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.
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"All other products contain the same features, but when I'm backing up an IBM Power server I feel more comfortable with IBM Spectrum Protect because it's the same vendor."
"The way it covers backup and archive needs. The flexibility of backup copy group always allows me to cover the customer's requests."
"The scheduled backups ensure we meet the requirements for our business, and we keep backups of certain environments."
"The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery."
"Forever incremental - allows TSM to optimize storage needs."
"We have better, faster backup times, and it has improved efficiency in the backups."
"The technical support for Spectrum Protect is very mature. It is very committed to giving a top-notch support experience."
"One of the standout features of Veeam Backup & Replication is its exceptional restore capability, enabling users to recover their data seamlessly. Another valuable functionality is the automated verification of backup restorations, made possible through the Sure Backup feature. The software boasts numerous other noteworthy features that offer immense value, including the NAS backup feature."
"I know it's not exactly a feature, but I accept it works and it's easy to use. With the Veeam Backup & Replication, we have no problems in managing restore. Obviously, the most important thing about backup software. I used to say that every backup software can make backups, but only good ones can make a restore."
"It is way easier to take backup with Veeam Backup & Replication than the regular ones."
"The solution is easy to install and very stable."
"This is easy to use with a simple restore feature."
"Veeam Backup & Replication is definitely very useful and simple to learn, and the restoring processes are very straightforward, making it a very solid product."
"The most important part is that you actually know you have a backup of the whole virtual server."
"They provide good technical support and we are satisfied with the support we have received."
"Their support is lacking. I've talked to their developers and stuff in the last couple of weeks and they reassure me that some people have retired, and they're working on getting that bumped back up. But the support lacks a lot to be desired at this point."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"The usability of IBM Spectrum Protect could be improved, specifically additional features to the product in the operations center. Additional reporting facilities and stronger reporting tools such as build dashboards would be beneficial."
"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."
"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."
"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."
"I would like to see integration with Copy Data Management, which is an IBM product. Right now, these two products are siloed, so if these two become integrated, the product would become a bit of a powerhouse."
"The solution should improve the ability to monitor backup failure."
"Restoration takes about two to four hours with Veeam. Zerto can restore in about 10 seconds. That's the restoration speed I'm looking for now that we're dealing with ransomware."
"It would be nice to see more affordable training options for individuals who want to enhance their skills. Some people I know have been interested in training courses, but they found them too expensive."
"I don't see much room for improvement except that the price could be better."
"The only improvement I could think of is it could be cheaper—cheaper is always good. Sometimes the product is just finished. Cheaper is always nice for the customer, but the company needs to benefit so that they can keep maintaining the product. New Windows versions, etc., always take some work. At the moment, I wouldn't switch to another solution because of the money."
"The initial setup is not always easy, and customers often need a lot of help to get Veeam up and running successfully."
"Veeam currently lacks features for backing up to network-attached storage. Veeam Backup & Replication agents do not support S3 storage. Only Veeam Backup & Replication server supports S3 storage."
"We have had problems with some jobs. For example, when we have a VM with a large SQL Database, sometimes we cannot adjust the time for transaction logs to back up and overlap time."
"Multithreading of health check process: This can take too much time to process on large jobs and/or large VMs."
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 329 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, Rubrik, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Veritas NetBackup. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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