We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, and Unitrends 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 most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery."
"Replication processes with container storage pools allow reduction of storage space and network bandwidth, using deduplication and compression."
"Our customers have come to trust IBM."
"It scales well. We have grown here in the last year or two, and it has been relatively easy."
"The way it covers backup and archive needs. The flexibility of backup copy group always allows me to cover the customer's requests."
"The addition of the retention set feature provides a reduction in storage costs. It also reduces RTO and RPO so that you can respond quickly to your clients and services in case of data loss."
"One of the features which is most interesting in Spectrum Protect is the ability to scale out to great environments. This is something that not many vendors have on the market."
"The most valuable feature is the backup speed."
"The product is easy to manage for any IT person who is new to backup, recovery, and replication."
"The price is much lower than competitors that do the same function."
"NAKIVO is easy to use and pretty easy to set up."
"Nakivo has improved our organization largely due to the fact that it is an extremely robust backup system."
"This is a user-friendly solution that has a lot of certifications and documentation for the Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure."
"This product has a very clean and intuitive GUI."
"Nakivo has been instrumental in strengthening our data security infrastructure."
"The backup and replication are great."
"VM backup is much faster and more reliable, as I can test my backups with Data Copy Access jobs."
"The ability to backup both physical and virtual machines, along with having an appliance store the backups locally instead of on a file server, NAS, or SAN."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"The ability to diversify jobs within the same server helps break down a large chunk of data into more manageable and concentrated chunks."
"What I found most valuable in Unitrends is its simple user interface. It also works reliably."
"It is fairly stable."
"If you are a large organization, this is a product for you."
"The most valuable feature of Unitrends for me is the automated feedback"
"Most customers still struggle with the reporting piece, especially generating reports. I think it needs some improvements in this area."
"Any feature that is compliant with virtualizing the application should be improved."
"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."
"The solution's initial setup process wasn't easy...The solution is overly complicated in terms of architecture, especially compared to other tools in the market."
"IBM Spectrum Protect does have a lot of the features that we need, but I think they need to improve their backup virtualization and backup for container."
"There have been scalability issues. The core product does not support scale out. We needed to create a new system and manage resources separate from the existing one."
"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."
"It seems like they are a little behind on the integration to Azure Cloud as well as Amazon."
"Sometimes, for some VMs and some Windows Server versions, specifically old versions (aka server 12 or older) fail due to the VSS writer error or locking file system."
"There are some errors requiring support to correct and bugs and glitches should be addressed."
"It would be good to have some Oracle database backup capability from the Linux OS in the next release."
"It could be a little bit faster in terms of backup and offer more reliable SQL server backups."
"When you schedule some jobs, you should be able to see a list of the jobs contained within each. You have to open up the editor to see what is inside. You must click through and edit stuff. Each time, it asks you to save or discard changes. It's very annoying. You only see the name of the scheduled job, and you need to edit it to see what's it's inside."
"I would love to see compatibility with KVM Backup."
"Implementing more comprehensive data deduplication and compression techniques could optimize storage utilization and reduce backup times, improving overall efficiency."
"I need no more valuable features for backs-up. I have not yet tried the latest release, however, I have all the features that I need."
"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."
"It seems like Unitrends moved away from enterprise customer engagement and moved more towards the managed service provider market."
"The solution’s support and onboarding process needs to be improved."
"In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
"The amount of updates which are being released. Updates should be limited to two or three a year, focusing more on quality instead of a rushed bug release."
"I would like to see more storage options for the free version."
"If the interface could be less complex, it is would be great."
