IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] comparison

"The solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer."

"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."

"A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."

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

"The solution is scalable."

"With this product, we now have a reliable backup solution."

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

"Some of the features we find very valuable and use a lot, are retention sets."

"The most valuable feature is the backups."

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

"The one issue we are facing is related to file restores."

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

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

"Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface."

"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve security."

"The security must be improved."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"The price is lower than that of some competing products."

"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."

"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 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."

"Clients prefer to buy a perpetual license, but the majority opt for a yearly subscription."

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