pay a lot, but you get a lot out of it. So, the price pressure on the way down would be great, but at the end of the day, if you need to do the work, you just pay for it."

"As far as the licensing costs, everything is included in the license."

"Given its price, Pure is not the first option."

"With Pure Storage, we would like to continue seeing price reductions with flash storage. I don't think we're any different than anybody else when we continue to look to the industry for price reductions of both NVMe and traditional SSD storage. We would like to see these prices continue to decline and erode, even displacing large spinning disks."

"The licensing is on a yearly basis."

"It is costly but worth it."

"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"Licensing is approximately $200,000 per year."

"With some workloads that benefit from compression and deduplication, costs are actually better than some tier 2 subsystems (while latency remains <1ms)."

"It is expensive if you need to increase scalability."

"Too high priced for the Brazil market."

"The license for XtremIO is in the box, so you don't have to buy anything."

"The initial purchase price was good but when you need to upgrade, it's a different story."

"With the same capacity of Data Domain and ExaGrid, which is 80 terabytes, HPE is the cheapest one."

"There are costs for additional storage and space."

"The product is not expensive. It is available at a good price."

"I would rate it around two or three because, compared to others, it tends to be higher priced."

"The licensing costs is capacity-based and come bundled with support."

"The solution's cost is above average."

"The price of the product is reasonable."

"HPE StoreOnce is cheaper compared to other solutions in the market."