We performed a comparison between Asigra and IBM Spectrum Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."It has helped us to provide comprehensive data protection with high recovery rates and a malware scanning feature."
"The agentless architecture has minimized our software footprint at the client level."
"I have found all the features useful in the solution."
"The solution has been very stable."
"We have better, faster backup times, and it has improved efficiency in the backups."
"The interface is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is application-aware backups."
"This solution has improved our organization through better file and database recovery."
"The fact that we can take the backup straight onto tape is the most valuable feature."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"SPIR is Instant Recovery for Spectrum Protect. It sends snapshots using space efficiently and blocking backups to the Spectrum Protect server. It provisions the snapshot from the backup server to the same or new server near instantly."
"The most valuable feature for data recovery in IBM Spectrum Protect is its database protection capabilities."
"The management could be a bit better."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"Ease of use."
"Most customers still struggle with the reporting piece, especially generating reports. I think it needs some improvements in this area."
"The only thing that I would like to have a little more of is insight in reporting. I find that Spectrum Protect needs a lot of monitoring, and I have to actually log into the servers."
"It's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"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."
"I need two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems. I need IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for virtual systems and Spectrum Protect for physical systems and that's a pain. It would be an improvement if they were combined."
"Generally, the implementation of virtualization could be improved. The workflow service and so on are not working properly."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
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Asigra is ranked 57th in Backup and Recovery while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Asigra is rated 8.2, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Asigra writes "Automated notifications work much better than other solutions we've employed, and the ability to add usage reports to invoices through DS-Billing is a very useful feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Asigra is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik.
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