The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it.
Dell XC Appliance offers impressive deduplication and compression features with minimal management effort and a quick setup, often operational within half a day. Its superior hardware simplifies volume assignment for off-shore workloads. Although provisioning capabilities need enhancement and updates are not consistently communicated, the hardware remains commendable. However, there is no support for non-cluster servers, and public cloud deployment costs are high, necessitating simplified maintenance and life-cycle upgrades.
