Analyst group #DCIG has produced another report ranking hyper-converged infrastructure appliance vendors based on documented features and questionnaire answers.
A canned quote by Tim Anderson, research analyst and co-author of the DCIG 2015-16 #AllFlash Array Buyer’s Guide, said: "We are confident this [guide] will give customers an easy to use and powerful tool to shortlist solutions they will want to bring in-house to test.”
His team looked at 58 offerings from 17 companies, includimg #Cisco, #IBM, #Nutanix, #Simplivity, SimpliVity, and #Supermicro.
After a 100-question initial survey containing more than 100 questions was completed, product capabilities were assessed based on data provided by the vendor, prior DCIG research, and information available in the public domain. Systems were ranked, as usual with DCIG guides, Recommended, Excellent, Good, or Basic.
Nutanix's #NX-8000 and #NX-9000-Series and Simplivity's OmniCube #CN-5000 were given Recommended rankings, because of features they shared:
Have duplication and/or compression
Provide replication and snapshot functionality
Scale up to 64 nodes (plus or minus) in size
Have OEM agreements with server hardware suppliers (#Dell for Nutanix - and #Lenovo now, Cisco for Simplivity)
Support multiple hypervisors with Nutanix supporting three and Simplivity two
Data protection capabilities including creating application-consistent snapshots with the use of VSS
No product testing was involved to produce this guide.
A previous DCIG guide on all-flash arrays (AFA) has been criticised as being unrealistic, as it placed market leader EMC's #XTremIO product in the bottom category. Senior #EMC sources told us they did not engage with so-called pay-for-play analyst reports and refused to pay DCIG any money for the AFA guide's production.
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