We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery."
"The backup of Sybase databases is the most valuable feature in the existing environment. They have got the most documentation out there on the internet for its software protection. The documentation is excellent, and there are a lot of blogs, websites. Because it's still one of the oldest products out there for data protection, there are also lots of people who have a lot of experience in using this solution."
"Because of the flexible parameters, everything can be fine-tuned to the customers’ needs in their environment."
"It's very robust and has been on the market for a long time."
"The way it covers backup and archive needs. The flexibility of backup copy group always allows me to cover the customer's requests."
"They have recently added support tickets specifically engineered around performance. This has been very useful for us when we run into issues where customers are looking to try to squeeze a lot more horsepower out of older system."
"It is a very stable product. The cost is similar to that of other enterprise solutions."
"I've had no problems with the stability of this solution."
"The solution integrates well with other tools."
"This solution is very stable and has good support available online."
"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The API is very good."
"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."
"The most valuable features are the API features because it allows you to integrate with your Microsoft SQL, your Oracle, and your IBM Db2."
"The feature I find most valuable is the offload to Spectrum Protect for long-term retention. I think the deduplication and replication are quite nice on Plus."
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"The file search feature across all backups has been helpful."
"Not having to specify a time to run a backup with a fixed schedule is something that's really beneficial. In the past we had to schedule and try to manually stagger things over the window, to back up everything. Because Rubrik is SLA-based, you say, "Well, I need it to fit in this window here," and it just backs it up when it's most convenient for the Brik and for the third-party system. It looks at the CPU usage and says, "Okay, it's not as busy now. I know I've got time to take the backup." That's a real advantage."
"The live mounting and compatibility of different operating systems is great."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"The web-based approach is the most valuable feature."
"Rubrik is highly scalable and is easy to do."
"What I like about Rubrik is its strong focus on security, particularly in combating ransomware threats."
"I would like to see a way to have "always on" implemented."
"If you take Spectrum Protect into account, and you have it along with restrictions to Spectrum Archive by means of LTFS, this is also something which should be made better within the overall product's program."
"The reporting could be better."
"It does not do too well in our virtual environment."
"Scalability is poor. As you get to bigger environments, this is where our gaps have been introduced. As we have grown over the past couple of years, the gaps have become more apparent."
"It can be improved for large file systems with many files. Spectrum Protect can restore large files very well, but if you're restoring millions of little files, it is not as great. At one point, we tried to implement the VMware module with it, and it was awful and terrible. I don't know if that has improved. If it hasn't, this would be one big improvement."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
"I would like to see monitoring within the platform: monitoring for storage pools and monitoring for the server's health (e.g., CPU and memory)."
"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 one issue we are facing is related to file restores."
"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"In the future, I would like to see support for global deduplication."
"The replication feature is not available."
"I would like more integration with security. We need to show the value of the product in regards to handling security. For example, how it handles current malware or viruses. IBM should be more proactive in this direction."
"The administration needs to be improved and made simpler to use."
"If there was something that we could get Rubrik to fix, it would be when our DBS takes snapshots of a server or the database, the replication doesn't kick off fast enough. They can't remote it to the peer site and manipulate it back up in order to move it over, take a copy of production, slap it over, and test it out. As I understand, they are working on it. Replication works. We also get spoiled by how good things are now. We get to a point where it is so easy but when something isn't instant gratification, it seems that everything else is so amazing, why isn't this right?"
"It is already very well furnished, but live mounts for Nutanix AHV would be amazing."
"If I could take a snapshot from a physical and be able to stand it up as a virtual immediately without the need to rebuild an entire system and restoring files, that would be HUGE."
"I don't like Rubrik's user interface because it's not intuitive, and I find it hard to get the information I need."
"It does not offer image-level backups for Hyper-V 2012."
"A singular system is needed to manage all of the clusters."
"The price of Rubrik is too high, especially when you are considering a change in the total backup solution."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
