We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."
"The most valuable features of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are you have many possibilities on how to use it. We use it for backups and to create secondary and third copies. It is possible to pick up Kubernetes containers and use a different cloud provider if you need to start backups on the cloud."
"This solution is very stable and has good support available online."
"The solution integrates well with other tools."
"The tool has enough documentation; you don't need to contact the support team."
"If the system were to go down, we needed to make sure that the system could be recovered and available as soon as possible. Spectrum Protect provides you access to directly bind the backup volume to the server and make the system available instead of restoring it and copying the system."
"The solution's stability is high because it is derived from Spectrum Protect."
"The feature I find most valuable is the offload to Spectrum Protect for long-term retention. I think the deduplication and replication are quite nice on Plus."
"I don't know if it is the best or the worst but it's very easy to install and very easy to balance. Sometimes that it's a problem because the installer of these data gets extremely scared because it's so easy. The product is easy to install, easy to balance, and easy to work with. Another really good point is the instant recovery."
"The search functionality is second to none as the speed of the search is fast across the whole system and predictive."
"It works with VMware and Hyper-V without agent installation."
"It has a single pane of glass interface."
"The most valuable feature is the archive to cloud location and the automation around the PowerShell script. There are also reports and dashboards."
"In terms of usage, Rubrik has allowed us to retrieve data 80 to 90 percent faster than our previous technology."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Rubrik, when compared to Cohesity, Dell, and Veritas, was the best of the four."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."
"Rooms for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are installation and configuration because those were difficult. They should try their best to improve those areas. In the next release of the product, better implementation and administration are what we're expecting."
"An area that needs improvement is data validation. We currently use another product that gives us immediate validation, information about when the last backup was, and no risk of corruption happening. TSM in IBM Spectrum is not mature so that you can validate on the spot."
"The security must be improved."
"The software's technical support could improve its response time for different time zones."
"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."
"The solution should allow for backup of iOS snapshots."
"It still needs to grow and add new features. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, I believe, requires time to become competitive due to a weakness in the other software products."
"It is an expensive product."
"Capacity reports could definitely be improved. It's hard to determine what is using the space and why. For instance, you can see that some host is using 2 TB on the Rubrik node and the disk space on that host is 400 GBs. It's hard to explain how there can be 2 TBs of data on local storage when nothing has changed on the host for the past three days."
"I would like a way to set monthly backups on a certain date and time."
"They support Hyper-V and it works with our CloudOut, the cloud DR, but they seem to add features for VMware first and Hyper-V gets added second or sometimes several releases after the VMware feature comes out."
"I would like to see the entire Office 365 product suite backed up by Rubrik. For instance, they do SharePoint and Exchange online, but they don't back up Microsoft Teams. So, I would like to see more of the Office 365 suite added into their backup capabilities."
"There could be better reporting and better filtering."
"I don't like Rubrik's user interface because it's not intuitive, and I find it hard to get the information I need."
"The Office 365 protection could be improved."
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 19th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 86 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.0, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus writes "Has very good integration features and can quickly backup data and optimize storage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Automates the backup and recovery process, reducing manual human errors and global search allows for granular recoveries". IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup and Atempo Digital Archive, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs. Rubrik report.
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