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We performed a comparison between AWS Trusted Advisor and IBM Spectrum Computing based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed AWS Trusted Advisor vs. IBM Spectrum Computing Report (Updated: May 2024).
770,765 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The cost optimization and security-related fixes in AWS Trusted Advisor have been great.""The Security Advisor is the most valuable feature. It instantly informs you about any system misconfigurations, and the best part is, it's completely free.""AWS Trusted Advisor is a tool that we can use to optimize the AWS infrastructure cost.""The cost optimization features are valuable."

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"Easy to operate and use.""We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues.""This solution is working for both VTL and tape.""The most valuable feature is the backup capability.""Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis.""The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers."

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Cons
"The tenancy must be free for all metrics.""I'd like the solution to support clouds beyond AWS.""For EC2 instances, we need to install the AWS CloudWatch agent to get the memory metric because we don't have a by-default memory utilization graph on cost optimization.""Maybe adding more security rules would be great."

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"We have not been able to use deduplication.""Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud.""We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning.""Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish.""This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly.""SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing."

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  • "This solution is expensive."
  • "Spectrum Computing is one of the most expensive products on the market."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The Security Advisor is the most valuable feature. It instantly informs you about any system misconfigurations, and the best part is, it's completely free.
    Top Answer:As long as you have a corporate AWS account, which most companies do. Personal accounts wouldn't have it, but any corporate account gets it for free. It's a free feature from AWS. So it's bundled with… more »
    Top Answer:Maybe adding more security rules would be great. It comes with around 20-25 baseline rules. If you want more, like 300-400 rules, you'd need to purchase Security Hub from AWS. So, more built-in rules… more »
    Top Answer:This solution is too expensive for a lot of our customers.
    Top Answer:The biggest problem is the lack of documentation in general, and documentation in Spanish, in particular.
    Ranking
    22nd
    out of 75 in Cloud Management
    Views
    858
    Comparisons
    602
    Reviews
    4
    Average Words per Review
    427
    Rating
    8.5
    9th
    out of 75 in Cloud Management
    Views
    4,061
    Comparisons
    3,763
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    240
    Rating
    9.0
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    Overview

    AWS Trusted Advisor is your customized cloud expert! It helps you to observe best practices for the use of AWS by inspecting your AWS environment with an eye toward saving money, improving system performance and reliability, and closing security gaps.

    IBM Spectrum Computing uses intelligent workload and policy-driven resource management to optimize resources across the data center, on premises and in the cloud. Now up to 150X faster and scalable to over 160,000 cores, IBM provides you with the latest advances in software-defined infrastructure to help you unleash the power of your distributed mission-critical high performance computing (HPC), analytics and big data applications as well as a new generation open source frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark.

    Sample Customers
    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
    London South Bank University, Transvalor, Infiniti Red Bull Racing, Genomic
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Healthcare Company6%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider31%
    Media Company17%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise66%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Large Enterprise57%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    AWS Trusted Advisor vs. IBM Spectrum Computing
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about AWS Trusted Advisor vs. IBM Spectrum Computing and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    AWS Trusted Advisor is ranked 22nd in Cloud Management with 4 reviews while IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 9th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews. AWS Trusted Advisor is rated 8.6, while IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AWS Trusted Advisor writes "A stable and easy-to-use product that provides excellent cost optimization features and technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Computing writes "Provides stable backup for our databases and has good technical support ". AWS Trusted Advisor is most compared with AWS Control Tower, IBM Turbonomic, CloudCheckr and VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, whereas IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Apache Spark, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and IBM Turbonomic. See our AWS Trusted Advisor vs. IBM Spectrum Computing report.

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