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."SPIR is Instant Recovery for Spectrum Protect. It sends snapshots using space efficiently and blocking backups to the Spectrum Protect server. It provisions the snapshot from the backup server to the same or new server near instantly."
"You can do restores very quickly. You can mount a drive and restore it right from the drive."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"You can scale the product."
"From a tech perspective, utilizing deduplication is one of the most valuable features."
"I love the TDP for VMware because of the web interface and the possibilities provided by this tool. It's amazing."
"Scalability, performance, mass platform coverage. It's one of the few backup products on the market right now which an organization can bring in and it will serve all of their backup needs. It's a completely centralized solution."
"The most valuable feature for me is the policy management capabilities"
"I am looking forward to new features in the next release. One of the main features is the cloud storage integration, which was one of my main required features. I've had more difficult experiences with other platforms than with this one."
"I would like to see the operations center be a lot more functional. It was nowhere near as functional as the admin center, and I'm doing a lot of command line with it."
"The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement"
"I would like a little more ease with the virtual platforms, because it is a huge thing that is coming up."
"Restoring massive files is a very time-consuming process."
"Enhancements are required for backing up our virtual environment."
"The solution's ability to integrate with a cloud solution is one area that needs improvement."
"Although I am not a technical user, I would say the cloud integration features could be improved."
"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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