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Weka.IO

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Cisco UCS Manager

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Dell VPLEX

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Storage Resource Manager (SRM) from Dell was built to manage the complexity of growing, heavily virtualized storage environments. With SRM, users obtain detailed relationship and topology views from the application, to the virtual or physical host, down to the LUN to identify service dependencies. Users can also view performance trends across the data path and identify hosts competing for resources. SRM helps to understand and manage the impact that storage has on applications. With this insight, the user can optimize storage resources to control the cost of rapid data growth.

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Cyberduck

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IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift

OpenText Storage Manager

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Tech Cares 2022

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IBM Spectrum Virtualize supports provides data storage security and control across hybrid environments.

AWS Storage Gateway hybrid cloud storage connects on-premise resources to the AWS Cloud and integrates with AWS storage and archiving services to create a backup and recovery solution.

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IBM Spectrum Virtualize

Storage Management Software (sometimes Data Storage Management Software) gives a unified overview of managed arrays to ease and facilitate control of the individual arrays and the entire data center, private cloud, or the virtualization services for which they're being used.

IBM is a global technology and innovation company headquartered in Armonk, NY.  It is one of the largest technology and consulting employers in the world, with approximately 427,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development and systems management; and advanced servers and supercomputers. Utilizing its business consulting, technology and R&amp;D expertise, IBM says it helps clients become "smarter" as the planet becomes more digitally interconnected. This includes working with organizations and governments to build systems that improve traffic congestion, availability of clean water, and the health and safety of populations. IBM invests more than $6 billion a year in R&amp;D, just completing its 18th year of patent leadership. IBM Research has received recognition beyond any commercial technology research organization and is home to 5 Nobel Laureates, 9 US National Medals of Technology, 5 US National Medals of Science, 6 Turing Awards, and 10 Inductees in US Inventors Hall of Fame. The company was behind the inventions of the PC; SABRE travel reservation system; UPC codes, Watson, the Jeopardy!-playing computing system, and much more.

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User interface

Block storage

Saves time

Home

Storage Management Software

HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches

Schneider Electric Uniflair

Schneider Electric Smart-UPs

IBM Storage Protect

IBM Storage Protect Plus

IBM Spectrum Virtualize, better known as SAN Volume Controller, is used to virtualize all the SAN storage and presents LUNS to our IBM, Red Had, Oracle systems. It does to storage as VMware does to servers. It addresses what one can do by upgrading back-end storage without affecting production and migrating to such new storage without user impact.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

Virtualizes all your Block Storage
Works on Fibre Channel or iSCSI
Saves time, engineering and money for overtime of just watching data copy

Things done well

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.

Things done poorly

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.

Easy to learn and use
GUI is intuitive and without using it for a while, your comfort level comes back quickly.
Non service impacting, even when upgrading nodes.

Most Important Features 3.4.21

Positive ROI and saves labor costs of engineers
Fast to implement
Worth the cost !!

Return on Investment

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.

Alternatives

HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches, Schneider Electric Uniflair, formerly from APC, Schneider Electric Smart-UPs, formerly from APC

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IBM Spectrum Virtualize

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What is IBM Spectrum Virtualize?

IBM Spectrum Virtualize is worth the buy, no costly SAN administration needed.

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IBM Spectrum Virtualize

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IBM Storage Insights

NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software

Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)

Cisco UCS Manager

Dell VPLEX

Dell Storage Resource Manager

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Cyberduck

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift

OpenText Storage Manager

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