We performed a comparison between Asigra, IBM Spectrum Protect, and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."I have found all the features useful in the solution."
"It has helped us to provide comprehensive data protection with high recovery rates and a malware scanning feature."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The agentless architecture has minimized our software footprint at the client level."
"Replication processes with container storage pools allow reduction of storage space and network bandwidth, using deduplication and compression."
"The ability to use S3 Data Store as a repository."
"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."
"With Spectrum Protect, you can use any type of disk to back-end the repositories. It gave us flexibility to use whatever storage we wanted at our secondary site."
"I love the TDP for VMware because of the web interface and the possibilities provided by this tool. It's amazing."
"One of the main things that I like about IBM is the versioning of the data - meaning that we can have multiple versions of a file or directory of a server."
"In the past, one of the most valuable features, and the biggest advantage, was the incremental forever feature. Not many other backup vendors provided that. In the pre-virtualization environment, it was very robust and simple technology, especially writing to tape."
"The MN backup for a cluster is most valuable because it has made backing up the GSF as a zero-file system easier. I like its stability a lot. Over the years, I very rarely had a problem with it."
"A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."
"This solution is very stable and has good support available online."
"The solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"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."
"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster."
"Using this tool, we can easily backup and restore or recover the data for PCs and mobiles in case of system crashes."
"The initial setup of IBM Protect Plus is simple and not complex."
"The management could be a bit better."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"IBM Spectrum Protect does have a lot of the features that we need, but I think they need to improve their backup virtualization and backup for container."
"It does what we need it to do, but it could be better with VM backups. It could be better integrated with virtual machines or VM backups, but that's why they have their Plus out now. Plus version is more geared toward VM backups. The regular version is more for endpoint clients."
"It seems like they are a little behind on the integration to Azure Cloud as well as Amazon."
"Customers have migrated off of it because of its lack of virtual environment functions."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"The solution's initial setup process wasn't easy...The solution is overly complicated in terms of architecture, especially compared to other tools in the market."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"It should have the ability to break down the data that's being backed up. It should have better reporting."
"The administration needs to be improved and made simpler to use."
"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."
"Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve security."
"The one issue we are facing is related to file restores."
"It requires much more automation features."
"The Gui interface and usability are not so friendly and easy."
"The user experience is very bad and the interface needs to be improved."
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