IBM Spectrum Accelerate Review
January 31, 2023

IBM Spectrum Accelerate Review

Tatiana Lazo Sarmiento | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Spectrum Accelerate

In our organization we had separate storage for file and database, now with IBM Spectrum Accelerate we were able to unify them. Implementing a solution with IBM Spectrum Accelerate product was one of the best decisions made for managing our in-house data center, It helps us organize ourselves with all the information from our backups at the SAN and NAS level.
  • data mirroring
  • data virtualization
  • point-in-time copying
  • self-healing mechanisms
  • not easy to manage
  • interface is not user-friendly
  • Reliability
  • Agility
  • Performance
  • Hyper-Scale Manager
  • Positive: Unify file and database Storage
  • Positive: agility
  • Negative: the implementation was not easy
  • Negative: doesn't integrate as well with Veeam
IBM Spectrum Accelerate is a product that was very effective for us once it was implemented (it was not easy), because it is a very robust and very stable product, IBM support is very good in case of any setbacks, based on my experience recommend this product

Do you think IBM Spectrum Accelerate delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Spectrum Accelerate's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Spectrum Accelerate live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Spectrum Accelerate go as expected?

No

Would you buy IBM Spectrum Accelerate again?

Yes

our scenario, for example, is very suitable to take advantage of all the capabilities that IBM Spectrum Accelerate has, because we manage all our infrastructure in a virtualized environment with Vmware