We performed a comparison between IBM ProtectTIER and Unitrends 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 cataloging is the best feature. It takes millions of frames for the backup. It's incremental, so it takes less time to complete."
"In terms of stability, I've found it to be very stable. I've walked into the server room when it was at 60 degrees Celcius, and it was still running fine."
"Overall IBM ProtectTIER is a great solution. It is easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the Self-Service, and the ability to search the data."
"The command-line interface is good."
"The solution is highly stable."
"I am impressed with the tool's reporting and UniView features."
"It's not easy to scale it."
"VM backup is much faster and more reliable, as I can test my backups with Data Copy Access jobs."
"Being an appliance-based solution, we were able to migrate backup solutions without having to purchase a lot of hardware separately."
"The simple and fast restore routine."
"It is an easy system to use. The support, if needed, is always willing to help."
"When we talk about a backup point of view, from a backup perspective, it's a good one."
"Backup/archive to multiple locations."
"The configuration wizards are still complex and hard to navigate. These should be easier to manage."
"IBM ProtectTIER could improve by being more user-friendly."
"The backup for a large amount of data is slow."
"Setting up the system to work with legacy equipment is a bit complex at times."
"I would like the possibility to back up the infrastructure and then replicate it upon on restart, without having to orchestrate the starting of the VM."
"The amount of updates which are being released. Updates should be limited to two or three a year, focusing more on quality instead of a rushed bug release."
"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."
"Network-based storage stability could be improved."
"There's a lot that can be made better. For example, it could be more scalable."
"Follow up for the DRaaS service setup. I'm still waiting to schedule a DRaaS test after upgrading several months ago."
"Making the seeding process more accessible and easier to understand. Also, make more of the undocumented best practices easier to find."
"There are a few quirks where the GUI, agent, and back-end are not precisely meshed."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
IBM ProtectTIER is ranked 43rd in Backup and Recovery with 7 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. IBM ProtectTIER is rated 7.2, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM ProtectTIER writes "Provides a short-term backup, archive, and cataloging for 20,000 people in our organization ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". IBM ProtectTIER is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), HPE StoreOnce, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Rubrik and DD Boost, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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