User Reviews of IBM Spectrum Protect & Microsoft DPM

Updated March 2024

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IBM Spectrum Protect review

Robert Hedblom
Robert Hedblom
Cloud and Solution Principal Architect at sumNERV Provider AB
Effective against ransomware attacks and highly stable on-premises
The initial setup is super complex. The reason is that all the on-prem backup software that you can utilize—each and everyone that says, "Oh, it's just a few clicks, and then you're up and running"—quite often, very poorly written, really it's kind of crappy. When it comes to IBM, it's a true enterprise product, meaning that you can scale...
Microsoft DPM review

RifkanHasan
RifkanHasan
Group Assistant, General Manager of IT at CIC
Backup and recovery that is stable but support is no longer in existence
The DPM is pretty good, but when it comes to external devices, you can't back up to the external device. It's a huge drawback because once everything goes down, it goes down fully. We can't take a snapshot and take it outside, which is a problem. Also, when it comes to recovery, the recovery process doesn't work properly. It doesn't...

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