Owning a comprehensive enterprise-class storage solution can be a significant investment, leading some companies to instead consider public cloud or storage-as-a-service solutions. Principled Technologies tested two alternatives including aws alternatives to purchasing on-premises enterprise-class storage arrays—the on-premises storage-as-a-service Dell Technologies solution APEX Data Storage Services and an Amazon Web Services EBS io2 Block Express storage solution. Principled Technologies also compared the monthly costs of each solution.
According to the report, PT “Found that similarly configured storage from each company had comparable I/O performance and offered sub-millisecond database sequential read latency. However, Dell Technologies APEX Storage Services delivered significant cost savings—up to 81 percent of the monthly subscription costs of the Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Storage solution.”
