IBM Spectrum Protect vs Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL] comparison

"Some of the people in our group, like our DBAs and non-technical people, can restore some stuff themselves via Spectrum Protect. That is how simple it is."

"Since the technology is reliable, it simplifies the backup process significantly. Now, our focus can primarily be on managing full backups and creating some offline copies."

"The technical support for Spectrum Protect is very mature. It is very committed to giving a top-notch support experience."

"The backup of Sybase databases is the most valuable feature in the existing environment. They have got the most documentation out there on the internet for its software protection. The documentation is excellent, and there are a lot of blogs, websites. Because it's still one of the oldest products out there for data protection, there are also lots of people who have a lot of experience in using this solution."

"Enterprise-wide type of architecture supports a lot of different platforms."

"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."

"It is pretty scalable. It will scale to anything."

"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."

"What I find most valuable about this solution, is that the user experience is very simple."

"The initial setup was straightforward. It's not complicated. It takes around half an hour to implement, but it depends on the performance of the server that you are installing the backup software on."

"The technical support is good."

"The most valuable feature is the instant restore option."

"The only thing I really like about it is that you can deploy it from Backup and Replication onto a virtual Linux machine."

"The solution is very user-friendly and has an easy to use interface. We can manage it easily. It allows for a simple backup."

"It's most compatible with VMware. It can restore single files instead of having to restore the whole machine, once again leading to savings for the company."

"The flexibility and user-friendliness of Veeam make it very IT operations-friendly."

"The deduplication must be perfect, and thus should be improved."

"Its management part can be better and simplified. It is kind of a beast as compared to Commvault or Veeam, but they are more user-friendly. They are also easier to learn, whereas Spectrum Protect definitely takes time. They should simplify it. Our teams are pretty comfortable with it because we have been using it for a long time, but from the perspective of a new user who is evaluating or using this solution, it is definitely more complex in terms of manageability. Its monitoring could be improved so that it can even monitor the jobs that are scheduled by external schedulers. There are situations where a database team might decide to use their own schedulers, but currently, Spectrum Protect is not able to catch those jobs in the Operation Manager console."

"The stability could be improved."

"They need to reduce the complexity and make the learning curve easier."

"It needs better connectivity with other non-IBM application hardware and non-IBM platforms."

"The software is complex; setup is complex."

"They need to do a better job on Windows, because if you are running Windows, the scalability is more limited than AIX and Linux."

"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."

"It could use deduplication features."

"Technical support could be improved."

"They could be more customer-friendly."

"One problem in Veeam Agent for Linux is that you can't use your license for all your machines because you don't have a virtual machine, so if you're going to add machines and scale, you'd need to pay extra."

"It has no cloud backup feature. You can't back up anywhere outside of your local network."

"The integration needs improvement."

"It would be much better if more applications were supported on the Linux side. For example, their agent for Windows not only can back up the Windows machine, but it can also back up Active Directory for granular restore, SQL servers, Exchange, Oracle, SharePoint, etc. When it comes to Linux, only Oracle databases are supported. There are workarounds, though."

"The solution is pretty stable right now, however, we believe that the solution could be made to be even more stable."

"That's a hard estimate. It depends on the licensing, the hardware, and other stuff, but it is fairly expensive. It is generally more expensive than other solutions."

"It is expensive."

"There may be an advantage to going with IBM in terms of pricing. They have a pay-as-you-grow policy, so there is no need to take one license for the entire datacenter. You can start with small licenses and then grow, and pay, as you use more."

"I don't have an idea about the pricing. They send that over to someone else, but I know that one of the issues they had was the licensing costs. I don't think they were happy with how they were charged."

"IBM Spectrum Protect has a fixed price and includes no additional costs."

"Going to IBM Tech University Conference saved me from making a major purchase of the wrong thing, which was very helpful."

"The pricing of the solution is high in comparison to other products on the market. For example, IBM and Symantec have less costly options."

"Licensing can be either complicated or simple depending on what type of licensing you wish to use and what works best for your environment."

"The costing is very competitive."

"Licensing costs are monthly."

"It's a subscription based license, which is started on a yearly basis. Currently the licensing is split between three editions: standard, enterprise, and enterprise plus. As long as you check the comparison between the additions and make sure that you have what you need, there are no extra costs with Veeam."

"Veeam Agent is one of the cheapest products in the market."

"Licensing costs are $300,000 USD yearly, and we pay for three years at a time."

"Price-wise it's good."

"There's the principal license for Veeam Agent for Linux, and then you need to buy additional licenses for your machines."

"The solution is rather expensive and I think the price is too high."