We performed a comparison between Actifio and IBM Spectrum Protect 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."They will assist me in achieving whatever budget issue the client may be having."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"Actifio was very stable. Whenever they identified bugs, they would promptly provide us with patches."
"This product has unique capabilities that lead the product category in test data management, cloning and recovery."
"I find the whole product useful. The backup archive client, snapshot, spectrum for virtual environments are beneficial features."
"With Spectrum Protect, you can use any type of disk to back-end the repositories. It gave us flexibility to use whatever storage we wanted at our secondary site."
"Forever incremental - allows TSM to optimize storage needs."
"Enterprise-wide type of architecture supports a lot of different platforms."
"It allows us to have one interface."
"I've had no problems with the stability of this solution."
"The product is very stable."
"It provides our customers with the comfort of having reliable enterprise data protection."
"Areas that need improvement would be the support for recovery in the physical environment."
"While the product does support various databases, the company needs to make more of an effort to support N-minus-one compatibility."
"The solution doesn't support AIX software or in-cloud, and we have a lot of servers running on AIX and Oracle."
"Lacks the option to price backup costs within the solution itself."
"The initial setup is complex."
"It does what we need it to do, but it could be better with VM backups. It could be better integrated with virtual machines or VM backups, but that's why they have their Plus out now. Plus version is more geared toward VM backups. The regular version is more for endpoint clients."
"Integration with Windows environments needs improvement. It should be more "assisted", both at the application and database level. It remains a product that fits better in Unix/Linux environments than in Windows environments, given its configuration procedures."
"The product should be improved to save more space."
"It seems like they are a little behind on the integration to Azure Cloud as well as Amazon."
"A lot of my customers always ask for legal holds, especially on email."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"Software-wise, IBM Spectrum Protect didn't handle virtual machines that well. The license cost is mainly the area for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect."
Actifio is ranked 32nd in Backup and Recovery with 7 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Actifio is rated 8.8, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Actifio writes "Actifio enables quick and efficient data refreshes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Actifio is most compared with Rubrik, Delphix, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud and NetApp Cloud Backup, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik. See our Actifio vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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