We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and IBM Spectrum Accelerate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"SANsymphony is flexible, with many potential options for implementation. SANsymphony's can be used with VMware, Hyper-V, or even with a hypervisor agnostic approach. It can also be used for strictly physical non-virtualized solutions."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its versatility, with there being support for all new hardware technologies and platforms, disc mirroring and very effective auto tiering."
"The most valuable feature is the robustness, which is typical of IBM because their software generally just works."
"The ease of use is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's very user-friendly."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"I think an easier way to open a service call, right through the DataCore GUI, would be an improvement, especially when there is an urgent issue."
"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."
"SANsymphony is missing some features that vSAN has. For example, vSAN has a special feature called continuous data protection. It provides the ability to go back in time to a given moment. You can see what was on your disk in the past up to two weeks. That's a great feature because ransomware attacks are increasingly common, and that provides you some kind of protection."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."
"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while IBM Spectrum Accelerate is ranked 22nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS). DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while IBM Spectrum Accelerate is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Accelerate writes "A robust solution with good performance and support". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and NetApp ONTAP, whereas IBM Spectrum Accelerate is most compared with IBM Spectrum Scale.
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