The enterprise storage market is projected to increase by $11.6 billion by 2028, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of 4.39%. This growth is driven in part by a shift toward time-sensitive and high-performance apps, easy-to-use management, deployment flexibility, infrastructure scalability, and rising data volumes. To take full advantage of evolving storage technologies and get the most from their IT investments, enterprises need reliable information about critical areas such as storage performance, storage efficiency, and management simplicity.
Testing by Prowess Consulting examined these critical areas, comparing the Dell PowerStore™ 500T and IBM FlashSystem® 5300 enterprise storage solutions. Our analysis shows the PowerStore solution excels in important ways over the IBM FlashSystem solution and demonstrates many benefits that could make it a strong option for today’s enterprise. For example, our test results confirm that the PowerStore 500T solution offers better data reduction, lower latency during snapshot creation, and higher input/output operations per second (IOPS) for small write workloads than the IBM FlashSystem 5300 solution. Additionally, the PowerStore dashboard simplifies management, requiring fewer steps and interfaces to provision volumes compared to the IBM FlashSystem solution. These advantages can translate into significant operational benefits, including improved performance, energy and space efficiency, and ease of use, which can all contribute to a lower overall total cost of ownership (TCO).
