IBM Spectrum Protect vs N2WS Backup & Recovery comparison

"We have better, faster backup times, and it has improved efficiency in the backups."

"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."

"Regarding stability, it's been rock solid."

"It is very stable. A plus is to use POWERAge for the SNR copy of the Spectrum Protect, then it is more reliable."

"The product is always stable and reliable."

"With data deduplication and compression, we are reducing our overall storage footprint for our disk histories. Therefore, we are reducing the actual cost of the disk for our data protection and data backups."

"Disk-based implementation of a data protection solution for multiple sites is a better fit for my complex data protection needs."

"It is a very stable product. The cost is similar to that of other enterprise solutions."

"Provides easy, one-click functionality and flexible backup policies and schedules for AWS workloads."

"The backup and recovery are the most valuable features. So, our developers can work with confidence."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."

"The recovery time is fantastic and proven. Also, by providing a simple interface, the solution lowers the cost."

"The backup and restore functionality is very easy to use and manage."

"N2WS Backup & Recovery is very easy to use and configure backup for AWS instances."

"The product is successful with the SMB market."

"The initial setup is easy."

"It is not easy to manage like other products in the market. It is okay only if you are command-line driven. Even though the operation center is there, it doesn't provide a single view of everything. You have to, for example, use TSMManager on top of it, which gives you a far better management capability, but it is a third-party product. Its management needs to be improved. There should be an HTML or graphical interface. It is a very difficult product. For example, you have a backup policy where you want a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly policy standard. It is an old kind of system where you have to keep retention for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups, which is very difficult in IBM Spectrum Protect. In other products, in a matter of five minutes, you can configure such a policy. In TSM, it takes you one, two, or three days because you need to configure a node for each of them. If you have 250 nodes, you have to configure each node for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly retention. If you have 1,000 nodes, it is going to take you ages just to configure and register the nodes. You need to configure the schedule and the CAD daemons or services, depending on whether it is a Unix or Windows OS. Unfortunately, it is a very long and drawn-out process. You have to stop and start the services for changes to take effect. This is a very difficult part of TSM in IBM Spectrum Protect. To configure a backup policy, I should be able to select the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly options in one screen and finish it. After that, everything should happen in the background. All the backup products in the market already do that, and they are very simple to manage. This particular part of this solution has really been a major pain area for us, and unfortunately, we could not find a workaround. There is nobody at IBM who can give us a way to configure all this easily through a GUI or even scripts."

"The solution needs to work on disaster recovery integration. Basically, VMware applications to the cloud, for example. There needs to be integration with the storage, and integration with VMware."

"The initial setup is complex."

"It lacks reporting and an efficient alert mechanism. The GUI could also be improved."

"I am looking forward to new features in the next release. One of the main features is the cloud storage integration, which was one of my main required features. I've had more difficult experiences with other platforms than with this one."

"Better integration with other tools and databases is needed."

"The administration interface should implement more functionalities that exist only in the command line and needs improvement in how some reports are created."

"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."

"It's a global feature that the customer thinks they don't have enough tools to manage, to copy, to delay, and to classify the object file in the backup directory. So they need more tools to manage files in object directory."

"The UI is a little dated and hard to use. Some of the buttons are a bit small. You have to go into the menu to get the settings you want."

"The solution has the option to take backup on-prem servers, but it's not very efficient."

"There is room for improvement in stability."

"More documentation would be helpful, especially some step-by-step documents for recovery scenarios."

"The GUI could be slightly improved."

"Additional features I would like to see are the ability to restore to different vendors, AWS and Azure, and/or the ability or take the information out of the AWS cloud."

"The GUI has room for improvement."

"IBM Spectrum Protect can be considered an averagely-priced product."

"The product is low cost. It is very cool when we design it to using licensing based on post capacity."

"IBM Spectrum Protect, cost-wise, has way higher pricing than Veeam. By switching over to Veeam, my company saved over $600,000 in USD. The IBM Spectrum Protect pricing is a two on a scale of one to ten. My company paid additional fees for maintenance, apart from the standard licensing fees."

"Some of the new advanced features are definitely more into cost savings, e.g., dedupe compression, so doing more with less."

"We are paying for support and maintenance on a monthly basis."

"The pricing is a little expensive for our current employer, so they want to move to a cheaper solution."

"When compared to the cost of other enterprise products, it seems to be in the same range. However, compared to the cost of non-enterprise products, it is really high."

"The license model that they have at IBM, which is due to volume, from a certain volume onward is not the right license model."

"It's very economical and worth the cost."

"AWS adds more features and offer things for free, or cheaply. Therefore, we will be evaluating AWS Data Lifecycle Manager, because it will probably do backups. Thus, make sure the product that you are using is competitive or adds more value than AWS."

"The price is not cheap, nor is it costly."

"The purchasing process through the AWS Marketplace is easy. Just click the button."

"The pricing and licensing on AWS is fine, because you can do it for smaller tiers depending on your number of instances, so it's not that scary."

"It has very good pricing per instance and comes with three options, for both small and large environments, to fit your needs."