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 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."
"Regarding stability, it's been rock solid."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"It is a very stable product. The cost is similar to that of other enterprise solutions."
"The file-restoring feature is the most valuable."
"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"The product is very stable."
"It allows us to have one interface."
"It saves you a lot of storage."
"The management could be a bit better."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"I should be able to backup Linux. I would like SUSE for Linux on POWER. Right now, we have to use Storex, which is a pain to use."
"Replication of data could be more user friendly."
"I find the Level 1 and Level 2 support spend 80% of the time communicating the same information that I have already provided."
"The user interface (UI) for the admin is still not good. It is way too complicated to manage the product, as we still need to use command line. IBM launched the Operations Center (OC), but there are still functions lacking, especially since we cannot manage all our scheduled tasks by using the GUI."
"I find the solution somewhat difficult to use with virtual environments or VMware."
"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"The solution needs to work on disaster recovery integration. Basically, VMware applications to the cloud, for example. There needs to be integration with the storage, and integration with VMware."
"Our customers would like to see metadata replication, tearing to tape, and more cloud capabilities."
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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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