We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."You have the flexibility to encrypt your backups and choose the storage capacity you're comfortable paying for."
"The hardware is always updated and it's saved us a lot of money."
"It is a stable solution...The product is worth the money you pay for it."
"When it comes to Azure Backup, the advantage is that it's native and it's very easy to configure. We don't require a separate tool or manage something on a separate server. At the backend, it's managed by Microsoft itself, and we don't need to manage it."
"The product is very reliable and easy to use."
"It's useful, it works, and it's fairly reliable."
"One of the most valuable features is security and connectivity to the data."
"With Azure Backup, you can readily make your environment if your setup somehow fails on the cloud or on-premises."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with Oracle."
"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."
"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."
"The solution's stability is high because it is derived from Spectrum Protect."
"The API is very good."
"This solution is very stable and has good support available online."
"To make it a ten, it should have the ability to extend the retention and to perform a copy of the data outside of the subscription - with no additional costs."
"It still does not have a lot of customization, especially if your workloads are not in Azure."
"We would like to see some kind of notification given to the user that a file was not synchronized well or what may have happened."
"We faced some issues synchronizing the information in Azure when the storage was changed."
"The length of time it takes to restore is our main source of frustration. It would be beneficial to shorten the time it takes."
"I would like to have the option to increase the frequency of the backups. Azure Backup does backups on an hourly basis, but I would prefer it to take backups more often."
"It doesn't have the option to have a backup from the database. It has backup for the files, folders, and backup only the whole virtual machine. But if I need to do a backup from the Oracle database, from an Exchange server or from SharePoint, this ability isn't there. There is no application backup."
"The only thing I would say that could be improved is the reporting."
"The administration needs to be improved and made simpler to use."
"In the future, I would like to see support for global deduplication."
"The replication feature is not available."
"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."
"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 Spectrum Protect Plus could improve security."
"The backup support for IBM Power Virtualization needs to be added."
"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."
Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 50 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 8.0, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Easy to install, performs well, and the technical support is helpful ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus writes "Has very good integration features and can quickly backup data and optimize storage". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas NetBackup, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup and Atempo Digital Archive. See our Azure Backup vs. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus report.
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