Acronis Cyber Protect vs IBM Spectrum Protect comparison

"The most valuable feature is the quick restoration. We can restore the data quickly."

"One of the features I have found most valuable is the restore point - it gives us what we need at the time we need it. The important thing is that the backup for Acronis doesn't depend as much on the device."

"I can encrypt the data, I can make it send me an email if it fails. It lets me choose which files I want to ignore during backup."

"It is fast and easy for an image-based backup across all platforms."

"One of its most valuable aspects is its user-friendly interface."

"In our recent experiences, Acronis Cyber Protect proved most valuable during instances of colleagues facing migration challenges due to ransomware impacts. In these situations, where servers and backups were affected, having a backup stored in external drives or other devices within our data centers posed risks. To address this vulnerability, we decided to shift to a cloud backup solution."

"Consistency and reliability. The interface is easy to understand and consistent across applications. While not 100%, it is a very reliable backup solution."

"Universal Restore is valuable to us."

"The customization and the ability to backup across all platforms are the most valuable features."

"It allows us to have one interface."

"We are able to run it in an enterprise quite easily with one or two resources."

"I've had no problems with the stability of this solution."

"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."

"The most valuable features are the stability and also how it's seamlessly integrated with other IBM offerings."

"Everyone wants a full backup. It gives them safety and peace of mind, like an insurance policy for that rainy day when they may need to restore a system."

"The software-defined ability to do data reduction through deduplication and compression, as well as being able to replicate data to a cloud container."

"It supports Microsoft SQL and Microsoft Exchange, but it does not support Oracle databases or Postgres."

"The dashboards for digital operations can be improved."

"Acronis has some limitations on the cloud side."

"They can include something called a backup appliance. Although Acronis is a software-driven company, it would be good for customers to have some kind of backup appliance on top of a lightweight operating system. This will also reduce the cost. Currently, the customers have to buy the hardware in addition to the operating system, which increases the overhead in terms of procurement."

"For smaller companies it's a little more challenging to maintain."

"The initial setup was complex. We had to deploy it through an external consultant team."

"It could back up more things. I don't think it can back up Box and some of the other third-party ones. Not that we use them that much, but the more they can do, the better it would be. There could also be better integrations with RMM tools."

"The reporting can be improved."

"The solution is evolving, so it has to be evolved to fit all new types of software requirements too."

"I would like a little more ease with the virtual platforms, because it is a huge thing that is coming up."

"The solution's initial setup process wasn't easy...The solution is overly complicated in terms of architecture, especially compared to other tools in the market."

"They need to do a better job on Windows, because if you are running Windows, the scalability is more limited than AIX and Linux."

"They do not have a unified GUI, they only work on CLI and operations center, which is really complicated for the installation and configuration."

"Technical support could be improved."

"The user interface (UI) for the admin is still not good. It is way too complicated to manage the product, as we still need to use command line. IBM launched the Operations Center (OC), but there are still functions lacking, especially since we cannot manage all our scheduled tasks by using the GUI."

"It is not easy to manage like other products in the market. It is okay only if you are command-line driven. Even though the operation center is there, it doesn't provide a single view of everything. You have to, for example, use TSMManager on top of it, which gives you a far better management capability, but it is a third-party product. Its management needs to be improved. There should be an HTML or graphical interface. It is a very difficult product. For example, you have a backup policy where you want a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly policy standard. It is an old kind of system where you have to keep retention for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups, which is very difficult in IBM Spectrum Protect. In other products, in a matter of five minutes, you can configure such a policy. In TSM, it takes you one, two, or three days because you need to configure a node for each of them. If you have 250 nodes, you have to configure each node for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly retention. If you have 1,000 nodes, it is going to take you ages just to configure and register the nodes. You need to configure the schedule and the CAD daemons or services, depending on whether it is a Unix or Windows OS. Unfortunately, it is a very long and drawn-out process. You have to stop and start the services for changes to take effect. This is a very difficult part of TSM in IBM Spectrum Protect. To configure a backup policy, I should be able to select the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly options in one screen and finish it. After that, everything should happen in the background. All the backup products in the market already do that, and they are very simple to manage. This particular part of this solution has really been a major pain area for us, and unfortunately, we could not find a workaround. There is nobody at IBM who can give us a way to configure all this easily through a GUI or even scripts."

"It is a low-cost solution."

"Licensing fees are billed annually and there are no extra charges."

"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis."

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"Our licenses come with a one-time yearly subscription fee."

"The price of the solution is expensive and could be reduced a little."

"We have a Cyber Cloud backup license and we have on-premises storage. Both can be useful for our customers."

"Pricing is what it is. I don't shop around once I find a good solution. I insist they maintain ongoing support year after year for updates and tech support."

"The product is low cost. It is very cool when we design it to using licensing based on post capacity."

"The different license models can give good benefits to the end customer."

"IBM Spectrum Protect can be considered an averagely-priced product."

"IBM Spectrum Protect has a fixed price and includes no additional costs."

"The solution has a capacity based licensing, front and back-end license."

"It is very scalable, but the downside is that it costs money."

"We chose IBM Spectrum Protect, because they actually have something called MSP pricing, which means managed services provider pricing. The pricing was attractive, and it seems to be a platform that IBM is totally investing on in terms of new functions and new capabilities."

"One can go with either a PVU licensing model or a capacity based licensing model. Either solution does not block the usage, if over used."