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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
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (47th)
 

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."
"Reliability, recovery features, and stability are valuable to me."
"The support from IBM is very good."
"The initial setup of IBM Protect Plus is simple and not complex."
"The most valuable feature is how we can easily power speed up the VM even though the VM resides in remote storage."
"If the system were to go down, we needed to make sure that the system could be recovered and available as soon as possible. Spectrum Protect provides you access to directly bind the backup volume to the server and make the system available instead of restoring it and copying the system."
"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."
"What I like about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its integration, plus it has very good technical support."
 

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."
"The Gui interface and usability are not so friendly and easy."
"With ransomware protection and cyber protection, more improvement is possible."
"I think the graphical reports are a shortcoming of the tool since it fails to provide my company with what we want in terms of reporting. Due to the product's inability to take care of its reporting part, we have to use third-party software."
"IBM has made a decision to withdraw the product and replace it with IBM Data Protect."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."
"In the future, I would like to see support for global deduplication."
"The user experience is very bad and the interface needs to be improved."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve security."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The initial cost of the product is perpetual but the support fees are billed annually."
"I rate the price of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus a one on a scale of one to ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is very cheap."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a little expensive."
"In addition to the standard licensing fees, we paid for implementation and training."
"The price offering from IBM is coming down because it is based on number of VM machines. So, IBM is coming to the market to show the added value of the product."
"Depends on the licensing options that you choose."
"The price is lower than that of some competing products."
"There is an annual license required to use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. The cost of the license could improve, it is expensive."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
Educational Organization
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise17
 

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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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Sample Customers

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PT Wings Surya, Tectrade, State of Ohio
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