We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Computing and vCloud Director 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."Easy to operate and use."
"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."
"We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues."
"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."
"This solution is working for both VTL and tape."
"The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers."
"The product allows us to add or remove features."
"It has helped us develop a better way of selling services to customers, evolve from the typical housing, and make revenues for the Telefonica company."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"Technical support is great. They help us 24/7."
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"The initial setup was complex. There's a lot of things you have to factor in, like security, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and how to maintain the platform. It's something we still struggle with, but it's getting better."
"We use the infrastructure as a service cloud, that is, we use the features as infrastructure for this. We are not using any platform services."
"The orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"We have not been able to use deduplication."
"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."
"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."
"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"Technical support is something that we've had problems with in the past. Across all the VMware solutions we have not always had the best response from support. To be fair a lot of the issues that came up for us have been quite niche but it seems that in terms of release cycles they introduced a lot of bugs and it's a lot of stuff that support generally has to work quite hard on. There have been cases when we've logged critical priority issues and not had responses in time. I think support is something that can be worked on."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"There are some shortcomings. There are bugs with opening support."
IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 10th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.8, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. 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 vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Apache Spark, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and IBM Turbonomic, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack. See our IBM Spectrum Computing vs. vCloud Director report.
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