We performed a comparison between Asigra and IBM Spectrum Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has been very stable."
"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."
"I have found all the features useful in the solution."
"It has to ability to backup DV2, Oracle, and Informix."
"The backup of Sybase databases is the most valuable feature in the existing environment. They have got the most documentation out there on the internet for its software protection. The documentation is excellent, and there are a lot of blogs, websites. Because it's still one of the oldest products out there for data protection, there are also lots of people who have a lot of experience in using this solution."
"It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"Enterprise-wide type of architecture supports a lot of different platforms."
"It is a very mature product."
"You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"In the past, one of the most valuable features, and the biggest advantage, was the incremental forever feature. Not many other backup vendors provided that. In the pre-virtualization environment, it was very robust and simple technology, especially writing to tape."
"Nothing beats this solution for file backup."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"The management could be a bit better."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"Generally, the implementation of virtualization could be improved. The workflow service and so on are not working properly."
"The reporting could be better."
"The administration interface should implement more functionalities that exist only in the command line and needs improvement in how some reports are created."
"Needs more support for non-mainstream databases, in particular PostgreSQL, SQL, and MySQL."
"We are having a balance issue between the reclamation and the backup function. It has to take the space back from the tapes before it can record to those tapes, but sometimes those two processes are overlapping."
"Although I am not a technical user, I would say the cloud integration features could be improved."
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Asigra is ranked 58th 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, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Asigra vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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