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."I have found that the most valuable feature is useful documentation and troubleshooting."
"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."
"The product is very stable."
"One of the main things that I like about IBM is the versioning of the data - meaning that we can have multiple versions of a file or directory of a server."
"It scales from very small to very large. It is easily the most scalable product out there."
"Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"The file-restoring feature is the most valuable."
"Its flexibility is valuable. It is a very flexible solution. There are always more ways than one to do something. It is a software solution, which means you can buy your own hardware and expand it whenever you want. You are not boxed in or locked into something you've bought and outgrown. You can always expand it."
"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."
"Enhancements are required for backing up our virtual environment."
"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"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 software is complex; setup is complex."
"Sometimes we experience trouble with the backup transfer of the control files."
"There could be various client systems and process integration included in the product."
"In the next version of the solution, I would like to see cloud support."
"Replication of data could be more user friendly."
"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 Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is most compared with Commvault Cloud and Arcserve UDP.
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