IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Storwize was used to maintain the application data backup and disk allocation in AIX servers environments. We have resolved our data backup problems in our testing and development environments.

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Storwize is well suited to every operating system like AIX, Linux, other OS, etc. This storage is capable enough to manage the workload, it's a fast and reliable system. We can also use this storage in cloud environments.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Storwize we used in our DR site for AIX and Linux environments servers to maintain the data. IBM Storwize provides an easy user interface and many other key features like disk provision, updates, data security, etc which help to manage this storage in a smooth way.

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Storwize is good storage to manage the different environment work and different applications/databases. This storage provides an excellent data backup solution and DR site. This storage is not capable to manage the huge data transaction.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Storewize is used in our business to store and manage heavy data and applications. This system is very fast and has a good efficiency in this system used in our organization for AI and hybrid cloud storage. This product has many features such as it is scalable and can easily access the data at a lower cost. So this is best for our organization.

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Storewize is widely used in organizations for on-premises with a lot of facilities that are given by this IBM Storewize. Data accessibility is very good and fast in this system. This system is available with different data services such as scalability and flexibility in data even providing security to our data.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using IBM Storwize for on-premise solution, Cloud, VMware and IBM i-series. We are also using this product for backup as well as.

This system provides high available data storage.

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Storwize is well suite for backup, VMware and cloud solution. This product can be used by small companies also. This system provide high availability data storage with redundant controller system.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the IBM Storwize in our projects and company for backups and other small medium database and other normal transactions.

It has great capacity.

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Storwize is well suitable for hybrid environments and file servers ,backup etc. Its not recommended for that kind of projects in which heavy transection are happen. Its has great capacity, low speed use case.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Utilizing Storwize allows us to provision our hardware quickly and efficiently. The interface feels familiar while giving you a more detailed view of the different components. From the initial setup to applying new storage to a host or hosts, to optimizing your IOPS by looking over the utilization. Big data, database, or archiving with the larger units, we utilize Storwize throughout many application functions or historical profiles. Small office file shares or medium-sized to large-sized deployments. Mirror your data as this is more and more of a requirement for businesses to run.

Likelihood to Recommend

This stuff runs! Hot, cold not wet, but you know where your data is. Reliably in the cabinet turning your data for the next customer request. You need dedupe, get the flash drive models. Long archives with spinning disks can help with all the data modeling the analysts do. Keep up with the dba’s constant need for speed with all-flash! You will get what you pay for.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My company implemented Storwize 3700 a couple of years ago to replace an existing highly available solution from Scale Computing. For a fraction of the price we received over 20TB of usable space, dual, highly available controller nodes and much better speeds in a 2U form factor. It quickly addressed issues with space and reliability that we have been experiencing over the past 2 years with our old solution.

Likelihood to Recommend

The hardware itself is great, apart from few issues I had with it recognising disks from the officially supported lists. Another disadvantage is that you cannot really mix and match disks, at least in my experience. The support can be a bit nicer, however, once you get to an escalation point, things start getting better and my issue was resolved quickly. Performance is stellar, ease of use is great - very intuitive. All in all - very good product, marginally let down by not great support at the first line.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use a Storwize V7000 for backups and testing of copy services. It addresses the problem of recovering from a failure of our primary storage systems.

Likelihood to Recommend

Storwize is an excellent backup solution that works very well for us. It is great for high capacity, low speed use cases. It would be less appropriate for production systems or applications requiring the lowest response time.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Storwize virtualized products to leverage storage efficiency practices to scale our storage to business demands. Data is endlessly growing, and being able to use virtualized products we can somewhat manage growth. We use multiple Storwize V7000 and V5000 devices behind SVC. The SVC allows us to seamlessly move data between storage devices without issues. Specifically, the V7k V5k, and as well as the V9Ks allow us to provision storage and over-allocate storage when workloads are not meeting the requests from the users.

Likelihood to Recommend

Storwize has been well suited in environments where users have requested more storage than they need. Using thin provisioning techniques we have eliminated the need for multiple storage purchases. In our industry, we have users request storage more than they need. A user may request a 2 TB volume, but only use 900GB of the 2TB. Storwize is well suited for these type of scenarios because it can manage to provide the user with the 2TB allocation, but only physically be using the 990GB that is in use, allowing for us to allocate additional storage for other users.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Storwize is used by the entire organization. It is normally used for some databases with medium transactions and file saving as document management.

Likelihood to Recommend

A scenario where IBM Storwize is suitable is when we have hybrid environments such as databases, virtual machines, and file servers. With IBM Spectrum Virtualize software integration, we can take full advantage of the advantages offered by compression, deduplication, storage pool balancing, and data reduction pools among other interesting features that allow us to save considerable space and performance.

A scenario where IBM Storwize is not very suitable is when we have many transactions or a very high level of IOPS. In this case, it is better to consider an IBM Flash type storage with micro-latency.