"It's always stable. It's very good, useful, and user-friendly."
"In my opinion, it's the best product for end-users and PCs."
"Our customers can backup to local storage and they can back up or replicate to the cloud."
"It's a good solution that's very easy to use. Acronis has two valuable features. The first one is creating images, and the other is starting virtual machines in the cloud so the client can work immediately."
"I have not used other backup solutions to compare how well the features work but I have found Acronis Backup to be user-friendly, overall easy to use, and performance is good."
"The solution is exceptional for desktop backup."
"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 is stable and reliable."
"The API is very good."
"The most valuable features of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are you have many possibilities on how to use it. We use it for backups and to create secondary and third copies. It is possible to pick up Kubernetes containers and use a different cloud provider if you need to start backups on the cloud."
"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster."
"The initial setup of IBM Protect Plus is simple and not complex."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its ease of use. Additionally, it does backups of all of the things we need, such as OS, files, and databases."
"It would be nice to have a partition that I can boot and reinstall when taking a backup image from the operating system."
"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."
"They've got an agent to back up Microsoft SQL, to our Office 365, but there is not an agent to back up my SQL databases."
"The backing up of virtual machines in VMware and Nutanix needs better integration and the performance of the solution needs improvement."
"The new version has anti-malware and software management features, but these features should be enhanced. It is working as an exclusive solution along with the backup and recovery."
"The solution could improve by providing more database backup features and have better integration with many different types of databases. We cannot implement it in all of our infrastructures."
"The technical support of Acronis Backup could improve. They have the depth of knowledge but the speed of the response could be quicker."
"There are some limitations to the backup."
"The replication feature is not available."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve security."
"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."
"It still needs to grow and add new features. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, I believe, requires time to become competitive due to a weakness in the other software products."
"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."
"The one issue we are facing is related to file restores."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."
Acronis Backup is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery Software with 33 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 47th in Backup and Recovery Software with 7 reviews. Acronis Backup is rated 8.2, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 6.8. 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 Plus writes "Quick, simple deployment, relatable and responsive technical support". Acronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas Backup Exec, Veeam Backup for Office 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud and Veritas NetBackup, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup and NetApp SnapCenter. See our Acronis Backup vs. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus report.
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