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What do you like most about IBM Spectrum Scale?
Top Answer:The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Spectrum Scale?
Top Answer:The pricing isn't too expensive. It's reasonable.
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What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Scale?
Top Answer:The solution would benefit from being simplified. The scalability could be a bit better. It needs to be more flexible when it comes to expanding. It would be helpful if there was a graphical user… more »
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What do you like most about Red Hat Gluster Storage?
Top Answer:It's very easy to upgrade storage.
What needs improvement with Red Hat Gluster Storage?
Top Answer:In terms of improvement, my initial suggestion would be that the user interface could be simplified. For now, it requires training to be able to use it. I would like to see a more simplified version… more »
What is your primary use case for Red Hat Gluster Storage?
Top Answer:We're using the product for storage.
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Overview
IBM Spectrum Scale is a cluster file system that provides concurrent access to a single file system or set of file systems from multiple nodes. The nodes can be SAN attached, network attached, a mixture of SAN attached and network attached, or in a shared nothing cluster configuration. This enables access to this common set of data to support a scale-out solution or to provide a high availability platform. IBM Spectrum Scale has many features beyond common data access including data replication, policy based storage management, and multi-site operations. You can create a cluster of AIX nodes, Linux nodes, Windows server nodes, or a mix of all three. IBM Spectrum Scale can run on virtualized instances providing common data access in environments, leverage logical partitioning, or other hypervisors. Multiple IBM Spectrum Scale clusters can share data within a location or across wide area network (WAN) connections.

Red Hat Gluster Storage (formerly known as Red Hat Storage Server) is a software-defined storage (SDS) platform designed to handle the requirements of traditional file storage—high-capacity tasks like backup and archival as well as high-performance tasks of analytics and virtualization. But unlike traditional storage systems, Red Hat Gluster Storage isn’t rigid and expensive. It easily scales across bare metal, virtual, container, and cloud deployments.

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Financial Services Firm63%
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IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 2 reviews while Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 18th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". On the other hand, IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, VMware vSAN, IBM Cloud Object Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Portworx Enterprise, whereas Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, LizardFS, Portworx Enterprise and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct.

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