We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and Rubrik 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."If the system were to go down, we needed to make sure that the system could be recovered and available as soon as possible. Spectrum Protect provides you access to directly bind the backup volume to the server and make the system available instead of restoring it and copying the system."
"The solution's stability is high because it is derived from Spectrum Protect."
"Some of the features we find very valuable and use a lot, are retention sets."
"A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."
"The most valuable features of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are you have many possibilities on how to use it. We use it for backups and to create secondary and third copies. It is possible to pick up Kubernetes containers and use a different cloud provider if you need to start backups on the cloud."
"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster."
"The solution offers a very straightforward deployment. You click, click, click and it's done. There's not much configuration to do."
"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"Drives the back-end through a powerful, well-documented API."
"One platform for instant recovery."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"There is a live-restore feature, their Live Mount, and the way it works we can instantly recover a VM, a past backup, to be directly attached to our VMware environment. Rubrik will act as a disk for it. It's like an instant restore. Within a few minutes our VM is up and running. And then, if we want to restore it, we can just migrate it to our actual storage."
"It has a single pane of glass interface."
"It has reduced our maintenance efforts. The amount of time and effort that would have gone in troubleshooting various issues related a data crash has been addressed by Rubrik. So, it has helped to improve our productivity. The data is being captured about our customers periodically that is secure and safe."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"The solution should allow for backup of iOS snapshots."
"It requires much more automation features."
"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."
"The backup support for IBM Power Virtualization needs to be added."
"The Gui interface and usability are not so friendly and easy."
"Their first level of support can be improved. Often they are too junior to understand the issues we are having, and it takes too much time to get from them to the next level of support, which is what we actually need."
"The administration needs to be improved and made simpler to use."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve the IBM Spectrum Protect environment. It can be difficult to administer. The initial configuration can be difficult for entry-level teams or deployment teams, and it might be difficult to integrate. There's just too much content involved in the solution. The documentation is way too large."
"Looking at how the data is broken down, we can see the total story, but sometimes it's difficult to see how big a particular snapshot is. Across 90 days of snapshots, which one is a particularly large one? Looking at the data holistically could be a lot easier."
"The reporting, in particular the customization of reports, needs to be improved."
"Two areas I would like to see improvement in Rubrik are pricing and localization."
"The main pain points we experienced was the stability of the system. We received a lot of instability when we have upgraded from a certain version to a new version. The newer version was completely filled with bugs and we needed to purge the system every week until we update to a newer version that was available one year later. The stability of the code is the main problem, they need to make it better."
"It would be nice if they could work on the pricing a bit."
"The product’s user interface needs improvement."
"We have some challenges with the solution's reporting because historical reports have some limitations."
"I would like to see Rubrik better integrate with Microsoft Active Directory. Instead of just backing up a full domain controller, I would like the solution to have Active Directory object knowledge so we can restore specific objects in Active Directory versus restoring the whole domain controller."
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 19th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.0, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. 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 Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs. Rubrik report.
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