SteelFusion and StarWind Virtual SAN compete in storage solutions. SteelFusion is preferred for its pricing and support, while StarWind Virtual SAN stands out for its advanced features.
Features: SteelFusion offers integrated branch office infrastructure, centralized data management, and streamlined operations. StarWind Virtual SAN provides robust high availability, shared storage, and virtualization compatibility.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SteelFusion offers straightforward on-premises deployment and focuses on minimizing downtime with strong service support. StarWind Virtual SAN emphasizes software-defined storage with remote configuration, demanding technical expertise but enhancing scalability.
Pricing and ROI: SteelFusion is valued for cost-effectiveness in initial setup and long-term ROI through reduced overheads. StarWind Virtual SAN needs a higher upfront investment, justified by performance and flexibility, improving long-term ROI by reducing hardware expenses.
StarWind Virtual SAN provides high availability and fault tolerance for virtualized environments without the need for dedicated SAN hardware. It allows for real-time replication between servers, shared storage for Hyper-V clusters, and enables vMotion and High Availability features for VMware vSphere. The solution reduces costs and leverages existing hardware while providing a scalable and reliable infrastructure. Valuable features include ease of use, scalability, top-tier support, hardware agnosticism, and the ability to use off-the-shelf standard servers to increase storage space. StarWind VSAN has helped organizations improve performance, data availability, and data security while reducing downtime and providing cost-saving storage options.
Riverbed SteelFusion is the first and only hyper-converged infrastructure for branch IT, enables 100% consolidation of branch data and servers from remote sites into data centers, delivering complete data security and centralized data protection, without compromising on any of the benefits of running branch services locally for your users. SteelFusion eliminates the need for physical servers, storage and backup infrastructure at branch locations, creates the ability to instantly provision and recover branch services, and provides full visibility and superior performance of on-premises and cloud-based applications, leading to dramatic increases in data security, business continuity, agility and operational efficiency.
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