Asigra vs IBM Spectrum Protect Plus comparison

Asigra and IBM are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Asigra is ranked #67, while IBM is ranked #51 with an average rating of 6.3. Asigra holds a 0.5% mindshare in BRS, compared to IBM’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Asigra users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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85% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Asigra and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are prominent data protection solutions. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus often has the upper hand due to its feature-rich offerings and extensive scalability.

Features: Asigra offers an agentless architecture, comprehensive coverage of cloud, and virtual environments. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus provides incremental-forever backups, rapid recovery times, and extensive scalability.

Room for Improvement: Asigra could improve reporting, analytics capabilities, and data insights. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus faces challenges with complex configurations and a steep learning curve for new users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Asigra has a straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, while powerful, requires more initial setup time and technical expertise.

Pricing and ROI: Asigra is favored for lower setup costs and quicker ROI. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is valued for its long-term cost-effectiveness despite higher initial expenses.

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Categories and Ranking

Asigra

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

67th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

51st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Asigra is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is 1.1%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus	1.1%
Asigra	0.5%
Other	98.4%

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reviewer1361796

Manager Technical Procurement & Logistics - Global IT at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Affordable, easy to use, and offers good pricing

The solution is primarily used for the backup of the endpoints within our organization The solution has been very stable. It's quite easy to use and simple to navigate around. The performance has always been very good. The pricing of the product is excellent. I wouldn't describe it as a…

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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

"The solution has been very stable."

"It provides a secure and stable cloud backup solution."

"I have found all the features useful in the solution."

"We can provide a reliable service to our customers."

"Virtual Disaster Recovery in version 13 is a game-changer, especially for VMWare shops."

"Simplicity, very easy to restore user data, means that we don't have to request off site tapes to be delivered to the office, can easily access the cloud data and restore most data within minutes."

"There are two primary improvements of the Asigra platform with the recent version 13.1 SP1: Virtualization: a tremendous variety of data protection solutions for virtual machines, and Cloud-2-Cloud for Office 365, Google, Amazon, etc., making this a full package of data protection platform."

"The cost is very reasonable; it's one of the cheapest options on the market, and any company can easily afford this product."

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"Pricing is good; it is reasonable and more reasonable than any other vendors."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with Oracle."

"The solution offers a very straightforward deployment. You click, click, click and it's done. There's not much configuration to do."

"There is no doubt that the solution is really stable."

"The licensing model of Spectrum Protect Plus is more efficient and cheaper compared to the original."

"The solution is scalable."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with Oracle."

"The solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer."

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Cons

"The setup and configuration of this product is quite complex."

"I wouldn't describe it as a scalable solution."

"Personally speaking, I think the reporting should be more interactive."

"The UI could do with a facelift."

"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."

"More integration with leading storage solutions."

"There are improvements required with the virtualization solution, I'm sure we will see a significant change in 2017."

"At present, downloading the relevant files and placing them into a directory on the DS-System is a little cumbersome and open to error/malicious use."

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

"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 Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."

"It requires much more automation features."

"IBM has made a decision to withdraw the product and replace it with IBM Data Protect."

"In the future, I would like to see support for global deduplication."

"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve the IBM Spectrum Protect environment. It can be difficult to administer."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Asigra could improve, it is expensive. We have purchased an annual license."

"Asigra is priced competitively, but requires technical expertise to operate, optimize, and maintain its services."

"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."

"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."

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

"Unlike some other solutions, such as Veritas NetBackup where you have to pay for different licenses to use different features, there is a single license that allows you to use all of the features."

"The solution is too 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."

"Clients prefer to buy a perpetual license, but the majority opt for a yearly subscription."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

13%

Construction Company

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	1

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Company Size	Count
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

Asigra makes award-winning enterprise backup and recovery software that leads the industry in secure, reliable, manageable and affordable data protection. Asigra Cloud Backup works in the cloud or on-premise, for everything from mobile devices to entire data centers.

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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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