We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"The tool proves invaluable in scenarios where systems need recovery, such as restoring damaged data."
"The ability to do dedupe in the product is nice to have."
"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that IBM Spectrum Protect is highly integrated with IBM ESS. In addition, it allows us to back up our virtual servers directly to take VM snapshots. It runs on Linux as well."
"We can freeze and start databases for consistent backups."
"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."
"It is more efficient than most traditional backup solutions."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"Restoring massive files is a very time-consuming process."
"The usability of IBM Spectrum Protect could be improved, specifically additional features to the product in the operations center. Additional reporting facilities and stronger reporting tools such as build dashboards would be beneficial."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"RTO is a huge gap for us. If we had a disaster scenario and had to recover a bunch of stuff from tape, the RTO would be too long for us."
"Ease of use. That has got to be the one thing that I routinely hear from clients and customers, that it's a little bit more difficult than it should be. What I'm finding is that IBM has heard that and they're responding with updated interfaces and things like that."
"High availability (HA) is a scalability challenge."
"Replication of data could be more user friendly."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"The WAFL is slow."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 98 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. 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 FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem.
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