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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Storage Gateway

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AAWS 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.

    $0.01

    Per GB

    IBM Spectrum Virtualize

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM Spectrum Virtualize supports provides data storage security and control across hybrid environments.N/A
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    AWS Storage GatewayIBM Spectrum Virtualize
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    AWS Storage GatewayIBM Spectrum Virtualize
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (13 ratings)
    10.0
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    Usability
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    Support Rating
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    AWS Storage GatewayIBM Spectrum Virtualize
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    The AWS Storage Gateway is well suited if you want a quick way to off load your backups to the cloud to eliminate the need of a offsite storage location for physical tapes. The ROI is quite good from that perspective since you can utilize Glacier storage for the virtual tapes. The AWS Storage Gateway is not well suited if data sets being backed up is very large. The lack of de-duplication will add time to your backup. It will also increase the egress charges
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    IBM
    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.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Easy to deploy: Setting the solution up took much less time than anticipated.
    • AWS management Console facilitates monitoring: This allowed us to ditch a home baked solution in lieu this great tool!
    • Secure data transfer: Easily passing our company audits and standards for security.
    • VM integration
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    IBM
    • Provision drives over fiber and/or iSCSI connections
    • Perform volume replications between 2 storages efficiently
    • The ability to virtualize other storage and make it easy to provision
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Ease of finding useful helpful tips on using AWS
    • Dumbing down of the technical jargon on the site
    • Short sharp to the point step videos - answering some common questions
    • Remembering not everyone is an IT person - could be more user friendly
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    IBM
    • 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.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    AWS Storage Gateway is a good product and for certain use cases works really well, however i would like to see it support additional protocols in the future.
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    IBM
    The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, it does not require investing a lot of time to manage them since they are very reliable and secure.The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, and does not require a lot of time to manage it as it is very reliable and secure.Its components are not easily damaged and any alert that occurs can be quickly corrected without interrupting services.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    AWS Storage Gateway is supported by the AWS Support team, they provide excellent support and great SLAs for our needs.
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    IBM
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    AWS Storage Gateway performance is ever excellent since we deployed it in our company. Downloading this platform and installing the setup is easy as compared to other similar products. Virtual data that we get from our cloud servers [are] good in the enhancement of better planning and safety [compliance]. I have been able to integrate the data from our server to our systems to streamline workflow and boost performance.
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    IBM
    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.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • It has positively affected us for ETL on reports to customers that neither party wants to pay too much for.
    • It has also positively affected us where our backup systems where old and had large maintenance costs.
    • It has some new, net negative impact with slowed down delivery or random slowing incidents.
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    IBM
    • Positively, it has generated good initial sales for us and with proper management, the growth of application operations generates more services to manage.
    • Positively, the growth of the operation has also helped the team to update its capabilities in order to grow.
    • The only possible disadvantage is that since the equipment is very reliable and durable, technological change is not easy to make. Clients prefer to grow the equipment while they can rather than make a complete change, but even so, the time comes when all this produces more services.
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