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Vendor: Pivot3
4.3 out of 5
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What is Pivot3?

Pivot3 improves the simplicity and economics of the enterprise data-center with industry-leading hyper-converged infrastructure technology. By combining storage, compute, networking and virtualization on commodity hardware, Pivot3 provides software-defined platforms that let IT run multiple, mixed application workloads on a single infrastructure while guaranteeing performance to the applications that matter most. Pivot3’s agile infrastructure solutions extend performance, scale and efficiency across more of the data-center so customers can keep pace with the demands of modern business.

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Pivot3 is the #29 ranked solution in HCI Software. PeerSpot users give Pivot3 an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Pivot3 is most commonly compared to VMware vSAN: Pivot3 vs VMware vSAN.
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Pivot3 mindshare

As of March 2025, the mindshare of Pivot3 in the HCI category stands at 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

  • "The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
  • "The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
  • "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."

Room for Improvement

  • "Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
  • "In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
  • "One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"

Pricing

  • "Our fees are approximately $100,000 yearly."
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SNHMC, HPD Software, The Hurlingham Club, NHS, Rochester Police Department, The Doe Run Company, 101 Casino, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

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JW
Client Support Engineer at Defense Department of the United States
Verified user of Pivot3
Jul 26, 2018
One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter

Pros

"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."

Cons

"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"

What is our primary use case?

The primary use case was for a persistent VDI solution using vSphere as the hypervisor software and using Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop as the provisioning software in an enterprise Windows server domain infrastructure.

How has it helped my organization?

It greatly streamlined the time it took to scale out the enterprise and it completely eliminated the need for a SAN/Storage engineer, with the simplicity the Pivot3 Stack Manager brought with it for managing storage.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Senior IT Manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Verified user of Pivot3
Apr 14, 2020
Product version discussed: 6
Stable, good technical support, and the the visual encoding works well

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."

Cons

"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the visual encoding.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see better video compression.

Snapshot notification would be a good addition.

The price of this solution is high compared to the competitors, so it should be lowered.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Solution Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
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Sep 27, 2019
Easy to implement, good technical support, and easy to understand

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."

Cons

"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use case for this product is as a recovery solution in our data center.

The deployment model we are using is on-premises.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation.

This solution is easy to use and the interface has improved since the previous version.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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