IBM ProtectTIER vs. Vembu BDR Suite Comparison

IBM ProtectTIER

Vembu BDR Suite

IBM ProtectTIER

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Vembu BDR Suite

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John Demattia

Director of IT at MTSI, Inc.

Dashboard is very easy to use; the solution does incrementals daily with no effect on server performance

The nice thing about Vembu is that when it's running - as it does incrementals daily - we don't see a negative hit on the performance of the server... Read more »

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Pros
"The most valuable features are the Self-Service, and the ability to search the data.""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.""The command-line interface is good." More IBM ProtectTIER Pros »	"I can choose a point in time and issue the command to back up and I don't need to go in and restore the last full backup and then apply iteratively, sequentially, all the incrementals... I can pick a point in time and tell it I want to go to that state and it's transparent to me. It happens in the background for me.""The agentless backups are the big selling point on this, as well as being able to send out across sites so that I can do a restore at either of our two locations.""The most important features are the backup and the availability of the Universal Explorer. The in-transit compression is great.""We are now using it 24/7 because it is serving as an online backup, and very soon, the DR will activated on the product.""We invest in the backup so the continuity of the data is not affected.""The initial setup is easy and very nice.""The network solution is the most important feature, because we have our own backup server and are doing file backups for our customers.""I am very pleased with the compression, especially with some of the larger SQL databases that need backup. The amount of compression is impressive." More Vembu BDR Suite Pros »
Cons
"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 configuration wizards are still complex and hard to navigate. These should be easier to manage.""Setting up the system to work with legacy equipment is a bit complex at times." More IBM ProtectTIER Cons »	"In the beginning, when we had some hiccups, I would chalk that up more to a learning curve for the product.""The only place where I would really want to see improvement, out the gate, is more granular scheduling... If I want to do an offset or to only do two backups on Friday and Saturday - versus whole hourly incrementals during the week - I don't have that granularity right now.""The deduplication could be better. It doesn't give the level of deduplication that I would get with a product that's stored in a more standard file format. I would prefer to be able to use a non-deduplicated store on a third-party deduplicated medium.""We are still exploring its features, but we want to see more features that we desire over time.""We have not been able to move our backups from one drive to another one. We can only create a storage pool. However, if we want to change a drive, it is not possible to delete one drive as long there is data on it. For this, we have to call the support. While they can solve this, it is not out-of-the-box.""The reporting can use some improvement. I still use the old StoreGrid Cloud while I'm migrating the rest of my clients over. I am able to export all of my clients' usage for the month, which I then import into my billing program. It helps me speed up the billing process. Also, I can generate a report that gives me statuses of everyone's backup, which I don't get from Vembu Backup Online either. I would like to have something similar where I can export everyone's usage at any time for all their backups, so I can use that to import them to my billing program.""I have had issues where it was working and then it stopped and I had to diagnose what had changed or gone wrong to get it back up.""The phone [support] system is a negative five on a scale from one to ten, where one is the worst. They wanted me to leave a message. When there is a problem with the product and you call in, you want to talk to somebody or wait to talk to somebody, not leave a message." More Vembu BDR Suite Cons »

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This solution is very expensive."

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"It helps us deliver an enterprise-level data protection solution and reduce budgets at a price that - and we don't want to encourage them to change their pricing - is a great value.""The subscription model that we're signed up for is very good. The only thing that is something of a sticking point is the fact that you can't do PO-based licensing. It's all just credit card.""The pricing and licensing structure are spot on. I don't think there's anything out there in the market that does either the licensing structure or the pricing structure better.""The pricing could have been cheaper.""The return of investment was very fast, within half a year.""The best thing about the product is the license management. It is a true managed service provider solution. It has a good price. The licensing is quite flexible, which is one of the most important things for us.""The high availability is too expensive for our customers.""The pricing is reasonable. I am okay with it."

