We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, and Unitrends based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"SPIR is Instant Recovery for Spectrum Protect. It sends snapshots using space efficiently and blocking backups to the Spectrum Protect server. It provisions the snapshot from the backup server to the same or new server near instantly."
"One way they have improved our organization is through the stability of the solution and the availability of the product."
"We optimize our costs of media and storage use, thanks to the Incremental Forever backup. The TDP software provides us many ways to protect our data, so we don't need to use monstrous scripts for doing backups now."
"The solution is not complex, it's very easy to configure agents or VM backup and restore. Upgrades from one version to another are very fast and the product is very stable."
"In general, the solution is quite user-friendly. The GUI is very nice."
"Good user interface."
"I've had no problems with the stability of this solution."
"Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"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."
"With this product, we now have a reliable backup solution."
"The solution offers a very straightforward deployment. You click, click, click and it's done. There's not much configuration to do."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with Oracle."
"The API is very good."
"Some of the features we find very valuable and use a lot, are retention sets."
"The feature I find most valuable is the offload to Spectrum Protect for long-term retention. I think the deduplication and replication are quite nice on Plus."
"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."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"It is very easy to set up and get started. Almost too easy. We racked this device and had it up and running in less than 15 minutes."
"When I have had to use tech support, they've been very good."
"It's not easy to scale it."
"They have great support."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a nine out of ten."
"When we talk about a backup point of view, from a backup perspective, it's a good one."
"The most valuable feature of Unitrends for me is the automated feedback"
"The main admin console from the UI cannot do anything in the product. It just allows us to maintain, maybe, 30% to 40%. For the rest, we have to use the command line."
"I would like to see monitoring within the platform: monitoring for storage pools and monitoring for the server's health (e.g., CPU and memory)."
"It needs better connectivity with other non-IBM application hardware and non-IBM platforms."
"High availability (HA) is a scalability challenge."
"They need to do a better job on Windows, because if you are running Windows, the scalability is more limited than AIX and Linux."
"We need everything cloud. Strong support for cloud services. S3 connectivity, which is mandatory for us in the future along with this integration of Spectrum Copy Data Management or Spectrum Protect services together with these Spectrum Protect Plus functionalities, e.g., hardware, snapshots, and Copy Data Management. They should come together in one solution."
"Although I am not a technical user, I would say the cloud integration features could be improved."
"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."
"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 tool needs to increase the number of threats."
"I would like integration into where the VMware guys can do their own restores."
"The Gui interface and usability are not so friendly and easy."
"Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"The software's technical support could improve its response time for different time zones."
"In the future, I would like to see support for global deduplication."
"Making the seeding process more accessible and easier to understand. Also, make more of the undocumented best practices easier to find."
"The solution’s support and onboarding process needs to be improved."
"The solution's base operating system needs to be improved."
"Network-based storage stability could be improved."
"The solution’s UI can be improved. I am saying this because I have seen solutions with better UIs."
"Comparing the features and the working pattern, definitely they have to come down on pricing if they want to compete in the market."
"It could be a little more customizable."
"In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses."
