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Broadcom Storage Management for Mainframe vs IBM Spectrum Control comparison

 

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Broadcom Storage Management...
Ranking in Storage Management
15th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
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IBM Spectrum Control
Ranking in Storage Management
7th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of Broadcom Storage Management for Mainframe is 3.6%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Spectrum Control is 5.5%, down from 9.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Spectrum Control5.5%
Broadcom Storage Management for Mainframe3.6%
Other90.9%
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System, Storage And Data Administrator at STET
Centralized capacity planning has improved insight into storage consumption for long term growth
Implementing IBM Spectrum Control is complex; we have had several calls to IBM to solve problems about DVM stack size, max memory size, and other issues such as buffer and cloud buffer size. Currently it is working, though we still have swap issues on our Linux Spectrum Protect server.We experience swap issues when we run a big retention set, and we have noticed that on the server we have memory available, but it seems that IBM Spectrum Control is using swap because the DBM max memory size is two gigabytes. This causes IBM Spectrum Control to use swap size instead of using memory, which is an issue we have opened a call to IBM about.We hope to ask why we have no report on the clone because on our storage we have an internal clone, but it is not reported. We will see with the support why it is not reported.
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What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Control?
Implementing IBM Spectrum Control is complex; we have had several calls to IBM to solve problems about DVM stack size, max memory size, and other issues such as buffer and cloud buffer size. Curren...
What is your primary use case for IBM Spectrum Control?
IBM Spectrum Control has been in use for more than ten years. It was installed for capacity planning because our manager wants to have insight into the capacity planning of the storage area. We ins...
What advice do you have for others considering IBM Spectrum Control?
We are working with IBM products. IBM Spectrum Control is also installed now and we are using it.Currently, we are trying to implement a private cloud, specifically an Amazon S3 compatible cloud.We...
 

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