IBM Spectrum Scale vs. Veritas InfoScale

When you get a Spectrum Scale solution from IBM you are certain of two things. 1) You will need a specialized storage admin who will be able to take all of its advantages and make available for your organization. It is an appliance that not so many storage admins would be comfortable working on. Invest properly on both hardware and human resources. 2) You will scale forever. We started with a couple of hundred of Terabytes and grew to dozens of Petabytes.

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Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager is great for the orchestration and management of its data protection workflows, with a leading multi-cloud integration solution and multiple storage location options. The downside of Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager it's the high price, compare to similar solutions that claimed the same results, but are less known.

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• Secure data storage platform.
• Secure environment to handle big data through.
• Creating reports from multiple platforms easily.

• Replication
• Reliability
• Escalation

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• Not suited for HPC.
• Doesn't work well for retail.

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• More pricing option for small to medium size companies
• More user-friendly reporting options for intrusion detection
• Customizable user access rights and profiles (e.g the ability to schedule different notifications for user profiles)

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It was the solution that fit the requirements of our customers.

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Due Company's strategy we selected Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager. Due to some strategy alignments, we choose Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager in order to have the replication to be managed by OS layer and not Storage one - where it's possible to System Administrators have the replication status and to check if everything is fine or not. If not the Sysadmin will able to try to stop/start replication from themselves.

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• Allowed reuse of existing storage
• Flexibility to provision storage quickly, allowing us to right size storage.

Incentivized

• By keeping the data safe, with scheduled deletion options of certain sensitive information, we keep our company safe and avoid fines, reputational damage.
• While the overall cost of Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager solutions are high, choosing or changing the location of where the data is stored in EU comes free of charge.
• Automatic backup and recovery of data helps us maintain of certain level of trust, less disturbance in daily operations, reducing the high cost that tech data outages would cause.

Incentivized