We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup & Replication has the winning edge in this comparison because it received higher marks in the ease of deployment, pricing, and service and support categories.
"You can do restores very quickly. You can mount a drive and restore it right from the drive."
"It is good in terms of functionality. My clients are very satisfied with this solution."
"It is a very good and mature enterprise product. Once it is set up and everything is put in, you don't have to manage it. It actually runs automatically by itself."
"We like IBM Spectrum's versioning capabilities. It lets us specify how many versions of a file we want to keep and for how long. Also, the archive component of the software helps us a lot."
"The MN backup for a cluster is most valuable because it has made backing up the GSF as a zero-file system easier. I like its stability a lot. Over the years, I very rarely had a problem with it."
"The solution is mostly stable."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."
"The most valuable feature is how reliable Veeam Backup is. It has the normal expected features that allow you to ensure that everything is backed up completely."
"It is a global major solution for quite a lot of people."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are the ease of use and the interface is very configurable for the users. It's a very familiar solution in Algeria."
"The product could be improved if they wrote more PowerShell scripts for controlling Veeam."
"The initial setup was not overly complex."
"Simple and stable."
"It serves its intended purpose and it works well."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"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."
"It does what we need it to do, but it could be better with VM backups. It could be better integrated with virtual machines or VM backups, but that's why they have their Plus out now. Plus version is more geared toward VM backups. The regular version is more for endpoint clients."
"It should have the ability to break down the data that's being backed up. It should have better reporting."
"I want a better user interface, support, and integrations."
"IBM's support hasn't been so good in the last few years."
"IBM Spectrum Protect does have a lot of the features that we need, but I think they need to improve their backup virtualization and backup for container."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"Generally, the implementation of virtualization could be improved. The workflow service and so on are not working properly."
"The implementation of the features can be improved. Currently, there is no segregation of duty. Normally, any backup software or client service software is implemented in a way where one person is responsible for the implementation of the server, and one is responsible for the client, but Veeam Backup & Replication is not implemented in that way. Therefore, restores don't work like that. The backup guys have to do the restores, which is not a good thing. Its pricing should also be improved. It is quite expensive."
"The deduplication feature could be improved by changing to global deduplication."
"Veeam needs to have more support for non-Windows systems and other databases. For example, I can do SQL with Veeam but not Informix or Oracle. This is unfortunate because we have many partners with Oracle systems and Informix databases, and Veeam does not yet have the agents we need for specific Oracle and UNIX operating systems."
"Sometimes Veeam is not that effective when it comes to legacy environments."
"I would like to see better features for exporting to cloud-based repositories."
"We have had problems with some jobs. For example, when we have a VM with a large SQL Database, sometimes we cannot adjust the time for transaction logs to back up and overlap time."
"Veeam Backup Replication could improve by having better integration with the cloud. Additionally, they do not have direct integration to S3 or Azure storage for the backups of the VMs. This feature would be beneficial because we have to go through the scalable repository which I do not like."
"The implementation was straightforward. However, we used an integrator, the process could be easier for us to do it ourselves."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery Software with 40 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery Software with 155 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 7.8, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Provides us with the scalability and growth that we need". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Dynamic and reliable backup solution". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Complete Data Protection, Cohesity DataProtect, Rubrik and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Azure Backup, Rubrik, Acronis Backup, Nakivo and Commvault Complete Data Protection. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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