DX Spectrum Scalability

DC
Senior Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of DX Spectrum is good. We haven't hit any limitations, it will scale up even if we double our network we wouldn't have an issue.

We have a couple of people who use the solution for monitoring. We have approximately 60 people using the networks and servers.

The number of devices we monitor with DX Spectrum will increase, and the number of people using them will increase.

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CL
InfoVista Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's not easily scalable. To scale out, you have to install more SpectroSERVERs in the environment. That connects to the multi-tenancy topic. I wouldn't consider it the easiest product to scale out. That monolithic-type architecture is prevalent in legacy-type applications. That makes it difficult to scale, especially in today's environment.

It is used across multiple locations, departments, and teams. It really depends on how a client wants to deploy their SpectroSERVERs and where they want to put them. The environment depends on who is using the solution and how big their deployment is. But you could have hundreds of users in the system. I'm not even sure if there's a limit on that. Most companies did have a lot of users. They were pretty much all enterprise-level.

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Umair (Abu Mohaymin) Akhlaque - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions & Services Head at Duroob Technologies

The scalability is there and architecture-wise it's simple. The interconnectivity is amazing.

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UW
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is absolutely scalable. It scales very well. We have more than 50,000 devices for one of our customers. It is very easy.

In terms of our environment, servers are deployed in two data centers. Our environment is divided. We have a central server farm, which is split up for our customers. So, we are sharing one Spectrum instance with multiple customers. Our customers are medium to large enterprises.

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NR
Solution Architect at Infosys

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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HR
CSI manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It's easy to scale. 

You can have multiple Spectrum servers and you can add them at any time.

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it_user558423 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager IT at New York Presbyterian Hospital

Spectrum is very scalable. We presently have three landscapes and a number of alarm filters running on Spectrum. We are probably a mid-range sized customer. There are some customers that have 50,000 nodes on the network.

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it_user558627 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise Operations Manager at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees

We've had no issues with any sort of scalability. We grow through mergers and acquisitions, so the ability to just roll out another server and have fault tolerant servers is great.

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SW
Senior NMS Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is really scalable. When we were first installing it, it would have required nine servers on-premise, which was a pretty big ask for us. Then, right towards the end of our prep for deployment, they released a new version that simplified it down to one. This was incredibly useful for us because that meant that we could really scale it up and really bring a lot of the stuff together that was on separate systems before.

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DickBaker - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Design Engineer DTCC at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I rate the tool's scalability a nine out of ten. 

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JS
Network Systems Integration Engineer at University of Michigan Health System

As the kind of enterprise that straddles the line between telco size and enterprise size, it scales for us, because we're not all the way at telco yet. Maybe one day.

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ZH
Director at Starways

I rate the tool's scalability a ten out of ten. I can scale it for hundreds and thousands of users easily. 

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RK
IT Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is very good.

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LG
Big Data Architect en Seguros SURA at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No scalability issues were encountered.

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it_user353325 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

In Spectrum, the concept is really two tiered. It's a solution with a web client application. Initially, we had nine servers doing the polling and, I think, two one-click servers serving the buoy. Then management came to us and said we need to do a whole other part of the enterprise, so add another nine servers. We just quickly added them and pointed them to the devices and the main location server, which is the one that ties all of the polars together. As more users were added, we just added more one-click servers.

I think we are one of the larger Spectrum deployments in the western hemisphere. There are some things we would like to request for product enhancements in terms of supporting a horizontally-scaled set of one-click servers.

I was very excited to see the presentation yesterday that told us where they think the product is, where it's going, and we are going to hear more of that today with the roadmap presentation. Things are looking very good.

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RK
IT Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

DX Spectrum is very scalable.

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it_user778728 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at GEICO

In terms of scalability, we've managed to discover just about all of our devices. We're still working with configuring, so for what we're using it for, which is very bare bones right now, basically just up-down, it scales fine. As we add additional capability to it, that may change, but I haven't seen that yet.

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it_user516528 - PeerSpot reviewer
OSS Manager at Telefónica UK / O2

I have not encountered any scalability issues. Since 64-bit capability was added in Spectrum 10.x, we can add a lot more devices. However, we only populate up to about 60%, as we do quite a bit on the servers.

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GD
Lead Tower Monitoring at libero

It's scalable, but in the future, the client will want to replace this tool with a different solution.

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it_user643890 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We had no scalability problems at all. Spectrum is a supremely scalable product. The recent upgrade of Spectrum to 64-bit has dramatically increased the already very good scalability.

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it_user558132 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Performance Analysis/Migration Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We will have to wait and see if Spectrum can handle both networks. Together both networks consist of about 6,000 to 6,500 network devices.

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it_user558375 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Network Performance Engineer - Engineering Performance Services at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

It scales well. We have one of the largest implementations and it has done well.

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it_user37836 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - Enterprise Technical Computing at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

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GP
Senior Network Analyst at a transportation company with 201-500 employees

From the scalability perspective, it was fantastic. We were able to monitor our entire infrastructure at the telco level. We were also able to monitor all of the network tools and devices within our client containers. It was a very scalable product. Overall, 3,000 to 4,000 users were using it, and we probably had tens of thousands of devices.

