IBM FlashSystem vs NEC D3 series comparison

"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression, which together, enable you to have more space."

"Customer service is very good."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"IBM FlashSystem 5300 is offered at a very low cost in Israel, which is advantageous for small companies."

"The setup was straightforward, it is pretty easy and I can do it with my eyes closed, if I wanted to."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is replication...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."

"This solution is very stable."

"IBM products at the enterprise level are stable solutions, with a score of nine out of ten for stability."

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

"They can improve its initial configuration. The initial configuration is currently very difficult. There are multiple choices or alternative ways to configure based on the use case and what you are targeting out of the device, that is, more capacity or more performance. These multiple alternatives cause a lot of confusion. They should increase the processing part of the nodes. Currently, you can cluster up to eight nodes. From my experience and the workload that I am facing in my environment currently, I would like to see either a bigger or stronger node or a larger number of nodes that can be clustered together. We formally communicated to them that we need to see either this or that, and they are working on something."

"There is a need for a little bit more of a drill down in the GUI part."

"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."

"IBM FlashSystems is lagging in optimizing storage technologies."

"Technical Support: Not so good in my country because they only have a few people with great knowledge about FlashSystem."

"The several major crashes resulted in the entire weekends being lost in rebuilding the array and then for restoring the data."

"There are some issues on a firmware level."

"This solution could be improved by offering greater amounts of storage."

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

"The cost of the IBM FlashSystem is lower than the HPE solution."

"The pricing has been very competitive for the last few years. IBM got to the point where they changed the pricing model and we feel very comfortable with the pricing. It's very competitive. Over the last two years, IBM has been coming up with all kinds of interesting promos, especially for the SMB systems. That makes it very competitive price-wise and in terms of performance..."

"I price of IBM FlashSystem is reasonable and competitive."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"Overall the price of the solution is expensive and this includes the license."

"The tool is cost-efficient."

"I would rate the pricing of this solution a four out of five."

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