EMC VNX (Discontinued) vs. IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)

EMC VNX (Discontinued)

EMC VNX (Discontinued)

24 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)

IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)

32 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
EMC VNX (Discontinued)	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	The former EMC VNX series is EOL. The vendor invites users to instead try Dell EMC's Unity series family of midrange storage appliances.	N/A
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM Storwize is a family of recognized all-flash and hybrid storage solutions designed to support the virtualization needs and application workloads of mid-sized enterprises.	N/A

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EMC VNX (Discontinued)

IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)

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Community Pulse
	EMC VNX (Discontinued)	IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
Considered Both Products	EMC VNX (Discontinued) Sam Majam Systems Administrator Chose EMC VNX (Discontinued) EMC VNX is currently EOL, so we are in the process of migrating to EMC Unity and VMAX. We stayed with the EMC portfolio of storage solutions due to their proven record and history of good performance. Incentivized Helpful? Timothy Sawah Lead Systems Engineer Chose EMC VNX (Discontinued) Dell EMC Unity is the improved version of EMC VNX. It has all the features in VNX with better performance. NetApp all flash is faster and more expensive. It performs better with Citrix systems and VDI solutions. HP MSA storage system is less performant and less expensive. It … Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Andrus Network Services Manager Chose EMC VNX (Discontinued) VNX is a good offering when you are wanting a lot of storage, and reliability. I think there are other offerings that can provide better performance, and come with better UI and tools to monitor your environment. Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) UK Utkarsh Khandelwal System Administrator Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) Dell EMC Unity Incentivized Helpful? BS Bhawani Shankar Satapathy AIX Administrator Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) IBM FlashSystem Incentivized Helpful? MK Mushtaqu Khan Regional Business Manager Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) IBM Storewize is the best among other products available in the market. Many features such as scalability, data configuration, and data security show this system are best for our business. We can't compare it with others. Incentivized Helpful? SS Srishti Shukla Territory Business Manager Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) Dell EMC Unity and IBM FlashSystem Incentivized Helpful? DB Debopriya Bhattacharya AIX Administrator Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) IBM FlashSystem Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) Simpler to use. Storwize is reliable and is using IBM technology and not some unknown application. Proven performance and easy to stack and configure. Sizing is simple and the options are more than I need for my business. Rack compatibility is something you may not realize … Incentivized Helpful? TC Tom Corrado Storage Specialist Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) Storwize does not have the performance of FlashSystem, but it’s low cost and high capacity options make it competitive as an option for point-in-time copies and backups. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) We prefer IBM over other solutions because IBM just seems to be more resilient, easy to use, and simple to deploy. Other products may have a steep learning curve, or may be start ups with not so much reliability. Incentivized Helpful? FG fredy garcia Presale Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) IBM Storwize is a part of a family that is complemented by the products listed. In many negotiations, involving storage is our workhorse to ensure several businesses thanks to its balanced cost and all the benefits that we offer. Incentivized Helpful? Kenneth Ditmar Hansen Senior Storage Specialist Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) We are using IBM Storwize storage arrays underneath IBM Spectrum Scale, they are easy to interact together, and can scale to our requirement. Easy administration as the GUI are designed equally so it's easy to find administrative features and the easy single pane of glass GUI … Incentivized Helpful? Peter Sachs Storage Infrastructure Engineer Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) More choice and better price. Incentivized Helpful? Rusty Beard Storage Architect Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) HPE and Hitachi. I recommend IBM Storwize to my customers because it's an industry-proven, flexible platform with award-winning ease-of-use and high performance. Incentivized Helpful? Bill Raines Technology Sales Specialist Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) With the latest announcements of v5K and v7K, IBM is on target with the competition out there on the market. The only [thing] missing is a great marketing campaign to sustain a 12-24 month period to whet the client's appetite. We as a partner are doing what we can to educate … Incentivized Helpful? Keith Thuerk Storage Engineer Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) IBM SVC (ran for several years) ESS E & F models (yeah those are old) Since Storwize is based upon SVC it was a no brainer and saved us $$$$. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) We use both frequently. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) IBM Storwize is a solid product, and we will continue to use it. Incentivized Helpful? RE Roberto Etcheverry Solution Architect Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) We used the old DS4xxxx series of storages and have worked with most brands of storage and I will always pick Storwize over the rest. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) It is an alternate platform, so having multiple vendors reduces risk. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	EMC VNX (Discontinued)	IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
Likelihood to Recommend	3.1 (0 ratings)	9.9 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	EMC VNX (Discontinued)	IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)
Likelihood to Recommend	If you are looking for a solid storage array that needs to give you continuous uptime, then VNX is a great solution. Incentivized Ryan Andrus Network Services Manager Read full review	IBM Storewize is widely used in organizations for on-premises with a lot of facilities that are given by this IBM Storewize. Data accessibility is very good and fast in this system. This system is available with different data services such as scalability and flexibility in data even providing security to our data. Incentivized MK Mushtaqu Khan Regional Business Manager Read full review
Pros	Auto- tiering, for faster access on blocks used most frequently Has both NAS and SAN ( unified system) Scale up ability Optimal for VMware Integrates with vCenter Easy monitoring and useful dashboards Relatively easy configure and management interface with safe delete Incentivized Timothy Sawah Lead Systems Engineer Read full review	Data processing and IO. The Storwize devices are very resilient in how they process data and do not have a drop in IO when errors occur (common errors such as disk failures and lost paths). Storage efficiency management. We are able to use multiple efficiency techniques such as thin provisioning and data reduction to reduce our budget footprint. Easy to use interfaces. Creating a volume and mapping to a host has proven to be a very easy process and makes onboarding less stressful for our team. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	The UI is very clunky and uses Java, which I am not a big fan of. It is difficult to see performance metrics or utilization. Tegile or Nimble provide a superior window into your performance and IOPS on LUNs and VMs. Incentivized Ryan Andrus Network Services Manager Read full review	As a business partner looking to provide services to keep the uptime of the Storwize, I would like to have the capability to pull reports from IBM Storage Insights to assist my clients in managing their system through it's lifecycle. More knowledge out there for partners to best integrate IBM Storwize with IBM Power i. This seems to be lacking in communication from IBM. Incentivized Bill Raines Technology Sales Specialist Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Dell EMC Unity is the improved version of EMC VNX. It has all the features in VNX with better performance. NetApp all flash is faster and more expensive. It performs better with Citrix systems and VDI solutions. HP MSA storage system is less performant and less expensive. It works better for file and CCTV data storage. Incentivized Timothy Sawah Lead Systems Engineer Read full review	Simpler to use. Storwize is reliable and is using IBM technology and not some unknown application. Proven performance and easy to stack and configure. Sizing is simple and the options are more than I need for my business. Rack compatibility is something you may not realize until you install one or more of the units. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Due to its stability, it is very rare to have downtime—meaning business operations are not interrupted from an infrastructure level. Support and maintenance can be expensive. Incentivized Sam Majam Systems Administrator Read full review	I would like to highlight the most positive aspect I have seen in the products of the IBM Storwize family, and it is the ROI that we can choose when we offer real-time compression with the IBM V7000 family. In truth, this feature is excellent, and we have seen how customers save storage resources, rack space, power and management. Incentivized FG fredy garcia Presale Read full review
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