We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Disk-based implementation of a data protection solution for multiple sites is a better fit for my complex data protection needs."
"The solution is really scalable."
"Its flexibility is valuable. It is a very flexible solution. There are always more ways than one to do something. It is a software solution, which means you can buy your own hardware and expand it whenever you want. You are not boxed in or locked into something you've bought and outgrown. You can always expand it."
"Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"The fact that we can take the backup straight onto tape is the most valuable feature."
"It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"We can scale. Today, we have an average backup volume of 100TB a day."
"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 of the solution stem from the fact that the product works and helps with restoration areas whenever there is a need to restore something."
"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."
"The support from IBM is very good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with Oracle."
"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster."
"A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."
"The solution is scalable."
"The Live Mount feature is excellent; it's useful for the backup administrator and end user."
"The solution is stable."
"Its reporting is most valuable. I like how it reports that everything is successfully backed up. It provides a summarized report that I can give to auditors and management."
"The live mount reduces complexity."
"The web-based approach is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"Instant recovery of virtual machines allows for the restoration of services in minutes."
"The web interface is user-friendly, clean, and it provides a good summary of what you're protecting at a glance."
"Probably educating the virtual group who are not as used to the product. Most of our expertise is with AIX servers and virtual server backups."
"The user interface (UI) for the admin is still not good. It is way too complicated to manage the product, as we still need to use command line. IBM launched the Operations Center (OC), but there are still functions lacking, especially since we cannot manage all our scheduled tasks by using the GUI."
"It needs agents that take into account more databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)."
"Anytime you are not very current and call in with an issue, it is hard to get it resolved. It will depend on how far back you go though."
"We would like to see cloud integration."
"I would like to see more technical training online. Sometimes, it is a little bit difficult to find, or that I do not really know what I am looking for as somebody who is starting off finding their learning curve."
"The previous GUI that they had was slow, and it did not have enough information on it."
"Ease of use. That has got to be the one thing that I routinely hear from clients and customers, that it's a little bit more difficult than it should be. What I'm finding is that IBM has heard that and they're responding with updated interfaces and things like that."
"It still needs to grow and add new features. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, I believe, requires time to become competitive due to a weakness in the other software products."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"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."
"The software's technical support could improve its response time for different time zones."
"Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface."
"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."
"The replication feature is not available."
"Rubrik could improve in customization options for dashboards."
"I have a personal want which might not necessarily make sense with Rubrik as a company or Rubrik as a software, but it'd be really nice if they could also handle things like item-level backups and restores of Active Directory objects and DNS and DCP objects."
"I would like to see more information on encryption with the next release."
"Its cost is high."
"The deployment and configuration of the backup service is something that could be streamlined a little bit, particularly when you're trying to do a SQL workload. You have to install a backup service on the server. You only have to do it once and then you're done, but you have to do that on every server that you want to protect."
"I would like to have a built-in index searching ability of files/system files within the Rubrik interface to determine if a file or item exists, rather than just recovering it, and then doing a search for the file afterwards."
"I would love to be able to just get from the dashboard to a file that I need, or a system that I need."
"Rubrik is expensive."
