We performed a comparison between HPE StoreOnce and IBM Spectrum Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NetApp and others in Deduplication Software."From a centralized system, I can manage the interface, the backup policies, and the status of the database."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"HPE StoreOnce is an easy-to-use tool."
"The most valuable features for us are the ease of use, the reliability, and the exceptional deduplication that we get across that data that we store on those devices."
"The solution saves a lot of storage capacity."
"The product’s data retention is very good."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature."
"If you have a large enough storage capacity then you can take an ample amount of data."
"Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"The scheduled backups ensure we meet the requirements for our business, and we keep backups of certain environments."
"We optimize our costs of media and storage use, thanks to the Incremental Forever backup. The TDP software provides us many ways to protect our data, so we don't need to use monstrous scripts for doing backups now."
"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 solution is really scalable."
"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."
"We work very closely together with IBM using their Support Center, but we have a strong contact in their development teams, and we have dedicated people from IBM working with us."
"The solution can back up every kind of workload in the environment."
"One item I wanted to see is SSD drives as a cache, and that was, for a time, still lacking in StoreOnce, however, they have done it now. It's not available yet, however, it will be shortly."
"We're outsourced with a partner who recalls a larger amount of problems with the stability of the product."
"The solution must provide backup options for smaller capacities."
"HPE should have more options so customers can choose from a wide range of products with small to big capacities."
"It is difficult to solve issues with this solution remotely. I prefer to use the knowledge base platforms. The response time could improve."
"We archive our backups on tape, so I feel like if we could somehow plug our tape drive directly into the StoreOnce device and set it up to where it would archive based on, if some kind of rules based engine or what have you, that would really be an improvement for us."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"Its customer service could be faster."
"It might be seen as leaning towards the legacy side, missing some features of newer solutions. The main drawbacks would be its complexity and high pricing."
"The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement"
"I would like to advance reporting and analytics for the platform to see how much data is coming into the platform. how much data is expiring everyday, and what tape savings we are getting through reclamation."
"We are not so happy with the technical support because dealing with them is not easy. We have a very complicated environment, therefore I understand for a support person that it is not easy to troubleshoot it."
"Most customers still struggle with the reporting piece, especially generating reports. I think it needs some improvements in this area."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
"Needs more support for non-mainstream databases, in particular PostgreSQL, SQL, and MySQL."
"Ease of use."
HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 103 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series and DD Boost, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Dell NetWorker.
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