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."
"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."
"Our customers have come to trust IBM."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"Replication processes with container storage pools allow reduction of storage space and network bandwidth, using deduplication and compression."
"Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"It is more efficient than most traditional backup solutions."
"The backup on real-time, especially for the virtual machine, archiving, and retrieving the reader from the backup repository and getting it online, getting it validated, then performing the data consistency check over the backup."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that IBM Spectrum Protect is highly integrated with IBM ESS. In addition, it allows us to back up our virtual servers directly to take VM snapshots. It runs on Linux as well."
"The management could be a bit better."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"I need to have more than two instances working together. I need a worldwide grid able to have replication between three, four, or five instances."
"IBM's support hasn't been so good in the last few years."
"This solution is not mature in terms of disaster recovery and could be improved."
"The previous GUI that they had was slow, and it did not have enough information on it."
"There needs to be a bit more automation."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive. Its interface is very old and not user friendly. They can improve its interface. Their support can also be better. My clients are not very satisfied with the support because they are not really quick."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of use - the GUI is not up to the mark compared to other products in the market."
"Easier configuration of some of the products, e.g., VE comes to mind."
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Asigra is ranked 55th 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, Acronis Cyber Protect and Rubrik, 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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