We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup & Replication has the winning edge in this comparison because it received higher marks in the ease of deployment, pricing, and service and support categories.
"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"We have a very good team of administrators who know the product perfectly and are able to manage it on a day-to-day basis."
"I've had no problems with the stability of this solution."
"The ability to use S3 Data Store as a repository."
"by backing up only the changed data, we average around 75TB per night. If we had to do full backups, even occasionally, we would not be able to complete the backup within 12 hours, or we would have to make a large investment to fit a full backup within the 12 hour window."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is application-aware backups."
"We have been using it for several years, and it is quite reliable and predictable. We are quite comfortable with this solution. They're coming up with new features as well. It has good scalability, and it provides good integrations with business-critical applications or databases, such as SAP HANA. It works as expected, and we don't see any issues."
"You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"It most valuable features are seeding and faster backups over small links."
"Get only one interface to manage all backup sites, secure them with replication, and manage outside LTO media."
"The technical support is excellent. It's one of the best I've met so far."
"It helps with process restoration. With Veeam, we never had backup or restoration issues."
"It serves its intended purpose and it works well."
"It integrates easily with third-party solutions compared to other vendors."
"It's simply very good software for backup purposes."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are the ease of use and the interface is very configurable for the users. It's a very familiar solution in Algeria."
"If IBM could provide a partial module, that would be great."
"I would love to see something which allows us to do an auto restart of backup jobs."
"It lacks reporting and an efficient alert mechanism. The GUI could also be improved."
"We need better protection from ransomware or the ability to identify ways we can protect ourselves from ransomware. Having backups is one thing, but specifically, we need methods to recover if we have a ransomware attack."
"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)."
"I want a better user interface, support, and integrations."
"This product comes up against other products available that are marketed better but the other products that it's in competition with are a single product and this is one of IBM products. If it could be marketed as more for competitors I think that's where it comes short."
"The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement"
"I would like to see the Veeam cloud solution and Microsoft Office 365 included all in one platform."
"Offering mobile apps that give engineers a global view of his backup regime would be a "nice to have" feature."
"The documentation and communication could be better in Veeam Backup Replication."
"Veeam Backup & Replication should include a cloud solution."
"The deduplication feature could be improved by changing to global deduplication."
"My biggest issue with Veeam at the moment is how the backup reports are displayed. We use the SolarWinds integration to generate consolidated reports for monitoring purposes, but we aren't getting all the available data shown to us in the way that we want."
"It would be preferable if they could introduce a complete Linux version instead of relying solely on Microsoft for management. There should be a unified integration of all their products. Currently, there are various products like cloud backup and others that exist separately. It would be better if they could create a single comprehensive platform or product, as opposed to having disparate products that lack proper communication between them."
"The interface and cluster environments could be improved in the future as presently they are using agent interface instead of user interface. Also, the backup for the Oracle WAC environment can be improved."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 328 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. 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 Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and Zerto. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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