As of June 2024, in the Storage Management category, the market share of IBM Spectrum Control is 7.8% and it decreased by 25.5% compared to the previous year. The market share of IBM Storage Insights is 3.1% and it decreased by 61.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Aamir Jameel

Senior Systems Manager at Tapal tea

May 27, 2022

Scalable but not user-friendly

Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly. IBM also needs to provide proper training to handle Spectrum Control because it's a complicated solution I've been using Spectrum Control for almost three years. Spectrum Control's stability is fine. Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can…

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Shraman Biswas

Team Lead - System & Network Administration at Gamut Infosystems

Nov 23, 2023

A good solution that can be used for storage, but its performance, configuration, and pricing could be improved

We use IBM Storage Insights for storage and management The most valuable features of IBM Storage Insights are the server and storage. The solution's performance, configuration, and pricing could be improved. I have been using IBM Storage Insights for four to five years. The solution's…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"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 product keeps historical data for a very long time."

"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 is highly secure and competitively priced."

"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."

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

"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."

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"The most valuable features of IBM Storage Insights are the server and storage."

Cons

"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."

"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."

"If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good."

"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."

"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."

"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."

"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."

"The solution's performance, configuration, and pricing could be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is reasonably priced."

"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 were already licensing Spectrum Control. This was one reasons why we went to Control rather than using the other product."

"IBM Storage Insights is cheaper than other products."

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Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Spectrum Control?

The product keeps historical data for a very long time.

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What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Control?

The solution must support multi-vendor storage.

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What is your primary use case for IBM Spectrum Control?

The solution can be used for monitoring storage.

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What do you like most about IBM Storage Insights?

The most valuable features of IBM Storage Insights are the server and storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Storage Insights?

IBM Storage Insights is cheaper than other products.

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What needs improvement with IBM Storage Insights?

The solution's performance, configuration, and pricing could be improved.

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Overview

IBM Spectrum Control is a comprehensive solution that can significantly improve monitoring, automation and analytics capabilities in multi-vendor storage environments. IBM Spectrum Control helps manage storage systems, software-defined storage, storage-area network (SAN) fabrics and devices. Storage can be seen from multiple perspectives, including departmental, application and server views. IBM Spectrum Control helps simplify provisioning, tier optimization, performance management and data replication processes.

IBM Storage Insights provides an unparalleled level of visibility across your storage environment to help you manage complex storage infrastructures and make cost-saving decisions. It combines proven IBM data management leadership with proprietary analytics from IBM Research. As a cloud-based service, it enables you to deploy quickly and save storage administration time while optimizing your storage. It also helps automate aspects of the support process to enable faster resolution of issues. Two editions enable you to select the capabilities that serve your needs best.

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