Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement.

It's not scalable because of our configuration. You can install several instances of this product. On top of that, you can install one main server or instance and connect all instances to this main system and see all the information, But you can only scale vertically, not horizontally.

It's possible to install Db2 on one server, Spectrum Control on another server, and Cosmos Analytics on a third server and connect to all of these systems. It's very complicated and difficult for me, and it's easier with all these installations on one server.

It is pay for the amount of storage that you are monitoring. The more that we use the tool and like the tool, we may want to extend it to other storage platforms. This is just a matter of cost.

We need about five people to deploy and maintain the solution.

It is pretty scalable as far as what you can add into it. It does support all other IBM storage devices, but it is also starting to support other vendors as well. Therefore, you can put NetApp or Dell in the solution, or whatever other storage solutions that you have. We did have some NetApp in our product and it has proved to be fairly helpful.

The product should be able to meet our expectations for growth. There are a lot of reports that we have which are outdated on other products. As Control moves forward, we will be able to generate and replace those reports. 

This is a scalable solution. 

We scaled up Spectrum Control twice in the past 10 years. We asked IBM to expand the storage space. The scalability is good. I have no complaints.