"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."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"The business value comes from the capability to overcome data losses."
"In general, the solution is quite user-friendly. The GUI is very nice."
"We have been using it for several years, and it is quite reliable and predictable. We are quite comfortable with this solution. They're coming up with new features as well. It has good scalability, and it provides good integrations with business-critical applications or databases, such as SAP HANA. It works as expected, and we don't see any issues."
"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."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"One of the main things that I like about IBM is the versioning of the data - meaning that we can have multiple versions of a file or directory of a server."
"Strong performance with a high level of compatibility."
"Veeam communicates with the vCenter in VMware, which means it's very smooth and doesn't interrupt production on VMware and you can backup or restore anytime, anywhere."
"It's the most easy-to-use backup replication that I have used so far."
"The initial setup was not overly complex."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its back up and recovery. It is a simplified backup because you can do both databases - VM and HyperV. It's a faster backup than the conventional methods because it takes up the bare metal."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to restore the VMs into a test environment."
"I have been in contact with technical support and they are very good."
"No problems with stability."
"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."
"There needs to be a bit more automation."
"I find the solution somewhat difficult to use with virtual environments or VMware."
"Replication services would be nice. If these could be enhanced to be always on so multiple storage backup services could be added as a cluster pool. This would provide a better availability service."
"The installation process could be simplified."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"The solution should have better integration with VMware and with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus."
"It's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"I would like to see the licensing model improved. They have recently changed the model and have made it more complicated."
"The DR component should be part of the comprehensive package, not separate."
"The ability to do more backups should be addressed."
"We struggled to stabilize the application. We had an incident which resulted in a loss of data and have terminated this solution due to lack of support from the Veeam team."
"One challenge that we have encountered was on the long-term retention of data. Be sure to look into a dedicated deduplication appliance."
"It is always nice to get products cheaper."
"The solution requires a lot of bandwidth."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups or snapshots. That's a nice functionality that Veeam doesn't have."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery Software with 46 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery Software with 141 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 7.8, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.4. 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 Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Dynamic and reliable backup solution". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault, Cohesity DataProtect, Azure Backup and Dell EMC PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Rubrik, Nakivo, Commvault, Cohesity DataProtect and Arcserve UDP. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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