IBM Spectrum Control Reviews

Vendor: IBM

3.9 out of 5

8 reviews
87% willing to recommend

What is IBM Spectrum Control?

IBM Spectrum Control is a comprehensive solution that can significantly improve monitoring, automation and analytics capabilities in multi-vendor storage environments. IBM Spectrum Control helps manage storage systems, software-defined storage, storage-area network (SAN) fabrics and devices. Storage can be seen from multiple perspectives, including departmental, application and server views. IBM Spectrum Control helps simplify provisioning, tier optimization, performance management and data replication processes.

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IBM Spectrum Control is the #6 ranked solution in top Storage Management solutions. PeerSpot users give IBM Spectrum Control an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. IBM Spectrum Control is most commonly compared to CA 1 Tape Management: IBM Spectrum Control vs CA 1 Tape Management.

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Featured IBM Spectrum Control reviews

Aamir Jameel

Senior Systems Manager at Tapal tea

Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly. IBM also needs to provide proper training to handle Spectrum Control because it's a complicated solution I've been using Spectrum Control for almost three years. Spectrum Control's stability is fine. Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can…

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Ramon Barrios

Gerente Propietario at INODO

The primary use case is to recollect the information for the system and then use the structured information to diagnose customers' problems in the future. The granularity of this solution has been most useful. Customers can click on a single item and get the information only for the single item…

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reviewer1158060

Senior Technical Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The initial setup for IBM Spectrum Control is a bit complicated. They should also make it easier to integrate and use the Cosmos Analytics tool, which is very complicated. I want IBM to add a feature for microcode operations. We have, for example, plenty of storage devices, and I have to connect directly to every storage device, upload microcode, and start the upgrade procedure. I would like IBM to have something similar to Brocade Network Advisor. There is a repository with microcode, and you just download the microcode to the Spectrum Control, and after that, choose what storage devices you would like to upgrade and just start upgrading these devices. It would be very nice if it's simplified.

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IBM Spectrum Control mindshare

As of May 2025, the mindshare of IBM Spectrum Control in the Storage Management category stands at 9.1%, up from 7.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerResearch reports based on IBM Spectrum Control reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Storage Management	May 1, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	May 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	IBM Spectrum Control vs NetApp BlueXP	May 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	IBM Spectrum Control vs NetApp OnCommand	May 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	IBM Spectrum Control vs CA 1 Tape Management	May 1, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
CA 1 Tape Management	4.8	9.7%	100%	6 interviews Add to research
Dell Storage Resource Manager	3.6	6.8%	62%	8 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The product keeps historical data for a very long time."
"The granularity of this solution has been most useful. Customers can click on a single item and get the information only for the single item they choose."
"Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."

Room for Improvement

"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"The database could be improved so that the complexity of installation could be easier. We would also like to have more granularity in the profiles and products for users. We would like to link the users to the tool to managers or auditors."
"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."

Pricing

"The solution is reasonably priced."
"We were already licensing Spectrum Control. This was one reasons why we went to Control rather than using the other product."
"It is pay for the amount of storage that you are monitoring. The more that we use the tool and like the tool, we may want to extend it to other storage platforms. This is just a matter of cost."

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