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We performed a comparison between Cisco Piston Enterprise OS and IBM Spectrum Computing based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"It offers enough support so that you don't need to have the need to get another device."

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"The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers.""We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues.""Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis.""Easy to operate and use.""This solution is working for both VTL and tape.""The most valuable feature is the backup capability."

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"The solution is just too expensive, so maybe the pricing could be better."

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"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning.""We have not been able to use deduplication.""Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud.""Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish.""SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing.""This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."

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  • "This solution is expensive."
  • "Spectrum Computing is one of the most expensive products on the market."
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    Top Answer:This solution is too expensive for a lot of our customers.
    Top Answer:The biggest problem is the lack of documentation in general, and documentation in Spanish, in particular.
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    Piston Enterprise OS
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    Overview

    Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS) is an enterprise grade cloud operating system meeting the security and governance needs of enterprises wanting to use OpenStack for their infrastructure services. pentOS is an OpenStack distro that builds on top of the OpenStack codebase adding some proprietary features to meet the security and governance needs of the enterprise customers.

    IBM Spectrum Computing uses intelligent workload and policy-driven resource management to optimize resources across the data center, on premises and in the cloud. Now up to 150X faster and scalable to over 160,000 cores, IBM provides you with the latest advances in software-defined infrastructure to help you unleash the power of your distributed mission-critical high performance computing (HPC), analytics and big data applications as well as a new generation open source frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark.

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    Kuwait Petroleum Italia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    London South Bank University, Transvalor, Infiniti Red Bull Racing, Genomic
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    Comms Service Provider31%
    Media Company16%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Computer Software Company10%
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    Small Business43%
    Large Enterprise57%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Cisco Piston Enterprise OS is ranked 51st in Cloud Management while IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 10th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews. Cisco Piston Enterprise OS is rated 9.0, while IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Piston Enterprise OS writes "A simple interface and helpful support for a solution that grows with us". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Computing writes "Provides stable backup for our databases and has good technical support ". Cisco Piston Enterprise OS is most compared with , whereas IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Apache Spark, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and IBM Turbonomic.

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