IBM FlashSystem vs NEC D3 series comparison

"Speed (IOPS/second) – It is most vital for applications that need low latency and high speed for transferring the data."

"The most crucial feature of IBM FlashSystem is compression."

"The valuable features are high availability, compression, and a failover mechanism. It's a very highly available storage solution."

"IBM FlashSystem 5300 is offered at a very low cost in Israel, which is advantageous for small companies."

"This solution is convenient, user-friendly, convenient and reliable."

"The solution is very easy to configure and use."

"Ability to manage third-party arrays and virtualise them: One screen to control multiple arrays. Simplified administration."

"The most valuable feature is that is supports a high IOPS rate."

"The performance is better than with our previous version."

"They can improve its initial configuration. The initial configuration is currently very difficult. There are multiple choices or alternative ways to configure based on the use case and what you are targeting out of the device, that is, more capacity or more performance. These multiple alternatives cause a lot of confusion. They should increase the processing part of the nodes. Currently, you can cluster up to eight nodes. From my experience and the workload that I am facing in my environment currently, I would like to see either a bigger or stronger node or a larger number of nodes that can be clustered together. We formally communicated to them that we need to see either this or that, and they are working on something."

"IBM should improve its data reduction development."

"I would like to see an improvement in the handling of large amounts of rights."

"Include an option to upload the support package to the IBM ECuRep when opening an IBM PMR."

"The interface could improve in IBM FlashSystem."

"The deduplication and compression ratio is not very good. It's not reaching a very high ratio."

"The storage capacity of this solution could be improved."

"The GUI for monitoring performance metrics could provide better visibility. For example, it doesn't let me segregate the IOPS per volume."

"We are not satisfied with the cost of licensing and would like to have a better price to performance ratio."

"Pricing can be considered as per market competition."

"Among IBM, Dell EMC, and Pure Storage, IBM is the cheapest. The price is also based on our location, the size of our entity, and our regular annual purchases from them. We are a very big IBM customer, so we normally get very high discounts. We are not a big customer of Pure Storage. We don't buy that much from Pure Storage per year. Everything is included in the price. There is no extra license for different functions."

"IBM V7000 has a new license and price structure which provides intuitive licensing based on the functions customers wish to enable and use the most."

"This is an expensive product and if the price were reduced it would be better."

"Overall the price of the solution is expensive and this includes the license."

"I price of IBM FlashSystem is reasonable and competitive."

"The cost of the IBM FlashSystem is lower than the HPE solution."

"If five is a good price and one is a high price, I would rate the price a two or three out of five."