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We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Accelerate and Veritas Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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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."

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"The product deployment is easy.""It has a huge deduplication ratio for backups of long-term archives.""Veritas Access is user-friendly and the NAS and SAN volumes are valuable."

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"The reporting mechanisms need improvement.""he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."

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"I would like to see Veritas Access included as an S3 target.""They could improve additional fees for the platform's data capacity. It could be more cost-effective.""The downtime of Veritas Access could be improved."

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  • "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."
  • "If you are cost-sensitive then this solution is not for you."
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  • "This product is not cheap. The only extra cost is the licensing."
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    Overview

    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.

    Veritas Access is a software-defined, scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) solution for unstructured data that uses intelligent policies to optimize data placement on-premise or on public clouds. Access provides resiliency, multi-protocol access and automated data movement to realize application performance, cost-effectiveness and scalability gains.

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    IBM Spectrum Accelerate is ranked 22nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while Veritas Access is ranked 17th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews. IBM Spectrum Accelerate is rated 8.0, while Veritas Access 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 Veritas Access writes "Provides seamless integration within the existing infrastructure and has an easy deployment process ". IBM Spectrum Accelerate is most compared with IBM Spectrum Scale, whereas Veritas Access is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage.

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