We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and NetApp Cloud Backup 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."Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"The technical support for Spectrum Protect is very mature. It is very committed to giving a top-notch support experience."
"With Spectrum Protect, you can use any type of disk to back-end the repositories. It gave us flexibility to use whatever storage we wanted at our secondary site."
"It seems very scalable and robust. It can do what we require it to do."
"The most valuable feature for data recovery in IBM Spectrum Protect is its database protection capabilities."
"The feature we have found most valuable is when you want to integrate it with a Tape Library and then do the DRM life cycle. That is when it works the best."
"It helps our customers protect their data, keep it long-term, and feel pretty secure about it, basically sleeping well at night."
"We can scale. Today, we have an average backup volume of 100TB a day."
"Scalability is very good."
"One feature that works well for us is that the Cloud Manager is a completely agentless solution. There's a similar dashboard on both the versions for on-premises and the cloud, and with reference to the Cloud Manager, it's a little faster because there's nothing to be installed as such. Being agentless, it doesn't require any agent to be deployed on the targets where the backups are triggered."
"NetApp Cloud Backup performance is good and they have beneficial technology."
"For the database side, it does not have object level recovery."
"They should have a proper technical support team serving the customers and get issues resolved earlier."
"It needs some software upgrades to fix some of its current bugs."
"I would like to see the operations center be a lot more functional. It was nowhere near as functional as the admin center, and I'm doing a lot of command line with it."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"Scalability is poor. As you get to bigger environments, this is where our gaps have been introduced. As we have grown over the past couple of years, the gaps have become more apparent."
"This product should be more user-friendly for newcomers."
"I would like to advance reporting and analytics for the platform to see how much data is coming into the platform. how much data is expiring everyday, and what tape savings we are getting through reclamation."
"One area that can be improved is around how we define the different KPIs. In particular, the business KPIs. I have my own in-house application for the business KPIs, so for example, with our policies around retention, which is a period of seven years, I have to read these parameters from other applications and I need them to integrate well."
"NetApp Cloud Backup could improve by being easier to use. Veeam solution is easier to use."
"Integration and reporting could be improved."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while NetApp Cloud Backup is ranked 56th in Backup and Recovery. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while NetApp Cloud Backup is rated 7.0. 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 NetApp Cloud Backup writes "Simplifies our backups with an agentless backup manager, but needs better integration with in-house applications". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas NetApp Cloud Backup is most compared with Dell NetWorker, NetApp SnapCenter, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Commvault Cloud and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. NetApp Cloud Backup report.
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