We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Accelerate and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."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."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is a simple, user-friendly, and stable solution."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward. With a few clicks, you can stand up your storage. It reduces the overall life cycle of deployment within the ecosystem."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is easy to use. New employees are able to come up to speed fairly quickly with regard to the day-to-day administration processes."
"The reliability and availability are the most valuable features. Reliability is important because it can run my workloads. I need to be able to take advantage of the VMs that are executing on the storage. It has to be reliable. It's also important to have the storage available for scaling VMs on demand."
"The most valuable feature is the easy interface."
"I appreciate its storage licensing model, as it offers flexibility."
"The solution is stable and extremely easy to calibrate."
"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."
"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."
"We have issues with software updates occasionally."
"The escalation process with technical support could do with some improvement."
"Another aspect that needs improvement is continuous protection against security threats such as ransomware and potential data leakage."
"The feature request I have is for the consistent improvement of how user account permissions are assigned in Nutanix Unified Storage."
"The graphical user interface could provide more detail. It would be nice if we could click on the service and get some expanded definitions of them. When hiring new people, it's difficult to teach them how everything works, but if they can access everything, they can teach themselves."
"Lowering the price would improve this product."
"Nutanix should improve the one-click upgrade. There are a lot of dependencies on third-party licenses and HP hardware we use internally. The one-click upgrade fails sometimes."
"If they can add an integrated DLP feature, it would be great."
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IBM Spectrum Accelerate is ranked 22nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews. IBM Spectrum Accelerate is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Accelerate writes "A robust solution with good performance and support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". IBM Spectrum Accelerate is most compared with IBM Spectrum Scale, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Qumulo.
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