IBM FlashSystem vs NEC D3 series comparison

"IBM FlashSystem is the best solution for storage virtualization."

"The most valuable feature is reliability."

"The all-flash storage has tier replication capabilities."

"Over the years, it has become increasingly user-friendly."

"The solution allows for easy migrations from previous products or vendors via its embedded storage virtualization function."

"The most valuable features of IBM FlashSystem are performance and security."

"The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features."

"The performance of the All-Flash System is very good. There is more enhanced performance and data production in the solution, which I appreciate."

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

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

"One area for improvement is in the GUI, where host clusters are not properly dealt with. With Hypervisor host clusters, all hosts must see the same volumes in the same order. Using the concept of a “host-group” has been around (even with IBM) for many years, so why not with the V7000?"

"Product support is restricted to IBM only. It must be decentralized to IBM partners as well."

"The marketing could be improved."

"With regards to the IBM V7000 storage system, where we have multiple tiers of storage, a heat map would show I/O distribution across the tiers of storage."

"AHV is Acropolis Hypervisor – A relatively new Hypervisor, robust and stable as VMware vSphere, has built-in advanced analytics and powerful operations, Self Service Portal and components for DevOps included, managed by a single pane of glass (Prism) via HTML5 and it is free of charge – That is why Nutanix is so advanced and revolutionary."

"The pricing could be improved, but I think it's getting better and better with each version. IBM needs to implement NAS storage again, as this is a big flaw. Dell EMC is very good at this and if you compared them based on NAS storage, Dell EMC would win right away. IBM's solution for NAS storage is very complicated. We don't have a storage box that provides file sharing from itself, we have to put software on it and go through a whole complicated process. It should be simplified."

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

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

"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."

"They've been much more aggressive in the last five, six years than they were before that."

"The price of IBM FlashSystem is a little high because you pay a premium because the solution is from IBM. We had paid for the SLA prior to using the solution."

"The cost is pretty high in terms of licensing. We pay at least $100,000 USD in licensing fees for the storage."

"The price of IBM FlashSystem is reasonable."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"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."

"I'd rate the basic licensing and the Virtualize software a ten out of ten, and the extra Spectrum and other an eight out of ten."