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."
"The solution has been very stable."
"It has helped us to provide comprehensive data protection with high recovery rates and a malware scanning feature."
"I have found all the features useful in the solution."
"I find the whole product useful. The backup archive client, snapshot, spectrum for virtual environments are beneficial features."
"The deduplication and compression features are the most valuable features."
"It is a really scalable solution. We can scale it up. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten."
"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."
"I love the TDP for VMware because of the web interface and the possibilities provided by this tool. It's amazing."
"The solution is mostly stable."
"Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"Everyone wants a full backup. It gives them safety and peace of mind, like an insurance policy for that rainy day when they may need to restore a system."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"The management could be a bit better."
"This solution is not mature in terms of disaster recovery and could be improved."
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"The administration tools for GI need improvement, as the current assessment suggests shortcomings in the back-end system."
"There is room for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect, especially regarding its support for virtual environment backups."
"IBM's support hasn't been so good in the last few years."
"A lot of my customers always ask for legal holds, especially on email."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"The solution could be more user-friendly and provide better monitoring. The monitoring should be improved first since it is a higher priority."
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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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