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Score9.7 out of 10

33 Reviews and Ratings

Reviews

5 Reviews

IBM Spectrum Scale Capability on different File Storage Management is Profitable.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Spectrum Scale i have to say that its the most effective storage management solution and its features are very powerful and simple to configure the interface security. IBM Spectrum Scale ability to manage storage capacity and dataflow management, offering secure environment for large project data management and data transfer across various storage systems and the workflow management is fantastic.

Pros

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

Cons

  • The setting is a complex duty to the new users.
  • Handling multiple data formatts from other solutions.
  • Creating data visuals and migrating big data.

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.

Spectrum Scale: Scale Efortlessly

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Spectrum Scale is used as a file server box. Due to its many supported protocols, it is a good choice when choosing one box to store all your files, access through NFS, CIFS, and BLOCK. It was mainly used to support file access to hospital images (PACS). When we began using it, we had a steady capacity growth of 4 TB/3 months. Thanks to the technology used by separating metadata from data, we were able to store metadata files on SDD disks making it very fast to search and access files. Before that, searching through a filesystem would take minutes, just to list all files.

Pros

  • Easy scalability, vertically and horizontally.
  • Active-active high availability across datacenters.
  • Great to store massive amounts of data.

Cons

  • Upgrading procedure, many times we had to do manual upgrades instead of the automatic one provided by IBM.
  • Many advanced features are only available through the command line, it would be best they would be available on the GUI.
  • More easy understanding of its compatibility matrix, regarding support for NFS and CIFS protocols.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.
Vetted Review
IBM Storage Scale
3 years of experience

Optimizing Storage Video Media

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Spectrum Scale is being used to optimize video rendering times and storage economics. The solution is using TS4500 libraries for storage, archiving, and Supermicro Intel Nodes for NSD Servers. The networking is being supported by 1o Gbps Ethernet Switches in the cluster. After the implementation, our review of the current versus past platform shows that it's been optimized by 10 times.

Pros

  • Good for storage Optimizing.
  • Good velocity.
  • Strong agility in the product.

Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited to cine, technology, medical, and retail purposes.

Customer Experience with ISS

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is a clustered environment that helps to share information among the servers in the cluster. It helps to share information in a fast and efficient way.
I manage the information to help the several users access and create data for different departments.
IBM Spectrum Scale is a good solution for the requirements of our customers.

Pros

  • It shares information
  • It's efficient
  • Good management of clusters
  • Support for high availability

Cons

  • Better ways to update
  • Less outage time in the upgrades.
  • More time between versions

Likelihood to Recommend

Solutions help the user access information in an efficient and fast way.
Easy way to share information among servers.
Reliability of the information.
High Availability of the information.
Vetted Review
IBM Storage Scale
1 year of experience

IBM Spectrum Scale Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We evaluated Spectrum for use by large organizations who were looking to streamline their storage management.

Pros

  • Provides a single pane of glass for storage management
  • Orchestrates both IBM and non-IBM storage
  • Can manage both cloud and on-premise storage

Cons

  • Price
  • Requires a learning curve and training to manage the product

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Spectrum Scale works well for large organizations who have a combination of storage devices, in a complex technical environment. It also is well suited for organizations who are trying to get the most out of both new and existing storage devices.
Vetted Review
IBM Storage Scale
2 years of experience