We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The main feature of this product is a flexible architecture and functionality that allows you to solve problems of any complexity and scale. Most importantly, it is not just a product that simply makes a backup, but it restores and saves a large number of services in critical situations. By the way, it works fine with different types of clouds, supports S3."
"Scalability: Our customers are able to grow the product without having to buy additional hardware, so it is very scalable."
"Instead of taking three different backups of your systems, you're taking only one. You're able to crack that open and get what you need. The incident recovery, where it creates the VM and then you're running it, technically you're running it on Spectrum Protect. But then in the background, it's doing the storage motion and moving it off the Spectrum Protect back to your VMware environment. The users don't know the difference."
"It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"The best part of this solution is that it just works."
"What I found most valuable in IBM Spectrum Protect is that it allows you to back up physical machines, and its proxy feature lets you back up virtual machines."
"The solution is really scalable."
"The scheduled backups ensure we meet the requirements for our business, and we keep backups of certain environments."
"Veeam is very user-friendly and intuitive software."
"The solution is very affordable for small businesses."
"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."
"User-friendly data backup and protection solution for a Windows environment. The Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is very scalable, stable, and has good compatibility and integration."
"Technical support is good. They're very responsive. It depends on the timezone responding, but I usually get a response within three hours of creating a ticket."
"It is a stable solution."
"The installation of Veeam Agent is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows are the backups, ease of use, and report manager."
"I should be able to backup Linux. I would like SUSE for Linux on POWER. Right now, we have to use Storex, which is a pain to use."
"Anytime you are not very current and call in with an issue, it is hard to get it resolved. It will depend on how far back you go though."
"For the database side, it does not have object level recovery."
"Customers have migrated off of it because of its lack of virtual environment functions."
"Our new leadership has pushed us to go more toward the cloud, so we are definitely going to leverage anything we can in that direction."
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"I find the Level 1 and Level 2 support spend 80% of the time communicating the same information that I have already provided."
"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."
"I would like to have a more automated installation process."
"There are not many options available for AIX backup. They provide the agent for AIX, but it could be more mature."
"If you are doing an AIX backup then you have to use the CLI because it doesn't appear on the console, the way that Windows and Linux jobs do."
"The predictability of the solution needs improvement. Sometimes, if it's doing something at the back end, it may go slow. Today, the backup completion took four hours, but sometimes it can do the backup in 30 minutes or an hour. With solutions like NetBackup, I can predict to a much higher degree of certainty how long something will take to complete."
"They should improve the solution's automation features."
"Interface could possibly be improved."
"The stability of this solution needs to be improved."
"The compression ratio and application ratio could still be improved in this solution. Reporting could also be improved, for better monitoring."
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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 Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager and Acronis Cyber Protect.
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