My review of IBM Storwize 2019
May 01, 2019

My review of IBM Storwize 2019

Bill Raines | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Storwize

I'm with an IBM business partner. The Storwize portfolio targets the majority of clients with a very flexible and simple block storage for most every use case in their business. I think that IBM's product and support wrapped with their Storage Insights in the cloud make this an excellent choice for the first time client as well as loyalty clients. Based on IBM Spectrum Virtualize provides the client peace of mind that IBM has done most of the work for them in proven solutions that clients need to support their older, current and future infrastructure.
  • Flexible Configurations and Features that are relevant to clients who need an array for a specific use case or a mixed workload at the right price
  • Simple GUI and Integration of the functions into the most widely used hypervisors for administrators of all types
  • Space Efficiency Technologies
  • Storage Insights to assist the administrator do their job
  • As a business partner looking to provide services to keep the uptime of the Storwize, I would like to have the capability to pull reports from IBM Storage Insights to assist my clients in managing their system through it's lifecycle.
  • More knowledge out there for partners to best integrate IBM Storwize with IBM Power i. This seems to be lacking in communication from IBM.
  • The investment has always been positive in most businesses as long as it's suited well for the client. Especially with the added benefit of the space efficiencies.
  • Only a couple of time where it's not been positive, has been in unique situations where a problem with servicing a client with a PMR wasn't satisfied.
With the latest announcements of v5K and v7K, IBM is on target with the competition out there on the market. The only [thing] missing is a great marketing campaign to sustain a 12-24 month period to whet the client's appetite. We as a partner are doing what we can to educate and market, however in our area a much needed boost is needed to get the word out there.
Well Suited:
Clients with Power Systems (Linux, AIX, and iSeries)
General Environments with mixed workloads
Traditional applications
Environments where the client has to co-exist legacy and modern systems (Spectrum Virtualize)