We performed a comparison between Dell EMC DataIQ and IBM Spectrum Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, IBM, NetApp and others in Storage Management."The product can be used to analyze data usage."
"Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."
"Spectrum Control is highly secure and competitively priced."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use. The ability to get into a storage device and look at whatever you are trying to look at as far as performance, then obtain the reports that you need to do your analytical work."
"The benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem."
"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."
"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."
"The installation was very easy. You just install an agent on a server, and you give that agent access to your storage device, then it just collects the data. It took five minutes to set up."
"The solution’s GUI is a little bit confusing."
"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."
"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."
"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"The pain points were, and may still continue to be, the fact that there are multiple components of the product which are installed, you might say, somewhat individually."
"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."
"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."
"If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good."
Dell EMC DataIQ is ranked 10th in Storage Management with 1 review while IBM Spectrum Control is ranked 2nd in Storage Management with 8 reviews. Dell EMC DataIQ is rated 8.0, while IBM Spectrum Control is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dell EMC DataIQ writes "A stable and scalable tool that can be used to monitor and analyze data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Control writes "Scalable but not user-friendly". Dell EMC DataIQ is most compared with IBM Storage Insights and IBM Spectrum Discover, whereas IBM Spectrum Control is most compared with IBM Storage Insights and CA 1 Tape Management.
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