Compare IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs. Veeam Backup & Replication
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 21st in Backup and Recovery Software with 10 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery Software with 22 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.2, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus writes "Enables us to have longer retention which saves us more money". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Integrates Between Server and Replication Station". IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect and Commvault, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Rubrik, VMware SRM and Commvault. See our IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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It's a complete software that can protect all the main applications. Perhaps that's the feature I like most. The integration with the NetApp and other apps is also very nice. It's very stable. We are using a KVM system in our cloud, and this solution works very well with it. It's the leader in backup and archiving. It is much more scalable and flexible than everything else in the market. In the VM, we have Live Recovery, Live Mount, and Live Sync. Global deduplication and the indexing of the data object are the most valuable features. It saves costs on the product side by doing compression and deduplication. It will help you and make your life easy to reach the data that you need within the minimum downtime when it's required. It's an enterprise product. It's a stable product. We have good support. Almost all databases are in the scope. | A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable. 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 feature I find most valuable is the offload to Spectrum Protect for long-term retention. I think the deduplication and replication are quite nice on Plus. With this product, we now have a reliable backup solution. This solution is very stable and has good support available online. 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 solution offers a very straightforward deployment. You click, click, click and it's done. There's not much configuration to do. The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with Oracle. | The user interface is good and it is very easy to use. The whole replication aspect of the solution is excellent because it compresses the data so well. 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. Features with the most value are Instant VM Recovery, SQL Explorer and Exchange Explorer. Very flexible, all-in-one solution. We get a lot of features with Veeam and we are happy to use this solution. After shutdown, the servers here automatically turn off and Veeam is keeping up all this. It's tension free work. It has helped us transfer the solution in two days instead of working for a minimum of one week to ten days. |
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I think the one thing that could be improved is the customer experience. The interface should be more user friendly. The back of virtual machines needs improvement. I know they're working on it. They're always doing new things but I think they still have a little bit more to do. This solution can be complex and difficult to administer because it supports all of the many platforms, so it would help if they could simplify it. Its competitor, Veeam, includes backup and replication in the same product. I don't know if Commvault has it or not, but they should if they don't. Support for this product needs to be improved because I have seen a couple of cases where it is taking more than the required time to solve issues. We previously had difficulty with the support being foreign. The setup is not that straightforward or easy. Even the documentation is not generic or public like other products. You have to be a partner or you have to have a specific account and download it from the vendor themselves. You need quite a lot of human resources to maintain a Commvault environment, to keep it operational. Also, it would be nice to if there were an easier way set up some Commvault components. | The Gui interface and usability are not so friendly and easy. The user experience is very bad and the interface needs to be improved. Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface. The administration needs to be improved and made simpler to use. I would like integration into where the VMware guys can do their own restores. Their first level of support can be improved. Often they are too junior to understand the issues we are having, and it takes too much time to get from them to the next level of support, which is what we actually need. The backup support for IBM Power Virtualization needs to be added. 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. | I would like to have the capability of backing up a physical machine, as opposed to just a VM. It would be ideal if users could know that their data is backed up and have some security functionality where you can actually use the backup to spin up a new cluster and take it from there. 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. Physical backup is always where room for improvement could be but Veeam has always stated they are not going in that direction. Needs better integration with cloud service providers. We try to compare Veeam with other solutions because we are the operations. Then we can give the answers for improvement which is the specific additional system features that other solutions provide. |
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The price could perhaps be lower as well. In my experience, compared to solutions like Veritas and Veeam, while they do have their technical pluses and minuses, Commvault can save you on average forty percent initially, and then twenty to twenty-five percent annually. Compared to other competitors and vendors the pricing is fair. | Depends on the licensing options that you choose. Unlike some other solutions, such as Veritas NetBackup where you have to pay for different licenses to use different features, there is a single license that allows you to use all of the features. In addition to the standard licensing fees, we paid for implementation and training. The licensing model of Spectrum Protect Plus is more efficient and cheaper compared to the original. 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. | The price of Veeam is much lower than the IBM solution. 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. The product is competitively priced. The pricing is good and affordable. The price is slightly higher than its competitors. The price is great. It's software related, and I know that might be a good thing because it's a cheap solution to buy and we have been looking for a program for backup and they fit the bill. I would suggest to others that they buy the full license when purchasing this solution. Setup cost and licensing of Veeam are nothing to complain about when compared to similar products for enterprise backup recovery solutions. |
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| Veeam Backup and Replication, Veeam Availability Suite | ||
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| CommVault | IBM | Veeam Software |
Overview  | ||
Commvault can help you transform your data into a powerful strategic asset, with data protection and information management solutions that enable you to protect, access and use all of your data anywhere and anytime. | 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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Learn more about Commvault | Learn more about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus | Learn more about Veeam Backup & Replication |
Sample Customers | ||
| Aberdeenshire Council, Acxiom, BAM Group Ireland, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, CI Investments, Clifford Chance, Alliant Credit Union, American Municipal Power, American Pacific Mortgage, AstraZeneca, Dongbu Steel, Denver Health, Dow Jones, Emirates Steel, Penn State Health, Prime Healthcare, Sonic Healthcare, Sony Network Communications, TiVO, UCONN Health, The Weitz Company | 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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Wholesaler/Distributor22% Manufacturing Company11% Financial Services Firm11% Energy/Utilities Company11% Software R&D Company28% Comms Service Provider11% Financial Services Firm9% Insurance Company9% | Software R&D Company41% Government11% Construction Company9% Comms Service Provider8% | Financial Services Firm15% Government12% Healthcare Company10% Energy/Utilities Company8% Software R&D Company28% Comms Service Provider10% Manufacturing Company7% Retailer6% |
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Small Business26% Midsize Enterprise37% Large Enterprise37% Small Business10% Midsize Enterprise28% Large Enterprise63% | Small Business20% Midsize Enterprise20% Large Enterprise60% | Small Business44% Midsize Enterprise28% Large Enterprise28% Small Business16% Midsize Enterprise37% Large Enterprise46% |
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