We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Iron Mountain Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."It provides our customers with the comfort of having reliable enterprise data protection."
"IBM Spectrum Protect offers stable software and products."
"Our performance is better."
"It allows us to have one interface."
"The solution can back up every kind of workload in the environment."
"Replication processes with container storage pools allow reduction of storage space and network bandwidth, using deduplication and compression."
"We apply the new dedupe and compression technology, using maintenance and time to give more time for the backup window and less time for the overhead related to the daily housekeeping."
"When I have to do disaster recoveries, I can do it with this tool."
"The most valuable feature for me is the policy management capabilities"
"They need to do a better job on Windows, because if you are running Windows, the scalability is more limited than AIX and Linux."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement"
"Their support is lacking. I've talked to their developers and stuff in the last couple of weeks and they reassure me that some people have retired, and they're working on getting that bumped back up. But the support lacks a lot to be desired at this point."
"If IBM could provide a partial module, that would be great."
"They can include more cloud-enriching features. I would like IBM Spectrum Protect to have the functionality for backing up a VM directly in Azure. I would like to be able to back up a VM directly in Azure without spinning up a Hyper-V cluster and backing up the virtual server."
"I am not really impressed with the Level 1 support, but once I get past that and go to Level 2, then we will usually get some type of resolution."
"I would like to see more integration with different platforms."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Iron Mountain Connect is ranked 37th in Backup and Recovery with 2 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Iron Mountain Connect is rated 8.6. 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 Iron Mountain Connect writes "Good policies related to data". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup, whereas Iron Mountain Connect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and NAKIVO Backup & Replication.
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