IBM Spectrum Computing Reviews

It is big on resilience and security. Their focus is on providing robust and secure solutions. Due to their high-end server models, IBM products are often more expensive than competitors. While IBM is not exactly a niche market player, it doesn't dominate the server market. IBM's share is relatively small, around 15 percent, compared to other server vendors.

IBM's ability to cluster compute resources is impressive, with built-in support for scenarios like VR and active-active configurations, but their approach seems overly complex. While some customers with demanding applications like SAP may need this high computing power, IBM's systems are quite complicated. 

The primary use case of this solution is to backup everything in our data center. This includes VMware environments, Microsoft Hyper-V, Unix machines including HP UNIX, and AIX, as well as normal machines for Windows.

The deployment model we used was on-premises.

The most valuable feature is the backup, which we use for backing up Oracle SQL databases.

I'm using it in a high-performance computing solution on a specific cloud project requiring HPC to be provisioned through private and public cloud services.

The project has been in execution for five years, and Spectrum Computing has been used exclusively for high-performance computing solutions. One notable feature of IBM was its ability to handle OpenStack and closed-box software, unlike Huawei, which had limitations. Although very open, Pure Storage was limited to all-flash, making it more expensive as we don't always need all-flash storage.

The comparison was challenging, but the IBM Spectrum Scale offered a balanced solution. Our engineers rated its analytics capabilities equally high as Pure Storage. For workload management, Spectrum Computing provided effective solutions that met our needs. Workload management is part of a complete solution that uses different tools. There were the cloud and HPC parts; within HPC, there were parts like liquid cooling, simple computing, storage, and orchestration. The orchestration team handled the workload management.

I mainly used Spectrum Computing for data management, governance, quality, and ETL activity.

Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis. 

The primary use case is for PowerVAC. The use case is mainly for ETL activity. I'm working in the commercial department of the company. We have a partnership with IBM. 

Most of our customers like the ECUs and how easy it is to operate and use. There is a basic level of confidence when it comes to IBM products. 

We use this product to back up our data.

The most valuable feature is the backup capability.

We primarily use the solution for data.

The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers.

The product can expand and scale.

The solution is reliable and stable.

Technical support is responsive. 

The primary case use of this solution is data backup and storage for our customers.

The deployment model we are using is on-premises.

This solution is working for both VTL and tape.