We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Director and IBM Spectrum Computing based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."
"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."
"Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product."
"The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing."
"The solution is helpful for centralized management."
"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."
"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."
"We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues."
"The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers."
"This solution is working for both VTL and tape."
"Easy to operate and use."
"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."
"Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand."
"It is not easy to add or expand the product."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"Normally, UCS Director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at a non-Cisco data infrastructure components, the UCS Director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with third-party systems and with existing older systems."
"There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved."
"SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing."
"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."
"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."
"We have not been able to use deduplication."
"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."
Cisco UCS Director is ranked 24th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 10th in Cloud Management with 2 reviews. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes "UI and integrations should be improved; version control is problematic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Computing writes "One of the best tools in the data management and services area". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations and vCloud Director, whereas IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Apache Spark, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and IBM Turbonomic. See our Cisco UCS Director vs. IBM Spectrum Computing report.
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