We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and IBM Storage 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."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 most valuable features are the stability and also how it's seamlessly integrated with other IBM offerings."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is stable."
"We cannot live without it, since it gives us the confidence to move forward."
"With the new features that we have added, it has made a difference as far as faster recovery and speed."
"The product helps us do data protection and restoration for disaster recovery (DR)."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the centralized enterprise backup."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"The tool's backup engine is very powerful. Previously, our client finished backup with HPE product in 48 hours. IBM Storage Protect completes backup in 8 hours."
"The best point about IBM Storage Protect is that it can use IBM tape environments, which we still use and will continue to use in the future."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is not a very user-friendly tool."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"There is room for improvement in the service aspect."
"My customers are not always happy with the Level 1 support. Sometimes, it just takes too long for the response to come, which is probably something that needs to be addressed."
"It seems like they are a little behind on the integration to Azure Cloud as well as Amazon."
"I would like to see integration with Copy Data Management, which is an IBM product. Right now, these two products are siloed, so if these two become integrated, the product would become a bit of a powerhouse."
"The previous GUI that they had was slow, and it did not have enough information on it."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
"The solution is expensive."
"The product should improve its GUI. It should also support Windows clustering."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while IBM Storage Protect is ranked 41st in Backup and Recovery with 2 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while IBM Storage Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Storage Protect writes "A stable enterprise solution for backup and restore". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas IBM Storage Protect is most compared with .
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