HPE StoreVirtual vs IBM Spectrum Accelerate comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and IBM are both solutions in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #21, while IBM is ranked #24. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 1.5% mindshare in SDS, compared to IBM’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

HPE StoreVirtual and IBM Spectrum Accelerate are competing storage solutions known for optimizing data management. HPE StoreVirtual holds the advantage in cost and ease of deployment, while IBM Spectrum Accelerate offers advanced features that justify the investment for enhanced performance.

Features: HPE StoreVirtual provides scalable architecture, robust data protection, and seamless integration with existing network systems for efficient resource utilization. IBM Spectrum Accelerate offers powerful data management capabilities, a hyper-scale architecture for high performance, and superior storage flexibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE StoreVirtual is noted for its straightforward deployment, requiring minimal setup time, and consistent customer support. IBM Spectrum Accelerate involves a more complex deployment process, but this is complemented by its comprehensive support services, enhancing the overall customer experience.

Pricing and ROI: HPE StoreVirtual presents a lower initial setup cost, appealing to organizations seeking budget-friendly solutions. Conversely, IBM Spectrum Accelerate requires a higher initial investment but offers greater long-term ROI through optimized performance. Organizations often weigh the economical setup of HPE StoreVirtual against the potential for enhanced ROI with IBM Spectrum Accelerate's performance-driven features.

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Pure Storage FlashBlade

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category, the mindshare of Pure Storage FlashBlade is 4.1%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE StoreVirtual is 1.5%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Spectrum Accelerate is 2.0%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Defined Storage (SDS) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Pure Storage FlashBlade	4.1%
HPE StoreVirtual	1.5%
IBM Spectrum Accelerate	2.0%
Other	92.4%

Software Defined Storage (SDS)

Featured Reviews

Parul-Patel

Senior Network Engineer at Holy Redeemer Health System, Inc.

High performance and throughput enhance IT backup management

The multi-dimensional scale-out design feature of Pure Storage FlashBlade is not in use in our environment. Regarding data reduction technologies, we don't get much deduplication because the data is already deduplicated from our FlashArray before we get to backup, so there is no benefit of deduplication. Regarding the integration with cloud-native ecosystem tools, we are not on cloud; we are strictly an on-premises solution. Pure Storage FlashBlade is not used by any end-user; it's used only for IT backup, with only about four people in our group managing it. I cannot recommend Pure Storage FlashBlade to other users depending upon their financial situation because it's an expensive solution, and the cost is very high, including licensing and renewal every year. I rate Pure Storage FlashBlade an eight out of ten.

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Vebjorn Nergaard

Senior IT Engineer at Guard Automation AS

Reliable with helpful support and good replication

The setup is okay, however, it comes with a moderate amount of difficulty. If you are new to the product, it is difficult. You do get used to the process over time and it gets easier. A company just needs one person to maintain the solution as it just runs. You don't need any support staff. It's very, very hands-off except when you do updates. The product is living its own life.

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reviewer1154616

IS Auditor at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

A robust solution with good performance and support

This is a solution that scales well, although I think that we have stabilized in terms of use. With respect to scalability, we have an open question as to whether we will be able to grow into a cloud-based deployment. We don't know in what ways this solution will assist us with the migration, or whether we can still use it for DR. We don't know about the type of backup, be it full, incremental, or otherwise. We are also looking for a cost-savings if we migrate. These are things that we will find out over time. We have about two petabytes of data.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The onboarding and integrated monitoring tools are pretty good."

"The performance of FlashBlade is excellent. It does not necessarily leverage the SOS API that some of the newer products leverage, but I found its speed pretty much on par and comparable. It is fast, and it does what it is supposed to do."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."

"Pure Storage FlashBlade is user-friendly. It's replication feature is great because it has active replication and active DR. That's the beauty of the product. It's a perfect solution for block storage."

"The product is scalable and easy to expand."

"I like its size. It is smaller than the other competitors. We can plug in many blades, and we can have data up to one terabyte."

"It has also helped to simplify storage for us in the way that it's easy to manage. Their automatic monitoring really helps when things break or are about to break. They see a problem coming and alert us even before our own system does."

"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."

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"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."

"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."

"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."

"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."

"It appears to be very stable and very robust."

"It's very stable and it's easy to use."

"The solution is very stable."

"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."

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"The most valuable feature is the robustness, which is typical of IBM because their software generally just works."

"The ease of use is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's very user-friendly."

Cons

"I would like to see more VM-Aware features in the next release of this solution."

"The documentational aspect of FlashBlade needs improvement."

"They need better integration with public clouds along with a better hybrid solution."

"I would like to see better integration."

"Its configuration should be easier."

"I would like to have Snapshots and Snapmail in the next release. People who came from a NetApp background, especially expect these features."

"Pure Storage FlashBlade should improve on more cloud integration."

"I want efficiency. FlashBlade doesn't have efficiency now."

More Pure Storage FlashBlade cons

"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."

"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."

"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."

"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."

"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."

"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."

"Product looks like it is in the end of development."

"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."

More HPE StoreVirtual cons

"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."

"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is a little high."

"The pricing for FlashBlade is between cheap and moderate."

"The product is very expensive."

"I rate the tool's pricing a seven to eight out of ten."

"I feel that the price could always be lowered."

"The price of this solution could be made more affordable."

"I have seen ROI. It has allowed me to increase the density of my VMs without having to purchase anything additional."

"We used a reseller for the purchase."

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"One of the key features about it is that when you buy either a VSA license or a StoreVirtual appliance, all your software's included."

"Licensing is not exactly straightforward, but not the worst I have ever seen."

"If you buy a five-year license, not only does the technical support expire after five years, but you also lose the ability to change and expand the VSA, and the systems won't go down."

"It costs less than $10,000 for one machine. If it costs more than 15% higher than this, then the customer may change to another solution."

"For our organization, I believe the cost is 16,000 Euros for a three-year license. It costs a bit more to do the maintenance on our servers as well. It's also on an HP ProLiant server and an organization will need to do the maintenance there also. I believe the price for that is around 2000 Euros a year."

"The prices are OK, so we don't have much difficulty selling HPE in Brazil."

"If you are cost-sensitive then this solution is not for you."

"For a database, on a yearly basis, we pay approximately $3,500 for licensing fees. The solution is sold as a subscription on a yearly basis so there are no other ancillary costs."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

20%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Performing Arts

14%

Transportation Company

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	20

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	19

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HPE StoreVirtual, HPE VSA

IBM XIV

Overview

FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.

Pure Storage

HPE StoreVirtual storage ensures that organisations can optimise the benefits of server virtualisation with cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery. The iSCSI-based, scale-out storage platform is easy to manage and change – meeting ongoing business demands without creating IT bottlenecks or application downtime. Overcoming the cost and management limitations of traditional storage area networks (SANs), HPE StoreVirtual nodes use storage clustering to form a single pool of resources that enable organisations to buy only what they need today, scaling non-disruptively to meet requirements in the future.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

IBM Spectrum Accelerate is a software-defined block storage solution designed for rapid deployment across heterogeneous infrastructure for hybrid cloud and delivering consistent service levels to a dynamic workload mix. It is based on proven grid-architecture, enterprise-scale IBM XIV technology. IBM Spectrum Accelerate can be deployed, including as hyper-converged infrastructure, on any x86 server, on pre-installed third-party appliances or on public cloud infrastructure, and is available as a service on IBM Cloud infrastructure.

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Sample Customers

ServiceNow, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Dominos, Man AHL

NBrIX, WIND Telecom, Netrics

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