IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] comparison

"Pricing is good; it is reasonable and more reasonable than any other vendors."

"The support from IBM is very good."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."

"The solution offers a very straightforward deployment. You click, click, click and it's done. There's not much configuration to do."

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

"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."

"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."

"Reliability, recovery features, and stability are valuable to me."

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

"I would like integration into where the VMware guys can do their own restores."

"The software's technical support could improve its response time for different time zones."

"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."

"I would like to see continuous data protection (CDP). If there is machine failure, you don't have to go to the backup copy that you took 12 hours ago. You can actually go back to the backup copy made half an hour ago. That is, it would be good to have certain-point-in-time recovery."

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

"The solution should allow for backup of iOS snapshots."

"With ransomware protection and cyber protection, more improvement is possible."

"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."

"If you need to extend it, it can be extended acting like a normal Spectrum Protect with a long archive."

"I rate the price of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus a one on a scale of one to ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is very cheap."

"Unlike some other solutions, such as Veritas NetBackup where you have to pay for different licenses to use different features, there is a single license that allows you to use all of the features."

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

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

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

"The initial cost of the product is perpetual but the support fees are billed annually."

"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."

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