We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Unitrends, and Veeam Backup & Replication based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"What I like about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its integration, plus it has very good technical support."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is the deduplication functionality. The clients moved to this solution originally because of this feature."
"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 features are the API features because it allows you to integrate with your Microsoft SQL, your Oracle, and your IBM Db2."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its ease of use. Additionally, it does backups of all of the things we need, such as OS, files, and databases."
"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 features of the solution stem from the fact that the product works and helps with restoration areas whenever there is a need to restore something."
"The predictive analytics are great and the reporting is awesome."
"The backup feature and recovery option are good because they allow the instant recovery of Hyper-V nodes and files."
"Being an appliance-based solution, we were able to migrate backup solutions without having to purchase a lot of hardware separately."
"It's not easy to scale it."
"They have great support."
"VM backup is much faster and more reliable, as I can test my backups with Data Copy Access jobs."
"What I found most valuable in Unitrends is its simple user interface. It also works reliably."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a nine out of ten."
"It's a pretty complete product."
"Replication is most valuable."
"Its backup capabilities in general are great."
"From my experience, Veeam is very good. Its interface is user-friendly. We can restore it whenever. It's not complicated. It's very easy to manage and administration is very easy."
"Its performance is fine. It supports us very well. It is able to support our policy for RTO, RPO, and other things that we need."
"This product is user-friendly. The interface is easy to use."
"With regard to our operational requirements, Veeam is very good because it's so user-friendly."
"It most valuable features are seeding and faster backups over small links."
"Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface."
"In the future, I would like to see support for global deduplication."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."
"The solution should allow for backup of iOS snapshots."
"The backup support for IBM Power Virtualization needs to be added."
"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."
"The one issue we are facing is related to file restores."
"It seems like Unitrends moved away from enterprise customer engagement and moved more towards the managed service provider market."
"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."
"The amount of updates which are being released. Updates should be limited to two or three a year, focusing more on quality instead of a rushed bug release."
"There are a few quirks where the GUI, agent, and back-end are not precisely meshed."
"The solution's base operating system needs to be improved."
"The solution’s support and onboarding process needs to be improved."
"Comparing the features and the working pattern, definitely they have to come down on pricing if they want to compete in the market."
"I would like to see more storage options for the free version."
"They need to focus more on cloud backup."
"I would like to have them come up with more robust features when it comes to individual endpoint protection."
"They need full cloud integration such that an on-premises backup can be offloaded to the cloud for storage."
"It would be ideal if they could capture everything and then timestamp and back up everything up to that timestamp."
"They have an integration with MS SQL, and you have to license MS SQL. This is something they need to change. They should go for an open-source database or a free SQL because you're already buying this product, and you shouldn't have to buy another product."
"The licensing models, from a reseller's perspective, could be better."
"Veeam Backup Replication could improve by making the monitoring system free. If I would like to have any monitoring system by Veeam I have to purchase it. It should come free with the solution. They should provide a monitoring system to make the work easier and smooth."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups. That is a functionality that Veeam does not provide."
