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Marcelo M.

Infrastructure, Networks and Telecommunications Coordinator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/26/2022

"Dell EMC Unity, necessary but expensive investment."

4/5

What do you like best about Unity XT?

The strength of Dell EMC, as a whole, is its proactive support, whenever there is a problem in unity (not that there is very often) the Dell EMC support team proactively contact us and help us with the solution or repair. Now, speaking of the equipment itself, I can say that its strengths are: simplicity of configuration, friendly interface, high tierization intelligence, providing a very attractive data availability and volumes for the different functions in which we use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Unity XT?

Price, price and price. Investing in on-premise storage has always been expensive, greatly impacting TCO, and is now much more evident with cloud storage-as-a-service solutions. This type of equipment needs official support, so, even after purchasing the product for an already high price, we still have to evaluate the investment in support up to the EOL, in our case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Unity XT:

Evaluate whether the investment in on-premise storage pays off for your business or is it more advantageous to hire a cloud storage solution. Because, by purchasing a local storage, you will have costs such as electricity, security, environmental cooling, official support and cabling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Unity XT solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Dell EMC Unity solution helped us to create our virtual clustered environment, Vmware, providing high availability for our various virtual systems, in addition to providing volumes for our backup system (Bacula Enterprise), also for our MAM (Media asset) system. management - Alfred) and volumes for end users via SMB sharing via Active Directory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.