Many of the technologies that have revolutionized modern daily life—from digital payments to interactive transportation apps to personalized online shopping and more—depend on reliable, lightning-fast access to ever-growing stores of big data. For businesses that rely on big data to support their products and services, deciding how and where to store that data can be a complex and potentially costly decision. The upfront and ongoing costs of on-site enterprise-level storage solutions can run into the millions of dollars. Another option is to turn to cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), but public cloud storage solutions can also be very costly. We found a third alternative for companies that want to save money and still enjoy the benefits of high-performance storage—an on-premises storage as-a-service solution with Dell APEX Private Cloud and Dell APEX Data Storage Services Block.
We used an Oracle Database I/O generator workload to compare the performance of a Dell APEX solution comprising Dell APEX Private Cloud and Dell APEX Data Storage Services Block to that of an Amazon solution comprising Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) io2 Storage. We found that not only did the Dell APEX solution deliver better performance in several different measures—up to 9.8 percent more IOPS and up to 9.8 percent greater storage throughput—but its monthly cost was up to 45.9 percent lower than the monthly subscription costs of the Amazon EBS io2 Storage solution. In contrast to the $24,880.00 monthly cost of the Amazon solution we tested, the APEX solution cost only $13,439.43 per month for a three-year subscription and $19,348.85 per month for a one-year subscription.
By subscribing to Dell APEX Private Cloud and Dell APEX Data Storage Services Block rather than public cloud resources, companies could save significant amounts of money while gaining throughput and speed. This makes the APEX solution an excellent choice for companies that need high-performance, on-premises storage priced with a cloud-as-a-service approach.
To learn more about our Dell APEX and AWS cloud storage service comparison tests, check out the report and infographic below.
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