We performed a comparison between Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and IBM Spectrum Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Ability to restore to any host."
"The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases."
"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features."
"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."
"The product has many valuable features for handling backup needs, including replication, live migration, and incremental disaster recovery."
"We frequently use the granular restore option for when our users accidentally delete files or to recover emails from mailboxes. We have found that to be a must-have feature and it comes with the solution at no extra cost."
"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."
"The interface is user-friendly and even if our tech isn't onsite, we can work with the owners to confirm that the data will be restored with no issues."
"The software-defined ability to do data reduction through deduplication and compression, as well as being able to replicate data to a cloud container."
"It is an IBM product. With SAP, you are using IBM software to protect it. DB2 and AIX servers are both IBM. Therefore, it is a total IBM solution, which helps."
"The platform has valuable stability."
"It is more efficient than most traditional backup solutions."
"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"We can use it with any storage for the back-end to save data."
"Good user interface."
"IBM support is friendly, knowledgeable, and they always respond quickly. They've always been able to find the cause of my problem."
"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."
"The scalability of the solution is limited."
"Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran."
"It would be nice to see a feature that backs up the host so that, in case of a server failure, an entire server could be restored all at once."
"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."
"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."
"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."
"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."
"This product comes up against other products available that are marketed better but the other products that it's in competition with are a single product and this is one of IBM products. If it could be marketed as more for competitors I think that's where it comes short."
"This product should be more user-friendly for newcomers."
"The solution could be more user-friendly and provide better monitoring. The monitoring should be improved first since it is a higher priority."
"I want to see better compression than what it currently does."
"No one can fix every solution for backup and restore."
"It needs agents that take into account more databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"The initial setup is complex."
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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 54th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup and Datto Cloud Continuity, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik.
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