We performed a comparison between Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The speed and the ease of the initial setup are both good. It is not complex."
"One of the features I find most valuable, is the good technical support."
"The solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer."
"The most valuable features are the API features because it allows you to integrate with your Microsoft SQL, your Oracle, and your IBM Db2."
"The solution's stability is high because it is derived from Spectrum Protect."
"The API is very good."
"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."
"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 solution offers a very straightforward deployment. You click, click, click and it's done. There's not much configuration to do."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"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."
"The interface and documentation need to improve."
"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."
"The software's technical support could improve its response time for different time zones."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."
"It still needs to grow and add new features. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, I believe, requires time to become competitive due to a weakness in the other software products."
"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."
"The one issue we are facing is related to file restores."
"The user experience is very bad and the interface needs to be improved."
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Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Backup and Recovery while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 19th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews. Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] is rated 7.6, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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 Plus writes "Has very good integration features and can quickly backup data and optimize storage". Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] is most compared with , 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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