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."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."
"The solution has been very stable."
"I have found all the features useful in the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the backup speed."
"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."
"Data reduction definitely reduces costs, not only software costs, but from the infrastructure needed."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is application-aware backups."
"You can scale the product."
"We can use it with any storage for the back-end to save data."
"Its incremental forever approach is valuable, so we don't have to load tapes to do a restore."
"The file-restoring feature is the most valuable."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"The management could be a bit better."
"I would love to see something which allows us to do an auto restart of backup jobs."
"The administration interface should implement more functionalities that exist only in the command line and needs improvement in how some reports are created."
"They need to do a better job on Windows, because if you are running Windows, the scalability is more limited than AIX and Linux."
"Ease of use."
"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."
"It needs agents that take into account more databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)."
"Although I am not a technical user, I would say the cloud integration features could be improved."
"We are not so happy with the technical support because dealing with them is not easy. We have a very complicated environment, therefore I understand for a support person that it is not easy to troubleshoot it."
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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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