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Featured Review
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M Amin Anwar
Overall functions well, stable, but technical support could improve
IT is the best source for long-term retention data. If you will use it in the replacement of tape, it will give more comfort especially for data... Read more →
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Pros
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."

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"Overall the solution works well."

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Cons
"Integration with other vendors is not available."

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"The Veritas support for Access Appliance could improve. They are a pioneer in the industry, and they provide an enterprise-level solution. However, when comparing the storage, they can't compete with the NetBackup solution."

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  • "The solution is not expensive compared to other storage solutions."

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    Questions from the Community
    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 Veritas Access Appliance?
    Top Answer:Overall the solution works well.
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    What needs improvement with Veritas Access Appliance?
    Top Answer:Veritas Access Appliance is low-level storage, but they can improve it for the Net 13. The Veritas support for Access Appliance could improve. They are a pioneer in the industry, and they provide an… more »
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    What is your primary use case for Veritas Access Appliance?
    Top Answer:Veritas Access Appliance is doing everything for us, such as system recovery, backup, and cloud data protection. Veritas Access Appliance is low-level storage. When you compare it to other solutions… more »
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    Ranking
    15th
    out of 36 in Software Defined Storage (SDS)
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    3,339
    Comparisons
    2,643
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    187
    Rating
    8.0
    17th
    out of 36 in Software Defined Storage (SDS)
    Views
    327
    Comparisons
    136
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    461
    Rating
    7.0
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    Also Known As
    Access 3340 Appliance, Veritas Access 3340 Appliance
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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.

    The Veritas Access Appliance enables a turnkey deployment of Veritas’ software-defined Access scale-out network attached storage - a storage solution optimized for unstructured data use cases. The appliance is cost-optimized and tuned for high-capacity workloads like long-term retention (LTR), tape replacement and backup archiving.

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    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm63%
    Computer Software Company25%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Government9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company29%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Government9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business22%
    Large Enterprise78%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise75%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review while Veritas Access Appliance is ranked 17th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review. IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.0, while Veritas Access Appliance is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "Monitors all of our storage but lacks integration with other vendors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Access Appliance writes "Overall functions well, stable, but technical support could improve". IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, VMware vSAN, IBM Cloud Object Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Red Hat Gluster Storage, whereas Veritas Access Appliance is most compared with Veritas Access and Red Hat Ceph Storage.

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