We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, and Veritas NetBackup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The most valuable features are the stability and also how it's seamlessly integrated with other IBM offerings."
"Its incremental forever approach is valuable, so we don't have to load tapes to do a restore."
"I've had no problems with the stability of this solution."
"It's very robust and has been on the market for a long time."
"The solution offers very good flexibility."
"The business value comes from the capability to overcome data losses."
"The software-defined ability to do data reduction through deduplication and compression, as well as being able to replicate data to a cloud container."
"It is good in terms of functionality. My clients are very satisfied with this solution."
"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 solution is scalable."
"What I like about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its integration, plus it has very good technical support."
"Using this tool, we can easily backup and restore or recover the data for PCs and mobiles in case of system crashes."
"A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."
"The solution's stability is high because it is derived from Spectrum Protect."
"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 is the ease of use."
"Includes snapshots and multiple database agents."
"The most valuable features are the ability to create a trust relationship and historical reports."
"Disaster recovery primarily involves backup usage. We employ it for both backup and recovery purposes. The backup and recovery processes have been executed multiple times, even restoring data from backups created three to four years ago."
"The deduplication feature is useful. Deduplication and compression features are what I like about NetBackup."
"The documentation is good."
"We are quite satisfied with the performance and reliability of the NetBackup product. When it comes to specific features, the most valuable is the Instant Recovery feature, which we call "short-term IR". Instant Recovery allows users to spin up backup images and bring back any VM instantly."
"The backup and restoration are 100 percent guaranteed."
"The reporting is very good, with all of the details highlighted and very clear."
"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."
"Customers have migrated off of it because of its lack of virtual environment functions."
"I need to have more than two instances working together. I need a worldwide grid able to have replication between three, four, or five instances."
"They can include more cloud-enriching features. I would like IBM Spectrum Protect to have the functionality for backing up a VM directly in Azure. I would like to be able to back up a VM directly in Azure without spinning up a Hyper-V cluster and backing up the virtual server."
"This product comes up against other products available that are marketed better but the other products that it's in competition with are a single product and this is one of IBM products. If it could be marketed as more for competitors I think that's where it comes short."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"The Hyper-V and SQL Server backup could be improved. In the 2016 version there was a significant improvement, but I think IBM has a big challenge with these technologies."
"The user experience is very bad and the interface needs to be improved."
"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."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"I would like integration into where the VMware guys can do their own restores."
"It requires much more automation features."
"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."
"The solution only supports HyperV and VMware but doesn't support Nutanix."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better way to protect against ransomware attacks and a better way of logging issues where you don't have to enable the verbose logging to capture the problems."
"The implementation process could be simplified to make it quicker."
"The solution could improve by having a feature to backup iSeries workloads."
"The database integration could be better."
"Enhancing reporting across the board would be beneficial."
"The biggest problem with NetBackup is licensing."
"Within their product lineup, they need to consolidate down to one product. Veritas doesn't have one product that does everything. So, Veritas can do everything, but you basically need to run two products. I would like them to combine all the capabilities into one release."
"The HTML interface is a web application that does not offer all the features."