IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] comparison

"The tool has enough documentation; you don't need to contact the support team."

"The most valuable features are the API features because it allows you to integrate with your Microsoft SQL, your Oracle, and your IBM Db2."

"The biggest benefit of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is that it's an agentless backup product which is very easy to configure and use."

"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 most valuable feature is the ease of use."

"The solution is scalable."

"This is a multi-platform backup solution where you can take a backup from AIX, Windows, or Linux servers and restore from CD, disk, or tape."

"There is protection against disasters with good, fast, reliable recovery options."

"I like that they have some new devices that are simpler to use because they kind of tie right into the cloud."

"The most valuable feature is the backups."

"The replication feature is not available."

"An area that needs improvement is data validation. We currently use another product that gives us immediate validation, information about when the last backup was, and no risk of corruption happening. TSM in IBM Spectrum is not mature so that you can validate on the spot."

"The administration needs to be improved and made simpler to use."

"It requires much more automation features."

"IBM has made a decision to withdraw the product and replace it with IBM Data Protect."

"The solution only supports HyperV and VMware but doesn't support Nutanix."

"The user experience is very bad and the interface needs to be improved."

"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."

"Their restoration protocols could be better. I pulled all my clients out of their cloud mostly because I wasn't confident that they could restore out of the cloud. This was backed up by friends who had been burned by stuff like that. We moved away because of the lack of resources to restore from a potential catastrophic failure. It's challenging, and in some cases, they couldn't do it because they didn't have enough resources. For example, if there was a major disaster, and everybody needed their images out of the cloud, they couldn't give them to everybody."

"StorageCraft ShadowXafe should improve the on-premises console management controls and protection and recovery."

"There is an annual license required to use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. The cost of the license could improve, it is expensive."

"The price offering from IBM is coming down because it is based on number of VM machines. So, IBM is coming to the market to show the added value of the product."

"In addition to the standard licensing fees, we paid for implementation and training."

"The licensing model of Spectrum Protect Plus is more efficient and cheaper compared to the original."

"We have a perpetual license for the tool since it is deployed on-premise."

"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a little expensive."

"The price is perpetual, but the maintenance cost is annual. That is, we pay once for the product and pay annually for the maintenance and support. The price was much cheaper than what we would have had to pay for EMC or Veritas. The pricing is competitive, and I would rate it at four out of five."

"There are a few options available for purchasing the solutions. Overall, the price of the is high."

"They are more expensive than some of the others out there. We have gone away from their cloud due to pricing."