Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) vs. Scality ARTESCA

Cisco Cloud Object [Storage's] primary objective is to offer a secure, standard, and professional storage space, for the content that the company has. Further, Cisco Cloud Object Storage makes the access and the [sharing] of every detail efficient and remarkable. Again, the monitoring and overseeing of the database from Cisco Cloud Object Storage is [progress] that the developer established. Finally, the application [enhances] data migration, an effective way of managing content.

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When high availability and keeping sensitive information safe are top priority Scality is a great option and has good features that make it ideal for these type of applications. For small companies with limited resources to administer extensive systems Scality would not be a good match. It takes people dedicated to this platform to keep it functioning at its best.

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• Content Monitoring
• Data Storage
• File checking

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• It has a good evolutionary trend to stay alongside AWS as a leader.
• The web-based Supervisor GUI and Grafana statistics allow you to drill down into historical data in many ways.
• Easy for the end user to use.
• The system works so well that we now use it for scalable file system storage and disk-to-disk backups.

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• The first tools configuration can be easy.
• Handling complex data storage is not easy.
• Moving a large media files functionality can be improved.

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• From my limited experience, I have not seen anything that needs to be improved. I have found the product to be easy to use.

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Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) stands out in terms of scalability, reliability, and security. Even the storage plans are competitive with other cloud object storage providers. It provides great performance for unstructured data and large datasets, which are highly used in industries requiring analyses of large datasets. For an efficient user experience, it also provides content delivery for the users spanning across the globe.

Incentivized

As an organization, it took us a while to understand the shift from a traditional black box SAN to software-defined storage, but now we are much more certain of what this means. The time invested and the resources were not very high, thanks on the one hand to the technical support and on the other to the coherence and good development of the platform.

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I have seen Scality in the office meeting with our VP and get the feeling that they are here to support us.

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In reality, it did not become a substitute for AWS, since it allowed us to maintain a much more compact and rigid system by taking advantage of the support and evolutionary trend that Scality has and keeping AWS as a leader.

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• Cheaper to use Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) than the on-premise storage and hence savings in infrastructure cost.
• Using Cloud based storage has reduced the manpower resources required to maintain the storage infrastructure, further reducing costs.
• Overall, end-user latency has reduced by using Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) as a content delivery network for the media files.

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• We have had a positive ROI.

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