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."I have found all the features useful in the solution."
"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."
"Scalability, performance, mass platform coverage. It's one of the few backup products on the market right now which an organization can bring in and it will serve all of their backup needs. It's a completely centralized solution."
"Space efficient data reduction, using progressive incremental forever in combination with deduplication and compression."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is a scalable solution."
"The tool proves invaluable in scenarios where systems need recovery, such as restoring damaged data."
"The solution is not complex, it's very easy to configure agents or VM backup and restore. Upgrades from one version to another are very fast and the product is very stable."
"The D2D2T archive of my PACS data improved after I put Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 into production."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"The most valuable features are the stability and also how it's seamlessly integrated with other IBM offerings."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"The management could be a bit better."
"Most customers still struggle with the reporting piece, especially generating reports. I think it needs some improvements in this area."
"The product should be improved to save more space."
"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."
"The version that we had when I first started made it look really bad. We are talking about commands that should have run in two seconds, but instead took four to eight hours. Other components were sluggish."
"It does not do too well in our virtual environment."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"I would like a little more ease with the virtual platforms, because it is a huge thing that is coming up."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
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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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