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IBM Spectrum Control vs VANTAGE Storage Intelligence comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Spectrum Control
Ranking in Storage Management
5th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VANTAGE Storage Intelligence
Ranking in Storage Management
17th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2024, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of IBM Spectrum Control is 7.0%, down from 8.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VANTAGE Storage Intelligence is 1.7%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management
 

Featured Reviews

Aamir Jameel - PeerSpot reviewer
May 27, 2022
Scalable but not user-friendly
Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly. IBM also needs to provide proper training to handle Spectrum Control because it's a complicated solution I've been using Spectrum Control for almost three years. Spectrum Control's stability is fine.  Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can…
RB
Mar 4, 2019
The alerts, trends and reporting have benefited my organization
Not writing a solution here, the SRM product is a mainframe product that CA's client user interface software, Vantage, can then interact with. They have three flavors for a client interface, desktop (but everything you do is yours alone, nobody else gets anything you build within it), and server…

Quotes from Members

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We were already licensing Spectrum Control. This was one reasons why we went to Control rather than using the other product."
"The solution is reasonably priced."
"It is pay for the amount of storage that you are monitoring. The more that we use the tool and like the tool, we may want to extend it to other storage platforms. This is just a matter of cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
13%
University
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Spectrum Control?
The product keeps historical data for a very long time.
What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Control?
The solution must support multi-vendor storage.
What is your primary use case for IBM Spectrum Control?
The solution can be used for monitoring storage.
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Also Known As

Spectrum Control
CA Vantage Storage Resource Manager, BrightStor Storage Resource Manager
 

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Sample Customers

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Sky, TravelPort, First Horizon, Hill International
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