We performed a comparison between Dell Data Protection Advisor and IBM Spectrum Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is easy to use, flexible and has a lot of out-of-the-box functionality. You can configure the dashboards or you can use a script. However, to fully utilize its capabilities you will want to use a lot of scripts which you will need advanced training. The reports can be customized for many things, such as chargeback billing."
"This is a stable solution."
"The deduplication is probably the most valuable feature of that requirement."
"It generates very detailed reports, which makes things easier when it comes to IT auditing."
"The scalability of IBM Spectrum Protect is good."
"The solution is really scalable."
"Its flexibility is valuable. It is a very flexible solution. There are always more ways than one to do something. It is a software solution, which means you can buy your own hardware and expand it whenever you want. You are not boxed in or locked into something you've bought and outgrown. You can always expand it."
"You can do restores very quickly. You can mount a drive and restore it right from the drive."
"IBM support is friendly, knowledgeable, and they always respond quickly. They've always been able to find the cause of my problem."
"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"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."
"I find the whole product useful. The backup archive client, snapshot, spectrum for virtual environments are beneficial features."
"There is a steep learning curve to use the interface and to create new reports, this could be made easier. If the solution could provide more drag and drop functionality to build more advanced reports that would be very helpful."
"It's a bit difficult for first-time users."
"It is difficult to manage the solution with the available tools. You need to know exactly what are you are doing."
"The functionality of the Data Protection Advisor is limited and is something that is lacking in this solution. Other solutions like CloudIQ and DDMC provide a much better outlook on how data protection should be done."
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"The solution could be more user-friendly and provide better monitoring. The monitoring should be improved first since it is a higher priority."
"This solution is not mature in terms of disaster recovery and could be improved."
"IBM Spectrum Protect could be improved by making the installation easier. Once it's implemented, it's okay. IBM started lagging behind when things started moving to storage and cloud-based solutions. Even though they've recently released updates that give cloud-based protection, personally, I still believe they are not up to par with the likes of Rubrik. The entire product is a little bit clumsy because they have co-joined two different products, so it's complex. Even from a sales/explaining to people what it does point of view, it's complex. Whereas, if you take more current products, it's a single box solution. You reel it in, you fire it up, you do a couple of points and clicks, and off you go, whereas the IBM system is seriously complex. There's a lot of training involved and it's a massively difficult product to sell at this point in time."
"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
"The solution should have better integration with VMware and with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
Dell Data Protection Advisor is ranked 46th in Backup and Recovery Software with 4 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery Software with 34 reviews. Dell Data Protection Advisor is rated 6.6, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dell Data Protection Advisor writes "Easy to use, flexible, configurable dashboards, and effective script capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Provides us with the scalability and growth that we need". Dell Data Protection Advisor is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell Avamar, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veritas NetBackup and Rubrik, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Complete Data Protection and Cohesity DataProtect. See our Dell Data Protection Advisor vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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