We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Computing and vCloud Director 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."Easy to operate and use."
"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."
"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."
"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."
"We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues."
"The tool is very stable."
"The product allows us to add or remove features."
"This is the go-to tool for anyone looking for standard out-of-the-box capabilities in a fully multitenant public cloud software that they can leverage to offer services to their customers."
"vCloud Director has improved our organization in so far as it is an easy solution to sell. I believe this is the case due to the fact that it is an easy tool to manage and to configure."
"The orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"The stability is rock solid."
"If a customer is looking for disaster recovery at a cheaper price, this is the best solution."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"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."
"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."
"We have not been able to use deduplication."
"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."
"Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud."
"I had issues with the support, but I also learned from the support. There is room for improvement in the response time."
"If you have a deployed environment and lose it, you can't easily deploy it back with vCloud Director. Because of this reason, we don't have the data protection, disaster recovery, and container features."
"What could be improved in vCloud Director, particularly from the networking side, is its integration with other network devices. It also needs a more simplified installation because the process is a little bit complicated."
"Cloud Director has room for improvement in many areas. One critical thing that comes to mind is the hyperscalers. They could be more seamlessly integrated into the hybrid cloud."
"If I just need to look for something quickly, it's quite difficult to find it with the way it's set up now. They should make the search button better."
"The product could use a billing feature so we can automate billing for clients."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 10th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.8, while vCloud Director 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 vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Apache Spark, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and IBM Turbonomic, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack. See our IBM Spectrum Computing vs. vCloud Director report.
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