We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar 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 product has a proven track record of good backups without much of a failure ratio. It also has a good backup in terms of the compression ratio."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The solution is very stable."
"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"We've found the product to be stable."
"What I found valuable in Dell Avamar is the deduplication feature. I also like that the solution can be integrated with Data Domain."
"The entire system operates seamlessly, with minimal hands-on involvement, allowing us to focus on monitoring rather than constant adjustments or deployments, as seen in larger, more dynamic environments."
"The solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer."
"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its ease of use. Additionally, it does backups of all of the things we need, such as OS, files, and databases."
"Some of the features we find very valuable and use a lot, are retention sets."
"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 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 integrates well with other tools."
"If the system were to go down, we needed to make sure that the system could be recovered and available as soon as possible. Spectrum Protect provides you access to directly bind the backup volume to the server and make the system available instead of restoring it and copying the system."
"The support is very bad."
"I think they could also move more towards cloud solutions. It already has some cloud tiering, but I think that could be more extensive. They should work with all cloud providers and I think in the future they will be on all cloud platforms."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"Interfaces need to be improved."
"Performance can sometimes be affected when tools are utilized for tasks like backup or deep archiving."
"The UI is quite old. We've been using this UI since last year, and they haven't changed it. It would be better to update the UI periodically and create attractive dashboards from an administrative point of view."
"Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers."
"Desktop-laptop backups and backup over the WAN needs lot of improvisation. For DTLT there must be a provision to push agents from the management console."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve the IBM Spectrum Protect environment. It can be difficult to administer. The initial configuration can be difficult for entry-level teams or deployment teams, and it might be difficult to integrate. There's just too much content involved in the solution. The documentation is way too large."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."
"The user experience is very bad and the interface needs to be improved."
"I would like integration into where the VMware guys can do their own restores."
"The solution only supports HyperV and VMware but doesn't support Nutanix."
"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."
"The solution should allow for backup of iOS snapshots."
"The tool needs to increase the number of threats."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 19th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". 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". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), 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 Dell Avamar vs. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus report.
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