We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and IBM Storage Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"Performance and recoveries are better. Our clients and customers are happier with the performance of it."
"The backup on real-time, especially for the virtual machine, archiving, and retrieving the reader from the backup repository and getting it online, getting it validated, then performing the data consistency check over the backup."
"I've had no problems with the stability of this solution."
"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."
"We have better, faster backup times, and it has improved efficiency in the backups."
"It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"One of the features which is most interesting in Spectrum Protect is the ability to scale out to great environments. This is something that not many vendors have on the market."
"The best point about IBM Storage Protect is that it can use IBM tape environments, which we still use and will continue to use in the future."
"The tool's backup engine is very powerful. Previously, our client finished backup with HPE product in 48 hours. IBM Storage Protect completes backup in 8 hours."
"IBM Spectrum Protect could be improved by making the installation easier. Once it's implemented, it's okay. IBM started lagging behind when things started moving to storage and cloud-based solutions. Even though they've recently released updates that give cloud-based protection, personally, I still believe they are not up to par with the likes of Rubrik. The entire product is a little bit clumsy because they have co-joined two different products, so it's complex. Even from a sales/explaining to people what it does point of view, it's complex. Whereas, if you take more current products, it's a single box solution. You reel it in, you fire it up, you do a couple of points and clicks, and off you go, whereas the IBM system is seriously complex. There's a lot of training involved and it's a massively difficult product to sell at this point in time."
"High availability (HA) is a scalability challenge."
"The installation process could be simplified."
"It needs some software upgrades to fix some of its current bugs."
"We should be talking about the capacity of the tape drives. That's the only problem."
"It can be improved for large file systems with many files. Spectrum Protect can restore large files very well, but if you're restoring millions of little files, it is not as great. At one point, we tried to implement the VMware module with it, and it was awful and terrible. I don't know if that has improved. If it hasn't, this would be one big improvement."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"The product should be improved to save more space."
"The solution is expensive."
"The product should improve its GUI. It should also support Windows clustering."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while IBM Storage Protect is ranked 43rd in Backup and Recovery with 2 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while IBM Storage Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Storage Protect writes "A stable enterprise solution for backup and restore". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud and Rubrik, whereas IBM Storage Protect is most compared with . See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. IBM Storage Protect report.
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