IBM Spectrum Protect vs IBM Tivoli CDP for Files comparison

"It is pretty scalable. It will scale to anything."

"It scales well. We have grown here in the last year or two, and it has been relatively easy."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is application-aware backups."

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

"The archiving feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution."

"Instead of taking three different backups of your systems, you're taking only one. You're able to crack that open and get what you need. The incident recovery, where it creates the VM and then you're running it, technically you're running it on Spectrum Protect. But then in the background, it's doing the storage motion and moving it off the Spectrum Protect back to your VMware environment. The users don't know the difference."

"They have recently added support tickets specifically engineered around performance. This has been very useful for us when we run into issues where customers are looking to try to squeeze a lot more horsepower out of older system."

"The fact that we can take the backup straight onto tape is the most valuable feature."

"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."

"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."

"IBM Spectrum Protect could be improved by making the installation easier. Once it's implemented, it's okay. IBM started lagging behind when things started moving to storage and cloud-based solutions. Even though they've recently released updates that give cloud-based protection, personally, I still believe they are not up to par with the likes of Rubrik. The entire product is a little bit clumsy because they have co-joined two different products, so it's complex. Even from a sales/explaining to people what it does point of view, it's complex. Whereas, if you take more current products, it's a single box solution. You reel it in, you fire it up, you do a couple of points and clicks, and off you go, whereas the IBM system is seriously complex. There's a lot of training involved and it's a massively difficult product to sell at this point in time."

"It doesn't integrate with storage pools, with a normal pool. I'd like to see that."

"Customers have migrated off of it because of its lack of virtual environment functions."

"I would like to advance reporting and analytics for the platform to see how much data is coming into the platform. how much data is expiring everyday, and what tape savings we are getting through reclamation."

"I find the Level 1 and Level 2 support spend 80% of the time communicating the same information that I have already provided."

"Needs more support for non-mainstream databases, in particular PostgreSQL, SQL, and MySQL."

"They took some of the funding off of it for a while. Therefore, instead of being a market leader, they took their position for granted. Then some competitors developed new bells and whistles that they advertise, and due to that lag a few years ago, there are not the resources to explain the differences."

"We would like to have the opportunity to omit data from being backed up. For example, we have three virtual machines, each with three disks. When running the backup, it will automatically take each disk rather than allowing us to select what data we want backed."

"The pricing of the solution is high in comparison to other products on the market. For example, IBM and Symantec have less costly options."

"IBM Spectrum Protect, cost-wise, has way higher pricing than Veeam. By switching over to Veeam, my company saved over $600,000 in USD. The IBM Spectrum Protect pricing is a two on a scale of one to ten. My company paid additional fees for maintenance, apart from the standard licensing fees."

"We have spec'd out our build, and the cost of it can work quite easily today for our future needs."

"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."

"License-wise regarding IBM, it's licensed per terabyte. And that is after compression and deduplication."

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

"Spectrum Protect is not a cheap option."

"For my company, the tool is affordable and reasonable...I don't think most people know that when a company has large systems in place, the TCO is a lot lower."

"It's expensive, but it's worth for it due to the volume of critical information within our database. We are currently paying about $22,000 per year."