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."
"You can do restores very quickly. You can mount a drive and restore it right from the drive."
"Spectrum Protect's best feature is that I can use it practically anywhere, on any platform, and for any servers or clients."
"I love the TDP for VMware because of the web interface and the possibilities provided by this tool. It's amazing."
"With Spectrum Protect, you can use any type of disk to back-end the repositories. It gave us flexibility to use whatever storage we wanted at our secondary site."
"The archiving feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"Regarding technical support, if one has the entire enterprise support, I would rate it a nine out of ten...Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten."
"SPIR is Instant Recovery for Spectrum Protect. It sends snapshots using space efficiently and blocking backups to the Spectrum Protect server. It provisions the snapshot from the backup server to the same or new server near instantly."
"It seems very scalable and robust. It can do what we require it to do."
"The management could be a bit better."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"It might be seen as leaning towards the legacy side, missing some features of newer solutions. The main drawbacks would be its complexity and high pricing."
"There could be various client systems and process integration included in the product."
"I would like to see a way to have "always on" implemented."
"We recently had a situation where we quickly got code, and the number of tapes exceeded the library capacity so we were waiting a while to change. We got a fix for this right away."
"It's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"If you take Spectrum Protect into account, and you have it along with restrictions to Spectrum Archive by means of LTFS, this is also something which should be made better within the overall product's program."
"It does what we need it to do, but it could be better with VM backups. It could be better integrated with virtual machines or VM backups, but that's why they have their Plus out now. Plus version is more geared toward VM backups. The regular version is more for endpoint clients."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
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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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