I would advise others to validate the compatibility of the platform with the versions together, and then plan about these version requirements. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
MSP
2021-09-07T16:12:47Z
Sep 7, 2021
We're a business partner with IBM. I used to use it as a customer, however, now, I'm not a user of it anymore. I sell it and I install it, or I'm an engineer that works for an IBM business partner at this time. Originally, it was a lot of IBM products - a number of features and functions and facilities that were brought together under the umbrella of a single product, however, it has matured and grown over the years. When I first started using it, it was not even a product, per se, it was a couple of products, and now it's a single monolithic product that's an umbrella under which a number of other things exist. And then there's also a cloud-based variant of this code, as well, known as Storage Insights and Storage Insights Pro, one of which is freely offered by IBM. The product suite does support a number of different software and hardware vendors as far as being able to monitor them. However, if you have supported systems and you don't plan to purchase any other systems and you need the functionality, it's great. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.
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...
People who want to use the product must plan well before using it. Overall, I rate the tool a six out of ten.
I would advise others to validate the compatibility of the platform with the versions together, and then plan about these version requirements. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
This is a product for medium to big organizations. The prices is prohibitive for anything different.
I would rate Spectrum Control seven out of ten.
I rate Spectrum Control seven out of 10. I would recommend it for small enterprises.
We're a business partner with IBM. I used to use it as a customer, however, now, I'm not a user of it anymore. I sell it and I install it, or I'm an engineer that works for an IBM business partner at this time. Originally, it was a lot of IBM products - a number of features and functions and facilities that were brought together under the umbrella of a single product, however, it has matured and grown over the years. When I first started using it, it was not even a product, per se, it was a couple of products, and now it's a single monolithic product that's an umbrella under which a number of other things exist. And then there's also a cloud-based variant of this code, as well, known as Storage Insights and Storage Insights Pro, one of which is freely offered by IBM. The product suite does support a number of different software and hardware vendors as far as being able to monitor them. However, if you have supported systems and you don't plan to purchase any other systems and you need the functionality, it's great. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.
On a scale from one to ten, I would give IBM Spectrum Control a nine.