IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs Veeam Backup & Replication
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 48th in Backup and Recovery Software with 1 review vs Veeam Backup & Replication which is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery Software with 34 reviews. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus writes "The solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer". The top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "The most often used feature is a simple restore. The next most used feature is restoring a full VM due to corruption, virus or human error in managing the VM". IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault and Rubrik. Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Veritas Backup Exec, Rubrik and Commvault.
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The solution's stability is high because it is derived from Spectrum Protect. The solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer. | Features with the most value are Instant VM Recovery, SQL Explorer and Exchange Explorer. It is a good product, in regards to performance, as well as data protection. Replication is the most valuable feature. The ntegration of physical agents with our cloud connect service is positive. Before Veeam, we had backup infrastructure sprawl. Veeam was able to reduce our overall backup windows while reducing our dedicated backup infrastructure. Vendor integration for many of the enterprise features have allowed for us to have greater performance from our storage vendors further improving on our commitments to protect our clients' data. It most valuable features are seeding and faster backups over small links. Veeam replication gives migration tools/options for VMware. |
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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. | Physical backup is always where room for improvement could be but Veeam has always stated they are not going in that direction. In Linux, I suggest you backup for a PostgreSQL database. Cross-hypervisor replication can be improved. Recovery speed is slow. Full recovery on large machines (1TB+) takes too long Multithreading of health check process: This can take too much time to process on large jobs and/or large VMs. Additional executive summary reports for the entire infrastructure would be a nice to have. One challenge that we have encountered was on the long-term retention of data. Be sure to look into a dedicated deduplication appliance. It could use DR features similar to Zerto. |
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If you need to extend it, it can be extended acting like a normal Spectrum Protect with a long archive. The price offering from IBM is coming down because it is based on number of VM machines. So, IBM is coming to the market to show the added value of the product. | We have increased our scalability while being able to free up senior resources from recovery activities. I estimate our overall savings to about $20,000 per year. Setup cost and licensing of Veeam are nothing to complain about when compared to similar products for enterprise backup recovery solutions. I think the price is good when you choose the Essentials Suite, but when you buy a full featured version (for instance the Enterprise Plus) the price is a little bit expensive. The price is a bit high. Licensing type is VMware friendly, so it is easy. Since pricing is per socket, it is not expensive to add capacity as you go along. The licensing is based on the number of cores you have in your ESX or Hyper-V environment. Room for improvement is actually more in the way of licensing. The really good and useful features are in the Enterprise plus edition, and that one is really expensive. The pricing and licensing is better than the competitors, but it could be better. |
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| RANKING | Views 1,736 Comparisons 1,361 Reviews 0 Followers 105 Avg. Rating N/A | Views 100,637 Comparisons 55,677 Reviews 32 Followers 2,513 Avg. Rating 9.0 |
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| Top Comparisons |  Compared 53% of the time.  Compared 12% of the time.  Compared 6% of the time. |  Compared 10% of the time. Compared 8% of the time. Compared 7% of the time. |
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| Also Known As | Veeam Backup and Replication, Veeam Availability Suite | |
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| Website/Video | IBM | Veeam Software |
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| Overview | IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a data protection and availability solution for virtual environments that can be deployed in minutes and protect your environment within an hour. It simplifies data protection, whether data is hosted in physical, virtual, software-defined or cloud environments. It can be implemented as a stand-alone solution or integrate with your IBM Spectrum Protect environment to off-load copies for long term storage and data governance with scale and efficiency. | Veeam® Availability Suite™ delivers something fundamentally different — Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ — leveraging IT investments in server virtualization, modern storage and the cloud to help organizations meet today’s service-level objectives, enabling recovery of any IT service and related applications and data within seconds and minutes. https://www.veeam.com/vm-backup-recovery-replication-software.html |
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| Sample Customers | Information Not Available | Vodafone, American Standard Brands, Welch’s, University of Florida, Tata Global Beverages Limited, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Hirslanden Private Hospital Group, MacLean-Fogg Company |
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| Top Industries | No Data Available | REVIEWERS 13% 13% 12% 8% VISITORS READING REVIEWS 12% 9% 8% 8% |
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| Company Size | No Data Available | REVIEWERS 46% 29% 25% VISITORS READING REVIEWS 25% 40% 36% |
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