We performed a comparison between Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] 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."One of the features I find most valuable, is the good technical support."
"The speed and the ease of the initial setup are both good. It is not complex."
"Good deduplication and compression features."
"The most valuable features are compression and de-duplication."
"The feature we have found most valuable is when you want to integrate it with a Tape Library and then do the DRM life cycle. That is when it works the best."
"It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"I've had no problems with the stability of this solution."
"Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"It provides our customers with the comfort of having reliable enterprise data protection."
"It is a very good and mature enterprise product. Once it is set up and everything is put in, you don't have to manage it. It actually runs automatically by itself."
"The interface and documentation need to improve."
"The product has to be more mature, like to be another six to eight months on the market. A lot of maturity needs to be incorporated."
"Perhaps some better documentation, which I believe was better in the past."
"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)."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"There could be various client systems and process integration included in the product."
"IBM Spectrum Protect does have a lot of the features that we need, but I think they need to improve their backup virtualization and backup for container."
"I would like to see more technical training online. Sometimes, it is a little bit difficult to find, or that I do not really know what I am looking for as somebody who is starting off finding their learning curve."
"The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement"
"The reporting could be better."
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Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Backup and Recovery while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] is rated 7.6, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] writes "Speedy and easy setup but it needs to mature ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] is most compared with , 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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