We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and NetApp SnapCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The addition of the retention set feature provides a reduction in storage costs. It also reduces RTO and RPO so that you can respond quickly to your clients and services in case of data loss."
"Good deduplication and compression features."
"IBM support is friendly, knowledgeable, and they always respond quickly. They've always been able to find the cause of my problem."
"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is a scalable solution."
"It is good in terms of functionality. My clients are very satisfied with this solution."
"The business value comes from the capability to overcome data losses."
"In general, the solution is quite user-friendly. The GUI is very nice."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"In a future release, it would be a benefit to have the ability to add an application as a storage target, as a storage pool. Additionally, they should add more functionality to the administration for the Operation Center."
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"There needs to be a bit more automation."
"I need two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems. I need IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for virtual systems and Spectrum Protect for physical systems and that's a pain. It would be an improvement if they were combined."
"This solution is not mature in terms of disaster recovery and could be improved."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"The solution should have better integration with VMware and with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus."
"The software is complex; setup is complex."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery Software with 42 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 41st in Backup and Recovery Software with 1 review. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 7.8, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Great stability, reliability, and scalability, but very difficult to manage and get support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "Free to use with good stability and very good technical support". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Complete Data Protection, Cohesity DataProtect and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Cohesity DataProtect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Complete Data Protection, Rubrik and Zerto.
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