We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and IBM Storage Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."
"It is pretty easy to use and maintain."
"The ability to do dedupe in the product is nice to have."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the centralized enterprise backup."
"One of the main things that I like about IBM is the versioning of the data - meaning that we can have multiple versions of a file or directory of a server."
"With data deduplication and compression, we are reducing our overall storage footprint for our disk histories. Therefore, we are reducing the actual cost of the disk for our data protection and data backups."
"We do not lose data. That is why we are using this product and have a backup in place."
"The best point about IBM Storage Protect is that it can use IBM tape environments, which we still use and will continue to use in the future."
"The tool's backup engine is very powerful. Previously, our client finished backup with HPE product in 48 hours. IBM Storage Protect completes backup in 8 hours."
"They can include more cloud-enriching features. I would like IBM Spectrum Protect to have the functionality for backing up a VM directly in Azure. I would like to be able to back up a VM directly in Azure without spinning up a Hyper-V cluster and backing up the virtual server."
"The Hyper-V and SQL Server backup could be improved. In the 2016 version there was a significant improvement, but I think IBM has a big challenge with these technologies."
"They do not have a unified GUI, they only work on CLI and operations center, which is really complicated for the installation and configuration."
"We did not see any drawbacks to IBM Spectrum Protect before assisting a customer using Windows that wanted to migrate to using UNIX. IBM Spectrum Protect does not offer an option to migrate from other operating systems."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is not a very user-friendly tool."
"I would like to see integration with Copy Data Management, which is an IBM product. Right now, these two products are siloed, so if these two become integrated, the product would become a bit of a powerhouse."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"The product should be improved to save more space."
"The product should improve its GUI. It should also support Windows clustering."
"The solution is expensive."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while IBM Storage Protect is ranked 43rd in Backup and Recovery with 2 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while IBM Storage Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Storage Protect writes "A stable enterprise solution for backup and restore". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud and Rubrik, whereas IBM Storage Protect is most compared with . See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. IBM Storage Protect report.
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