Gartner分布式文件系统和对象存储报告，2017年10月17日发布

Posted 2021-04-24 恶魔城

写在前面

关于EMC弹性云存储（ECS）产品，个人认为定位于2个主要场景：云原生应用、大容量存储。

简单地说，

• 如果是互联网+，或者强调云、弹性架构、应用可继承性等问题，就把ECS提供的存储容量放在生产路径里，直接提供给应用使用，用云的姿势使用ECS

• 如果是企业级应用，更多考虑的是合规审计、温冷数据存储，用解决方案的姿势使用ECS

Gartner报告摘录DELL EMC部分如下，有英文和中文翻译二个版本。如果想看官方原文所有内容，最后面有链接，点击“阅读原文”。

原文如下：

Dell EMC

Company info:EMC, founded in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, in 1979, is part of privately held Dell Technologies and is referred to as Dell EMC. The company primarily sells on-premises storage hardware, software, servers and networking equipment.

Product description and enhancements over past 12 months:This Magic Quadrant, considers two products: Isilon, a distributed file system, and Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) object storage. Notable ECS enhancements include support for Dell PowerEdge servers, metadata search, life cycle policies and compliance enhancements. Notable Isilon enhancements include support for solid-state drives, branch office support and CloudPools, which offers support for Google Cloud Storage. The Isilon F800, a new solid-state-based Isilon offering, is designed for commercial high-performance file workloads such as media and entertainment, life sciences and analytics.

Delivery model:Both Isilon and ECS are most frequently sold with Dell EMC hardware, but both can be deployed as software only.Further, both products can be acquired as private, dedicated infrastructure in Virtustream's cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environment.

Pricing model:BothECS and Isilon are most frequently sold in a traditional, perpetual model. Isilon OneFS license includes both a per-node base license and per-TB capacity, and price varies by the type of nodes. The ECS product offer flexible pricing options such as an amortized pricing model or pay as you go.

Popular use cases:ECS is primarily used as an archive for unstructured data when object storage is preferred. Isilon is primarily used to support high-throughput, file-based workloads.

Strengths

• Isilon dwarfs all other distributed file system vendors in this Magic Quadrant in terms of revenue. Isilon alone represents nearly 50% of the total revenue in the market covered by this Magic Quadrant, reflecting the product's continued dominance.

• ECS has a well-designed architecture, built by engineers who were responsible, in part, for building early parts of Microsoft Azure. The distributed, pragmatic designs used by public cloud IaaS providers are also found in ECS.

• Gartner clients evaluating products for large-scale, unstructured data workloads frequently include Isilon or ECS on their shortlist due to a positive track record and support capabilities.

Cautions

• The Isilon F800 is a nascent offering that is not designed for online transaction processing (OLTP).

• Gartner reference customers are frequently concerned with the high cost of maintenance and support when purchasing ECS and Isilon.

• Isilon and ECS trail the emerging market for hybrid cloud storage solutions. Isilon and ECS support very simple tiering of data to remote storage, but not the two-way synchronization that customers are beginning to deploy. 

如果不愿意看英文，可以参考下面Google翻译的结果：

戴尔EMC

公司简介： EMC于1979年在马萨诸塞州的霍普金顿创立，是戴尔技术公司的一部分，被称为戴尔EMC。该公司主要销售内部存储硬件，软件，服务器和网络设备。

过去12个月的产品描述和增强： 这个魔力象限考虑了两个产品：Isilon，分布式文件系统和弹性云存储（ECS）对象存储。显着的ECS增强功能包括支持戴尔PowerEdge服务器，元数据搜索，生命周期策略和合规性增强功能。值得注意的Isilon增强功能包括支持固态硬盘，分支机构支持和CloudPools，它们支持Google Cloud Storage。Isilon F800是一款新的基于固态的Isilon产品，专为商业高性能文件工作负载（如媒体和娱乐，生命科学和分析）而设计。

交付模式： Isilon和ECS都是戴尔EMC硬件最常销售的，但两者都可以作为软件部署。 此外，这两种产品都可以作为私有的专用基础设施（Virtustream的云基础设施即服务（IaaS）））获得。

定价模式： 无论 ECS和Isilon公司以传统的，永久的模型最频繁出售。Isilon OneFS许可证包括每个节点的基本许可证和每TB的容量，并且价格因节点的类型而异。ECS产品提供灵活的定价选项，如摊销定价模式或付款。

受欢迎的用例： 当优选对象存储时，ECS主要用作非结构化数据的归档。Isilon主要用于支持高吞吐量，基于文件的工作负载。

优势

• Isilon在收入方面与所有其他分布式文件系统供应商在这个魔力象限相比都相差不大。Isilon仅占该魔术象限市场总收入的近50％，反映了该产品的持续优势。

• ECS有一个精心设计的架构，由那些负责构建Microsoft     Azure早期部分的工程师构建。公共云IaaS提供商使用的分布式实用设计也可以在ECS中找到。

• 对于大规模，非结构化数据工作负载评估产品的Gartner客户，由于积极的记录和支持能力，往往将Isilon或ECS列入其候选名单。

注意事项

• Isilon F800是一款新颖的产品，不适用于在线交易处理（OLTP）。

• Gartner参考客户经常关注购买ECS和Isilon时维护和支持的高成本。

• Isilon和ECS追踪了混合云存储解决方案的新兴市场。Isilon和ECS支持将数据分层到远程存储，而不是客户开始部署的双向同步。