Asigra vs IBM Spectrum Protect Plus comparison

Asigra and IBM are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Asigra is ranked #72, while IBM is ranked #49 with an average rating of 7.0. Asigra holds a 0.3% mindshare in BRS, compared to IBM’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Asigra users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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88% 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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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Asigra

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

72nd

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

49th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Asigra is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus	1.0%
Asigra	0.3%
Other	98.7%

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Featured Reviews

Alfaz Khan

Technical Team Lead at Eldama Technologies

Plenty of useful feature and reliable

We use Asigra for backups I have found all the features useful in the solution. I have been using Asigra for approximately two months. The solution is stable. The six people in our IT department are using the solution. The initial setup was a medium difficulty level. Some parts were complex…

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Atif Najam

Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd

Enables organizations to make large-scale recoveries easily, but the security must be improved

The security must be improved. We face a lot of cyber threats like ransomware. It impacts data availability and protection. The tool must provide a mechanism to make resilient backups. The tool must ensure that the recent backups have no ransomware. The backup must be immutable. They must be cyber-resilient backups. Finding a good resource person for IBM Spectrum in Pakistan is difficult. We have to rely on the support team. Resource availability is a challenge.

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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 agentless architecture has minimized our software footprint at the client level."

"The solution has been very stable."

"It has helped us to provide comprehensive data protection with high recovery rates and a malware scanning feature."

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

"The API is very good."

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

"With this product, we now have a reliable backup solution."

"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."

"This solution is very stable and has good support available online."

"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."

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

"The most valuable feature is how we can easily power speed up the VM even though the VM resides in remote storage."

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Cons

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

"The management could be a bit better."

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

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

"I would like to see continuous data protection (CDP). If there is machine failure, you don't have to go to the backup copy that you took 12 hours ago. You can actually go back to the backup copy made half an hour ago. That is, it would be good to have certain-point-in-time recovery."

"The Gui interface and usability are not so friendly and easy."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The solution only supports HyperV and VMware but doesn't support Nutanix."

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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."

"There are a few options available for purchasing the solutions. Overall, the price of the is high."

"Depends on the licensing options that you choose."

"The price is lower than that of some competing products."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Government

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

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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	13
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	17

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What do you like most about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that the product works and helps with restoration areas whenever there is a need to restore something.

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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?

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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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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