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Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) vs. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

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    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AHitachi Vantara offers the Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) as a virtualization management solution.N/A

    IBM Spectrum Virtualize

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM Spectrum Virtualize supports provides data storage security and control across hybrid environments.N/A
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    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)IBM Spectrum Virtualize
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)IBM Spectrum Virtualize
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
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    Usability
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    User Testimonials
    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)IBM Spectrum Virtualize
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hitachi Vantara
    Hitachi SVOS is well suited for all environment in todays world. Storage plays a pivot role in all services provided in the current digital age. The Hitachi SVOS along with their blade proides magnificient perfromance boost which is not comparable to any vendors. Companies which has a huge database should consider this an option to evaluate. In addition orgnization who has a highly virtualized enviroment could also look at this product during their evaluation stage. This product is less benfit due to its cost in an environment where they have more number of physical servers as there are other solution which can be leveraged at a lower costs as they would not be utilizing the full feature set provided by the appliance
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    IBM
    Saves hours of staff time copying data from one Disk Array/Block Storage to newer system without impacting the servers that are using the SAN. We have virtualized storage like VMware/HyperVee virtualizes servers. Takes the complications out of being a SAN administrator.
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    Pros
    Hitachi Vantara
    • Scaling Flexibility
    • Supporting Hybrid/Cloud environments
    • Improving cost efficiency
    • Simplifying storage management
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    IBM
    • Provision drives over fiber and/or iSCSI connections
    • Perform volume replications between 2 storages efficiently
    • The ability to virtualize other storage and make it easy to provision
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    Cons
    Hitachi Vantara
    • Cost is too high
    • Documentation quality needs to be improved a lot. It is missing details currenty
    • Organize all the documents and tools related info in easy to read and understand manner
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    IBM
    • Costly but worth every dime in staff hours saved
    • Each generation has its limits on Fibre Channel speed it supports and one must upgrade the nodes to get to higher speeds
    • User Interface is now light speed ahead of where it started.
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    Usability
    Hitachi Vantara
    It combines with enterprise level storages very well. Due to its high reliability & uptime, it is valued greatly by such institutes. Secondly, it's advanced virtualization reduces the complexity & cost, which in turn results in maximizing hardware utilization. Performance efficiency is amazing even under heavy workloads. Built-in cache optimization and automated tiering help ensure efficient data placement.
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    IBM
    The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, it does not require investing a lot of time to manage them since they are very reliable and secure.The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, and does not require a lot of time to manage it as it is very reliable and secure.Its components are not easily damaged and any alert that occurs can be quickly corrected without interrupting services.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Hitachi Vantara
    There is definitely no comparison to any of the products when comparing to Hitachi SVOS. I beleieve this is the only unique product which can leverage older storage systems. Dell Avamar can be a great product if you are considering DR replication alone. The DR replication ratio is quite high in Dell avamar. However given that the current bandwidth available outweights this benefit
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    IBM
    IBM Spectrum Protect Virtualize beats ALL competition hands down, and one does not need to deal with the complications that are put into some of the Disk Array/ block Storage systems. Excellent Storage management and can see performance of your SAN that goes thru it easily.
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    Return on Investment
    Hitachi Vantara
    • Cost had bit of negative impact
    • Due to stable OS and live migrations support it has allowed us to dynamically tune the capacity of our test clusters leading to better COGS for our business
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    IBM
    • Positively, it has generated good initial sales for us and with proper management, the growth of application operations generates more services to manage.
    • Positively, the growth of the operation has also helped the team to update its capabilities in order to grow.
    • The only possible disadvantage is that since the equipment is very reliable and durable, technological change is not easy to make. Clients prefer to grow the equipment while they can rather than make a complete change, but even so, the time comes when all this produces more services.
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