We performed a comparison between IBM ProtectTIER, IBM Spectrum Protect, and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."In terms of stability, I've found it to be very stable. I've walked into the server room when it was at 60 degrees Celcius, and it was still running fine."
"Overall IBM ProtectTIER is a great solution. It is easy to use."
"The cataloging is the best feature. It takes millions of frames for the backup. It's incremental, so it takes less time to complete."
"The command-line interface is good."
"The most valuable features are the Self-Service, and the ability to search the data."
"The solution is highly stable."
"The archiving feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"It is more efficient than most traditional backup solutions."
"You can scale the product."
"We like IBM Spectrum's versioning capabilities. It lets us specify how many versions of a file we want to keep and for how long. Also, the archive component of the software helps us a lot."
"The platform has valuable stability."
"High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."
"The feature we have found most valuable is when you want to integrate it with a Tape Library and then do the DRM life cycle. That is when it works the best."
"Performance and recoveries are better. Our clients and customers are happier with the performance of it."
"This is a good product with a simple environment."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to navigate inside a backup point to look for a specific folder or data you want to recover."
"Veeam is very useful for the Hyper-V environment."
"It's straightforward to set up."
"Solution provides good security."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and stability of the product."
"Veeam helps to create a stable environment with virtual servers."
"IBM ProtectTIER could improve by being more user-friendly."
"The backup for a large amount of data is slow."
"I would like the possibility to back up the infrastructure and then replicate it upon on restart, without having to orchestrate the starting of the VM."
"The configuration wizards are still complex and hard to navigate. These should be easier to manage."
"Setting up the system to work with legacy equipment is a bit complex at times."
"Our new leadership has pushed us to go more toward the cloud, so we are definitely going to leverage anything we can in that direction."
"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."
"The software is complex; setup is complex."
"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."
"The administration tools for GI need improvement, as the current assessment suggests shortcomings in the back-end system."
"We would like to see bare-metal restorers."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"There could be various client systems and process integration included in the product."
"An area that this solution could be improved would be with the licensing."
"A feature I would like to see is universal restore. At the moment, restoration can only be smooth on the same hardware. Let's say you have a server and you back it up with Veeam Agent, in case it fails or crashes. If you later buy a new server because the same one isn't available on the market anymore, there's a high chance that Windows will not boot up if you restore from the Veeam backup because the hardware is now different. Acronis has the universal restore feature, so it will work with generic drivers and you can restore Windows in any dissimilar hardware. As far as I know, Veeam doesn't have this feature yet."
"A lower price would always be beneficial."
"There isn't really anything I would like to improve. Maybe the solution could be more secure."
"The backups can go slow."
"Updating and configuration can sometimes be a little bit of a hassel, but once you know the product better it is easy to use."
"The solution's compression ratio and high speed for backing up can always improve. Aspects that need improvement are less time, better quality, higher security, and more compression. These are continuous requirements for any customer."
"With the currency exchange, the solution ends up being quite expensive."
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