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We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Computing and Juniper AppFormix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Easy to operate and use.""The most valuable feature is the backup capability.""Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis.""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."

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"The solution's technical support is good.""It's a stable product. I didn't find any issues with regard to stability. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."

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

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"This solution has a yearly licensing. In my country, it's really expensive.""My expectations were probably slightly more for the third-party tool integration; for example, regarding the analytics, I had some different tools. So, integration was not as good as I was expecting. So, analytics, configuration tool I was not really happy. So, there is room for improvement in context with integration with existing tools in our network environment."

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  • "This solution is expensive."
  • "Spectrum Computing is one of the most expensive products on the market."
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    Questions from the Community
    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.
    Top Answer:It's a stable product. I didn't find any issues with regard to stability. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
    Top Answer:For a hybrid cloud area, I see some issues when on the hybrid cloud; you want to use this kind of solution. It doesn't work great everywhere. If it's a complete solution from them, then it's very… more »
    Top Answer:It's for hosting the telecom workloads. It is for cloud management. This solution has positively impacted real-time analytics and improved our system's performance. Although, it wasn't very much… more »
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    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.

    AppFormix is an optimization and management software platform for public, private and hybrid clouds. This intent-driven software manages automated operations, visibility, and reporting in cloud and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) use cases for Kubernetes and OpenStack, as well as Amazon Web Services. It features machine learning-based policy and smart monitors, application and software-defined infrastructure analytics, alarms, and chargeback accounting.

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    London South Bank University, Transvalor, Infiniti Red Bull Racing, Genomic
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    Financial Services Firm11%
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    Small Business43%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    Large Enterprise68%
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    IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 10th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while Juniper AppFormix is ranked 28th in Cloud Management with 2 reviews. IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.8, while Juniper AppFormix is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Computing writes "Provides stable backup for our databases and has good technical support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper AppFormix writes "Good scalability, useful in terms of collective analytics, and low latency ". IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Apache Spark, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and IBM Turbonomic, whereas Juniper AppFormix is most compared with .

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