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it_user778554 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at Charter Communications, Inc.

Scalability is one of the best factors of the product, because it scales horizontally. 

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LG
Big Data Architect en Seguros SURA at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No scalability issues encountered.

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FB
Senior IT Manager at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues so far!

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Baris Isiklilar - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at BTBilgi

I rate the tool’s scalability a ten out of ten. In my region, five to ten customers are using the solution. We are a small market in Turkey.

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it_user778896 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Manager at Delta Air Lines, Inc.

Scalability has been good. 

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it_user778638 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Of Monitoring Service Delivery at American International Group

I do not think we had any scalability issues with Spectrum. We have one of the largest environments, and it is handling it just fine. 

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it_user558144 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at Northwell health

It's very scalable.

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it_user778845 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is good. We have not scaled it a lot. We are getting ready to add another SpectroSERVER to it for redundancy. But from a scale perspective, it has worked out okay for us.

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it_user558300 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Service Delivery Analyst at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

It scales pretty well especially with the new 10.1. We are actually going to be able to consolidate and shut down some of the servers just because they've increased capacity.

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it_user353238 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Development Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We can distribute it as far as we wish. I have no issues with Spectrum's scalability. I've seen it in multiple locations, including ours, where it's very stable.

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Jorge Antun - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant in the Financial Sector in areas of Technology, Operations and Business Processes at Add Motions

We have four users for DX Spectrum. It is easy to scale. I rate the scalability a six out of ten.

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MT
System Administrator at a government with 10,001+ employees

The solution can be scaled to an unlimited amount. We have 50 users, usually admins and managers.

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it_user558123 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Monitoring Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The stability is a lot better than eHealth. I noticed that eHealth was not being talked about a recent CA conference. I like the fact that they doubled the capacity, apparently, and they're going to be doubling that again pretty soon from what I heard. eHealth is obviously being put out to the pasture. I agree with that because it is old technology and needs to go away. This is why my company's actually looking at PM and that kind of stuff to replace it.

I like the scalability for sure. It's definitely helping out because we're growing in a huge way. We could go from 10,000 to 20,000 devices, and then that might even go up to 40,000 devices. This solution might be able to keep pace with the growth that we're seeing. As far as end-user equipment work setup goes, I don’t think it will be scalable.

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it_user378384 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect EMS Practice at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

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Purneswara Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at KyndleIT Consulting

The product is scalable. My company has 500 users. 

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KZ
Works at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We're a large enterprise user so the solution is scalable.

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FL
Senior Solution Director, DevOps at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

DX Spectrum is the most scalable in the market. We're able to manage a lot of devices. We've not seen any real limit as to the scalability of this solution.

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Baris Isiklilar - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at BTBilgi

DX Spectrum is highly scalable, which is why they are used by the biggest ISPs and carriers in Turkey. 

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FD
DevOps Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Its scalability is very good. It can be used in huge environments.

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it_user778524 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director IT at CNO Financial Group, Inc.

It has been maximized in terms of the usage. We use if for every possible application, from an application server or to be put on the server itself, monitoring the server, database, etc. You name it we have used it everywhere. 

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RK
IT Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It is very scalable. We scale to up to 50,000 devices or so. That's the sizing we usually pulse. And we haven't had any issues so far.

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it_user778590 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Tools Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We grow about 10% a year. We have about 5000, 6000 devices. Scalability is not an issue for us because Spectrum is 64-bit. The scalability is not a concern for our environment with this version of Spectrum.

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DM
Network Manager at SMA

We have had no trouble with scalability.

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it_user778884 - PeerSpot reviewer
Communication Systems Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It's great. You can just keep adding stuff.

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DZ
Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Scalability and performance are great. We use both Nagios and CA Spectrum. We can say that Nagios needs around four times more servers than CA Spectrum needs.

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it_user558009 - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitoring Engineer at Interval International

Companies from our size to larger organizations use Spectrum, so the scalability is there. I have never seen an issue with performance or the need to add more servers or scale to a larger environment. That hasn't been an issue.

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it_user510261 - PeerSpot reviewer
Services Consultant at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user778746 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise Monitoring Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It scales way beyond what we need. I can actually do everything I need to do on one server, even though I have multiple for redundancy. I'm not going to say that I've not had problems with failover and all, because I haven't had to do that; other than me forcing it to do it and switch around. It hasn't actually broken on its own so it hasn't needed to activate its redundancy.

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BA
Programmer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It seems okay, but not great. 

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Umair (Abu Mohaymin) Akhlaque - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions & Services Head at Duroob Technologies
it_user558537 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head IT Operations at ICBC Argentina

We have not experienced any scalability issues, because we used a step-by-step approach. First, we implemented Spectrum at a pilot with branches. We use a dashboard that allows us to monitor the components at our 110 branches to support our products. Next, we applied the same idea to our strategic and critical challenges in website and mobile applications, as well as in our retail and corporate business.

