IBM Cloud Block Storage vs. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

IBM Cloud Block Storage

IBM Cloud Block Storage

50 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Spectrum Accelerate

IBM Spectrum Accelerate

5 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Cloud Block Storage	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM offers their Block Storage service via IBM Cloud, allowing users to deploy and customize flash-backed iSCSI block storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.	N/A
IBM Spectrum Accelerate	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM Spectrum Accelerate is an enterprise software defined block storage solution.	N/A

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IBM Cloud Block Storage

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IBM Cloud Block Storage	IBM Spectrum Accelerate
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Community Pulse
	IBM Cloud Block Storage	IBM Spectrum Accelerate
Considered Both Products	IBM Cloud Block Storage Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Both services are pretty much identical when it comes to their offerings and specifically in their availability, durability and scalability of block storage. AWS S3 stacks someone better in most clients given the vast offerings of AWS within the rest of their solutions … Incentivized Helpful? Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Unlike the above platforms, IBM Cloud Block Storage enable secure and quick big data migration through its secure environment and the flexibility of its Cloud options is effective. Data analytics through IBM Cloud Block Storage are easily prepared and the data access is very … Incentivized Helpful? Veronica Larson Business Analyst Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM has given us the best data storage services and I am proud of its entire performance. The product has been able to link all our services to cloud servers that enhance transparency and offer backup services to all our services. Data that runs across the entire organization … Incentivized Helpful? Rita Joy Information Specialist Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Block Storage is known for professional space control, [which] values even the large database of above 12000GB. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage co-assist with the data managing solution, more so for data mining, analytics, and sharing. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage … Incentivized Helpful? Jude Nickson ICT Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with … Incentivized Helpful? Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Amazon S3 isn't on IBM Cloud and isn't the best solution to be used alongside applications deployed to the IBM Cloud. Incentivized Helpful? Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage The biggest difference that I have been able to find from other services external to IBM has been the domain, experience and application of the technology at the datacenter scale that allows [us] to be quite sure that the data will be in good collection. But I insist that the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Object Storage is better suited for application development and easy to use from a higher level. IBM Cloud Block Storage is better suited as block storage as a service and totally integrated with the infrastructure as a service, making it easy to deploy and used either … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Being part of an organization that has a sizable footprint in IBM Cloud, the IBM Cloud Block Storage is a natural choice. Also, IBM Cloud Block Storage's native integration with Aspera is an added bonus for use cases needing fast, reliable data storage and transfer solutions. Incentivized Helpful? CP Charlie Pusey Technical Operations Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage N/A. IBM Cloud Block Storage was the best solution as we already use IBM Cloud for the information that would utilise it. Incentivized Helpful? NS Nobuyuki Suzuki CAA (Chief Applications Architect) Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage No experience with other products Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Spectrum Accelerate Tatiana Lazo Sarmiento IT Specialist Chose IBM Spectrum Accelerate IBM Spectrum Accelerate is a product that was very effective for us once it was implemented (it was not easy), because it is a very robust and very stable product, IBM support is very good in case of any setbacks, based on my experience recommend this product Incentivized Helpful? UK Utkarsh Khandelwal System Administrator Chose IBM Spectrum Accelerate Add IBM Spectrum Accelerate storage systems to get performance and asset, capacity, and configuration metadata analyzed so that you can detect performance issues and changes in storage usage and plan for future storage needs.IBM Spectrum Accelerate, a member of the IBM Spectrum … Incentivized Helpful? Diego Xavier Rojas IT Specialist Chose IBM Spectrum Accelerate The most important feature is the robustness; it is always online, apart from allowing us to unify our file and database storage. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	IBM Cloud Block Storage	IBM Spectrum Accelerate
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Cloud Block Storage	IBM Spectrum Accelerate
Likelihood to Recommend	The service in general is great because on the backend. IBM offers experience and knowledge in the use of data center technologies undeniably. I recommend it for almost any situation but particularly for databases and especially large ones. That possibility of adjusting IOPS dynamically to levels that other data centers do not offer makes it unique. I don't recommend using the service if you don't have an infrastructure expert who knows about servers, Linux, and storage because a lot of the configuration and settings require an expert hand. Incentivized Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	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. Incentivized UK Utkarsh Khandelwal System Administrator Read full review
Pros	Proficient scaling and system customization, which allows editing. Wide range of system storage, ranging from 25GB to 12000GB. Finally, IBM Cloud Block Storage deploys the most technical and efficient security measures. Incentivized Rita Joy Information Specialist Read full review	Performance Agility Reliability Multi-tenancy Incentivized Diego Xavier Rojas IT Specialist Read full review
Cons	The documentation must be clearer and updated, thinking about each distribution that they offer in the cloud Downtime when IOPS are raised can be less The configuration can be more automated from the same control panel and not have to take it so much to the CLI Incentivized Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	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. Incentivized UK Utkarsh Khandelwal System Administrator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with other applications, more so for database control and management. IBM Cloud Block Storage is clear, through its operational charter. Incentivized Jude Nickson ICT Manager Read full review	The most important feature is the robustness; it is always online, apart from allowing us to unify our file and database storage. Incentivized Diego Xavier Rojas IT Specialist Read full review
Return on Investment	Cloud data access and easy Cloud data analytics creation platform. Visualization and Cloud data storage solution. Secure and smooth Cloud data transfer. Incentivized Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Read full review	Positive: Unify file and database Storage Positive: agility Negative: the implementation was not easy Negative: doesn't integrate as well with Veeam Incentivized Tatiana Lazo Sarmiento IT Specialist Read full review
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