We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Acronis Backup is the data recovery and restoration details."
"The setup is very easy."
"There is advanced management where we can do passing, software inventory, and hardware inventory."
"It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface."
"I would definitely say the backup and recovery. It used to be a separate module. It was a recovery part and it would literally duplicate the machine to bare bones."
"I like Acronis Cyber Protect's backup process and its management console is intuitive."
"It makes a full image of the hard drive. If a hard drive fails, all we do is recover to another hard drive."
"Acronis Backup is valuable if your data is affected by ransomware, you are able to get it back."
"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 solution offers a very straightforward deployment. You click, click, click and it's done. There's not much configuration to do."
"Using this tool, we can easily backup and restore or recover the data for PCs and mobiles in case of system crashes."
"The solution's stability is high because it is derived from Spectrum Protect."
"The initial setup of IBM Protect Plus is simple and not complex."
"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 solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer."
"Improved support for immutability and Utility AirGAP could be beneficial."
"The solution's error handling can be improved specifically for Linux errors."
"There are some limitations to the backup."
"The biggest problem that we have is when the antivirus is installed, the whole machine runs very slowly and some of the machines hang."
"When an error occurs, the information is not always easy to understand and these messages should be made more clear."
"There are times when the backups are slow. A faster backup would be better."
"On the cloud side, security could always be better."
"It does not delete locked files."
"Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface."
"The Gui interface and usability are not so friendly and easy."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"The one issue we are facing is related to file restores."
"I think the graphical reports are a shortcoming of the tool since it fails to provide my company with what we want in terms of reporting. Due to the product's inability to take care of its reporting part, we have to use third-party software."
"In the future, I would like to see support for global deduplication."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."
"The user experience is very bad and the interface needs to be improved."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 19th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus writes "Has very good integration features and can quickly backup data and optimize storage". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and N-able Cove Data Protection, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup and Rubrik. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus report.
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