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."It has to ability to backup DV2, Oracle, and Informix."
"It is a very mature product."
"It is more efficient than most traditional backup solutions."
"Forever incremental - allows TSM to optimize storage needs."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups."
"The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery."
"Replication processes with container storage pools allow reduction of storage space and network bandwidth, using deduplication and compression."
"The amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"The most valuable feature is SnapMirror."
"You can use different protocols at the same time. Monitoring is also very easy in NetApp FAS Series. There is a free tool for monitoring."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"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."
"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."
"They do not have a unified GUI, they only work on CLI and operations center, which is really complicated for the installation and configuration."
"Ease of use."
"I want a better user interface, support, and integrations."
"The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect."
"The administration interface should implement more functionalities that exist only in the command line and needs improvement in how some reports are created."
"There needs to be a bit more automation."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"For long term partnership in Myanmar, the local warehouse should be built in Myanmar that's something I'd like to see. We have some issues with supply so there is sometimes a delay in getting the hardware."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"The user interface could be improved."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could be improved."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
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 Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect, 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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