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it_user558102 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Allscripts

The product is very scalable as well.

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it_user394989 - PeerSpot reviewer
TEM Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We didn't encounter any issues with scalability.

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JE
Presales Consultant at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues so far.

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it_user404031 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Network Operations Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The tool is designed to enhance operational scalability, and hence it was updated according to the customer and market needs.

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it_user558210 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The tool scales very well.

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it_user558237 - PeerSpot reviewer
Capacity Planning at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It scales very nicely to our environment, which is very, very large. I'm not sure that I'm very well-versed on how to make large-scale changes to it if we want to reorganize how we monitor an alert using Spectrum.

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it_user215913 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It scales, but each time you up scale it, more or less, you need to rebuild it.

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it_user191448 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user128562 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Support Analyst with 1,001-5,000 employees
CC
IT director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We have 30 solution users in our organization.

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KM
Senior Engineer - Networking at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We have deployed this monitoring system for an ISP in Sri Lanka, and there are more than 100 users. It is also integrated with a performance monitoring and management system.

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it_user778827 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Aerospace Corporation

Scalability has been very good. I've never noticed any issues. I've used the product on a 2000-node network and on a 10,000-node network.

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it_user197100 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst / Technical Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

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it_user392508 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer with 10,001+ employees

We've had no issues with scalability.

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it_user293970 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Spectrum is a very scalable product. You can add more than one SpectroServers for balancing and availability.

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OB
CTO at a aerospace/defense firm with 201-500 employees

The scalability of this solution is good enough for enterprise networks. However, for use in the telecommunications industry is does not scale enough. We can configure the systems correctly, but it is not enough for a telecommunication use case.

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FS
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We did not encounter any scalability issues. In version 9, we had to scale up due to the expansion of the assets to be monitored; however, there were no problems. With version 10, we had improvements since it supports more assets in the same Spectrum Server.

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it_user558534 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Planning And Control at ICBC Argentina

Spectrum is able to scale really well. Whenever we add equipment, such as when we open new branches or we replace old equipment with newer technology, we have no problem with scalability.

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EP
Senior Technical Consultant at The Instillery

When properly designed and you have your base installed, to scale it up or out is a walk in the park. You just need to introduce the new server, what role it has, and whether it's part of the FT environment and you’re done.

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it_user217680 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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AQ
Security Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No issues with scalability.

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it_user218196 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at a government with 11-50 employees

There were no scalability issues, as such.

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it_user201036 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues with scalability.

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it_user140679 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Never faced any issues with scalability. As the network infrastructure grows, to add new Spectrum servers is very straight forward with almost zero defects in existing architecture.

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DR
Network Operations & Delivery Head for TSB Bank at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It's a cloud solution, so it's scalable.

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it_user217803 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Leader/Network management specialist of cNMS at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is a network infrastructure management software for device monitoring. I didn't meet with issues regarding the scalability as everything could be set up or configured.

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it_user405477 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We've had no issues with scalability. Especially with the latest release, the scalability was improved which allows support for huge networks with a small number of CA Spectrum servers.

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it_user779115 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technology Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

It scales really well.

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it_user345651 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Simac Techniek NV

It's quite scalable. You can easily set up a distributed environment with more than one central server. We currently have it scaled up to 5000 devices on one central server (high for Belgium), and once they release v10.1 it'll be even higher, I've heard.

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it_user205827 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My organization is rapidly growing with servers being added to the data center and we have never faced any issues.

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it_user201033 - PeerSpot reviewer
CA Management Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user83484 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data Science at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not encounter any scalability issues. However, we don't have a large number of devices. We only have 10-15,000 devices for a distributed arch, which is normal.

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it_user234849 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance & Capacity Analyst with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user198879 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network/System Engineer TL at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user676368 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure and Application Surveillance Specialist at a hospitality company with 201-500 employees

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user558648 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

I think the scalability is good. Right now, we have about 1,000 devices. The good part about Spectrum is that you don't have to worry when you want to expand.

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it_user415401 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Software Programmer III at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't had issues with scalability.

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it_user202551 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are not a large corporation. Yet the product was able to scale very well.

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it_user202602 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

None so far. We are one of the largest networks in America and it hasn't so far.

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it_user198924 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Never attempted scaling.

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it_user204822 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Not that I've experienced.

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it_user564828 - PeerSpot reviewer
Telecommunications Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The DSS (Distributed SpectroServer) deployment is quite good for scalability. The only issue with it is when you need to discover connections between devices that stand in different SpectroServers (different pollers). You cannot find relations between them at all! The only workaround I know is to duplicate the devices that are doing the bridge between whatever you have in one poller and the other poller in both pollers!

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it_user525810 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead ,Managed Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There were no scalability issues. It integrated easily with the other third-party solution.

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it_user216501 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

No issues were encountered.

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Buyer's Guide
DX Spectrum
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about DX Spectrum. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,415 professionals have used our research since 2012.