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We performed a comparison between Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication.""It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent.""The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also excellent.""The initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it.""This solution is stable.""All of the features are fantastic and also the management from Microsoft dealing with multiple machines is great. The whole package is excellent for me.""We use the latest feature in Altaro called CDP (Continuous Data Protection) to back up our VMs as often as every five minutes. It allows us to make sure no data is accidentally deleted or overwritten.""Ability to restore to any host."

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"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster.""The support from IBM is very good.""The most valuable feature is how we can easily power speed up the VM even though the VM resides in remote storage.""This solution is very stable and has good support available online.""The most valuable features of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are you have many possibilities on how to use it. We use it for backups and to create secondary and third copies. It is possible to pick up Kubernetes containers and use a different cloud provider if you need to start backups on the cloud.""The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with Oracle.""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.""A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."

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"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself.""Stability.""Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage.""Migrating the physical through a backup and restore to a virtual environment would be very helpful.""The application could include a feature to install a set size of data, such as the ability to store a single application with all its registry information for easy transfer.""The scalability of the solution is limited.""Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran.""The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."

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"I would like to see continuous data protection (CDP). If there is machine failure, you don't have to go to the backup copy that you took 12 hours ago. You can actually go back to the backup copy made half an hour ago. That is, it would be good to have certain-point-in-time recovery.""The administration needs to be improved and made simpler to use.""The user experience is very bad and the interface needs to be improved.""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.""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.""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.""I would like integration into where the VMware guys can do their own 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."

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  • "There is a free version for Hosts with 2 VMs."
  • "There is a free version for two VMs. I would advise to study the deployment environment well, prior to committing to order a license per host."
  • "No other product offers these features for this price. The ROI is great."
  • "​By implementing the solution at multiple locations, significant cost savings were achieved."
  • "Altaro VM Backup is affordably priced. It is a best value for its price and has almost every feature that an expensive, popular product offers."
  • "The pricing is okay,"
  • "VMware is a little pricey, but it is a good solution and priced similar to other products."
  • "Altaro had the best prices and ROI in the whole bunch that we evaluated."
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  • "If you need to extend it, it can be extended acting like a normal Spectrum Protect with a long archive."
  • "The price offering from IBM is coming down because it is based on number of VM machines. So, IBM is coming to the market to show the added value of the product."
  • "The licensing model of Spectrum Protect Plus is more efficient and cheaper compared to the original."
  • "In addition to the standard licensing fees, we paid for implementation and training."
  • "Unlike some other solutions, such as Veritas NetBackup where you have to pay for different licenses to use different features, there is a single license that allows you to use all of the features."
  • "Depends on the licensing options that you choose."
  • "The price is lower than that of some competing products."
  • "Clients prefer to buy a perpetual license, but the majority opt for a yearly subscription."
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    Overview

    Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers, to protect against enterprise data loss. The award-winning solution provides robust, streamlined and enterprise-level functionality.

    Reduce downtime and data loss: Thanks to Continous Data Protection (CDP) and WAN-optimized replication, your backup files are available in just minutes in the event of a data loss scenario and you can continue working as usual. The solution’s unique Augmented Inline Deduplication also gives you massive savings on your backup storage and dramatically reduces costs.

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a data protection and availability solution for virtual environments that can be deployed in minutes and protect your environment within an hour. It simplifies data protection, whether data is hosted in physical, virtual, software-defined or cloud environments. It can be implemented as a stand-alone solution or integrate with your IBM Spectrum Protect environment to off-load copies for long term storage and data governance with scale and efficiency.

    Sample Customers
    Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox
    PT Wings Surya, Tectrade, State of Ohio
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    Comms Service Provider18%
    Government18%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Healthcare Company9%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Government7%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Comms Service Provider29%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Non Tech Company14%
    Retailer14%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Government11%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Small Business70%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise15%
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    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise49%
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    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise44%
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    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 52nd in Backup and Recovery while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Easy to use with a helpful dashboard, good support, and the deduplication feature saves heavily on storage space". 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". Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, 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.

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