Amax StorMax SDS vs IBM Spectrum Accelerate comparison

FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.

Software Defined Storage

StorMax™ SDS is a cost effective storage solution that provides Enterprise customers with a scale out distributed storage architecture to support the need for unified storage on Object, Block, and File System. Coupled with an open-source Ceph package, StorMax™ SDS is designed to solve your storage pain points while representing the next generation of storage architecture. Key features include:

• A cost effective and flexible storage solution based on Open Compute (OCP) server architecture.
• Distributed data storage system, where data is replicated and striped across the storage cluster.
• Highly scalable and available with autonomous and self-healing capabilities due to Ceph’s design of intelligent OSD daemon.
• An integrated storage solution that combines extreme reliability and flexibility with ease of management for IT operations.
• Free of charge distribution model, allowing companies to get away from legacy subscription models.

IBM Spectrum Accelerate is a software-defined block storage solution designed for rapid deployment across heterogeneous infrastructure for hybrid cloud and delivering consistent service levels to a dynamic workload mix. It is based on proven grid-architecture, enterprise-scale IBM XIV technology. IBM Spectrum Accelerate can be deployed, including as hyper-converged infrastructure, on any x86 server, on pre-installed third-party appliances or on public cloud infrastructure, and is available as a service on IBM Cloud infrastructure.