We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."
"One way they have improved our organization is through the stability of the solution and the availability of the product."
"Their GUI has improved quite a bit. It's made the solution a lot simpler and less complex."
"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."
"It is very stable. A plus is to use POWERAge for the SNR copy of the Spectrum Protect, then it is more reliable."
"It seems very scalable and robust. It can do what we require it to do."
"In the past, one of the most valuable features, and the biggest advantage, was the incremental forever feature. Not many other backup vendors provided that. In the pre-virtualization environment, it was very robust and simple technology, especially writing to tape."
"The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery."
"The solution is meeting all of our client's requirements. It has good performance."
"I love Veeam because it is very easy to work with."
"Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows's most useful features is the ease of use and user-friendly."
"If you have windows machine at home and you'd like a backup, you can always download their free edition and plug in an external hard disk, and do a full backup of your laptop."
"The solution is useful for taking backups for end-user laptops and end-user workstations where data is involved."
"The product is free to use. We don't have to pay for a license."
"Technical support is good."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The solution is evolving, so it has to be evolved to fit all new types of software requirements too."
"It does not do too well in our virtual environment."
"IBM's support hasn't been so good in the last few years."
"The deduplication must be perfect, and thus should be improved."
"I find the solution somewhat difficult to use with virtual environments or VMware."
"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."
"The only thing that I would like to have a little more of is insight in reporting. I find that Spectrum Protect needs a lot of monitoring, and I have to actually log into the servers."
"The solution could use some updates to minor details omitted from current reporting."
"They should improve the solution's automation features."
"A feature I would like to see is universal restore. At the moment, restoration can only be smooth on the same hardware. Let's say you have a server and you back it up with Veeam Agent, in case it fails or crashes. If you later buy a new server because the same one isn't available on the market anymore, there's a high chance that Windows will not boot up if you restore from the Veeam backup because the hardware is now different. Acronis has the universal restore feature, so it will work with generic drivers and you can restore Windows in any dissimilar hardware. As far as I know, Veeam doesn't have this feature yet."
"There should be an option to use the solution for physical machines."
"Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows should improve by having more features, easier deployment, and compatibility with Unix boxes."
"I would like to see the capability for remote installation of third party applications added( Like installing WinRar MS Office etc..) , and Firewall for servers."
"It fulfills our needs in terms of features. In terms of improvements, they can maybe improve its documentation."
"There isn't really anything I would like to improve. Maybe the solution could be more secure."
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IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Backup and Recovery with 40 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] is rated 8.4. 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 Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] writes "Functional application availability". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell Avamar, Acronis Cyber Protect, AWS Backup and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager.
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