StorSimple is an integrated storage management solution designed to meet cloud-integrated storage needs effectively, providing automation and scalability for businesses seeking efficient data management.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| StorSimple | 7.6% |
| Nasuni | 22.3% |
| CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform | 19.3% |
| Other | 50.8% |
StorSimple offers seamless data storage by combining on-premises and cloud-based storage systems. This hybrid approach ensures data is efficiently managed, secure, and easily accessible. It reduces the burden on IT resources with its centralized management, enabling easy cloud transition and integration into existing systems. Designed for dynamic workloads, StorSimple provides valuable cost savings by automating data tiering between local environments and cloud storage, ensuring optimal performance and storage efficiency.
What are the most important features of StorSimple?Industries like healthcare and finance implement StorSimple for its ability to handle large volumes of sensitive data efficiently. Healthcare providers benefit from secure patient data management, while financial institutions leverage its reliable backup and disaster recovery features to ensure uninterrupted services.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| IT-Consultant Microsoft Solutions at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees | 5.0 | I value its deduplication, which aids disaster recovery. The solution is very stable, scalable with Azure, and has fast support. I advise seeking expert setup and hope for more cloud virtual device functionality. |
| Director of IT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees | 5.0 | I find this product easy to use, stable, and it saves us 80% on storage costs, plus 15% of our IT budget through automation. Setup was straightforward, and support is knowledgeable, despite initial false alerts. |
| Network Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees | 4.0 | I've used this for 3+ years, finding its Azure backup and file storage excellent, replacing tape. Despite great support, a critical SSD rebuild failure required a full device rebuild from cloud backup. |
The deduplication technology is the most valuable feature. It saves time within a disaster recovery case.
I hope that the virtual device in the cloud will get more functionality!
I have used this solution for five years.
The product is very stable.
Due to the fact that it is combined with Microsoft Azure Storage, the scalability is very good.
In case of a support issue, the level of technical support is very fast.
The setup has to be done by a Microsoft certified StorSimple Deployment Specialist.
Please ask for advice before implementing this product. This can be done through a Microsoft partner.
We had multiple backup scenarios and Business continuity plans. With StorSimple we can replace a lot of manual process with the automation and cloud functions built in.
I would like more options besides iSCSI. I would also like link aggregation vs MPIO.
3 Years. Provided support to other teams deploying them and maintained our deployment.
Only false alerts that needed to be read other than that after a long back and forth with support all was well. Nothing actually failed.
No, not in the entire time we have used the product.
No we could scale out by using head units and multiple controller configurations, it was never needed. As we grew Azure took on the responsibility to host more storage.
I had one issue and although it took a while to get pointed in the right direction the support people listened.
Technical Support:Good. The technician was knowledgeable.
Previously used Synology and Dell. There was no true cloud integration.
It was extremely straightforward. I can't think of anything complex about the setup.
We did in house it was not terribly complicated.
So far in manual processes we save about 15% of our overall IT budget now.
The only cost is in the purchase of Azure storage the device was free. There is no day-to-day cost a quarterly maintenance cost for patching is about it.
No we wanted Azure it was about finding the right solution with Azure.
Keep it simple and use MPIO. You need network redundancy.
Ability to easily backup data to Azure.
This device has made it possible for us to almost entirely do away with Tape backup. It has good integration with Veeam but shines in file storage arena.
It would be nice for Storsimple to offer a unit with more fast disk so that it would mimic a traditional SAN more easily.
3+ years.
No issues with deployment.
Had a SSD drive go bad in one of our older units. This was replaced under our service plan, but during the rebuild process encountered a bad block in another SSD that it was reading from and downed the device hard. had to rebuild the device from scratch with support and pull down the last backup from the cloud.
No issues with scalability so far.
9 out of ten, they consistently beat service timelines.
Technical Support:9 out of ten
We had everything on a traditional SAN but realized that we could also help in our backup strategy by moving file data to a device like this.
Very straightforward any IT engineer could easily do it.
We evaluated a whitewater device, which was more backup oriented.
