Black Duck Software Composition Analysis (SCA) vs. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

If you are using a lot of open-source libraries, which is most likely, this is a must-have to ensure no known vulnerabilities slip into production

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An IBM Spectrum Accelerate system requires sufficient physical connectivity with 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10 GigE) connections. Virtual networking switches must be associated with the physical network and the virtual network ports. In addition, it is highly recommended to provide multiple physical network device connections to each IBM Spectrum Accelerate module for network redundancy in case of network device failure.1. Distributed RAID2. Easy Tier3. Comrpession4. Storage Pool Balancing.

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• Vulnerability scans
• Tracking of the problem
• Alerting

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• Performance
• Agility
• Reliability
• Multi-tenancy

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• Very slow.
• Bad UX.
• Outdated design.
• Too expensive.

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• Once it is successfully deployed, the XIV technology software-defined storage solution – namely IBM Spectrum Accelerate – is reasonably easy to operate, manage, monitor, and maintain.
• As a virtual appliance application, IBM Spectrum Accelerate must run on a VMware ESXi hypervisor. Consequently, the planning must necessarily encompass different ESXi environment aspects, including network, storage, virtual machine resources, and general cluster configuration.

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If you don’t know how to scan for the language, it isn’t entirely user friendly

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I have a very strong reason for the very best rating. Usually, Black Duck support is quick enough and they continuously keep me updated about the status if some issue is taking time for them to resolve. Overall, I am happy with the response I get from t customer care. I was planning an upgrade and I ran into an issue as the migrated Postgres database does not get identified by the new version of the hub. And all the projects, scans and the huge amount of work we put in comments under version are all lost. I immediately opened a case in the Black Duck customer portal. And in no time, I get a message back from the support for a quick WebEx session. And support was able to help me and my weekend was saved. Thank you for the quick support Black Duck. Appreciate it. I also have some questions on using Black Duck in an optimal way. I get helpful replies quick enough.

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Black Duck is an obvious choice, with its versatility, integration, best enterprise support and on top of the list the knowledge base Black Duck has. Vega or Grabber also scans the application and tells about vulnerabilities. But it can never be compared with the feature set of Black Duck. Black Duck can also generate reports.

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The most important feature is the robustness; it is always online, apart from allowing us to unify our file and database storage.

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• It is hard to measure ROI since Black Duck Hub saves us from costly legal battles that have thankfully never had to happen.

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• Positive: Unify file and database Storage
• Positive: agility
• Negative: the implementation was not easy
• Negative: doesn't integrate as well with Veeam

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