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.
"The main feature of this product is a flexible architecture and functionality that allows you to solve problems of any complexity and scale. Most importantly, it is not just a product that simply makes a backup, but it restores and saves a large number of services in critical situations. By the way, it works fine with different types of clouds, supports S3."
"It protects our data. That is what it is there for."
"The main thing is to keep the data safe and in files, keep it on tape ready for a request from a bank, and it is working perfectly with all our hardware."
"Every time we go and try to get a file, we can get it. Restores are quick and the data is always there."
"It scales well. We have grown here in the last year or two, and it has been relatively easy."
"The platform has valuable stability."
"The backup of Sybase databases is the most valuable feature in the existing environment. They have got the most documentation out there on the internet for its software protection. The documentation is excellent, and there are a lot of blogs, websites. Because it's still one of the oldest products out there for data protection, there are also lots of people who have a lot of experience in using this solution."
"Scalability: Our customers are able to grow the product without having to buy additional hardware, so it is very scalable."
"The solution is easy to install and very stable."
"Veeam Backup Replication is stable I have not had any problems."
"One thing we like about the product is that it's good and not as expensive as similar products. Right now, there are different ways to back up your information—you can back up directly to a disk or the cloud. It allows you to have various kinds of repositories."
"The fast backup and restore feature is the most valuable."
"The granular restoration that it provides for a business application is most valuable. For example, for Exchange, we can restore a single mailbox or email. We can also do SQL Server restoration and bare-metal recovery for operating systems."
"The solution works well in two different environments, whether it is on-premises, cloud, or a combination."
"What I like most about this solution are the simplicity and the price-performance ratio."
"The replication feature has proven to be the most valuable feature for us."
"IBM Spectrum Protect does have a lot of the features that we need, but I think they need to improve their backup virtualization and backup for container."
"This solution is not mature in terms of disaster recovery and could be improved."
"It should have the ability to break down the data that's being backed up. It should have better reporting."
"The deduplication must be perfect, and thus should be improved."
"RTO is a huge gap for us. If we had a disaster scenario and had to recover a bunch of stuff from tape, the RTO would be too long for us."
"Our new leadership has pushed us to go more toward the cloud, so we are definitely going to leverage anything we can in that direction."
"Restoring massive files is a very time-consuming process."
"It seems like they are a little behind on the integration to Azure Cloud as well as Amazon."
"In the future, I would like to see better support for direct backup to tape."
"The scalability of the product in large organizations is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The backup and integration could be improved."
"The DR component should be part of the comprehensive package, not separate."
"All our customers would like a cheaper license and more flexible deployment."
"There is some complexity we have experienced when using the solution that should be simplified."
"The data duplication should be improved."
"I would want them to improve some technical features that are still missing because we are working with NetApp NVMe and they're not fully supporting it yet. But both NetApp and Veeam know about it and they're working on it."
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, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and NAKIVO Backup & Replication. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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