We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and IBM Tivoli CDP for Files based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Spectrum Protect's best feature is that I can use it practically anywhere, on any platform, and for any servers or clients."
"It is very stable. A plus is to use POWERAge for the SNR copy of the Spectrum Protect, then it is more reliable."
"It seems very scalable and robust. It can do what we require it to do."
"It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"We apply the new dedupe and compression technology, using maintenance and time to give more time for the backup window and less time for the overhead related to the daily housekeeping."
"When I have to do disaster recoveries, I can do it with this tool."
"The customization and the ability to backup across all platforms are the most valuable features."
"I find the whole product useful. The backup archive client, snapshot, spectrum for virtual environments are beneficial features."
"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"It should have the ability to break down the data that's being backed up. It should have better reporting."
"There is room for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect, especially regarding its support for virtual environment backups."
"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."
"The solution's initial setup process wasn't easy...The solution is overly complicated in terms of architecture, especially compared to other tools in the market."
"Customers have migrated off of it because of its lack of virtual environment functions."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The solution is evolving, so it has to be evolved to fit all new types of software requirements too."
"We would like to have the opportunity to omit data from being backed up. For example, we have three virtual machines, each with three disks. When running the backup, it will automatically take each disk rather than allowing us to select what data we want backed."
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IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is ranked 63rd in Backup and Recovery. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Tivoli CDP for Files writes "Restoration and infrastructure are extremely reliable". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is most compared with Commvault Cloud and Arcserve UDP.
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