We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Control and NetApp BlueXP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The installation was very easy. You just install an agent on a server, and you give that agent access to your storage device, then it just collects the data. It took five minutes to set up."
"The benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem."
"The granularity of this solution has been most useful. Customers can click on a single item and get the information only for the single item they choose."
"Spectrum Control is highly secure and competitively priced."
"In my opinion, it's the best monitoring and report creation tool for IBM storage devices. You can do a lot of performance stats and reports with very nice tools for IBM storage devices."
"Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."
"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use. The ability to get into a storage device and look at whatever you are trying to look at as far as performance, then obtain the reports that you need to do your analytical work."
"The primary benefit is that it simplifies data management. We face a lot of classification issues with our customers. They need to classify data, but they don't know how to do it. We can help them do it using BlueXP Datasense."
"NetApp BlueXP makes it easier to deliver products and manage inventory."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to view all our different systems in one place. That's the most important feature for us."
"The pain points were, and may still continue to be, the fact that there are multiple components of the product which are installed, you might say, somewhat individually."
"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."
"The initial setup for IBM Spectrum Control is a bit complicated. They should also make it easier to integrate and use the Cosmos Analytics tool, which is very complicated."
"If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good."
"The database could be improved so that the complexity of installation could be easier. We would also like to have more granularity in the profiles and products for users. We would like to link the users to the tool to managers or auditors."
"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."
"The tool needs to make its licensing pages more user-friendly."
"Performance could be a little better. In my opinion, it's a bit slow. If you click on something, it takes a while for the data to load."
"The VMware capabilities can be improved."
IBM Spectrum Control is ranked 2nd in Storage Management with 8 reviews while NetApp BlueXP is ranked 8th in Storage Management with 3 reviews. IBM Spectrum Control is rated 7.8, while NetApp BlueXP is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Control writes "Scalable but not user-friendly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp BlueXP writes "It simplifies management and helps us deal with our customers' classification issues". IBM Spectrum Control is most compared with IBM Storage Insights and CA 1 Tape Management, whereas NetApp BlueXP is most compared with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Quantum Scalar Series, NetApp OnCommand and Lenovo TS Series. See our IBM Spectrum Control vs. NetApp BlueXP report.
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