We compared IBM Spectrum Protect and Nakivo based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: IBM Spectrum Protect is highly regarded for its ability to integrate with tape libraries and its customization options. Users also praised Spectrum Protect for its compatibility with various products, scalability, and stability. Nakivo is praised for its offsite backup to Synology NAS and seamless cloud integration. IBM Spectrum Protect could improve its integration with cloud services and make its interface more user-friendly. Nakivo could benefit from improvements in its remote upgrade capabilities, SNMP features, and application backup.
Service and Support: IBM’s customer service is described as high quality, friendly, knowledgeable, and responsive. At the same time, some said the support process can be lengthy. Nakivo's support is praised for being quick, considerate, and attentive.
Ease of Deployment: IBM Spectrum Protect's initial setup is challenging and demands skilled professionals to configure multiple parameters and features. This process can be time-consuming. Nakivo's setup was described as straightforward. A few users said the deployment was somewhat complex but not excessively difficult.
Pricing: IBM Spectrum Protect is considered expensive. The pricing model is complex, taking into account factors like processor type and volume. Nakivo offers lower licensing costs and a flexible pricing structure. Nakivo provides cost-efficient backups at a competitive price and even offers a free license for one year for up to five VMs.
ROI: Users have realized benefits from IBM Spectrum Protect’s data protection and retrieval. They appreciate its ability to reduce storage requirements with larger tape sizes. Nakivo ensures a favorable return on investment with a reasonable total cost of ownership and reduced testing expenditures.
Comparison Results: IBM Spectrum Protect is a reliable, customizable solution that allows smooth integration with tape libraries. At the same time, some say that the user interface could be more intuitive and Spectrum Protect could integrate better with the cloud. Nakivo is a powerful, cost-effective solution that seamlessly integrates with the cloud, but it could use some enhancements in its SNMP features and remote upgrading functionality.
"The ability to migrate between media over a long period of time. My customers are long-time users, and they have benefited from being able to move between tiers. They have been able to do this within the product."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"The MN backup for a cluster is most valuable because it has made backing up the GSF as a zero-file system easier. I like its stability a lot. Over the years, I very rarely had a problem with it."
"We can use it with any storage for the back-end to save data."
"In general, the solution is quite user-friendly. The GUI is very nice."
"The customization and the ability to backup across all platforms are the most valuable features."
"Their GUI has improved quite a bit. It's made the solution a lot simpler and less complex."
"Data archiving is easier and less time-consuming."
"The solution has a user-friendly interface and is easy to configure."
"Every new version has got some tweaks and improvements in stability and speed."
"The price is much lower than competitors that do the same function."
"The solution offers reliable copying and fast recovery."
"Cloud integration is valuable because the ability to not only backup locally, but to the cloud, has been a great addition to the already fantastic product."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of creating a backup copy job to get the backups to a second device."
"Nakivo Backup and Replication's web-based management interface enables intuitive, rapid, and seamless configuration and management of all backup and recovery functionality across the enterprise."
"It is easy to set up using the included virtual appliance and also includes agents for most NAS systems."
"They should have a proper technical support team serving the customers and get issues resolved earlier."
"The reporting could be better."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"We did not see any drawbacks to IBM Spectrum Protect before assisting a customer using Windows that wanted to migrate to using UNIX. IBM Spectrum Protect does not offer an option to migrate from other operating systems."
"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."
"I would like to see monitoring within the platform: monitoring for storage pools and monitoring for the server's health (e.g., CPU and memory)."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"So far, there is no version that supports Polish. If such a version existed, many customers in our region would decide to purchase and implement this solution."
"They need a better knowledge base with more information about support issues."
"It would be interesting if it were possible to integrate a mobile app to monitor the system in real-time."
"Updating VM tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"UI could use some upgrades. The UI is basic, but functional."
"An additional feature that would be appreciated is disaster recovery automation."
"It would be great if the product could be expanded to support other virtual technologies."
"I need no more valuable features for backs-up. I have not yet tried the latest release, however, I have all the features that I need."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. 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 NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Dell Avamar, whereas NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and BDRSuite. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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