Dell ECS Reviews

Our primary use case is for cloud storage to keep the long-term backups.

The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage. Although it is not a complete cloud solution, it has been useful. I can't really compare it with other cloud environments because they are different.

There is room for improvement in the DPI reports, as they could be made more user-friendly. Currently, I have to create my own reports to get the type of information I need. The reporting aspect of the product could benefit from improvements, but it requires some time and investment to learn how to produce the desired reports. I need to familiarize myself with DPS, as it is only integrated with DPC, and I mainly use DPA for searching. A couple of things are not as up-front or as user-friendly as you would want them to be. For example, DPA, I upgrade it now and then, but I never use it.

For me, DP ECS is doing what it's supposed to do. My main thing is that it's elastic cloud storage, but it's basically just off-site storage. It's not a cloud solution, even though you can create your S3 buckets in it, and it's just another storage device set in a different data center where you can keep your backups for longer-term storage. Maybe the name is misleading because you expect it to be a cloud solution that has everything - computing, storage, and applications behind it.

I have been using this solution for eight months now. I have also used it in the past.

I would rate stability a solid nine out of ten.

It is a scalable solution. I would say it does scale out. However, I'm not a hundred percent sure of the scale-up. I haven’t run out of space yet.

I contacted the customer service and support team and found that they were great with ECS. However, when it came to PPDM, the experience was not as good due to its complex multiple layers. It required going through multiple people to determine responsibility for each part. This complexity was partly due to the split between Dell and EMC, which caused some issues initially, but they gradually resolved it over time.

The initial setup is easy if you know what you are doing. However, it can be challenging for new users. There are around 2,000 end users.

I also work with Veritas NetBackup. Currently, I work with Dell's AVAMA, and I would have liked to compare Veritas with Networker instead of Avamar.

Networker was an enterprise-level product, whereas Avamar was mainly designed for small to medium-sized businesses. However, Dell EMC has since acquired both Networker and Avamar.

Dell ECS is stable and reliable. But It is not a full-fledged cloud solution, but we do have cloud functionality integrated into it.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I deal in the area of IT strategy consultation. There was one assignment in our company for which there was a need for a storage solution, and because of this, we chose Dell ECS. I don't use it on a daily basis.

From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users. There should be an improvement in the product's basic architecture to be able to handle large datasets.

For a multi-technology stack environment, the platform engineering aspect could be simpler.

I have experience with Dell ECS. I work as a consultant.

It is a stable solution.

Around 1,20,000 customers of my company use the solution.

I presume that the product's technical support works since I haven't heard anything bad about them.

My company evaluated file storage and object storage products from Pure Storage before Dell ECS.

My company chose to work with Dell ECS since, with Pure Storage, it is very challenging to get resources capability-wise. Dell ECS was slightly cheaper than Pure Storage.

The product's initial setup phase was straightforward.

Most organizations don't have a single stack, and they opt for multiple or different stacks. The question arises related to the ease of management of hybrid technology stacks in an environment. Even if you have a very compelling proposition for a use case, the tool still needs to fit in with the overall enterprise architecture, and the way to ensure that the product fits in easily becomes an issue.

The solution is deployed on a multi-cloud and multi-storage environment.

I have not faced any challenges with the implementation part of the product.

Dell ECS becomes an important part of the technology stack in an environment, so the company does not look at the ROI part and focuses more on the stability and reliability areas.

The price of Vast.ai is much better than Amazon since it is available as one-tier storage, similar to flash storage or Pure Storage. With Dell ECS, the price per unit is low, and depending on the architecture, the price is almost one-third or one-fourth of the price of other products.

It is an expensive solution. There is a need to make early payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product.

The solution can help with large-scale content repository management in companies, but I see that the trend seems to be moving towards Vast.ai presently since it seems to provide a lot of value to its users at a very low price. For large content storage nowadays, I think that Vast.ai is preferred in the large enterprise area.

The improvements I have noticed in system reliability from the use of Dell ECS stem from the fact that the product works well.

I recommend the product to those who plan to use it, but I would also suggest they look at products like Vast.ai before choosing Dell or Pure Storage.

I rate the overall product a seven out of ten.

Dell ECS is used in my company for voice recordings using CAS protocol.

The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS. The product supports Copaco Cloud when you upgrade to Dell ECS Version 3.8. So, Copaco Cloud is only used for AWS and not for Azure.

The additional feature that Dell ECS should have is that it should be made movable to Azure.

I have been using Dell ECS for six months. Also, I am working on Dell ECS Version 3.6. I am a customer of the solution.

The product is not scalable since it is an older version. The newer versions of the solution are scalable. Three people in my company use the solution. Then, it is used by our business for voice recordings. The usage of the solution happens in a large company.

Dell's technical support team is good.

Though I wasn't involved in the setup process, I think it was an easy process.

I am satisfied with the overall product, but we aim to move to the cloud soon. The main focus of our investigation is to determine whether our product can be successfully migrated to the cloud. This is currently our primary area of interest. There is an option to move to the cloud, but it's related to AWS. So, we're trying to find out if we can move the data from Dell ECS to Azure to make some space since we are currently running out of space.

My company is planning to migrate to Microsoft Azure from Dell ECS. Also, we are still looking for better options. Apart from choosing Azure right now, all we can do is consider upgrading Dell ECS so that it can be scalable.

I recommend the solution based on what ones want to do and after considering the network coding of the ones interested in the solution. Overall, I rate the product a seven out of ten.

We installed it last year at a customer site.

We use it for archive and for backups, our third copy backups.

The storage is cheap.

It's easier than tape. We use it instead of tape now. 

We've found the solution to have good stability.

The product can scale. 

It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward. 

Technical support seems to be pretty helpful.