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Questions from the Community
What do you like most about IBM ProtectTIER? Top Answer: The command-line interface is good. Read all 3 answers What needs improvement with IBM ProtectTIER? Top Answer: Technical support needs improvement. Setting up the system to work with legacy equipment is a bit complex at times. Read all 3 answers What is your primary use case for IBM ProtectTIER? Top Answer: I am in charge of the storage and backup administration at my company. The primary use of this solution is backup and recovery. Read all 2 answers	What do you like most about Vembu BDR Suite? Top Answer: It was very difficult to find a product that supports Red Hat Virtualization natively and to take a snapshot of the VM or a full backup or a dump from the machine. The option that Vembu proposed, to… more » Read all 28 answers What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vembu BDR Suite? Top Answer: We have an enterprise license. We found it very simple and straightforward. For our needs, the price of the backup system is not too much. However, the prices are not clear in the portal. Not all the… more » Read all 30 answers What needs improvement with Vembu BDR Suite? Top Answer: They said they can support Red Hat Virtualization and we assumed that they support any compatible system but we found we need to do a network backup or a network image, which is not what it said on… more » Read all 29 answers
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46th out of 73 in Backup and Recovery Software Views 1,180 Comparisons 936 Reviews 3 Average Words per Review 388 Rating 6.0	7th out of 73 in Backup and Recovery Software Views 4,821 Comparisons 2,371 Reviews 25 Average Words per Review 1,109 Rating 7.8
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Overview
IBM TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway is designed to meet the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions. The solution offers industry-leading inline deduplication performance and scalability up to 1 petabyte (PB) of physical storage capacity per system, and can provide up to 25 PB or more backup storage capacity. Combined with IBM or third-party storage, TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway provides a powerful disk-based repository to improve the performance, retention and availability of backup and archive data in a small footprint for energy and cost efficiency.	Vembu BDR Suite is one of the most comprehensive, simple and affordable backup & disaster recovery solutions for the small & medium businesses. Vembu can backup VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Physical Servers, Workstations, Exchange Items, SharePoint Items, SQL Items, Office365, G Suite, etc. – and they can back that up on-site, off-site, or even to the cloud – not to mention that most of this are done within a single UI. Vembu offers a wide variety of products such as a monitoring solution to centralize the monitoring of all of your backups as well as some which are absolutely free such as Desktop/Laptop Image Backup and the Vembu Universal Explorer for discovering application items within Microsoft apps. It is important to note that Vembu BDR Suite is offered as a single edition software for all businesses, unlike other backup vendors who provide editions with limitations based on the type of businesses. Vembu has come up with its own free edition of Vembu BDR Suite by which users can backup unlimited VMs with minimal feature restrictions.
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Sample Customers
Durham Police Department, Re-Store LLC, CenterGrid, pixx.io GmbH, Australian Government Department of Defence, QD, Refresco Gerber	On-Ramp Indiana, DH International, Merrimac Solutions, Qsource Networks, TMI, help4IT, Tech North Solutions Inc. Learn more here.
Top Industries
VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company49% Comms Service Provider11% Construction Company6% Manufacturing Company4%	REVIEWERS Performing Arts9% Retailer9% Financial Services Firm9% Healthcare Company9% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company46% Comms Service Provider21% Government3% Financial Services Firm2%
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No Data Available	REVIEWERS Small Business71% Midsize Enterprise17% Large Enterprise12% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Small Business29% Midsize Enterprise57% Large Enterprise14%

Free Report: IBM ProtectTIER vs. Vembu BDR Suite

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IBM ProtectTIER is ranked 46th in Backup and Recovery Software with 3 reviews while Vembu BDR Suite is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery Software with 24 reviews. IBM ProtectTIER is rated 6.0, while Vembu BDR Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM ProtectTIER writes "A stable and scalable solution that reduces data domain risks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vembu BDR Suite writes "Dashboard is very easy to use; the solution does incrementals daily with no effect on server performance". IBM ProtectTIER is most compared with Dell EMC PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Vembu BDR Suite is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Altaro VM Backup, Nakivo, Acronis Backup and Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. See our IBM ProtectTIER vs. Vembu BDR Suite report.

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