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."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."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The agentless architecture has minimized our software footprint at the client level."
"Scalability: Our customers are able to grow the product without having to buy additional hardware, so it is very scalable."
"Scalability, performance, mass platform coverage. It's one of the few backup products on the market right now which an organization can bring in and it will serve all of their backup needs. It's a completely centralized solution."
"The main feature of this product is a flexible architecture and functionality that allows you to solve problems of any complexity and scale. Most importantly, it is not just a product that simply makes a backup, but it restores and saves a large number of services in critical situations. By the way, it works fine with different types of clouds, supports S3."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"We do not lose data. That is why we are using this product and have a backup in place."
"The way it covers backup and archive needs. The flexibility of backup copy group always allows me to cover the customer's requests."
"Some of the people in our group, like our DBAs and non-technical people, can restore some stuff themselves via Spectrum Protect. That is how simple it is."
"Space efficient data reduction, using progressive incremental forever in combination with deduplication and compression."
"The management could be a bit better."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"For the database side, it does not have object level recovery."
"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."
"Perhaps some better documentation, which I believe was better in the past."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect."
"Most customers still struggle with the reporting piece, especially generating reports. I think it needs some improvements in this area."
"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."
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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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