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."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."
"All of the features are fantastic and also the management from Microsoft dealing with multiple machines is great. The whole package is excellent for me."
"The CDP backup feature is very nice, as it allows you to take backups at high frequencies and with application consistency."
"The initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it."
"This solution is stable."
"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features."
"It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent."
"Ability to restore to any host."
"We cannot live without it, since it gives us the confidence to move forward."
"by backing up only the changed data, we average around 75TB per night. If we had to do full backups, even occasionally, we would not be able to complete the backup within 12 hours, or we would have to make a large investment to fit a full backup within the 12 hour window."
"Once setup, you do not need to touch it again. You just need to do a formal check on possibly batch updates."
"Incremental backup is highly valuable as it allows for significant time and cost savings."
"It is a very mature product."
"It helps our customers protect their data, especially with stuff like ransomware, compliance, and regulatory requirements."
"When I have to do disaster recoveries, I can do it with this tool."
"The MN backup for a cluster is most valuable because it has made backing up the GSF as a zero-file system easier. I like its stability a lot. Over the years, I very rarely had a problem with it."
"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."
"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."
"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."
"Improvement areas for Altaro VM Backup include enhancing backup and deduplication solutions for continuous operation and offering an all-in-one solution for hardware backup."
"It would be nice to be able to recover the items to their original location."
"Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage."
"If you look into the performance of a virtual machine and you look to the performance of the physical machine, the correlation between these is totally unclear."
"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."
"We would like to see capabilities of long-term archiving and more support for hardware platforms."
"The administration tools for GI need improvement, as the current assessment suggests shortcomings in the back-end system."
"We need everything cloud. Strong support for cloud services. S3 connectivity, which is mandatory for us in the future along with this integration of Spectrum Copy Data Management or Spectrum Protect services together with these Spectrum Protect Plus functionalities, e.g., hardware, snapshots, and Copy Data Management. They should come together in one solution."
"Most customers still struggle with the reporting piece, especially generating reports. I think it needs some improvements in this area."
"It seems like they are a little behind on the integration to Azure Cloud as well as Amazon."
"For the database side, it does not have object level recovery."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is not a very user-friendly tool."
"Our customers would like to see metadata replication, tearing to tape, and more cloud capabilities."
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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 "Easy to use with a helpful dashboard, good support, and the deduplication feature saves heavily on storage space". 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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