We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect Data Manager 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."It's the perfect solution for virtual and container directives. The data reduction feature works well, and we haven't had any issues."
"The solution adequately handles data storage."
"The deduplication is the most valuable feature because it helps to control the overhead."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"Dell PowerProtect Data Manager helps to reduce the amount of data being transferred and stored."
"I would say flexibility is the most important feature of the product. The performance and speed are the best on the market."
"Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager is user-friendly and easy to use. it does what it needs to do."
"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster."
"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 is a multi-platform backup solution where you can take a backup from AIX, Windows, or Linux servers and restore from CD, disk, or tape."
"What I like about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its integration, plus it has very good technical support."
"The solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer."
"Some of the features we find very valuable and use a lot, are retention sets."
"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."
"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."
"The Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager reports could improve. There should be different kinds of reports on failures, such as dashboards that we can submit to top management or auditors."
"They should include a feature similar to S3 bucket."
"You need to use additional software to back up entire environments. It will be good if they could support entire tape libraries."
"As a new product, there are some things that still need to improve a bit as it matures."
"There is always room for improvement. The compression ratio should be improved as well as the efficiency."
"The interface is too complex."
"Management is difficult and it is hard to determine when things aren't working properly."
"A lot of improvement is required in Dell's first level of support."
"The replication feature is not available."
"The backup support for IBM Power Virtualization needs to be added."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."
"The software's technical support could improve its response time for different time zones."
"It still needs to grow and add new features. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, I believe, requires time to become competitive due to a weakness in the other software products."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"The Gui interface and usability are not so friendly and easy."
"The one issue we are facing is related to file restores."
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Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is ranked 25th in Backup and Recovery with 8 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is rated 7.4, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect Data Manager writes "A tool that offers good capacity management and product management". 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". Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is most compared with Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell NetWorker and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), whereas IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect and Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup. See our Dell PowerProtect Data Manager vs. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus report.
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