We performed a comparison between Asigra 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 agentless architecture has minimized our software footprint at the client level."
"It has helped us to provide comprehensive data protection with high recovery rates and a malware scanning feature."
"The solution has been very stable."
"I have found all the features useful in the solution."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is stable."
"Good deduplication and compression features."
"The feature we have found most valuable is when you want to integrate it with a Tape Library and then do the DRM life cycle. That is when it works the best."
"It provides our customers with the comfort of having reliable enterprise data protection."
"We work very closely together with IBM using their Support Center, but we have a strong contact in their development teams, and we have dedicated people from IBM working with us."
"The ability to migrate between media over a long period of time. My customers are long-time users, and they have benefited from being able to move between tiers. They have been able to do this within the product."
"You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"The archiving feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The management could be a bit better."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"I would like a little more ease with the virtual platforms, because it is a huge thing that is coming up."
"The initial setup is complex."
"It needs some software upgrades to fix some of its current bugs."
"I want to see better compression than what it currently does."
"It should have the ability to break down the data that's being backed up. It should have better reporting."
"For the database side, it does not have object level recovery."
"We recently had a situation where we quickly got code, and the number of tapes exceeded the library capacity so we were waiting a while to change. We got a fix for this right away."
"IBM's support hasn't been so good in the last few years."
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Asigra is ranked 57th in Backup and Recovery while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Asigra is rated 8.2, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Asigra writes "Automated notifications work much better than other solutions we've employed, and the ability to add usage reports to invoices through DS-Billing is a very useful feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Asigra is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, 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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