IBM Storage Scale vs. StorPool

IBM Storage Scale

IBM Storage Scale

33 Reviews and Ratings

StorPool

StorPool

6 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Storage Scale	Score 9.8 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	IBM Storage Scale (formerly IBM Spectrum Scale) supports storage management of unstructured data for big data analytics.	N/A
StorPool	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	StorPool is a block-storage software that uses standard hardware and builds a storage system out of this hardware. It is installed on the servers and creates a shared storage pool from their local drives in these servers. Compared to traditional SANs, all-flash arrays, or other storage software StorPool is faster, more reliable and scalable.	N/A

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IBM Storage Scale

StorPool

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IBM Storage Scale	StorPool
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	IBM Storage Scale	StorPool
Considered Both Products	IBM Storage Scale Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Chose IBM Storage Scale Through the use IBM Spectrum Scale tools its quite easy and secure environment that are provided to manipulate business data smoothly and manage multiple data storage platforms. IBM Spectrum Scale also allows effective data access and data transportation channels for big files … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Storage Scale When we implemented the Spectrum Scale solution, we had in place a NetApp FAS series working in Metro Cluster mode. What is great about NetApp is its low maintenance. On the other hand, it lacks performance, especially on the CPU nodes. We needed a solution that will deliver … Incentivized Helpful? Leonardo Molinares Meza Arquitecto de soluciones Chose IBM Storage Scale We chose this solution thanks to our experience with GPFS, and we have confirmed the functionalities of the product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Storage Scale It was the solution that fit the requirements of our customers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Storage Scale Spectrum Scale is a unique product in that it allows for both storage management and orchestration. Incentivized Helpful?	StorPool SM SUMAN MUKHOPADHYAY AVP - Senior Director Chose StorPool The flexibility to combine Incentivized Helpful? Paul Davies Director Chose StorPool We made a very careful selection of our storage vendor and solution. After researching the newest technologies, our team decided to deploy a software-defined storage solution from StorPool. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Kutzner CEO Chose StorPool Along with StorPool, we also considered CEPH, LizardFS and some others. However the best price/performance ratio was delivered by StorPool. Incentivized Helpful? Martin Vasev Director of Support and DEVOPS (CTO) Chose StorPool We used and/or tested several other solutions from various all-flash array and SDS vendors. We trust StorPool so much now, that we have consolidated our various storage systems and performance tiers on StorPool, globally. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose StorPool We looked at Ceph. Ceph is believed to be good for block storage, but when we ran tests on similar hardware with both Ceph and StorPool, StorPool outperformed Ceph by an order of magnitude. Our main usage scenario is similar to the heavy workload OLTP (online transaction … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	IBM Storage Scale	StorPool
Small Businesses	StarWind Virtual SAN Score 9.7 out of 10	StarWind Virtual SAN Score 9.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	StarWind Virtual SAN Score 9.7 out of 10	StarWind Virtual SAN Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Score 8.9 out of 10	IBM Storage Scale Score 9.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	IBM Storage Scale	StorPool
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Storage Scale	StorPool
Likelihood to Recommend	IBM Spectrum Scale creates excellent and real time data results and the capability to extract data and data modeling tools via IBM Spectrum Scale is amazing. The capacity planning and data archiving and the data security offered by IBM Spectrum Scale is more productive and the data quality control using the system is impressive. Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Read full review	We do recommend StorPool. Martin Vasev Director of Support and DEVOPS (CTO) Read full review
Pros	Good for storage Optimizing. Good velocity. Strong agility in the product. Incentivized Leonardo Molinares Meza Arquitecto de soluciones Read full review	Simplicity and compatibility - StorPool is intuitive and can be managed with minimal training. StorPool also proved to be very scalable and easy to deploy. StorPool has a great technical support team - quick and professional. In many cases, they walk the extra mile to advise us on all aspects of our cloud - from hardware selection to soſtware solutions. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Price Requires a learning curve and training to manage the product Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Cons - Support for VMware is with iSCSI at this point. This is fine, but we're waiting for the full VMware integration they are working on. Michael Kutzner CEO Read full review
Alternatives Considered	When we implemented the Spectrum Scale solution, we had in place a NetApp FAS series working in Metro Cluster mode. What is great about NetApp is its low maintenance. On the other hand, it lacks performance, especially on the CPU nodes. We needed a solution that will deliver steady performance while keeping a steady growth. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Along with StorPool, we also considered CEPH, LizardFS and some others. However the best price/performance ratio was delivered by StorPool. Michael Kutzner CEO Read full review
Return on Investment	Different versions in a short period of time Re-creation of the certificates after an update creates confusion Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	At this moment we haven’t yet calculated exactly the ROI. Our main focus is to secure the best performance on a reasonable price and that's exactly what we got when we started working with Storpool. Paul Davies Director Read full review
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