Dell Technologies Questions

Manager Communications and Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dell EMC XtremIO Flash Storage OR Hitachi Virtual Storage F Series

Which do you recommend? Dell EMC XtremIO Flash Storage or Hitachi Virtual Storage F Series?

it_user332070I would personally take a look at Nimble Storage. It is all processor and… more »

Student

EMC ECS with Swift Protocol

Does anyone have use cases for EMC ECS with Swift Protocol? Particularly, whether multiple namespaces can be accessed by one user and if the same user is in other AD groups, can be access all of their previous namespaces?

Works with 11-50 employees

Compatibility between Dell PowerConnect 6224 and Cisco SG500x (L3 switches)

Hello, We have a two Dell PowerConnect 6224 switches in stack and we are running out of network ports. We have planned to purchase a Cisco SG500X-48 48-Port GB with 4-Port 10-GB Stackable Managed Switch and connect to the existing stack. Please advise whether this would work (Cisco to t...

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it_user237450If you are referring to this stack technology &gt… more »

Works at a tech company with 51-200 employees

EMC Isilon vs. Sonexion Scale-out Lustre Storage System

What are differences between EMC Isilon and Sonexion Lustre Storage System NAS tools? What are the pro and cons?

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Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Archive verses backup

Currently using Avamar/Data Domain for backups. Looking for an Archive solution to accommodate long term retention requirements.

Any recommendations regarding archive solutions to look at?

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Archive verses backup

Currently using Avamar/Data Domain for backups. Looking for an Archive solution to accommodate long term retention requirements.

Any recommendations regarding archive solutions to look at?

Works

Can anyone share their real-life deduplication ratios using Data Domain?

I know there are a number of variables but EMC is quoting us 6:1, we are seeing 7:1 in a POC but a colleague tells me he is getting 2:1. This is in Data Domain. Thanks in advance! Eric

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it_user156498It depends of what you are backing up, how, when and for how long You will see… more »

Martin MashI'm getting about a 20:1 on my DD2500. It all depends on what types of files… more »

Avigail Sugarman

Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

Tegile vs. XtremIO?

What is the main difference between Tegile and Xtremio?

IT Manager

What are the upgrade challenges, risks and testing needed that I should be aware of?

I’m IT Manager managing Vblock 300GX at Primary and DR Site with RCM 2.5.9. I’m planning for RCM upgrade to 4.0.11 through VCE professional Services.Since I have SRA, RPA cluster and SRM 5.0 for Data protection/replication. I would like to know about RCM Upgrade challenges, Risks and Testin...

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Avigail Sugarman

Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

What are the main pros and cons of the various Endpoint Encryption solutions on the market?

Do you have experience with Microsoft, Dell and Symantec in particular?

Harold Johnson

Infrastructure Expert at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're evaluating vBlock. What do we need to take into account regarding scalability and overall cost?

Our company is currently evaluating vBlock as a potential hardware solution for our SAP environment. We currently have this environment hosted with a company in North Carolina and our Go-live on ECC and BW is in September of this year. We have our environment currently running on Windows and SQL...

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Works at a university

Netapp vs Dell EqualLogic vs others. Which is the best value plus cost effective support?

Netapp vs Dell Equallogic vs others:

Which storage vendor provides the best SAN value for money plus cost effective support?

BI Expert at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

What's the best alternative solution to VCE Vblock?

Please share your experiences with the community!