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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) vs. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

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    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) from AWS is designed for application workloads that benefit from fine tuning for performance, cost and capacity. Typical use cases include Big Data analytics engines (like the Hadoop/HDFS ecosystem and Amazon EMR clusters), relational and NoSQL databases (like Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL or Cassandra and MongoDB), stream and log processing applications (like Kafka and Splunk), and data warehousing applications (like Vertica and Teradata).N/A

    IBM Spectrum Accelerate

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Spectrum Accelerate is an enterprise software defined block storage solution.N/A
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Block Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Block Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Cloud Block Storage
    Score9 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)IBM Spectrum Accelerate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (20 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)IBM Spectrum Accelerate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    It provides the optimized storage performance and cost for your workload and these options really work with SSD-backed storage and it improves the database performance. Keeping backups of your EC2 resources, including EBS volumes is a little bit tricky and its takes some more time and increase through put is also a tiring job to do.
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    IBM
    I recommend this product in cases when we have to Deploy scale-out storage grids in automated environments; it can be done in minutes rather than days. Another exciting point is the quality of service that it allows for establishing different performance tiers without a need for physical tiering. A point against, from my point of view, is connectivity because it only provides a connection by iscsi.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Raw storage capacity attached to your instance operative system
    • Frequent data rewriting (mission critical for reporting)
    • Low latency connectivity (14 reporting subsidiaries in different time zones)
    • Videly spreaded for implementation
    • Fast accessible drive
    • Block storage are core for Java, Net mobile applications
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    IBM
    • IBM Spectrum Accelerate enables rapid deployment of high-performance and scalable blocks.
    • Data storage infrastructure over commodity hardware, either on-premises or off-premises.
    • The IBM Spectrum Accelerate solution that is described in this document provides a total of.
    • 184 TB of usable capacity.
    • This technical publication describes a Spectrum Accelerate implementation with Lenovo
    • 3650M5 server hardware.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Creating too much EBS can be disaster if you are not properly organized by tags
    • In terms of pricing it's a bit on higher side.
    • In terms of performance, there is room for improvement as sometimes reading or saving the data can be painful.
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    IBM
    • not easy to manage
    • interface is not user-friendly
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon EBS is a great tool and fairly easy to use as long as you are familiar with the Amazon Web Service ecosystem. It allows a great way for you to move storage around easily and allows you to quickly provision storage as needed based on the business requirement. For us, it's easy to move between our EC2 images that had been linked with EBS storage between these Amazon accounts.
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    IBM
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    The support for Amazon Elastic Block Store is great as long as you can articulate your needs. Like most tools, there may be some back and forth before you find a support person that is knowledgable in the tool and can provide you with necessary insights.
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    IBM
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    So far I have only used Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Azure but comparatively [I] prefer AWS elastic Block store as its having more advantages than Azure and I found it quite satisfactory and it helped a lot for information storage. We are not looking for any other hosting provider at this time.
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    IBM
    The most important feature is the robustness; it is always online, apart from allowing us to unify our file and database storage.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • When your application needs high IOPS storage, this is a great solution that will keep your business functioning.
    • Without Amazon Elastic Block Store you could try spreading your data across several standard drives, but that introduces complexity and still has IOPS limits.
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    IBM
    • According to conventional wisdom, an annual ROI of approximately 7% or greater is considered a good ROI for an investment in stocks.
    • Return on Investment (ROI) is a popular profitability metric used to evaluate how well an investment has performed.
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