The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features.
Dell XC Appliance impresses with deduplication, compression, and low management overhead, facilitating quick, efficient deployment in under a day. Hardware quality and ease of configuration allow dynamic volume assignments, yet maintenance simplicity and life-cycle upgrades could improve. Lack of support for non-cluster servers and inadequate user updates on new features are drawbacks. While public cloud costs remain high, enhancing storage size could increase its appeal to tech buyers.
