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We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Computing and SkyKick Cloud Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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

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"Technical support has been good."

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Cons
"We have not been able to use deduplication.""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.""SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing.""We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."

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"I'm fairly new to the solution and need to explore it further."

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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:Technical support has been good.
    Top Answer:I am familiar with the pricing and would describe it as fair. It's not too expensive.
    Top Answer:While there is always room for improvement, I cannot speak to an exact feature or aspect. I'm fairly new to the solution and need to explore it further.
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    9.0
    30th
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    283
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    IBM Platform Computing
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    Overview

    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.

    SkyKick is a new kind of migration application that makes it fast, safe, and easy to move small and medium businesses to Office 365. SkyKick’s Application Suite is a cloud based solution consisting of three products that work together to help plan, move, and setup the migration to Office 365.

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    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%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 10th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while SkyKick Cloud Manager is ranked 30th in Cloud Management with 1 review. IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.8, while SkyKick Cloud Manager is rated 8.0. 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 SkyKick Cloud Manager writes "Robust, reasonably priced, and offers good features". IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Apache Spark, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and IBM Turbonomic, whereas SkyKick Cloud Manager is most compared with CloudSphere.

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