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."Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."
"The ability to test the backups without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore allows us to check the integrity of the backups."
"It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent."
"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."
"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 CDP backup feature is very nice, as it allows you to take backups at high frequencies and with application consistency."
"Ability to restore to any host."
"The initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is stable."
"It is a really scalable solution. We can scale it up. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten."
"IBM support is friendly, knowledgeable, and they always respond quickly. They've always been able to find the cause of my problem."
"Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups."
"The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery."
"SPIR is Instant Recovery for Spectrum Protect. It sends snapshots using space efficiently and blocking backups to the Spectrum Protect server. It provisions the snapshot from the backup server to the same or new server near instantly."
"The way it covers backup and archive needs. The flexibility of backup copy group always allows me to cover the customer's requests."
"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."
"It would be nice to be able to recover the items to their original location."
"The application could include a feature to install a set size of data, such as the ability to store a single application with all its registry information for easy transfer."
"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."
"The scalability of the solution is limited."
"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."
"Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage."
"Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran."
"This product should be more user-friendly for newcomers."
"They need to reduce the complexity and make the learning curve easier."
"If you take Spectrum Protect into account, and you have it along with restrictions to Spectrum Archive by means of LTFS, this is also something which should be made better within the overall product's program."
"If IBM could provide a partial module, that would be great."
"It should have the ability to break down the data that's being backed up. It should have better reporting."
"In terms of features, they've got it all covered. The features they have are quite good. The only downside to it is that it is for an enterprise or big organization. In my opinion, it is not for a small business."
"They need to do a better job on Windows, because if you are running Windows, the scalability is more limited than AIX and Linux."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 55th 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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