IBM Spectrum Control Reviews

Name: IBM Spectrum Control
Brand: IBM
Rating: 4 (8 reviews)

Vendor: IBM

3.9 out of 5

8 reviews

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IBM Spectrum Control is a comprehensive solution that can significantly improve monitoring, automation and analytics capabilities in multi-vendor storage environments. IBM Spectrum Control helps manage storage systems, software-defined storage, storage-area network (SAN) fabrics and devices. Storage can be seen from multiple perspectives, including departmental, application and server views. IBM Spectrum Control helps simplify provisioning, tier optimization, performance management and data replication processes.

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IBM Spectrum Control is the #1 ranked solution in top Storage Management solutions. PeerSpot users give IBM Spectrum Control an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. IBM Spectrum Control is most commonly compared to NetApp OnCommand: IBM Spectrum Control vs NetApp OnCommand. IBM Spectrum Control is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 69% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 19% of all views.

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March 2024

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Aamir Jameel

Senior Systems Manager at Tapal tea

May 27, 2022

Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly. IBM also needs to provide proper training to handle Spectrum Control because it's a complicated solution I've been using Spectrum Control for almost three years. Spectrum Control's stability is fine. Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can…

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Ramon Barrios

Gerente Propietario at INODO

Aug 15, 2022

The primary use case is to recollect the information for the system and then use the structured information to diagnose customers' problems in the future. 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…

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Senior Technical Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 2, 2021

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. I want IBM to add a feature for microcode operations. We have, for example, plenty of storage devices, and I have to connect directly to every storage device, upload microcode, and start the upgrade procedure. I would like IBM to have something similar to Brocade Network Advisor. There is a repository with microcode, and you just download the microcode to the Spectrum Control, and after that, choose what storage devices you would like to upgrade and just start upgrading these devices. It would be very nice if it's simplified.

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IBM Spectrum Control market share

As of March 2024, the market share of IBM Spectrum Control in the Storage Management category stands at 6.5%, marking a decrease of 25.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The product keeps historical data for a very long time."
"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."
"Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."

Room for Improvement

"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"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."
"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."

Pricing

"The solution is reasonably priced."
"We were already licensing Spectrum Control. This was one reasons why we went to Control rather than using the other product."
"It is pay for the amount of storage that you are monitoring. The more that we use the tool and like the tool, we may want to extend it to other storage platforms. This is just a matter of cost."

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