We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and IBM Tivoli CDP for Files 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 most valuable features are the API features because it allows you to integrate with your Microsoft SQL, your Oracle, and your IBM Db2."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that the product works and helps with restoration areas whenever there is a need to restore something."
"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 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."
"This is a multi-platform backup solution where you can take a backup from AIX, Windows, or Linux servers and restore from CD, disk, or tape."
"The API is very good."
"The most valuable feature is how we can easily power speed up the VM even though the VM resides in remote storage."
"Using this tool, we can easily backup and restore or recover the data for PCs and mobiles in case of system crashes."
"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."
"The backup support for IBM Power Virtualization needs to be added."
"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."
"The replication feature is not available."
"The solution should allow for backup of iOS snapshots."
"An area that needs improvement is data validation. We currently use another product that gives us immediate validation, information about when the last backup was, and no risk of corruption happening. TSM in IBM Spectrum is not mature so that you can validate on the spot."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"The solution only supports HyperV and VMware but doesn't support Nutanix."
"We would like to have the opportunity to omit data from being backed up. For example, we have three virtual machines, each with three disks. When running the backup, it will automatically take each disk rather than allowing us to select what data we want backed."
Earn 20 points
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 19th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is ranked 62nd in Backup and Recovery. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.0, while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus writes "Has very good integration features and can quickly backup data and optimize storage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Tivoli CDP for Files writes "Restoration and infrastructure are extremely reliable". IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup and Rubrik, whereas IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is most compared with Commvault Cloud, IBM Spectrum Protect, Arcserve UDP and OpenText Data Protector.
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