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."
"I have found all the features useful in the solution."
"The solution has been very stable."
"It is pretty easy to use and maintain."
"Traditional storage works perfectly with it."
"It's very robust and has been on the market for a long time."
"Performance and recoveries are better. Our clients and customers are happier with the performance of it."
"Forever incremental - allows TSM to optimize storage needs."
"The solution can back up every kind of workload in the environment."
"The fact that we can take the backup straight onto tape is the most valuable feature."
"It is also a product that has been maturing for a long time. This is good because customers need reliability in their enterprise initiatives."
"The management could be a bit better."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"The main admin console from the UI cannot do anything in the product. It just allows us to maintain, maybe, 30% to 40%. For the rest, we have to use the command line."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"RTO is a huge gap for us. If we had a disaster scenario and had to recover a bunch of stuff from tape, the RTO would be too long for us."
"I want to see better compression than what it currently does."
"It needs agents that take into account more databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)."
"Needs more support for non-mainstream databases, in particular PostgreSQL, SQL, and MySQL."
"I find the solution somewhat difficult to use with virtual environments or VMware."
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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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