Re: Experience firsthand
Yes, I have experience and first hand. Both vendors sell solid products, each will compete against the other aggressively on price, if the deal is worth their effort. Nutanix provides superior support for their product by a country mile. Dell-EMC are often the incumbent and so for Nutanix to win a client away from Dell-EMC can be seen as significant. It happens enough for them to have become the market leader. They are certainly the innovator out of the two. For me, it's about not having to pay the VMware or Veeam tax. Yes, I've become biased through many years of dealing with Dell. Nutanix are not cheap - it's sometimes hard to show that yes, they offer better value. Peace of mind certainly has value but not easily quantified. There's a lot of evangelism and fervor out there on both sides. It's complicated. My advice? Build a lab system, get to know the products, Nutanix will let you do that for the price of an Intel NUC and some NVMe storage. Worth the trip.
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