The pricing is pretty good. I rate the solution’s pricing a five out of ten. We have to pay for additional licenses.

I think it is a good value for the price. But can always be better. There are different options. You can have prices based on size, monthly subscription, and usage.

The entry point of pricing for this product is the most amazing price ever in the industry. You'd have to compare it with others. I would say their price is excellent given their support, the capabilities of the product, and knowledge of their product. There are tens of thousands of these units, maybe hundreds of thousands, deployed throughout the world. Nobody can beat the price of the low end, especially for the performance. You couldn't even beat it with spinning disk technology. 

Do a proof of concept, if you are not comfortable jumping in, but do it. Look at it.

This solution came as an additional cost for the TSM package we chose.

I am very happy with the pricing. There is no comparison when it comes to pricing. I have looked at all solutions from EMC, Veritas, Hitachi, Dell, etc. None of them compares to IBM when it comes to pricing. I get great pricing from them.

We have struggled with Pure Storage, but people are understanding that much of Pure has been consumer grade SSDs. Therefore, when the customer is really understands what they are getting, they realize that IBM presents the same sort of value as existing vendors.

Generally the bundled licensing is more cost effective and gives flexibility to the solution. Linking into the Spectrum Suite can also be advantageous, but depends on the scale of the enterprise.

Liaise with both the vendor and their partners. You'd be amazed at how much you can score.