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 solution has been very stable."
"I have found all the features useful in the solution."
"It has helped us to provide comprehensive data protection with high recovery rates and a malware scanning feature."
"The agentless architecture has minimized our software footprint at the client level."
"It is a very mature product."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"The platform has valuable stability."
"It has a lot more capabilities and functions than a lot of other products. Even though it is more complex, the reason is because it gives you a lot more features. This is what I prefer, especially for a long retention."
"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."
"The scheduled backups ensure we meet the requirements for our business, and we keep backups of certain environments."
"Space efficient data reduction, using progressive incremental forever in combination with deduplication and compression."
"The solution is very stable. It is one of the most important features that we look for in a product before putting it into the market and when establishing a strategy with our customers."
"The management could be a bit better."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"The features should be a little bit closer together."
"Probably educating the virtual group who are not as used to the product. Most of our expertise is with AIX servers and virtual server backups."
"It does not do too well in our virtual environment."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The solution must protect against ransomware attacks better."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
"They can include more cloud-enriching features. I would like IBM Spectrum Protect to have the functionality for backing up a VM directly in Azure. I would like to be able to back up a VM directly in Azure without spinning up a Hyper-V cluster and backing up the virtual server."
"The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect."
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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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