Pivot3 specializes in delivering hyper-converged infrastructure solutions tailored for industries looking for advanced data management and resilience. Known for scalability and security, it addresses complex storage demands with innovative technology.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Pivot3 | 1.5% |
| VxRail | 10.4% |
| Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) | 9.1% |
| Other | 79.0% |
Pivot3’s architecture integrates software-defined storage and hyper-converged infrastructure features, offering a unified platform for managing virtual desktops, video surveillance, and disaster recovery solutions. Its scalability and ease of management make it an attractive choice for organizations needing robust IT ecosystems capable of handling demanding workloads. With a focus on enhancing performance, Pivot3 is engineered to optimize IT operations across diverse environments.
What are the key features of Pivot3?Pivot3 is widely implemented in sectors such as finance, healthcare, and public safety. In finance, it supports secure data handling and compliance requirements. Healthcare facilities benefit from its ability to manage large volumes of confidential patient data securely and efficiently. For public safety, Pivot3 enables real-time video surveillance analytics, making it an essential component for critical infrastructure.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Senior IT Manager at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees | 4.0 | I value Pivot3's visual encoding, finding it stable, scalable, and easy to set up with good support. However, I'd like better video compression, snapshot notifications, and a lower price. I rate it eight out of ten. |
| Solution Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees | 4.0 | I've used this stable, scalable recovery solution for years, finding it easy to implement. My main concerns are the lack of vendor communication, marketing, and critical application support. Overall, I rate it an 8/10. |
| Client Support Engineer at Defense Department of the United States | 5.0 | We used this for VDI with vSphere and Citrix, appreciating its vCenter integration and streamlined scaling, which eliminated SAN engineers. However, we found its resource addition flexibility lacking, often forcing unwanted compute purchases. |
The most valuable feature is the visual encoding.
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.
I have been using Pivot3 for between four and five years.
This solution is quite stable.
This is a scalable product and we have 2,000 users.
The technical support is very good.
We did not use another solution, prior to this one.
Pivot3 is easy to set up.
We have an internal IT team of three to four people who take care of maintenance.
The fees are subscription-based and are paid annually. Our fees are approximately $100,000 yearly.
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
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.
The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation.
This solution is easy to use and the interface has improved since the previous version.
Marketing needs improvement. There is not a lot of public awareness of this solution or update release notifications.
There is no communication from the vendor to advise us of the next product release. We want to know what is happening with Pivot3, what are they coming up with next, as well as what is new and improved with Pivot3? These are some of the things that could be updated for the current customers, but is currently lacking.
In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP.
This solution is stable.
They are improving and currently working on the particulars of working with OEM as partners. Previously they were with Dell, but working with OEM will be great!
This solution is scalable.
Scalability in a hyper-converged infrastructure is a minimum of three nodes, then it depends on the version you are using and the number of nodes you need, then you can scale.
Since it is related to hardware, you can scale it up to a certain time, because even the process of the nodes keeps changing from intel and we have to be careful with that, but I think that we have a good scalable model.
This is one of our core applications. We run it every day and we totally dependant on Pivot3.
The support is good. They have online support where you can submit a claim then they will get back to you to resolve your issues.
We used multiple products. There are some stand-alone products and services, but when it comes to a hyper-converged infrastructure, the first solution that was purchase was Pivot2, then EMC, Dell EMC, and VxRail.
The main difference between Pivot3 and other comparable solutions is the price.
The initial setup is straightforward.
Racking and stacking don't take much, but the configuration depends on which application we are using, but as a product, it doesn't take any longer than two days to configure and initialize.
We managed the deployment and maintenance with only one person.
The racking and stacking were done with the help of an integrator and the deployment was done through a vendor.
Since this is a hyper-converged product, we don't do a lot in the way of integration with this solution with other products on the application side, but we have integrated with Dell Switches, character switches, and it was competitively fine.
We are partners, gold partners with Microsoft and we do Azure migrations for software.
My advice for anybody implementing this solution is to try to keep it simple and don't try to complicate things.
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
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.
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.
One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter since all of our admins and engineers came from VMware backgrounds.
Until recently, one of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources. For instance, if you only needed more storage, you would have to buy another node which would come with extra compute and memory that you might not need.
