We performed a comparison between Dell Storage Resource Manager and IBM Spectrum Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is easy to control the storage."
"It's all about ease of use and reliability."
"The partitions function well for backup storage."
"It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection."
"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use. The ability to get into a storage device and look at whatever you are trying to look at as far as performance, then obtain the reports that you need to do your analytical work."
"The granularity of this solution has been most useful. Customers can click on a single item and get the information only for the single item they choose."
"The product keeps historical data for a very long time."
"The benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem."
"Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."
"Spectrum Control is highly secure and competitively priced."
"The installation was very easy. You just install an agent on a server, and you give that agent access to your storage device, then it just collects the data. It took five minutes to set up."
"Technical support is inadequate."
"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."
"The support needs to be improved because I have found that even simple issues take a long time to be solved."
"When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage."
"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."
"The initial setup for IBM Spectrum Control is a bit complicated. They should also make it easier to integrate and use the Cosmos Analytics tool, which is very complicated."
"The database could be improved so that the complexity of installation could be easier. We would also like to have more granularity in the profiles and products for users. We would like to link the users to the tool to managers or auditors."
"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."
"If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good."
"The pain points were, and may still continue to be, the fact that there are multiple components of the product which are installed, you might say, somewhat individually."
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Dell Storage Resource Manager is ranked 4th in Storage Management with 8 reviews while IBM Spectrum Control is ranked 1st in Storage Management with 8 reviews. Dell Storage Resource Manager is rated 7.2, while IBM Spectrum Control is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dell Storage Resource Manager writes "Great features that allow for supervision of storage, management of users and driver-related updates". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Control writes "Scalable but not user-friendly". Dell Storage Resource Manager is most compared with IBM SAN Volume Control, NetApp OnCommand Insight and NetApp OnCommand, whereas IBM Spectrum Control is most compared with IBM Storage Insights. See our Dell Storage Resource Manager vs. IBM Spectrum Control report.
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