IBM Spectrum Protect vs Own Data Platform comparison

"The backup on real-time, especially for the virtual machine, archiving, and retrieving the reader from the backup repository and getting it online, getting it validated, then performing the data consistency check over the backup."

"Its flexibility is valuable. It is a very flexible solution. There are always more ways than one to do something. It is a software solution, which means you can buy your own hardware and expand it whenever you want. You are not boxed in or locked into something you've bought and outgrown. You can always expand it."

"Every time we go and try to get a file, we can get it. Restores are quick and the data is always there."

"Good user interface."

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

"I love the TDP for VMware because of the web interface and the possibilities provided by this tool. It's amazing."

"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."

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

"The most valuable feature for our customers is the restore functionality."

"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."

"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."

"Enhancements are required for backing up our virtual environment."

"The only thing that I would like to have a little more of is insight in reporting. I find that Spectrum Protect needs a lot of monitoring, and I have to actually log into the servers."

"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."

"We need better protection from ransomware or the ability to identify ways we can protect ourselves from ransomware. Having backups is one thing, but specifically, we need methods to recover if we have a ransomware attack."

"I would like to see more technical training online. Sometimes, it is a little bit difficult to find, or that I do not really know what I am looking for as somebody who is starting off finding their learning curve."

"Replication of data could be more user friendly."

"The anonymization feature can be improved."

"We have found that the pricing is high in our country."

"That's a hard estimate. It depends on the licensing, the hardware, and other stuff, but it is fairly expensive. It is generally more expensive than other solutions."

"We have been at our size for a few years. We are not really looking to battle the licensing costs, as this is our primary system."

"Technical support is pretty good. It is doing fine, but you pay for it."

"I don't have an idea about the pricing. They send that over to someone else, but I know that one of the issues they had was the licensing costs. I don't think they were happy with how they were charged."

"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 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."

"At scale, the consumption license (per TB) is very expensive."