We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."We work very closely together with IBM using their Support Center, but we have a strong contact in their development teams, and we have dedicated people from IBM working with us."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"The scalability of IBM Spectrum Protect is good."
"Enterprise-wide type of architecture supports a lot of different platforms."
"The product is very stable."
"We apply the new dedupe and compression technology, using maintenance and time to give more time for the backup window and less time for the overhead related to the daily housekeeping."
"Scalability: Our customers are able to grow the product without having to buy additional hardware, so it is very scalable."
"The solution is very stable. It is one of the most important features that we look for in a product before putting it into the market and when establishing a strategy with our customers."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"The product is flexible."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"The replication feature is noteworthy because it's faster than most and it uses little bandwidth. Then there's the friendly interface that the equipment offers. With this interface, it is very easy to manage."
"At the moment, we use NetApp SnapMirror to replicate data to another filer at an offsite location for backup. So, I like this feature."
"It has a lot of areas for improvement. Its reporting for job completion or incompletion can be improved. It should also provide a granular recovery, ease of operation, data life cycle management, and media management. It should support a backup in such a format that in case of a disaster, one can start the virtual machine out of the backup itself. Its reliability can also be better. It is also expensive, and their support is also poor."
"We are having a balance issue between the reclamation and the backup function. It has to take the space back from the tapes before it can record to those tapes, but sometimes those two processes are overlapping."
"They should have a proper technical support team serving the customers and get issues resolved earlier."
"A lot of my customers always ask for legal holds, especially on email."
"They can include more cloud-enriching features. I would like IBM Spectrum Protect to have the functionality for backing up a VM directly in Azure. I would like to be able to back up a VM directly in Azure without spinning up a Hyper-V cluster and backing up the virtual server."
"Ease of use."
"The solution should have better integration with VMware and with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus."
"If you take Spectrum Protect into account, and you have it along with restrictions to Spectrum Archive by means of LTFS, this is also something which should be made better within the overall product's program."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"They should add new features to the product."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"Interfacing with the cloud environment could be better. I want to be able to move some cloud volume and integrate it seamlessly with my home on-premise storage. Sometimes I have issues with port permissions. NetApp probably needs to improve more on the integration side from on-premise to the cloud."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 98 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. 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 NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem.
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