Altaro VM Backup for MSPs vs IBM Spectrum Protect Plus comparison

The compared Hornetsecurity and IBM solutions aren't in the same category. Hornetsecurity is ranked #9 in MB , and holds a 6.1% mindshare in the category. IBM is ranked #51 in BRS , with an average rating of 6.3, and holds a 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 50% of Hornetsecurity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs

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85% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

MSP Backup (9th)

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (51st)

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 6.1%, down 7.3% compared to last year.
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, on the other hand, focuses on Backup and Recovery, holds 1.1% mindshare, up 0.9% since last year.

MSP Backup Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Altaro VM Backup for MSPs	6.1%
N-able Cove Data Protection	15.1%
MSP360 Backup	10.4%
Other	68.4%

MSP Backup

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus	1.1%
Veeam Data Platform	7.0%
Commvault Cloud	4.0%
Other	87.9%

Backup and Recovery

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Anthony Linder

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.

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AhmedSorour

IT Specialist at Saudi Business Machines - SBM

Has provided straightforward backup and rapid deployment for diverse environments

There is reporting in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, but I'm not very familiar with this area. I always concentrated on getting the customer to do the backup, restore, and related tasks, but there is reporting. IBM has made a decision to withdraw the product and replace it with IBM Data Protect. The correct direction is Data Protect, which includes ransomware detection. With IBM Data Protect, you can add more servers for backup. It's scalable, which is a key feature over Storage Protect and Storage Protect Plus, even more capable than Veritas, because Veritas has an option to make different media servers. You can scale the backup process regardless of the load of the customer. This speeds up the backup and restore process for a complete data center, which cannot be done with any other product. I rate IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 9 out of 10.

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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."

"The solution is scalable."

"Reliability, recovery features, and stability are valuable to me."

"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster."

"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."

"This is a multi-platform backup solution where you can take a backup from AIX, Windows, or Linux servers and restore from CD, disk, or tape."

"Some of the features we find very valuable and use a lot, are retention sets."

"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."

"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."

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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."

"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."

"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."

"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."

"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."

"I would like integration into where the VMware guys can do their own restores."

"The user experience is very bad and the interface needs to be improved."

"An area that needs improvement is data validation. We currently use another product that gives us immediate validation, information about when the last backup was, and no risk of corruption happening. TSM in IBM Spectrum is not mature so that you can validate on the spot."

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"Depends on the licensing options that you choose."

"If you need to extend it, it can be extended acting like a normal Spectrum Protect with a long archive."

"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."

"The price is perpetual, but the maintenance cost is annual. That is, we pay once for the product and pay annually for the maintenance and support. The price was much cheaper than what we would have had to pay for EMC or Veritas. The pricing is competitive, and I would rate it at four out of five."

"There is an annual license required to use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. The cost of the license could improve, it is expensive."

"The initial cost of the product is perpetual but the support fees are billed annually."

"In addition to the standard licensing fees, we paid for implementation and training."

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Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	17

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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.

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What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is very simple to deploy for us, but for more clients or competitors, the solution is hard to deploy and to integrate. For our team, deployment of IBM Spectrum Protect Plu...

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What is your primary use case for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

We are an IT integrator and we need to have a good vision of all recovery and backup recovery solutions. Most frequently, we use Veeam Backup. We use Cohesity. For some old workloads, we use IBM TS...

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Overview

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs is a comprehensive backup solution designed specifically for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Its primary use case is to provide reliable and efficient backup and recovery for virtual machines (VMs) in multi-tenant environments.

The most valuable functionality of Altaro VM Backup for MSPs is its centralized management console, which allows MSPs to easily monitor and manage backups for all their clients from a single interface. This streamlines operations and saves time, enabling MSPs to efficiently handle large-scale deployments.

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs offers a range of powerful features, including flexible scheduling, granular restore options, and support for both Hyper-V and VMware environments. It also includes advanced features like Augmented Inline Deduplication, which significantly reduces storage requirements and speeds up backup and restore processes.

By providing reliable and efficient backup and recovery, Altaro VM Backup for MSPs helps organizations ensure business continuity and minimize downtime in the event of data loss or system failures. It also enables MSPs to offer value-added services to their clients, enhancing their reputation and increasing customer satisfaction.

Hornetsecurity

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a data protection and availability solution for virtual environments that can be deployed in minutes and protect your environment within an hour. It simplifies data protection, whether data is hosted in physical, virtual, software-defined or cloud environments. It can be implemented as a stand-alone solution or integrate with your IBM Spectrum Protect environment to off-load copies for long term storage and data governance with scale and efficiency.

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Alpha & Omega Computer Consultants, Chorus

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