IBM Spectrum Protect vs Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup comparison

"Nothing beats this solution for file backup."

"The solution can back up every kind of workload in the environment."

"The product helps us do data protection and restoration for disaster recovery (DR)."

"The technical support for Spectrum Protect is very mature. It is very committed to giving a top-notch support experience."

"High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."

"The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery."

"Good deduplication and compression features."

"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."

"We find the ease of use valuable."

"We use this solution as an integrated backup solution and it is integrated from the backup provider to the Nutanix solution."

"Nutanix has its own backup system known as HYCU, as well as its own virtual server."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."

"Nutanix can converge legacy-style rack mount servers, so it is highly scalable."

"I like the autofill-over feature and the simplicity of the solution."

"There is room for improvement in the service aspect."

"IBM Spectrum Protect does have a lot of the features that we need, but I think they need to improve their backup virtualization and backup for container."

"Its management part can be better and simplified. It is kind of a beast as compared to Commvault or Veeam, but they are more user-friendly. They are also easier to learn, whereas Spectrum Protect definitely takes time. They should simplify it. Our teams are pretty comfortable with it because we have been using it for a long time, but from the perspective of a new user who is evaluating or using this solution, it is definitely more complex in terms of manageability. Its monitoring could be improved so that it can even monitor the jobs that are scheduled by external schedulers. There are situations where a database team might decide to use their own schedulers, but currently, Spectrum Protect is not able to catch those jobs in the Operation Manager console."

"Technical support could be improved."

"I would not recommend the tool to others because it is a really complex product."

"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."

"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."

"The solution's ability to integrate with a cloud solution is one area that needs improvement."

"It could be cheaper."

"Nutanix is not secure enough, and it needs to be more resilient."

"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The solution's setup process should be simplified."

"I would like to see the multi-cloud improve."

"This solution could be improved with regards to the hosts that integrate with the platform itself. Each of the hosts integrated with the storage and networking only provide one instance of a backup."

"Use capacity licensing. It's easier and cheaper."

"I rate the pricing a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is not cost-effective, and ten is cost-effective."

"The licensing fees are between $8,000 and $10,000 per year."

"The licensing fees are on a yearly basis, which for us it is about R400,000 (approximately $27,000 USD)."

"It is really expensive. Its price is not good for Latin America. Its price is good for the United States or Europe."

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

"The license model that they have at IBM, which is due to volume, from a certain volume onward is not the right license model."

"We are paying for support and maintenance on a monthly basis."

"Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is fairly priced."

"I rate the pricing a five out of ten because the price is average."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is affordable or low, and ten is expensive or high, I rate the price as two."

"While Nutanix Mine is extremely expensive for small businesses, it is a very cost-effective product for enterprise businesses."