We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Accelerate and IBM Spectrum Scale based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the robustness, which is typical of IBM because their software generally just works."
"The ease of use is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's very user-friendly."
"The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better."
"Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward."
"It is incredibly scalable and stable."
"We can have multiple systems within the same file system."
"Allows us to share files across multiple environments."
"GPFS monitoring is the best feature."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms."
"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."
"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."
"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."
"Making it a little easier to add bad file sets would help. There is a transition to how you add storage and how you add a file set, so making that a little smoother would probably be my recommendation."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"We do have some issues where Spectrum Scale does not work as expected. We have seen our Spectrum Scale servers go down unexpectedly, but because we have a cluster, it does not take out the entire organization."
"The pricing and licensing model for this solution are complex and it is sometimes difficult to explain it to customers."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
"The main issue that we have now is with the encryption. They want to use more metrics in encryption, which is not working very well."
"It would be helpful if there was a graphical user interface that could walk you through the deployment process. The instructions surrounding setup aren't the best. They need to be more step-by-step."
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IBM Spectrum Accelerate is ranked 22nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 10 reviews. IBM Spectrum Accelerate is rated 8.0, while IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Accelerate writes "A robust solution with good performance and support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". IBM Spectrum Accelerate is most compared with , whereas IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, DDN IME, VMware vSAN and IBM Spectrum Virtualize. See our IBM Spectrum Accelerate vs. IBM Spectrum Scale report.
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