We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and Unitrends based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The support from IBM is very good."
"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."
"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster."
"The solution integrates well with other tools."
"Using this tool, we can easily backup and restore or recover the data for PCs and mobiles in case of system crashes."
"A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."
"The tool has enough documentation; you don't need to contact the support team."
"It is a quick and easy way to organize my backups and to keep track of them."
"When I have had to use tech support, they've been very good."
"It is very easy to set up and get started. Almost too easy. We racked this device and had it up and running in less than 15 minutes."
"Backup/archive to multiple locations."
"They have great support."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a nine out of ten."
"The predictive analytics are great and the reporting is awesome."
"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."
"The one issue we are facing is related to file restores."
"The replication feature is not available."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"The solution only supports HyperV and VMware but doesn't support Nutanix."
"I would like to see continuous data protection (CDP). If there is machine failure, you don't have to go to the backup copy that you took 12 hours ago. You can actually go back to the backup copy made half an hour ago. That is, it would be good to have certain-point-in-time recovery."
"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."
"It requires much more automation features."
"It seems like Unitrends moved away from enterprise customer engagement and moved more towards the managed service provider market."
"The solution’s support and onboarding process needs to be improved."
"No appliance update notifications."
"There are some questions as to how safely they are storing backup data."
"Network-based storage stability could be improved."
"It could be a little more customizable."
"The solution's base operating system needs to be improved."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 19th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.0, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. 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 Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup and Rubrik, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs. Unitrends report.
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