We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup & Replication has the winning edge in this comparison because it received higher marks in the ease of deployment, pricing, and service and support categories.
"IBM support is friendly, knowledgeable, and they always respond quickly. They've always been able to find the cause of my problem."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups."
"It helps our customers protect their data, especially with stuff like ransomware, compliance, and regulatory requirements."
"It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"It has to ability to backup DV2, Oracle, and Informix."
"From a tech perspective, utilizing deduplication is one of the most valuable features."
"The product helps us do data protection and restoration for disaster recovery (DR)."
"I can't think of any improvements yet for Veeam because they are very good. It integrates very well with Microsoft applications. It is very easy to integrate. Micro Focus can also integrate but it's more complex. You have to know the product very well to be able to integrate. While Veeam, it's very user-friendly. You don't need to have certifications or anything to work on Veeam."
"The backup and replication features of this solution are most valuable."
"Enables us to restore the VM when the needs arises and for disaster recovery."
"They provide good technical support and we are satisfied with the support we have received."
"The initial setup was not overly complex."
"The ability of instant VM recovery, which means starting the backup VM and getting it online while the recovery is still happening is the most valuable feature."
"Strong performance with a high level of compatibility."
"The solution is stable and the performance is good."
"I need to have more than two instances working together. I need a worldwide grid able to have replication between three, four, or five instances."
"The solution is evolving, so it has to be evolved to fit all new types of software requirements too."
"It needs agents that take into account more databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)."
"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of use - the GUI is not up to the mark compared to other products in the market."
"In a future release, it would be a benefit to have the ability to add an application as a storage target, as a storage pool. Additionally, they should add more functionality to the administration for the Operation Center."
"It does what we need it to do, but it could be better with VM backups. It could be better integrated with virtual machines or VM backups, but that's why they have their Plus out now. Plus version is more geared toward VM backups. The regular version is more for endpoint clients."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
"I don't see much room for improvement except that the price could be better."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups. That is a functionality that Veeam does not provide."
"The solution could improve by having more user-friendly dashboards."
"There is always some room for improvement, especially with some of the different technologies such as DB2. Commvault has a DB2 agent, but Veeam still doesn't have it. We have to use the universal one for it."
"The implementation was straightforward. However, we used an integrator, the process could be easier for us to do it ourselves."
"We have had problems with some jobs. For example, when we have a VM with a large SQL Database, sometimes we cannot adjust the time for transaction logs to back up and overlap time."
"Its native capability for talking to the public cloud needs improvement. Connecting to a public cloud is a little bit more of a challenge when it comes to Veeam than it is with Rubrik or Commvault. There are still some hoops that you got to jump through in order to send Veeam backups out to public cloud repositories. It is not as simple as it is with other products."
"They need to address the confusing recovery dialogue."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veeam Backup & Replication 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 Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Veritas NetBackup. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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