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

"Incremental backup is highly valuable as it allows for significant time and cost savings."

"It is pretty easy to use and maintain."

"It helps our customers protect their data, keep it long-term, and feel pretty secure about it, basically sleeping well at night."

"IBM Spectrum Protect is stable."

"It provides our customers with the comfort of having reliable enterprise data protection."

"The product helps us do data protection and restoration for disaster recovery (DR)."

"In general, the solution is quite user-friendly. The GUI is very nice."

"We can use it with any storage for the back-end to save data."

"What I found most valuable in Veeam Agent for Linux is that it can unify machines and even simplify management."

"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 Veeam Backup and Replication Suite is very user-friendly."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration with Veeam Backup & Replication console."

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

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

"It's simple to use."

"Veeam Agent for Linux's most valuable feature is the compatibility with virtual machines, such as VMware."

"The solution should have better integration with VMware and with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus."

"I would like to see more technical training online. Sometimes, it is a little bit difficult to find, or that I do not really know what I am looking for as somebody who is starting off finding their learning curve."

"In the next version of the solution, I would like to see cloud support."

"We are having a balance issue between the reclamation and the backup function. It has to take the space back from the tapes before it can record to those tapes, but sometimes those two processes are overlapping."

"It can be improved for large file systems with many files. Spectrum Protect can restore large files very well, but if you're restoring millions of little files, it is not as great. At one point, we tried to implement the VMware module with it, and it was awful and terrible. I don't know if that has improved. If it hasn't, this would be one big improvement."

"Replication of data could be more user friendly."

"My customers are not always happy with the Level 1 support. Sometimes, it just takes too long for the response to come, which is probably something that needs to be addressed."

"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."

"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."

"Scalability, if you are talking about Linux, is good. However, if you need to backup more types of solutions or Unix systems, like HP/UX, AIX, etc., it's not compatible."

"It's scalable, but it's not scalable on every platform."

"In terms of the physical environment, I'd like them to integrate it with other kinds of solutions. We don't just work with Microsoft or Linux, but other kinds of infrastructure data as well."

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

"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."

"There is a compatibility issue with HCI."

"In the next version, I would like to see an increase in the locations online. I have found that other products have good pickup location."

"For my company, the tool is affordable and reasonable...I don't think most people know that when a company has large systems in place, the TCO is a lot lower."

"The platform is neither highly priced nor inexpensive. I rate the pricing a seven out of ten."

"We chose IBM Spectrum Protect, because they actually have something called MSP pricing, which means managed services provider pricing. The pricing was attractive, and it seems to be a platform that IBM is totally investing on in terms of new functions and new capabilities."

"At scale, the consumption license (per TB) is very expensive."

"Some of the new advanced features are definitely more into cost savings, e.g., dedupe compression, so doing more with less."

"Customers need to pay for licensing in order to use IBM Spectrum Protect. The customers that have been using it for a long time are okay and happy with it. From a cost point of view, it's better for them to renew their licenses than to go through the difficult process of changing a backup product in their environment, and migrate from one product to another."

"It is fairly reasonable as compared to other solutions in the market."

"We pay for a terabyte license to support our backend usage."

"The costing is very competitive."

"We have purchased a license to use Veeam Agent for Linux and the additional support. The overall cost of Veeam Agent for Linux is expensive."

"Price-wise it's good."

"Licensing costs are monthly."

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

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

"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."