Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are two competitive backup solutions. Users are happier with the pricing and support of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, but despite this, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus has superior features that many users feel justify the higher price.
Features: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup has an easy setup, user-friendly dashboard, and reliable performance. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offers extensive workload coverage, integration capabilities, and scalability and versatility.
Room for Improvement: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup needs enhanced reporting and analytics capabilities. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus needs better support documentation and improvements in speed for restoring operations. Both products have their areas that could benefit from enhancements.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is noted for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, while offering a more complex deployment, compensates with thorough guidance and robust customer support. Altaro's ease of deployment is a significant advantage, whereas Spectrum Protect Plus's customer support equals the playing field.
Pricing and ROI: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup generally receives positive feedback for being cost-effective with a quick return on investment. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, although more expensive initially, is seen as providing value over time, especially for larger enterprises requiring advanced features. Users believe the long-term ROI of Spectrum Protect Plus justifies its cost.
Technical support is rated an eight out of ten.
We do not have a good experience with this product.
Their documentation, runbooks, troubleshooting articles, and support people are good.
IBM Data Protect is the scalable solution, not IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.
The solution does not provide horizontal and vertical scaling.
I cannot determine what benefit IBM Spectrum Protect Plus brings to the organization because we deployed this solution with one customer, and that customer changed the product after one or two years because the product is not stable and it changes with every version.
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.
It does not offer horizontal and vertical scaling.
I used IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, but IBM is now replacing it with IBM Data Protect, which is a giant product now in common development with a well-known company in backup solutions.
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could be made more lightweight and user-friendly in terms of GUI features to make it closer to a perfect score.
The pricing of the solution is considered affordable.
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.
They are fairly expensive.
Pricing is good; it is reasonable and more reasonable than any other vendors.
The ability to perform data compression updates enhances overall efficiency and effectiveness.
It provides storage for Office 365, which is beneficial, and the deduplication technology is excellent.
The biggest benefit of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is that it's an agentless backup product which is very easy to configure and use.
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is the software we work with, and the new name is IBM Storage Protect.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup | 0.9% |
| IBM Spectrum Protect Plus | 1.1% |
| Other | 98.0% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 22 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 4 |
| Large Enterprise | 4 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 14 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 3 |
| Large Enterprise | 17 |
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.
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a data protection and availability solution for virtual environments that can be deployed in minutes and protect your environment within an hour. It simplifies data protection, whether data is hosted in physical, virtual, software-defined or cloud environments. It can be implemented as a stand-alone solution or integrate with your IBM Spectrum Protect environment to off-load copies for long term storage and data governance with scale and efficiency.
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