We performed a comparison between Barracuda Intronis Backup and IBM Spectrum Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a one-stop shop, meaning we just program and schedule the backups, decide what is being backed up, and then it automatically replicates and deduplicates."
"The most valuable feature is unlimited data storage on the cloud. Even if the employee has left the company for a few years, the backup will still be maintained."
"I have found the product's LiveBoot feature to be most valuable."
"Of all the backup products we have used, this by far is the simplest to install and use."
"We perform backup drills to test the functionality, and we don't have any problems."
"The backup feature is most valuable. That's why we took it."
"Whenever you have a crash or your service is not working, you can just live-boot the machine and have your service up and running."
"The product is easy to install and use while doing what it is expected to do."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that IBM Spectrum Protect is highly integrated with IBM ESS. In addition, it allows us to back up our virtual servers directly to take VM snapshots. It runs on Linux as well."
"I find the whole product useful. The backup archive client, snapshot, spectrum for virtual environments are beneficial features."
"You can scale the product."
"The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery."
"Their GUI has improved quite a bit. It's made the solution a lot simpler and less complex."
"Because of the flexible parameters, everything can be fine-tuned to the customers’ needs in their environment."
"One of the features which is most interesting in Spectrum Protect is the ability to scale out to great environments. This is something that not many vendors have on the market."
"We like IBM Spectrum's versioning capabilities. It lets us specify how many versions of a file we want to keep and for how long. Also, the archive component of the software helps us a lot."
"Its speed can be a bit improved, and of course, its pricing can go a lot cheaper."
"The web interface needs to contain a more up-to-date view of the hardware."
"This solution could be improved with offering lower prices at scale."
"The backup feature could be a bit simpler to utilize. They should make the process of backing up individual files simpler."
"I would like to see a way to increase space."
"Barracuda works great for smaller network environments, which are not that complex. It is hardware-based with a Linux core, which you don't have access to, and a lot of stuff happens on the back-end. Even from a troubleshooting perspective, it is a bit challenging."
"I would like to see the automatic backup of critical applications to the cloud."
"The solution is pretty expensive. This is the usual customer complaint."
"I need to have more than two instances working together. I need a worldwide grid able to have replication between three, four, or five instances."
"They can include more cloud-enriching features. I would like IBM Spectrum Protect to have the functionality for backing up a VM directly in Azure. I would like to be able to back up a VM directly in Azure without spinning up a Hyper-V cluster and backing up the virtual server."
"Ease of use."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"Enhancements are required for backing up our virtual environment."
"There is room for improvement in the service aspect."
"For the database side, it does not have object level recovery."
"They do not have a unified GUI, they only work on CLI and operations center, which is really complicated for the installation and configuration."
Barracuda Intronis Backup is ranked 10th in Deduplication Software with 24 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Barracuda Intronis Backup is rated 8.4, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda Intronis Backup writes "Finding data to restore is much easier than rummaging through tapes to find backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Barracuda Intronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik. See our Barracuda Intronis Backup vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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