Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs IBM Spectrum Protect comparison

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs. IBM Spectrum Protect

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

32nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (27th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (18th)

IBM Spectrum Protect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

14th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

149

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is 0.8%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Spectrum Protect is 2.2%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery

Featured Reviews

Asif Usmani

Regional Sales Manager at S2

Lacks multi-platform support and physical infrastructure but excels in storage optimization

We use it for VM backup and Office 365 backup I find the solution to be user-friendly and easy to manage and deploy. It provides storage for Office 365, which is beneficial, and the deduplication technology is excellent, especially in optimizing storage capacity compared to others. In terms of…

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Syed Habib

Head of Infrastructure Security (S.A.V.P) at EXIM Bank Ltd

Manageable and comprehensive and integrates robust backup features for core banking

It's adequate for my core banking, however, I am looking for another solution for all systems. It is not compatible with other operating systems like Windows or Linux, and lacks a consolidated dashboard from Browser Spectrum. This is why I am searching for another solution. The product also lacks any centralized graphical user interface (GUI), such as Jarek Pod, and I am limited to using a console-based text user interface, which my local partner handles completely.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product has many valuable features for handling backup needs, including replication, live migration, and incremental disaster recovery."

"The ability to test the backups without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore allows us to check the integrity of the backups."

"It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent."

"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also excellent."

"All of the features are fantastic and also the management from Microsoft dealing with multiple machines is great. The whole package is excellent for me."

"Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included."

"The interface is user-friendly and even if our tech isn't onsite, we can work with the owners to confirm that the data will be restored with no issues."

"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."

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"With data deduplication and compression, we are reducing our overall storage footprint for our disk histories. Therefore, we are reducing the actual cost of the disk for our data protection and data backups."

"The addition of the retention set feature provides a reduction in storage costs. It also reduces RTO and RPO so that you can respond quickly to your clients and services in case of data loss."

"The solution can back up every kind of workload in the environment."

"It allows us to have one interface."

"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."

"The amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."

"It is pretty easy to use and maintain."

"You can scale the product."

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Cons

"The scalability of the solution is limited."

"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."

"Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran."

"The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features and possibly reducing the price."

"Stability."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features and possibly reducing the price."

"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."

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"I find the solution somewhat difficult to use with virtual environments or VMware."

"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."

"Its management part can be better and simplified. It is kind of a beast as compared to Commvault or Veeam, but they are more user-friendly. They are also easier to learn, whereas Spectrum Protect definitely takes time. They should simplify it. Our teams are pretty comfortable with it because we have been using it for a long time, but from the perspective of a new user who is evaluating or using this solution, it is definitely more complex in terms of manageability. Its monitoring could be improved so that it can even monitor the jobs that are scheduled by external schedulers. There are situations where a database team might decide to use their own schedulers, but currently, Spectrum Protect is not able to catch those jobs in the Operation Manager console."

"We would like to see cloud integration."

"Scalability is poor. As you get to bigger environments, this is where our gaps have been introduced. As we have grown over the past couple of years, the gaps have become more apparent."

"The product should be improved to save more space."

"I would like to see integration with Copy Data Management, which is an IBM product. Right now, these two products are siloed, so if these two become integrated, the product would become a bit of a powerhouse."

"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a free version for Hosts with 2 VMs."

"No other product offers these features for this price. The ROI is great."

"The price is great for the utility you get and the licensing has never caused any issues with my company."

"The pricing is okay,"

"By implementing the solution at multiple locations, significant cost savings were achieved."

"VMware is a little pricey, but it is a good solution and priced similar to other products."

"There is a free version for two VMs. I would advise to study the deployment environment well, prior to committing to order a license per host."

"Its yearly maintenance fee is fairly high for me to renew for upgrades and support."

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"Licensing can be either complicated or simple depending on what type of licensing you wish to use and what works best for your environment."

"We have spec'd out our build, and the cost of it can work quite easily today for our future needs."

"The price of IBM Spectrum Protect is expensive. However, there are a few packages and it is unclear because, for the entry suite they have both options, which are the back-end storage capacity and the front-end storage capacity."

"That's no longer my department, but I have some past experience with licensing. It is not cheap. I would rate it a three out of five in terms of licensing. In terms of additional costs, there is management overhead. It is a complex solution and a lot of work goes into managing clients. It has gotten better over the years, but compared to its competitor, it is still heavy on management overhead."

"The licensing fees are between $8,000 and $10,000 per year."

"We have found that the pricing is high in our country."

"The licensing fees are on a yearly basis, which for us it is about R400,000 (approximately $27,000 USD)."

"That's a hard estimate. It depends on the licensing, the hardware, and other stuff, but it is fairly expensive. It is generally more expensive than other solutions."

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Financial Services Firm

10%

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Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

13%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The pricing and licensing cost is challenging since most competitors offer cheaper pricing, making it difficult to penetrate the market with the current pricing strategy.

What needs improvement with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V. It also lacks support for physical servers and workstations. Additionally, they should add more p...

What do you like most about IBM Spectrum Protect?

IBM Spectrum Protect is stable.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Spectrum Protect?

It's expensive. I acknowledge the cost associated with it.

What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Protect?

One point for improvement for IBM Spectrum Protect is security, as IBM has not been investing as much as in the past. There is a need for additional layers of security to fill the gaps, which is wh...

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Also Known As

Altaro VM Backup

IBM TSM, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Overview

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers, to protect against enterprise data loss. The award-winning solution provides robust, streamlined and enterprise-level functionality.

Reduce downtime and data loss: Thanks to Continous Data Protection (CDP) and WAN-optimized replication, your backup files are available in just minutes in the event of a data loss scenario and you can continue working as usual. The solution’s unique Augmented Inline Deduplication also gives you massive savings on your backup storage and dramatically reduces costs.

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IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) is a data protection platform that gives enterprises a single point of control and administration for backup and recovery. It is the flagship product in the IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) family. It enables reliable, cost effective backups and fast recovery for virtual, physical and cloud environments of all sizes.

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Sample Customers

Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox

CERN, Einstein Healthcare, Nyherji, Allianz Australia, TZM, ABT Online, NCT, Kindred Healthcare Inc., Cobalt Iron, TransGrid, Baptist Health of Northeast Florida, Cash America, Piedmont Healthcare, RWGV, Arkansas Tech University, British Columbia Institute of Technology

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs. IBM Spectrum Protect