We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Panzura based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its most valuable feature is the DR capabilities replication."
"The best thing is that it works. We don't have to maintain it too much; we usually upgrade once a year."
"PowerScale allows us to manage storage without managing RAID groups or migrating volumes between controllers. It has really simplified things. We're not having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. That takes care of itself. We just worry about the data. It's really easy for deploying and managing storage at the petabyte scale."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is all the capabilities together."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability and flexibility."
"Our users are able to easily roll back snapshots without going through IT."
"The flexibility and the user-friendly interface are the most valuable features."
"The fact that we were able to set it up, use it, and, for the most part, didn't have to worry about it after we had it set up has been valuable."
"The main thing in Panzura is that there are three key components: PanFS, NAS, and collaboration. These are strong features, and a big benefit is that you can access everything from anywhere."
"Its most valuable features are the collaboration, the file snapshots, and the data protection the solution provides."
"Its configuration needs to be more straightforward."
"Additional metadata reporting would be great. We have to use a separate tool to report on that. We would like to view the age of data and how long it has been since someone has accessed a file."
"I would like to see increased reporting and statistics functionalities."
"The tool's support team and the way the cases are handled by the product's technical support team are both areas of concern where improvements are required."
"Isilon has limitations on the number of files that can be generated."
"The product’s expansion capacity, pricing clarity, and ease of use need improvement."
"The thing that they are working on now, and we are following closely is more native cloud integrations. The way that we envision workloads in the future is around moving compute to data instead of the other way around. So, we would like to have a single pane glass to manage storage across a variety of different platforms, including native cloud. That would be awesome."
"The UID mapping and how to configure mapping-related things is a struggle."
"It should be easy for people not on the network to connect and access their files."
"Master Snapshot feature is the only exceptional feature, but the rest of the features are similar to other storage solutions."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 46 reviews while Panzura is ranked 11th in NAS with 2 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Panzura is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) writes "We can easily deploy, manage, and maintain systems without needing a huge amount of expertise to facilitate them". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Panzura writes "Offers features like Master Snapshot which are useful for recovering files and easy to use if you are familiar with familiar with NAS things and networking protocols". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and HPE StoreEasy, whereas Panzura is most compared with Nasuni, CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform, Azure NetApp Files, Amazon FSx and Box. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Panzura report.
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