We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Iron Mountain Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What I found most valuable in IBM Spectrum Protect is that it allows you to back up physical machines, and its proxy feature lets you back up virtual machines."
"The solution can back up every kind of workload in the environment."
"With data deduplication and compression, we are reducing our overall storage footprint for our disk histories. Therefore, we are reducing the actual cost of the disk for our data protection and data backups."
"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."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is a scalable solution."
"Regarding stability, it's been rock solid."
"The scalability of IBM Spectrum Protect is good."
"The way it covers backup and archive needs. The flexibility of backup copy group always allows me to cover the customer's requests."
"The most valuable feature for me is the policy management capabilities"
"I find the Level 1 and Level 2 support spend 80% of the time communicating the same information that I have already provided."
"The features should be a little bit closer together."
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"There is room for improvement in the service aspect."
"It does not do too well in our virtual environment."
"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"The solution should improve the ability to monitor backup failure."
"Easier configuration of some of the products, e.g., VE comes to mind."
"I would like to see more integration with different platforms."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Iron Mountain Connect is ranked 39th in Backup and Recovery with 2 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Iron Mountain Connect is rated 8.6. 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 Iron Mountain Connect writes "Good policies related to data". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM Storage Protect, whereas Iron Mountain Connect is most compared with NAKIVO Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Iron Mountain Connect report.
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