Gartner defines ICS as a hybrid, multidomain (i.e., on-premises, colocation, edge and public cloud), consumption-based as-a-service offerings for enterprise mission-critical infrastructure such as storage, compute and networking. In this case, multidomain reflects the characteristics of a multicloud hybrid environment. ICS vendors combine their unique capabilities to provide API-centric control and vendor-managed data services planes for infrastructure onboarding, provisioning and SLA-based life cycle management and support. ICS offerings include software-defined infrastructure solutions and appliances for storage as a service (STaaS), compute as a service (CaaS), networking as a service (NaaS), and other data services offerings. Data services include backup, disaster recovery (DR) and ransomware recovery, optionally managed by IT staff and/or service providers.
"GreenLake: A Solution to Reducing Tech Debt and Simplifying Tech Landscape"
HPe have been a great partner throughout our GreenLake journey. GreenLake has enabled us to reduce our tech debt and simplify our technology landscape.
"Count on Pure for No Downtime During Crucial Moments"
We have loved working with Pure on other products and this product was selected as part of that relationship. As our focus has shifted to moving services to the cloud, we have found it useful to maintain that relationship and use Pure's services in the cloud. They make it easy, and the GUI and services are familiar. We know what to expect and they have delivered.
"Hitachi Vantara Praised for Remarkable System Reliability"
Hitachi Vantara is the best storage vendor we have ever used in production!
"NetApp Keystone Flexible and scalable"
Keystone services give us flexibility and scalability for NAS environment. The pay per use approach give us oppurtunity to leverage the whole storage instead of having your own storage which in the end you will end up not utilizing it. It give us also to reduce our company carbon footprint, less investment in the hardware. Lastly, this give us flexibility in cost management where we can park certain dollars for storage we used and at the same time the remaining amount to other important initiatives.
"APEX Storage Solution: Letting APEX support drive so you can focus on important tasks"
The APEX storage solution was flexible in sizing and performance for our needs, and ensured that most maintenance and performance related tasks were handled by support personnel, saving time for our own admins. The coordination of work planning still took a good amount of time, and the software was often left to run several versions behind, including to the point of being hit by an unlikely bug. Negotiating the resizing of our base capacity contract took longer than expected.