We performed a comparison between Barracuda Intronis Backup and IBM Spectrum Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Whenever you have a crash or your service is not working, you can just live-boot the machine and have your service up and running."
"The superior support from Barracuda in setting up, using, and helping with issues for the product."
"I have found the product's LiveBoot feature to be most valuable."
"Barracuda's support is probably one of the best things about them, even with all their solutions. With any problem that we have, or even questions, we get the assistance that we need. The turnaround is pretty quick."
"We perform backup drills to test the functionality, and we don't have any problems."
"The product is easy to install and use while doing what it is expected to do."
"The most valuable feature is the speed of backup, which is very good compared to other solutions."
"It is very stable, and I'm very happy with this solution."
"Reliability: It has never had a problem with backups or restores. If you store something, it is there."
"It is pretty easy to use and maintain."
"The most valuable features are compression and de-duplication."
"We can scale. Today, we have an average backup volume of 100TB a day."
"It is also a product that has been maturing for a long time. This is good because customers need reliability in their enterprise initiatives."
"The ability to do dedupe in the product is nice to have."
"It scales well. We have grown here in the last year or two, and it has been relatively easy."
"Instead of taking three different backups of your systems, you're taking only one. You're able to crack that open and get what you need. The incident recovery, where it creates the VM and then you're running it, technically you're running it on Spectrum Protect. But then in the background, it's doing the storage motion and moving it off the Spectrum Protect back to your VMware environment. The users don't know the difference."
"Barracuda Backup could use some more integration."
"Some features like CIFS are not supported that would help speed and flexibility."
"The tool is not user-friendly. The solution should also improve its compatibility. It is also not license-based."
"We cannot backup Sun Micro systems. They are not currently supported."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see cloud support and deduplication functionality."
"This solution could be improved with offering lower prices at scale."
"Setting up Barracuda Backup is straightforward."
"Barracuda works great for smaller network environments, which are not that complex. It is hardware-based with a Linux core, which you don't have access to, and a lot of stuff happens on the back-end. Even from a troubleshooting perspective, it is a bit challenging."
"I need to have more than two instances working together. I need a worldwide grid able to have replication between three, four, or five instances."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"I would like to see monitoring within the platform: monitoring for storage pools and monitoring for the server's health (e.g., CPU and memory)."
"If IBM could provide a partial module, that would be great."
"It does not do too well in our virtual environment."
"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."
"We would like to see bare-metal restorers."
"Better integration with other tools and databases is needed."
Barracuda Intronis Backup is ranked 10th in Deduplication Software with 24 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Barracuda Intronis Backup is rated 8.4, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda Intronis Backup writes "Finding data to restore is much easier than rummaging through tapes to find backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Barracuda Intronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Barracuda Intronis Backup vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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