Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs IBM Storage Protect comparison

Hornetsecurity and IBM are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Hornetsecurity is ranked #31 with an average rating of 9.0, while IBM is ranked #14 with an average rating of 7.5. Hornetsecurity holds a 0.8% mindshare in BRS, compared to IBM’s 2.3% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Hornetsecurity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 12, 2025

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and IBM Storage Protect are competing products in the backup and recovery market. IBM Storage Protect is considered superior due to its comprehensive feature set, providing a worthwhile investment for advanced capabilities.

Features: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers flexible scheduling, compression, and WAN acceleration for backup efficiency. IBM Storage Protect includes data deduplication, advanced security measures, and multi-environment support, which are beneficial for enterprises needing robust data protection.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is known for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer service, easing implementation. IBM Storage Protect has a more complex deployment process due to its sophisticated features, though dedicated support helps manage potential challenges for businesses with intricate infrastructures.

Pricing and ROI: Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is recognized for its affordable setup cost and favorable ROI, attracting cost-conscious buyers. IBM Storage Protect requires a higher initial investment but offers high ROI potential from its extensive features, appealing to those focusing on long-term value.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

31st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (31st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (19th)

IBM Storage Protect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

14th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is 0.8%, down from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Storage Protect is 2.3%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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

"We use the latest feature in Altaro called CDP (Continuous Data Protection) to back up our VMs as often as every five minutes. It allows us to make sure no data is accidentally deleted or overwritten."

"Ability to restore to any host."

"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features."

"We frequently use the granular restore option for when our users accidentally delete files or to recover emails from mailboxes. We have found that to be a must-have feature and it comes with the solution at no extra cost."

"I find the solution to be user-friendly and easy to manage and deploy."

"This solution is stable."

"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."

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

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"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 backup on real-time, especially for the virtual machine, archiving, and retrieving the reader from the backup repository and getting it online, getting it validated, then performing the data consistency check over the backup."

"Everyone wants a full backup. It gives them safety and peace of mind, like an insurance policy for that rainy day when they may need to restore a system."

"With Spectrum Protect, you can use any type of disk to back-end the repositories. It gave us flexibility to use whatever storage we wanted at our secondary site."

"The main thing is to keep the data safe and in files, keep it on tape ready for a request from a bank, and it is working perfectly with all our hardware."

"Performance and recoveries are better. Our clients and customers are happier with the performance of it."

"It has to ability to backup DV2, Oracle, and Informix."

"The solution is not complex, it's very easy to configure agents or VM backup and restore. Upgrades from one version to another are very fast and the product is very stable."

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Cons

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

"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."

"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."

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

"Stability."

"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."

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

"The scalability of the solution is limited."

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"The version that we had when I first started made it look really bad. We are talking about commands that should have run in two seconds, but instead took four to eight hours. Other components were sluggish."

"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."

"It is not easy to manage like other products in the market. It is okay only if you are command-line driven. Even though the operation center is there, it doesn't provide a single view of everything. You have to, for example, use TSMManager on top of it, which gives you a far better management capability, but it is a third-party product. Its management needs to be improved. There should be an HTML or graphical interface. It is a very difficult product. For example, you have a backup policy where you want a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly policy standard. It is an old kind of system where you have to keep retention for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups, which is very difficult in IBM Spectrum Protect. In other products, in a matter of five minutes, you can configure such a policy. In TSM, it takes you one, two, or three days because you need to configure a node for each of them. If you have 250 nodes, you have to configure each node for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly retention. If you have 1,000 nodes, it is going to take you ages just to configure and register the nodes. You need to configure the schedule and the CAD daemons or services, depending on whether it is a Unix or Windows OS. Unfortunately, it is a very long and drawn-out process. You have to stop and start the services for changes to take effect. This is a very difficult part of TSM in IBM Spectrum Protect. To configure a backup policy, I should be able to select the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly options in one screen and finish it. After that, everything should happen in the background. All the backup products in the market already do that, and they are very simple to manage. This particular part of this solution has really been a major pain area for us, and unfortunately, we could not find a workaround. There is nobody at IBM who can give us a way to configure all this easily through a GUI or even scripts."

"It might be seen as leaning towards the legacy side, missing some features of newer solutions. The main drawbacks would be its complexity and high pricing."

"We would like to see cloud integration."

"The main admin console from the UI cannot do anything in the product. It just allows us to maintain, maybe, 30% to 40%. For the rest, we have to use the command line."

"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."

"Integration with Windows environments needs improvement. It should be more "assisted", both at the application and database level. It remains a product that fits better in Unix/Linux environments than in Windows environments, given its configuration procedures."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Altaro VM Backup is affordably priced. It is a best value for its price and has almost every feature that an expensive, popular product offers."

"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."

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

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

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

"The pricing is okay,"

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

"Altaro had the best prices and ROI in the whole bunch that we evaluated."

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"The pricing is a little expensive for our current employer, so they want to move to a cheaper solution."

"IBM provides an open license policy, which is more like a gentlemen's agreement."

"Its licensing is complicated. It goes by CPUs, and it is pretty expensive as well."

"It is very scalable, but the downside is that it costs money."

"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."

"Going to IBM Tech University Conference saved me from making a major purchase of the wrong thing, which was very helpful."

"Technical support is pretty good. It is doing fine, but you pay for it."

"I don't have an idea about the pricing. They send that over to someone else, but I know that one of the issues they had was the licensing costs. I don't think they were happy with how they were charged."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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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.

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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.

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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...

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What do you like most about IBM Storage Protect?

The best point about IBM Storage Protect is that it can use IBM tape environments, which we still use and will continue to use in the future.

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

IBM Storage Protect is generally an expensive tool. However, with good contracts with IBM or its partners, the cost might not be so high. New customers can expect very high prices.

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What needs improvement with IBM Storage 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 Spectrum Discover

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 Storage Protect offers data protection and management to secure critical business information efficiently. It's designed to be a scalable and flexible solution for data backup, recovery, and archive needs in complex IT environments.

IBM Storage Protect delivers comprehensive data protection by integrating backup, recovery, and archiving functionalities. It supports a range of workloads and infrastructures, from on-premises to cloud environments, facilitating efficient data management. Its platform provides seamless scalability to meet evolving business needs, underpinned by reliable security measures. Organizations leverage its capabilities to ensure business continuity and minimize data loss risks, making it vital in a data-driven world.

What are the key features of IBM Storage Protect?

Advanced Data Protection: Offers robust encryption and data integrity for secure backup processes.
Scalability: Grows with your data demands, supporting large data volumes without compromising performance.
Cloud Integration: Seamlessly integrates with cloud platforms, enhancing backup strategies with hybrid options.
Automated Operations: Simplifies management tasks with automation, reducing manual intervention and errors.

What benefits should users expect when evaluating IBM Storage Protect?

Cost Efficiency: Reduces storage costs by optimizing backup processes and data retention strategies.
Data Safety: Ensures data accessibility and integrity during recovery efforts, building trust in data protection strategies.
Operational Efficiency: Boosts productivity through streamlined and automated backup management workflows.
Compliance Readiness: Helps maintain compliance with data protection regulations by providing thorough reporting and audit trails.

Industries like finance and healthcare implement IBM Storage Protect to safeguard sensitive information against threats. In financial services, it's crucial for maintaining client data confidentiality, while healthcare institutions use it to protect patient records, ensuring both accessibility and compliance with regulations.

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Sample Customers

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

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