We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and NetApp SnapCenter 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."The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The solution is scalable."
"The support from IBM is very good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with Oracle."
"This solution is very stable and has good support available online."
"What I like about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its integration, plus it has very good technical support."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is the deduplication functionality. The clients moved to this solution originally because of this feature."
"The most valuable features are the API features because it allows you to integrate with your Microsoft SQL, your Oracle, and your IBM Db2."
"It's a centralized, easy-to-use solution empowering RBAC management, monitoring, notifications, extensive logging, and backup schedules for standalone as well as groups of the same types of environments. The cloning capabilities accelerate development."
"What is very handy for our clients is the consolidated view. They have a dashboard with everything, through a single pane of glass. This is what they really need because, within seconds, they can have a good overview and see if there are any errors or any issues."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"The most valuable feature is the RBAC, the Role-Based Access Control. In our managed service, we can have different layers of security."
"We have been very satisfied with the technical support's help. Their knowledge level is great. For a noncritical question, they will get back to us within a day."
"The central pane view is the most valuable feature. You have one console where you can monitor all your jobs, as opposed to going to different vCenters."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"I would like more integration with security. We need to show the value of the product in regards to handling security. For example, how it handles current malware or viruses. IBM should be more proactive in this direction."
"In the future, I would like to see support for global deduplication."
"I think the graphical reports are a shortcoming of the tool since it fails to provide my company with what we want in terms of reporting. Due to the product's inability to take care of its reporting part, we have to use third-party software."
"Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface."
"The replication feature is not available."
"The administration needs to be improved and made simpler to use."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve security."
"The Gui interface and usability are not so friendly and easy."
"Reporting of the jobs could be better."
"Groups might be helpful for each site or data center so that we know a given data center has these resources while another data center has those resources. It's not always easy to group hosts by type."
"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"The Microsoft environment is its biggest disadvantage due to the central management of all the actions. Because the SnapCenter server is where we deploy everything, it also affects the Microsoft environment, which can cause many difficulties when resolving issues like Windows update problems."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
"The replication feature needs improvement in future releases."
"I want to see a few more features add that will help our team in managing solution better."
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 19th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 40th in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.0, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus writes "Has very good integration features and can quickly backup data and optimize storage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup and Rubrik, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, NetApp Cloud Backup, Commvault Cloud and Veritas NetBackup. See our IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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