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IBM Storage Scale

Score6.5 out of 10

32 Reviews and Ratings

What is IBM Storage Scale?

IBM Storage Scale (formerly IBM Spectrum Scale) supports storage management of unstructured data for big data analytics.

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

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.

Most Important Features

  • Capacity management functions.
  • Data storage capability.
  • Data sources connection tools.
  • Access control options are intuitive.

Return on Investment

  • Using IBM Spectrum Scale data security and storage management capability is helpful.
  • Migrating high volume of multiple projects data and files is faster.
  • Archiving and workflow management is easy and the data accessibility is simple.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, IBM Cloud File Storage and VMware vSAN

Other Software Used

IBM Cool Blue, SAP on IBM Cloud, ScienceLogic SL1

Optimizing Storage Video Media

Pros

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

Cons

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

Return on Investment

  • Solid ROI.

Alternatives Considered

IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, IBM Spectrum Accelerate and IBM Spectrum Control

Spectrum Scale: Scale Efortlessly

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.

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact: one solution for many years to come. Turn your CAPEX on many many years of OPEX.
  • Negative impact: it is an expensive solution.
  • It is a door to send your less frequent accessed data to the cloud, and still under the umbrella one solution.

Alternatives Considered

NetApp FAS series and Dell EMC Celerra (Discontinued)

Customer Experience with ISS

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

Return on Investment

  • Different versions in a short period of time
  • Re-creation of the certificates after an update creates confusion

IBM Spectrum Scale Review

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

Return on Investment

  • Allowed reuse of existing storage
  • Flexibility to provision storage quickly, allowing us to right size storage.

Alternatives Considered

Dell EMC Unity

Other Software Used

Bitbucket, WebSphere Application Server, Bamboo