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

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"We are able to create an internal price of the product that we can then sell to clients. We get the cost plan at a good discount and then resell it with a mark up to our enterprise-level clients. This flexibility in pricing is one of the solution's best features.""The solution is useful for cloud transparency and visibility in reports and dashboards that I have generated, especially the pre-populated dashboards.""We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations.""The most valuable thing I have found is the cost saving recommendations""The pricing is rather competitive right now.""This solution is fast and very easy to understand, even if you are not a technician.""The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds.""It's stable. For report presentation, it's been fast."

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

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"The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved.""The export features regarding CSV files and specifically around identifying savings plans have room for improvement, as well as the drill-down features for reservation utilization.""CloudHealth needs to start building out Turbonomics-types of features that help the customers who are using CloudHealth really understand everything down to the server level, the virtual machine level.""I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create easier setup and implementation.""They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size.""The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer. The solution needs to offer more product milestones.""The Perspectives feature could be better.""It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This solution is expensive."
  • "Spectrum Computing is one of the most expensive products on the market."
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  • "The licensing fees depend on how big the company is. If you are a larger company then you have a better contract with a better price. The price is different for a small company."
  • "CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."
  • "The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive."
  • "I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten."
  • "There could be flexibility in pricing for the product."
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    Questions from the Community
    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.
    Top Answer:The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds.
    Top Answer:I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten.
    Top Answer:There could be flexibility in pricing for the product. They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size. It will help us get the right cost… more »
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    10th
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    9.0
    15th
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    Comparisons
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    5
    Average Words per Review
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    Rating
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    Overview

    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.

    Tackle Your Organization’s Biggest Cloud Challenges

    VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth delivers intelligent insights that help you optimize costs, improve governance, and build your Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE).

    Simplify Financial Management

    Report spend by cost center, drive financial accountability against budgets and find ways to optimize your cloud spend.

    EXPLORE FINOPS SOLUTIONS

    Streamline Operations

    Create custom policies that automate daily cloud operations, speed decision making, and reduce risk.

    OPTIMIZE CLOUD OPERATIONS

    Strengthen Security & Compliance

    Visualize, investigate, and prevent lateral movements that exploit resource relationships, misconfigurations and entitlements.

    Sample Customers
    London South Bank University, Transvalor, Infiniti Red Bull Racing, Genomic
    Pinterest, Dow Jones, RhythmOne, Ziff Davis, Acquia, Mentor Graphics, Lookout, Veracode, SwiftKey, Amtrak, Shi, Imgur, SumoLogic, NewsUK, Cloudera, Canvas
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider31%
    Media Company16%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Computer Software Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization28%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Large Enterprise57%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise67%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business40%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise40%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise34%
    Large Enterprise51%
    Buyer's Guide
    IBM Spectrum Computing vs. VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about IBM Spectrum Computing vs. VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 10th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is ranked 15th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews. IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.8, while VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Computing writes "Provides stable backup for our databases and has good technical support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth writes "Useful for Cloud transparency and visability". IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Apache Spark, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and IBM Turbonomic, whereas VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is most compared with Azure Cost Management, Cloudability, IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Operations and Densify. See our IBM Spectrum Computing vs. VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth report.

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