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Altaro VM Backup for MSPs vs IBM Spectrum Protect Plus comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
MSP Backup (9th)
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (49th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Altaro VM Backup for MSPs is designed for MSP Backup and holds a mindshare of 6.2%, down 7.5% compared to last year.
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, on the other hand, focuses on Backup and Recovery, holds 1.0% mindshare, up 0.9% since last year.
MSP Backup Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Altaro VM Backup for MSPs6.2%
N-able Cove Data Protection16.4%
MSP360 Backup10.9%
Other66.5%
MSP Backup
Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus1.0%
Veeam Data Platform7.6%
Commvault Cloud4.4%
Other87.0%
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Anthony Linder - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Application Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees
An incredibly stable product with a great user interface
Improvements are needed in the solution since it might get difficult if you just drop a technical person who doesn't necessarily have a lot of experience with Altaro VM Backup for MSPs. 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. In Altaro VM Backup for MSPs, if you expect something to be somewhere else or when you expect a certain part of the user interface to function in a specific way, it doesn't happen so since the functionality that you expect to be there in the product isn't present on that screen and you need to go somewhere else for that piece. I think that is the case with the most complex tech products. I would like to be able to store a full cluster environment inside of Altaro VM and make sure that the cluster communicates inside of the product, presuming that we have the necessary backup drive in our company. Altaro VM already can test individual VM restores, but one can't really go beyond that scope, at least with the version of the solution that we have in our company right now.
reviewer1656648 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Offers reliable recovery and backup but needs better ransomware protection
With ransomware protection and cyber protection, more improvement is possible. IBM provides these through a third party, so enhancement is needed. There's significant room for improvement. They are not yet where I want them to be. It does not offer horizontal and vertical scaling. These are areas IBM can improve.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"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."
"There is protection against disasters with good, fast, reliable recovery options."
"The solution is scalable."
"A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."
"The API is very good."
"The feature I find most valuable is the offload to Spectrum Protect for long-term retention. I think the deduplication and replication are quite nice on Plus."
"The initial setup of IBM Protect Plus is simple and not complex."
"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster."
"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."
 

Cons

"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."
"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."
"I would like more integration with security. We need to show the value of the product in regards to handling security. For example, how it handles current malware or viruses. IBM should be more proactive in this direction."
"The software's technical support could improve its response time for different time zones."
"The Gui interface and usability are not so friendly and easy."
"It requires much more automation features."
"Rooms for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are installation and configuration because those were difficult. They should try their best to improve those areas. In the next release of the product, better implementation and administration are what we're expecting."
"Their first level of support can be improved. Often they are too junior to understand the issues we are having, and it takes too much time to get from them to the next level of support, which is what we actually need."
"IBM has made a decision to withdraw the product and replace it with IBM Data Protect."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There is an annual license required to use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. The cost of the license could improve, it is expensive."
"If you need to extend it, it can be extended acting like a normal Spectrum Protect with a long archive."
"The solution is too expensive."
"The price is lower than that of some competing products."
"In addition to the standard licensing fees, we paid for implementation and training."
"There are a few options available for purchasing the solutions. Overall, the price of the is high."
"We have a perpetual license for the tool since it is deployed on-premise."
"Clients prefer to buy a perpetual license, but the majority opt for a yearly subscription."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Educational Organization
5%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise17
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?
Pricing is good; it is reasonable and more reasonable than any other vendors.
What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?
Technical support could be improved significantly. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could be made more lightweight and user-friendly in terms of GUI features to make it closer to a perfect score.
 

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