Learn what your peers think about IBM System Storage DS8000 Series. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2026.

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it_user674253

Senior Technical Consultant for Storage with 10,001+ employees

May 29, 2017

We have had no outages now for literally six years and that's really impressive.

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it_user674232

Storage Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

May 29, 2017

The main benefit is from the standpoint of recovery; recovery time and being able to quickly replicate data.

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it_user672402

Senior Storage Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 25, 2017

These are global mirror and replication for DR, which allow us to do a lot of DR testing.

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IBM System Storage DS8000 Series Cons review quotes

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Solution Architect; Senior Manager Mainframe Technical Service at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 9, 2020

The solution should embedded replication switches into the hardware instead of using them externally.

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it_user1303074

Team Leader at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Feb 11, 2021

The GUI isn't as user-friendly as other options.

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it_user672408

Associate engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

May 25, 2017

We need the GUI feature to be improved. If the GUI is good, then it is easier to manage with just the clicks, rather than going in with CLI and commands to do the stuff.

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Learn what your peers think about IBM System Storage DS8000 Series. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2026.

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it_user674253

Senior Technical Consultant for Storage with 10,001+ employees

May 29, 2017

Sometimes when we do encounter problems, but not a complete system shutdown, that gets a little bit frustrating.

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it_user674232

Storage Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

May 29, 2017

I would like it to be easier to use. Some of it is so complex that we've got a lot of scripts and automation and things tied around it.

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