"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster."
"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 API is very good."
"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."
"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."
"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."
"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."
"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."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"The replication feature is not available."
"StorageCraft ShadowXafe should improve the on-premises console management controls and protection and recovery."
"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."
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 38th in Backup and Recovery Software with 5 reviews while StorageCraft ShadowXafe is ranked 53rd in Backup and Recovery Software with 2 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 7.8, while StorageCraft ShadowXafe is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus writes "Virtual snapshots with incremental backups is a key feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorageCraft ShadowXafe writes "An expensive next-generation data recovery and backup software solution with poor data restoration". IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup and Commvault, whereas StorageCraft ShadowXafe is most compared with Azure Backup, Veeam Backup & Replication, N-able Backup, Arcserve UDP and Veeam Agent for Linux. See our IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs. StorageCraft ShadowXafe report.
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