AWS Storage Gateway vs. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

It is well suited for our backups. We store backups in 2 places EBS volumes in VPC and s3 buckets. From our on-prem servers, we connect to both and backup job runs smooth. It is less appropriate if you are already hosting in the AWS Cloud. There are direct ways to access storage areas without the need for gateway.

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IBM Spectrum Virtualize is very suitable for the virtualization part since it is easy to connect the hypervisors with the storage, also for the video surveillance part since it connects with the recording applications easily, it is also easy to create groups of volumes or hosts for the management of many units at the same time.

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• The AWS Storage Gateway can be deployed very quickly. We required only a couple of hours to get it setup and was able to present it to the backup server as a media manager and VTL drives.
• The provisioning of the virtual tapes was also pretty easy to setup. Being able to utilize Glazier storage provided a great ROI.
• The documentation AWS provides is very user friendly, allowing us to set up the AWS Storage Gateway the correct way.

• Provision drives over fiber and/or iSCSI connections
• Perform volume replications between 2 storages efficiently
• The ability to virtualize other storage and make it easy to provision

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• Ease of finding useful helpful tips on using AWS
• Dumbing down of the technical jargon on the site
• Short sharp to the point step videos - answering some common questions
• Remembering not everyone is an IT person - could be more user friendly

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• Costly but worth every dime in staff hours saved
• Each generation has its limits on Fibre Channel speed it supports and one must upgrade the nodes to get to higher speeds
• User Interface is now light speed ahead of where it started.

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AWS Storage Gateway is a good product and for certain use cases works really well, however i would like to see it support additional protocols in the future.

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The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, it does not require investing a lot of time to manage them since they are very reliable and secure.The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, and does not require a lot of time to manage it as it is very reliable and secure.Its components are not easily damaged and any alert that occurs can be quickly corrected without interrupting services.

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AWS Storage Gateway is supported by the AWS Support team, they provide excellent support and great SLAs for our needs.

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AWS Storage Gateway is better than Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery because it was entirely cloud based. Unlike Unitrends that requires a physical appliance that then would be connected to a AWS bucket. The AWS Storage Gateway was able to utilize Glacier storage, while Unitrends could only use either S3 or S3-IA decreasing the ROI with the more expensive storage class. Furthermore the licensing model for the Unitrends is greater that with the AWS Storage Gateway.

IBM Spectrum Protect Virtualize beats ALL competition hands down, and one does not need to deal with the complications that are put into some of the Disk Array/ block Storage systems. Excellent Storage management and can see performance of your SAN that goes thru it easily.

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• Accessibility of data in Cloud: Previously it was difficult to access our stored data.
• Cheaper storage as opposed to physical: At this point have saved enough money (when compared to physical storage)
• One con is the scope of services included with some features. You aye only need 10% of what's there's but paying for the other 90% you don't use cam be costly.

• Positive ROI and saves labor costs of engineers
• Fast to implement
• Worth the cost !!

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