I would rate Spectrum Control seven out of ten.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give IBM Spectrum Control a nine.

I would recommend the product, because as a cloud-based tool, you do not have to do any maintenance. Everything, including updates, are done, you just log in and it is there. It is easy to configure, as it took me five minutes to set up, and you get a lot of value as far as the data and the performance information. These are things that I would definitely recommend to other companies.

Main criteria when selecting a storage vendor: We only had five minute snapshots of performance. We wanted a tool which could give us more visibility into different days, etc.

People who want to use the product must plan well before using it. Overall, I rate the tool a six out of ten.

We're a business partner with IBM. I used to use it as a customer, however, now, I'm not a user of it anymore. I sell it and I install it, or I'm an engineer that works for an IBM business partner at this time.

Originally, it was a lot of IBM products - a number of features and functions and facilities that were brought together under the umbrella of a single product, however, it has matured and grown over the years. When I first started using it, it was not even a product, per se, it was a couple of products, and now it's a single monolithic product that's an umbrella under which a number of other things exist. And then there's also a cloud-based variant of this code, as well, known as Storage Insights and Storage Insights Pro, one of which is freely offered by IBM.

The product suite does support a number of different software and hardware vendors as far as being able to monitor them. However, if you have supported systems and you don't plan to purchase any other systems and you need the functionality, it's great.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

I would recommend the product.

I would advise others to validate the compatibility of the platform with the versions together, and then plan about these version requirements. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. 

I  rate Spectrum Control seven out of 10. I would recommend it for small enterprises.