"It has simple buying options and deployments. You can buy on-cloud, on-premises, or hybrid solutions. Acronis Backup is very easy to deploy. It also does not consume much hardware. The administrator's tasks are very simple. It is very user friendly, and it also has good security features with low-level encryption and data encryption."
"For my first experience, it is the best software for backups, especially for a five-system backup."
"The most valuable feature is that you can do a bare-metal restore even with dissimilar hardware."
"The web-based interface makes it easy to use."
"The main reasons that our customers like Acronis are that it is very strong and easy to use."
"For local backups, it has options to back up almost any storage. The back can be either a shared folder or anything you want, it's pretty flexible."
"The solution was easy to install and to deploy."
"The backup timing and restoring process is great compared to other options."
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features are the stability and also how it's seamlessly integrated with other IBM offerings."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that IBM Spectrum Protect is highly integrated with IBM ESS. In addition, it allows us to back up our virtual servers directly to take VM snapshots. It runs on Linux as well."
"Nothing beats this solution for file backup."
"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."
"Their GUI has improved quite a bit. It's made the solution a lot simpler and less complex."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"One way they have improved our organization is through the stability of the solution and the availability of the product."
"Acronis has some limitations on the cloud side."
"The product would be better if they offered more integration capabilities."
"The backing up of virtual machines in VMware and Nutanix needs better integration and the performance of the solution needs improvement."
"One improvement that could be made is adding the option to download files in a PST format when doing a 365 or Google Cloud to cloud backup."
"A little bit more integration would be good. It should support broader platforms."
"For smaller companies it's a little more challenging to maintain."
"When an error occurs, the information is not always easy to understand and these messages should be made more clear."
"The problems that we face are often related to the customer's network, although sometimes there are problems with the software, such as an error in the configuration."
"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."
"They do not have a unified GUI, they only work on CLI and operations center, which is really complicated for the installation and configuration."
"The software is complex; setup is complex."
"The installation process could be simplified."
"Their support is lacking. I've talked to their developers and stuff in the last couple of weeks and they reassure me that some people have retired, and they're working on getting that bumped back up. But the support lacks a lot to be desired at this point."
"Restoring massive files is a very time-consuming process."
"The solution should have better integration with VMware and with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
Acronis Backup is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery Software with 31 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery Software with 45 reviews. Acronis Backup is rated 8.0, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Acronis Backup writes "A stable and scalable backup solution with superior image restoring capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Great stability, reliability, and scalability, but very difficult to manage and get support". Acronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas Backup Exec, Veeam Backup for Office 365, Commvault and Veritas NetBackup, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault, Cohesity DataProtect and IBM Tivoli CDP for Files. See our Acronis Backup vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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