IBM Spectrum Virtualize vs. OpenText Storage Manager

IBM Spectrum Virtualize

IBM Spectrum Virtualize

13 Reviews and Ratings

OpenText Storage Manager

OpenText Storage Manager

9 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Spectrum Virtualize	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	IBM Spectrum Virtualize supports provides data storage security and control across hybrid environments.	N/A
OpenText Storage Manager	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	User and group file system management for Open Enterprise Server networks, formerly from Micro Focus and now from OpenText. It allows automated, policy-based management of OpenText™ Open Enterprise Server network file systems and user group storage. For Active Directory systems, Storage Manager is now OpenText™ File Dynamics.	N/A

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IBM Spectrum Virtualize

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IBM Spectrum Virtualize	OpenText Storage Manager
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Community Pulse
	IBM Spectrum Virtualize	OpenText Storage Manager
Top Pros	Pro Block storage Pro Saves time	Pro Data storage Pro Secure storage Pro File management
Top Cons	Minus User interface	Minus Big data Minus Data collection Minus Cloud deployment

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	IBM Spectrum Virtualize	OpenText Storage Manager
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User Ratings
	IBM Spectrum Virtualize	OpenText Storage Manager
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Spectrum Virtualize	OpenText Storage Manager
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized ML Mark Lewandowski Sr Network and Systems Engineer Read full review	OpenText Excellent Cloud platform that has the powerful and very stable functionalities for the easy moving of many data across the entire Cloud services and thro9ugh a very secure platform. Integration to multiple other platform on Cloud services is amazing and even the data visualization tools are the best and collection of multiple data insights across websites is amazing. Incentivized Rahim Khan DevOps Engineer Read full review
Pros	IBM Virtualizes all your Block Storage Works on Fibre Channel or iSCSI Saves time, engineering and money for overtime of just watching data copy Incentivized ML Mark Lewandowski Sr Network and Systems Engineer Read full review	OpenText Nice solution for the easy incident management. Secure storage of different business data. The capacity offered for the data storage. Data migration platform. Incentivized John Silvester Application Developer Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized ML Mark Lewandowski Sr Network and Systems Engineer Read full review	OpenText The tools on data importing from multiple storage solutions is not easy. Setting the security when new to the tool. Interface configuration to the learners is turf. Incentivized Bernado Carlos Materials Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized ML Mark Lewandowski Sr Network and Systems Engineer Read full review	OpenText The software features are easily manipulated and amazing technical help offered and even the functions flexibility ie fantastic. The storage capacity available is incredible and the platform allows effective accessibility of any data from the system through a very secure environment that the tool provides. Storage utilization using the software is perfect and easy configuration. Incentivized John Silvester Application Developer Read full review
Return on Investment	IBM Positive ROI and saves labor costs of engineers Fast to implement Worth the cost !! Incentivized ML Mark Lewandowski Sr Network and Systems Engineer Read full review	OpenText Any user can generate reports through this software. Storage of all the company data. Data security on this software is good. Incentivized Hannah Caleb Quality Engineer Read full review
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