IBM Spectrum Protect vs Veeam Data Platform comparison

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

"The solution is really scalable."

"It provides our customers with the comfort of having reliable enterprise data protection."

"The ability to migrate between media over a long period of time. My customers are long-time users, and they have benefited from being able to move between tiers. They have been able to do this within the product."

"The components of IBM Spectrum Protect explain how the data is protected. The administration is very easy, and the vertical migration is intuitive."

"IBM Spectrum Protect offers stable software and products."

"The feature we have found most valuable is when you want to integrate it with a Tape Library and then do the DRM life cycle. That is when it works the best."

"It has a lot more capabilities and functions than a lot of other products. Even though it is more complex, the reason is because it gives you a lot more features. This is what I prefer, especially for a long retention."

"One of the standout features of Veeam Backup & Replication is its exceptional restore capability, enabling users to recover their data seamlessly. Another valuable functionality is the automated verification of backup restorations, made possible through the Sure Backup feature. The software boasts numerous other noteworthy features that offer immense value, including the NAS backup feature."

"For me, it's perfect. We don't have any problems with backups and applications."

"With regard to our operational requirements, Veeam is very good because it's so user-friendly."

"Its ease of use for restore is really good. For Exchange, the Exchange Active Directory is great."

"The most valuable feature is the continuous backup."

"I have found one of the most valuable features to be the integrity of the backups."

"The backup and replication capabilities are quite good."

"The user interface is good and it is very easy to use."

"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."

"I would love to see something which allows us to do an auto restart of backup jobs."

"It needs some software upgrades to fix some of its current bugs."

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

"An area for improvement would be the ease of use - the GUI is not up to the mark compared to other products in the market."

"It could use single store. The ability to mark an archive from my backup for long-term retention."

"If you take Spectrum Protect into account, and you have it along with restrictions to Spectrum Archive by means of LTFS, this is also something which should be made better within the overall product's program."

"Ease of use. That has got to be the one thing that I routinely hear from clients and customers, that it's a little bit more difficult than it should be. What I'm finding is that IBM has heard that and they're responding with updated interfaces and things like that."

"The solution needs more detailed reporting."

"I would like to see better features for exporting to cloud-based repositories."

"Immutability could be improved."

"Could be improved with hybrid cloud integration backup."

"One challenge that we have encountered was on the long-term retention of data. Be sure to look into a dedicated deduplication appliance."

"The licensing models, from a reseller's perspective, could be better."

"The price is an issue. If one has a large number of servers, say... 100-plus, and wishes to add more, an exhausted budget may hinder this ability."

"Additional executive summary reports for the entire infrastructure would be a nice to have."

"The solution is expensive."

"It's very complicated. Licensing is a pain."

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

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

"IBM provides an open license policy, which is more like a gentlemen's agreement."

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

"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."

"Its licensing is complex, and its price is not really reasonable. It is on the expensive side. IBM, in general, is slightly expensive, but with IBM Spectrum for the virtual environment, they are looking into the aspect of helping customers with the cost and providing a cost-effective solution."

"Veeam is more reasonably priced than some competing products."

"Its pricing is really good."

"The price is a bit high. Licensing type is VMware friendly, so it is easy."

"Veeam has a ten-license package gives you two physical and two virtual servers you can use on any endpoint."

"Its software solution has a fee."

"The product must improve its pricing."

"It is an affordable solution."

"We are fine with its pricing policy."