The issue we have is the solution is doing a system Read-Only to only 90%. Instead of 100%, you get the read-only at 90%. It's hard to explain to the customer that, "your system is full, you only have it at 90% full, however, yes, that's considered full even though you have 10% left." You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%. 

I've worked with the solution for a little over a year. 

The solution feels pretty stable. We have not had any issues with it, aside from discs now and then. We have about six petabytes. It's a lot of discs, that we have, and only a few have failed. it's a small number in comparison to the big picture. We've been running it for a year pretty much without incident. 

The solution is more suitable for larger organizations as opposed to smaller companies. 

It's a product that is easy to scale. 

It's been working fine and therefore we haven't used technical support that much. We use it when we expand the system with more notes, and for the GEODrive. We might have some questions about that, however, overall it's been pretty good and problem-free.

I've been working with storage for 20 or 30 years or something like that. I've been with IBM, NetApp, and other EMC products before Dell. I've had experience with HPE, 3PARs, and Nimble. I've used pretty much every storage product on the market.

The difference depends on basically the customer and what they have from the beginning. Each product has its positive attributes. It depends on what the customers are going to do with it. We have other archive products that are at least as good as the ECS.

While the initial setup looks pretty straightforward, we didn't actually do the implementation. 

There are things in the background that are running, of course, however in terms of maintenance requirements, it's not that much.

In terms of pricing, for the performance it gives, it's quite competitive. It's not the best performance, so you get what you pay for, however, if you want performance for, for example, a file server, or something like that, ECS is not the right product. That said, the pricing also depends on the customer and how much discount they get, et cetera. There are different licensing models. 

I'm a consultant. We're a partner and reseller.

We are using the latest version. We just updated it in August or September. 

I'd advise new users to buy enough nodes for the performance so that you calculate the performance correctly, as that can be an issue for some.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. For how we use it, we are quite happy with its capabilities.

We primarily use the solution as an archive storage for our documents.

The compliance mode and such things are the most valuable aspects.

It has been stable. 

The scalability is good.

We're happy with the interface.

It integrates well with APIs.

At the moment, I don't feel like we have to improve anything. 

When the system goes down, then the compliance mode will not be all over the system. The system will stop working. They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down. That said, we have yet to have a site outage.

I've been dealing with the product for four years. 

The solution is stable. there are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. It is reliable. The performance has been good. 

The solution is scalable.

We have about 2,000 people using the solution. 

Technical support is good. 

We worked with the EMC Centera product previously. Dell EMC announced the end of life of the Centera assistance, so we changed to ECS.

The setup for us was pretty easy and pretty hands-off as we had outside assistance. 

We implemented the solution a long time ago. I'm not sure how long the deployment itself took.

Normally, maintenance will be provided by Dell EMC. You call and then Dell EMC will do the upgrade and so on.

The setup was done by an external consultant. We don't have so much to do with this setup.

I can't speak to the exact pricing. 

I use the product. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

We're a customer and end-user.

The tool is easy to use. 

Dell ECS needs to improve its performance. 

Dell ECS is stable. I rate it a seven out of ten. 

I rate the solution's scalability a five out of ten. My company has 2000 users. 

The tool's support is good. 

The tool's deployment is easy. 

I rate the overall product a seven out of ten. I recommend it since it is reliable, stable, and easy to use. 

We use the solution for archives and unstructured data.

It is a good product. The performance is good.

The initial setup is not so easy.

I have been using the solution for three to four years.

The tool is very stable.

The tool has unlimited scalability. We have one architect and a few enterprise engineers on our technical team.

The initial setup is not so easy. However, we have the skills. We can contact Dell’s engineers for remote deployment. They provide a service called ProDeploy. It is an expensive option, so we prefer not to contact them. If something goes wrong, we can involve the engineers.

The product is quite expensive. The vendor provides us with discounts, though.

We compared the solution with HPE and NetApp. Dell ECS is cheaper than HPE but a little bit more expensive than NetApp.

Our company hasn't sold the solution yet. However, we designed several projects and have at least two in progress. We have certified engineers and architects to draw and design everything. Currently, we have a project for archiving photocopies of tax reports. I recommend the product to others. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

We create a service for our customers to access EMC Storage.

We use this product for an on-premises server to access the EMC storage. We locate our EMC in our IDC center, and we provide our enterprise customers access to it. 

We sell this service, space, and AWS SAN storage.

This product is very competitive. It's a good product.

In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support. They don't have many channels or distributions to provide professional services.

They only provide preventative services for themselves. It is very difficult for us to resell this service to our enterprise customers because EMC doesn't have many resources. This is an area that needs to be improved. 

Our customers need EMC for their Big Data services.

This product is very competitive but the professional services need to be improved. 

Also, the price could be reduced. We need more marketing activity in Taiwan, as it would be very helpful in trying to resell this product.

I have been selling the latest version of this solution for six months.

It's a very stable storage solution.

Because we wanted to provide our enterprise customers with a multi-tenancy service, but they don't have the multi-tenancy architecture, they can only use it on-premises at one company. We contacted Dell EMC ECS and we created a scenario for the mechanics to build out a multi-tenancy service.

This is something that was not originally provided with Dell EMC ECS.

Dell has a very poor support channel in Taiwan. They sell the models directly to our enterprise customers. They don't have a very good vendor support system. 

We need to start it ourselves, then we can provide it to our enterprise customers.

Dell EMC ECS is too expensive.

We plan to continue selling this solution, but we need them to support it on more than just a case by case basis because it takes too long. 

It depends on the Dell EMC resources but we cannot rely on their distributors for help. It's not a good enough business model.

I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it. That said, there are a few improvements needed, including that it could be cheaper.

I would rate this product a seven out of ten.