We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup & Replication has the winning edge in this comparison because it received higher marks in the ease of deployment, pricing, and service and support categories.
"The ability to do dedupe in the product is nice to have."
"Scalability: Our customers are able to grow the product without having to buy additional hardware, so it is very scalable."
"The most valuable features are compression and de-duplication."
"The most valuable features of Spectrum Protect would be the compression and the deduplication."
"Reliability: It has never had a problem with backups or restores. If you store something, it is there."
"The main thing is to keep the data safe and in files, keep it on tape ready for a request from a bank, and it is working perfectly with all our hardware."
"The ability to use S3 Data Store as a repository."
"I find the whole product useful. The backup archive client, snapshot, spectrum for virtual environments are beneficial features."
"They introduced a new feature called the Immutable Repository feature, which helps protect environments from malware attacks that target backup file extensions."
"Veeam Cloud Connect has helped us to reduce the cost of cloud storage for an offsite solution using their archive storage feature."
"The backup and replication features of this solution are most valuable."
"Veeam Backup Replication is easy to use and has high performance. The backups are very fast. It's a complete solution that fulfills our current needs."
"The solution is a user-friendly interface."
"The most important part is that you actually know you have a backup of the whole virtual server."
"It is a good solution for backups and reporting."
"It's a pretty complete product."
"The solution should have better integration with VMware and with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus."
"This product should be more user-friendly for newcomers."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"We would like to see bare-metal restorers."
"I should be able to backup Linux. I would like SUSE for Linux on POWER. Right now, we have to use Storex, which is a pain to use."
"A lot of my customers always ask for legal holds, especially on email."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
"It needs to offer an automatic check for backups."
"The cloud part of it can be improved. There should be an option for Veeam in your own cloud, as compared to the Veeam cloud offering that's currently there. The rest of it is easy."
"It would be ideal if users could know that their data is backed up and have some security functionality where you can actually use the backup to spin up a new cluster and take it from there."
"Lacks online training."
"I would like to see better features for exporting to cloud-based repositories."
"Veeam Backup & Replication could improve by making it more user-friendly."
"Although the solution offers documentation, it has it only in English, which doesn't help us much in Belarus."
"I think Veeam needs to improve the file installation process, as well as more technical things like snapping feature issues. Sometimes during backup, when it's taking the scan snaps on the ESXi, it started and didn't remove the snapshot from there, which consumed storage on the EXSi. It could be improved with more technical depth. The response time for Veeam's technical support could also be improved."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. 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 Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Veritas NetBackup. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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