We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, and Veeam Backup & Replication based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The product is very stable."
"The most valuable features are the stability and also how it's seamlessly integrated with other IBM offerings."
"IBM support is friendly, knowledgeable, and they always respond quickly. They've always been able to find the cause of my problem."
"Every time customers make a change or we have made a change, then they use the product to do a cloning and refreshing. They are happy that they get good performance something changes."
"The ability to migrate between media over a long period of time. My customers are long-time users, and they have benefited from being able to move between tiers. They have been able to do this within the product."
"It is very stable after deployment and will perform in a steady state."
"Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"The fact that we can take the backup straight onto tape is the most valuable feature."
"This is a multi-platform backup solution where you can take a backup from AIX, Windows, or Linux servers and restore from CD, disk, or tape."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is the deduplication functionality. The clients moved to this solution originally because of this feature."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with Oracle."
"The most valuable features are the API features because it allows you to integrate with your Microsoft SQL, your Oracle, and your IBM Db2."
"A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."
"Some of the features we find very valuable and use a lot, are retention sets."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Veeam is the gold standard for backup and recovery. The ease of use and reliability of this solution are real assets. Also, it has an ease of use to work with a third party vendor."
"The encryption password is used to protect the backup files. Even if someone gains access to the backup job or files, they won't be able to utilize them without the password."
"The fast backup and restore feature is the most valuable."
"One thing we like about the product is that it's good and not as expensive as similar products. Right now, there are different ways to back up your information—you can back up directly to a disk or the cloud. It allows you to have various kinds of repositories."
"The replication feature has proven to be the most valuable feature for us."
"Its simplicity and the fact that it just works are most valuable. We kind of set it up and generally forget about it. It does what we need it to do in the background, and it doesn't involve a lot of management."
"I think that the scalability is very good. We can't compare it."
"I find the Level 1 and Level 2 support spend 80% of the time communicating the same information that I have already provided."
"We would like to see capabilities of long-term archiving and more support for hardware platforms."
"I would like a little more ease with the virtual platforms, because it is a huge thing that is coming up."
"It has a lot of areas for improvement. Its reporting for job completion or incompletion can be improved. It should also provide a granular recovery, ease of operation, data life cycle management, and media management. It should support a backup in such a format that in case of a disaster, one can start the virtual machine out of the backup itself. Its reliability can also be better. It is also expensive, and their support is also poor."
"It needs better connectivity with other non-IBM application hardware and non-IBM platforms."
"We are still using TSM Manager for many of our projects to administer our platform because the gap was not resolved with the new Operations Center."
"The solution's ability to integrate with a cloud solution is one area that needs improvement."
"Better integration with other tools and databases is needed."
"The solution only supports HyperV and VMware but doesn't support Nutanix."
"Their first level of support can be improved. Often they are too junior to understand the issues we are having, and it takes too much time to get from them to the next level of support, which is what we actually need."
"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."
"The tool needs to increase the number of threats."
"Rooms for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are installation and configuration because those were difficult. They should try their best to improve those areas. In the next release of the product, better implementation and administration are what we're expecting."
"The software's technical support could improve its response time for different time zones."
"The backup support for IBM Power Virtualization needs to be added."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."
"The remote SQL server has had multiple sizing issues within the logs and SQL backup space and sharing with other database apps."
"Veeam Backup is not enhanced. There aren't any enhancements yet and they are still using traditional methods for snapshots and to perform the backup, like many other vendors. Another improvement would be simplifying and integrating their software."
"CDP also requires a lot of development, because there are a lot of restrictions now for CDP. There is a chance to improve CDP and make it much easier for the customers."
"The reporting feature can be improved."
"There are certain solutions, such as Rubrik and Cohesity, that are little by little, taking market share. Veeam needs to be more aggressive to keep their dominance in the space."
"The stability could be better, specifically in the cloud."
"We're using both Backup and Replication, Veeam Cloud Connect, and Veeam Office 365. What I am missing is a good graphical user interface between these three products."
"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."
