We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and NetApp SnapCenter 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."The platform has valuable stability."
"The fact that we can take the backup straight onto tape is the most valuable feature."
"It is an IBM product. With SAP, you are using IBM software to protect it. DB2 and AIX servers are both IBM. Therefore, it is a total IBM solution, which helps."
"It saves you a lot of storage."
"The tool proves invaluable in scenarios where systems need recovery, such as restoring damaged data."
"Its incremental forever approach is valuable, so we don't have to load tapes to do a restore."
"Traditional storage works perfectly with it."
"Our performance is better."
"It has very fast backup and can handle a huge amount of data. It also enables really fast recovery."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"We have been very satisfied with the technical support's help. Their knowledge level is great. For a noncritical question, they will get back to us within a day."
"The backup process finishes very quickly."
"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."
"Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"The main advantage is its fast backup and restore."
"They should have a proper technical support team serving the customers and get issues resolved earlier."
"The main admin console from the UI cannot do anything in the product. It just allows us to maintain, maybe, 30% to 40%. For the rest, we have to use the command line."
"In a future release, it would be a benefit to have the ability to add an application as a storage target, as a storage pool. Additionally, they should add more functionality to the administration for the Operation Center."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive. Its interface is very old and not user friendly. They can improve its interface. Their support can also be better. My clients are not very satisfied with the support because they are not really quick."
"Needs more support for non-mainstream databases, in particular PostgreSQL, SQL, and MySQL."
"Sometimes we experience trouble with the backup transfer of the control files."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"It lacks reporting and an efficient alert mechanism. The GUI could also be improved."
"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."
"When you have role-based access, for example, it's a bit of a problem that the person who creates the backup job is the owner of it. We are struggling a bit with this, that everyone has the same view and the same permissions in there."
"The compatibility with other manufacturers, like Oracle and Hyper-V, could be improved. I would like to see it be more compatible with other software."
"What I did witness lately are issues with some Microsoft KBs, the updates. But it happened only once, and not on a major platform, it was on a small one."
"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."
"We have experience some difficulties with our current support. We are engaging in engineering level support because some of our problems are more technical."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. 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 SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup and Veritas NetBackup. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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