IBM Storage Scale vs. StorMagic SvSAN

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.

Incentivized

The StorMagic SvSAN solution is certainly suitable for two-node architectures where business continuity is required at a reasonable price, with a workload that is not particularly complex. It is not the right solution if you have a virtual environment with a large number of VMs and workloads that require high performance.

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

• Storage Mirroring
• Low Price
• Easy deploy
• Easy management

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

Incentivized

• Technical support could be improved
• Inadequate performance for complex environments
• Architecture needs a witness

Deploying the solution is fairly simple. A system administrator with basic data centre knowledge can configure the StorMagic SvSAN suite independently by following the guides provided. Troubleshooting is greatly simplified thanks to the features available in the management interface. The dashboard allows you to easily manage the technology thanks to a very intuitive and well-designed interface.

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• High resiliency of infrastructure
• Respect low budget
• No waste time for management