Technical specifications
Simple, flat cost per capacity Monthly licensing
IBM Spectrum Virtualize at a glance
On-premises
Public cloud
Storage supported
Built-in and more than 500 different systems from IBM and others
IBM Cloud Performance and Endurance storage; AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS); Azure Managed Disk
Licensing approach
Tiered cost per TB (SVC) or per enclosure (FlashSystem family)
Platforms
SVC, IBM FlashSystem family, VersaStack, software only
IBM Cloud Bare Metal server infrastructure; AWS Elastic Compute servers (EC2); Azure VMs
Reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS)
Integrated RAS capabilities
Flexible RAS: Cloud and software RAS capabilities
Service
IBM support for hardware and software
IBM support for software in the IBM public cloud environment