We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Unitrends 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."It saves you a lot of storage."
"Technical support is okay. We have not had many issues with them."
"The main feature of this product is a flexible architecture and functionality that allows you to solve problems of any complexity and scale. Most importantly, it is not just a product that simply makes a backup, but it restores and saves a large number of services in critical situations. By the way, it works fine with different types of clouds, supports S3."
"It has to ability to backup DV2, Oracle, and Informix."
"It helps our customers protect their data, especially with stuff like ransomware, compliance, and regulatory requirements."
"The D2D2T archive of my PACS data improved after I put Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 into production."
"All other products contain the same features, but when I'm backing up an IBM Power server I feel more comfortable with IBM Spectrum Protect because it's the same vendor."
"The deduplication and compression features are the most valuable features."
"VM backup is much faster and more reliable, as I can test my backups with Data Copy Access jobs."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"The ability to back up both physical and virtual appliances under one roof."
"It is fairly stable."
"Unitrends has helped us cut down the time that it takes to restore a server to its original configuration."
"What I found most valuable in Unitrends is its simple user interface. It also works reliably."
"It is an easy system to use. The support, if needed, is always willing to help."
"When we talk about a backup point of view, from a backup perspective, it's a good one."
"We are still using TSM Manager for many of our projects to administer our platform because the gap was not resolved with the new Operations Center."
"Customers have migrated off of it because of its lack of virtual environment functions."
"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."
"In the next version of the solution, I would like to see cloud support."
"Technical support could be improved."
"Their support is lacking. I've talked to their developers and stuff in the last couple of weeks and they reassure me that some people have retired, and they're working on getting that bumped back up. But the support lacks a lot to be desired at this point."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"I am not really impressed with the Level 1 support, but once I get past that and go to Level 2, then we will usually get some type of resolution."
"Support is great for small simple issues, but anything more difficult, it is hard to get good resolutions without having to badger them and their management."
"There are a few quirks where the GUI, agent, and back-end are not precisely meshed."
"I would like to see more storage options for the free version."
"The solution's base operating system needs to be improved."
"The solution’s support and onboarding process needs to be improved."
"No appliance update notifications."
"Probably the biggest issue I've had is actually paying for the unit, and part of that problem is that they use a third party for the billing."
"In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 41st in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. 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 Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Unitrends report.
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