We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and INFINIDAT InfiniGuard 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 amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."
"We do not lose data. That is why we are using this product and have a backup in place."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is a scalable solution."
"The technical support for Spectrum Protect is very mature. It is very committed to giving a top-notch support experience."
"The best part of this solution is that it just works."
"You can scale the product."
"We have a very good team of administrators who know the product perfectly and are able to manage it on a day-to-day basis."
"Every time customers make a change or we have made a change, then they use the product to do a cloning and refreshing. They are happy that they get good performance something changes."
"Essentially, it replaced our tape backups."
"Software-wise, IBM Spectrum Protect didn't handle virtual machines that well. The license cost is mainly the area for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect."
"The software is complex; setup is complex."
"There is room for improvement in the service aspect."
"RTO is a huge gap for us. If we had a disaster scenario and had to recover a bunch of stuff from tape, the RTO would be too long for us."
"It does not do too well in our virtual environment."
"It needs better connectivity with other non-IBM application hardware and non-IBM platforms."
"My customers are not always happy with the Level 1 support. Sometimes, it just takes too long for the response to come, which is probably something that needs to be addressed."
"I am looking forward to new features in the next release. One of the main features is the cloud storage integration, which was one of my main required features. I've had more difficult experiences with other platforms than with this one."
"I would like to see more improvement in the GUI."
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IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is ranked 59th in Backup and Recovery. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniGuard writes "Fast data recovery for large scale datasets". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is most compared with Quantum DXi Series, Cohesity DataProtect, Veritas NetBackup and Quest NetVault.
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