We performed a comparison between Altaro VM Backup for MSPs and IBM Spectrum Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about N-able, MSP360, Vembu Technologies and others in MSP Backup."Granular restoration is extremely useful in Altaro VM Backup for MSPs since it is something that we make use of the most in our company."
"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."
"When I have to do disaster recoveries, I can do it with this tool."
"It is very stable. A plus is to use POWERAge for the SNR copy of the Spectrum Protect, then it is more reliable."
"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."
"It helps our customers protect their data, especially with stuff like ransomware, compliance, and regulatory requirements."
"With Spectrum Protect, you can use any type of disk to back-end the repositories. It gave us flexibility to use whatever storage we wanted at our secondary site."
"Enterprise-wide type of architecture supports a lot of different platforms."
"Traditional storage works perfectly with it."
"A technical person who hasn't received any dedicated training or hasn't gone through the documentation part of the solution may find the product to be a little non-intuitive at times."
"They should have a proper technical support team serving the customers and get issues resolved earlier."
"Our customers would like to see metadata replication, tearing to tape, and more cloud capabilities."
"I am looking forward to new features in the next release. One of the main features is the cloud storage integration, which was one of my main required features. I've had more difficult experiences with other platforms than with this one."
"The solution should improve the ability to monitor backup failure."
"It has a lot of areas for improvement. Its reporting for job completion or incompletion can be improved. It should also provide a granular recovery, ease of operation, data life cycle management, and media management. It should support a backup in such a format that in case of a disaster, one can start the virtual machine out of the backup itself. Its reliability can also be better. It is also expensive, and their support is also poor."
"High availability (HA) is a scalability challenge."
"I would like to see integration with Copy Data Management, which is an IBM product. Right now, these two products are siloed, so if these two become integrated, the product would become a bit of a powerhouse."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
Altaro VM Backup for MSPs is ranked 6th in MSP Backup with 1 review while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Altaro VM Backup for MSPs is rated 9.0, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Altaro VM Backup for MSPs writes "An incredibly stable product with a great user interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Altaro VM Backup for MSPs is most compared with Arcserve UDP and N-able Cove Data Protection, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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